HB2682 Summary

• Establishes the Safari McDoulett Community Service Act, allowing county commissioners to impose a community service program assessment on individuals sentenced to community service.

• Requires district courts to assess defendants convicted or pleading guilty to felonies or misdemeanors between $25-$250 per offense if ordered to complete community service in the county program.

• Requires juvenile courts to levy the same $25-$250 assessment when children are adjudicated delinquent or agree to deferred adjudication with community service orders.

• Authorizes municipal courts to assess $25-$250 for defendants ordered to pay court costs and complete community service, with municipal court clerks retaining 10% for administrative costs.

• Creates county revolving funds from collected assessments designated solely for operating and administering community service programs, effective July 1, 2012 with emergency clause.