Fifty-second Legislature                                                Judiciary

First Regular Session                                                   H.B. 2088

 

PROPOSED AMENDMENT

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2088

(Reference to House engrossed bill)

 


Page 3, line 28, after the second comma insert "judges of the court of appeals,"

Page 7, line 31, strike "a court of record" insert "the supreme court, the court of appeals, a superior court"

Page 12, after line 12, insert:

"Sec. 8.  Laws 2015, chapter 8, section 59 is amended to read:

Sec. 59.  ARIZONA JUDICIARY

                                                    2015-16               

Supreme court

FTE positions                               175.0

Operating lump sum appropriation     $ 13,219,300

                                     $ 13,079,300

Automation                             16,620,600

                                       20,013,100

County reimbursements                     187,900

Court appointed special advocate        2,962,800

                                        2,860,800

Domestic relations                        639,100

                                          629,100

State foster care review board          3,555,900

                                        3,255,900

Commission on judicial conduct            522,500

                                          512,500

Judicial nominations and

  performance review                      428,500

                                          418,500

Model court                               447,600

                                          437,600

State aid                               5,648,000

Total appropriation – supreme court            $ 44,232,200

                                               $ 47,042,700

Fund sources:

State general fund                   $ 15,303,000

                                     $ 18,113,500

Confidential intermediary and

  fiduciary fund                          488,200               

Court appointed special advocate

  fund                                  2,941,100

Criminal justice enhancement fund       4,358,200               

Defensive driving school fund           4,194,700

Judicial collection enhancement

  fund                                 14,002,400               

State aid to the courts fund            2,944,600

On or before September 1, 2015, the supreme court shall report to the joint legislative budget committee on current and future automation projects coordinated by the administrative office of the courts.  The report shall include a list of court automation projects receiving or anticipated to receive state monies in the current or next two fiscal years as well as a description of each project, the number of FTE positions, the entities involved and the goals and anticipated results for each automation project.  The report shall be submitted in one summary document.  The report shall indicate each project's total multiyear cost by fund source and budget line item, including any prior year, current year and future year expenditures.

Included in the appropriation for the supreme court program is $1,000 for the purchase of mementos and items for visiting officials.

Of the $187,900 appropriated for county reimbursements, state grand jury is limited to $97,900 and capital postconviction relief is limited to $90,000.

Automation expenses of the judiciary supreme court shall be funded only from the automation line item.  Monies in the operating lump sum appropriation or other line items intended for automation purposes shall be transferred to the automation line item before expenditure.

Court of appeals

FTE positions                               136.8

Division I                               $ 10,039,900

Division II                              $  4,340,300

Total appropriation – court of appeals         $ 14,380,200

Fund sources:

State general fund                   $ 14,380,200

Of the 136.8 FTE positions for fiscal year 2015-2016, 98.3 FTE positions are for Division I and 38.5 FTE positions are for Division II.

Superior court

FTE positions                               137.5

Operating lump sum appropriation     $  4,567,300

                                     $  4,437,300

Judges compensation                     8,231,000

Centralized service payments            4,128,000

                                        3,458,000

Adult standard probation               15,109,200

Adult intensive probation               9,930,000

                                        9,910,000

Community punishment                    2,310,300

Interstate compact                        426,700

                                          416,700

Drug court                              1,013,600

                                          993,600

Juvenile standard probation             3,955,700

                                        3,745,700

Juvenile intensive probation            6,002,700

                                        5,532,700

Juvenile treatment services            20,497,800

                                       19,937,800

Juvenile family counseling                660,400

                                          500,000

Juvenile crime reduction                3,308,000

Juvenile diversion consequences         8,539,400

                                        8,039,300

Special water master                      220,000

                                          160,000

Total appropriation ‑ superior court           $ 88,900,100

                                               $ 86,089,600

Fund sources:

State general fund                   $ 76,721,900

                                     $ 73,911,400

Criminal justice enhancement fund       5,648,800

Drug treatment and education fund         500,200

Judicial collection enhancement

  fund                                  6,029,200

Of the 137.5 FTE positions, 82 FTE positions represent superior court judges in counties with a population of less than two million persons.  One‑half of their salaries are provided by state general fund appropriations pursuant to section 12‑128, Arizona Revised Statutes.  This is not meant to limit the counties' ability to add judges pursuant to section 12‑121, Arizona Revised Statutes.

Up to 4.6 percent of the amounts appropriated for juvenile treatment services and juvenile diversion consequences may be retained and expended by the supreme court to administer the programs established pursuant to section 8‑322, Arizona Revised Statutes, and to conduct evaluations as needed.  The remaining portion of the juvenile treatment services and juvenile diversion consequences appropriations shall be deposited in the juvenile probation services fund established by section 8‑322, Arizona Revised Statutes.

Receipt of state probation monies by the counties is contingent on the county maintenance of fiscal year 2003-2004 expenditure levels for each probation program.  State probation monies are not intended to supplant county dollars for probation programs.

On or before November 1, 2015, the administrative office of the courts shall report to the joint legislative budget committee the fiscal year 2014‑2015 actual, fiscal year 2015-2016 estimated and fiscal year 2016-2017 requested amounts for the following:

1.  On a county-by-county basis, the number of authorized and filled case carrying probation positions and non-case carrying positions, distinguishing between adult standard, adult intensive, juvenile standard and juvenile intensive.  The report shall indicate the level of state probation funding, other state funding, county funding and probation surcharge funding for those positions.

2.  Total receipts and expenditures by county and fund source for the adult standard, adult intensive, juvenile standard and juvenile intensive probation line items, including the amount of personal services expended from each revenue source of each account.

3.  The amount of monies from the adult standard, adult intensive, juvenile standard and juvenile intensive probation line items that the office does not distribute as direct aid to counties.  The report shall delineate how the office expends these monies that are not distributed as direct aid to counties.

All centralized service payments made by the administrative office of the courts on behalf of counties shall be funded only from the centralized service payments line item.  Centralized service payments include only training, motor vehicle payments, CORP review board funding, LEARN funding, research, operational reviews and GPS vendor payments.  This footnote does not apply to treatment or counseling services payments made from the juvenile treatment services and juvenile diversion consequences line items.  Monies in the operating lump sum appropriation or other line items intended for centralized service payments shall be transferred to the centralized service payments line item before expenditure.

All monies in the adult standard probation, adult intensive probation, interstate compact, juvenile standard probation and juvenile intensive probation line items shall be used only as pass-through monies to county probation departments.  Monies in the operating lump sum appropriation or other line items intended as pass-through for the purpose of administering a county probation program shall be transferred to the appropriate probation line item before expenditure."

Amend title to conform


 

 

ADAM DRIGGS

 

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03/18/2015

8:45 AM

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