Section 1233.5.
Cal. Penal Code - PEN § 1233.5.
in effect(a)
A statewide performance maintenance payment calculated pursuant to Section 1233.2 and a county performance incentive payment calculated pursuant to Section
1233.3 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year. The total annual payment to a county shall be divided into four equal quarterly payments.
(b)
The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance maintenance payments and county performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governor’s proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of probation failure reduction incentive payments
in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and the Judicial Council. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in May of each year.
(c)
There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, which is continuously appropriated. Moneys appropriated for purposes of statewide performance
maintenance payments and county performance incentive payments authorized in Sections 1230 to 1233.6, inclusive, shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council and the share calculated for each county probation department shall be transferred to its Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund authorized in Section 1230.
(d)
For each fiscal year, the Department of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to
Sections 1230 to 1233.6, inclusive, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
(e)
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, each fiscal year, the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby
continuously appropriated from the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to the Judicial Council for the costs of implementing and administering this program, pursuant to subdivision (c), and the 2011 realignment legislation addressing public safety.
(f)
A county that fails to provide the information required in Section 1231 to the Judicial Council shall not be eligible for the statewide performance maintenance payment pursuant to Section 1233.2 or the county performance incentive payment pursuant to Section 1233.3.
References
referencesCal. Government Code - GOV § 13340.
referencesCal. Penal Code - PEN § 1233.2.
referencesCal. Penal Code - PEN § 1233.3.
referencesCal. Penal Code - PEN § 1230.
referencesCal. Penal Code - PEN § 1231.
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