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Judicial branch seeks to convert drug courts and pretrial programs from OTO to base funding

2330966 · February 17, 2025
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Summary

Committee heard requests to shift drug courts and pretrial programs from one-time (OTO) funding to base general fund and asked for county-level expenditure breakdowns and program detail.

Judicial-branch officials asked the subcommittee to permanently fund drug courts and the statewide pretrial program that previously were supported largely by federal grants or one-time appropriations.

Finance director Kathy Penny told members DP107 seeks additional spending authority to spend fees collected in a state special account established for drug-court activities; DP103 asks to move the pretrial program into the base and add 2.5 FTE.…

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