An Act To Stabilize Funding for the County Jails

Sec. 1. Allocation to fund county and regional jails. One-time funding provided pursuant to section 3 to the Department of Corrections, County Jails Operation Fund for county and regional jails to offset unusually high costs incurred in fiscal year 2017-18 or incurring in fiscal year 2018-19 must be allocated as specified in this section.

1. Of the $3,000,000 appropriation, $2,712,008 must be allocated to the following jails in the following amounts:

2. The Department of Corrections shall use the remaining $287,992 to reimburse county and regional jails for unexpected situations, as documented by the jails to the Department of Corrections, that cause expenditures in fiscal year 2018-19 that are not anticipated by the jails and that are in excess of the budgets of the jails and the amounts listed in paragraph A.

Funds provided under this section that are not expended by the county or regional jail during fiscal year 2018-19 lapse to the Department of Corrections, County Jails Operation Fund for use in a future year.

Sec. 2. Transfers from available fiscal year 2018-19 Department of Professional and Financial Regulation Other Special Revenue Funds balances to General Fund. At the close of fiscal year 2018-19, the State Controller shall transfer $3,000,000 from available balances in Other Special Revenue Funds accounts within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation to the General Fund unappropriated surplus. On or before June 30, 2019, the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation shall determine from which accounts the funds will be transferred so that the sum equals $3,000,000 and notify the State Controller and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs of the amounts to be transferred from each account.

Sec. 3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF

County Jails Operation Fund Z227

Initiative: Appropriates additional funds on an ongoing basis for the County Jails Operation Fund program of which $1,700,000 must be spent on community corrections as required pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 34-A, section 1210-D, subsection 1.

GENERAL FUND	2017-18	2018-19
All Other	$0	$3,000,000
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$3,000,000

County Jails Operation Fund Z227

Initiative: Provides one-time funding for county and regional jails with unusually high costs incurred during fiscal year 2017-18, such costs having been incurred to meet State of Maine jail standards and operational guidelines for the incarceration of inmates awaiting adjudication or serving sentences and for such unanticipated expenditures in fiscal year 2018-19. This appropriation is to be allocated to county and regional jails as provided in section 1.

GENERAL FUND	2017-18	2018-19
All Other	$0	$3,000,000
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$3,000,000

County Jails Operation Fund Z227

Initiative: Appropriates funds for the Kennebec County Criminogenic Addiction Recovery Academy (CARA) program.

GENERAL FUND	2017-18	2018-19
All Other	$0	$120,000
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$120,000

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
DEPARTMENT TOTALS	2017-18	2018-19
GENERAL FUND	$0	$6,120,000
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS	$0	$6,120,000