HEA 1006 Summary

• Establishes the Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council to review local corrections programs, county jails, probation services, and grant award processes at the state level.

• Directs the Department of Correction to compile monthly data on committed persons, facility populations, inmate classifications, and felony convictions, reporting quarterly to the budget committee and monthly to the advisory council.

• Authorizes grants to counties for community corrections and court-supervised recidivism reduction programs, with priority given to programs serving individuals with mental illness, addictive disorders, intellectual disabilities, and developmental disabilities.

• Creates the Mental Health and Addiction Forensic Treatment Services account administered by the Division of Mental Health and Addiction to fund treatment services for individuals with household incomes up to 200% of federal poverty level who have felony convictions or are in community corrections programs.

• Repeals the County Corrections Fund and modifies sentencing provisions to allow probation officers to consult with community corrections staff when preparing presentence investigation reports for potential community corrections placement.