SB 5098 - DIGEST |
Requires a county or city to: (1) Provide documentation that attorneys providing public defense services are in compliance with the state supreme court standards for indigent defense; and |
(2) Collect hours billed for nonpublic defense legal services in the previous calendar year from each individual or organization that contracts to perform public defense services. |
Requires the office of public defense to: (1) Annually determine the cost of public defense services based on an average of the actual expenditures for the services reported by counties and cities for the previous two years; |
(2) Monitor trial level criminal public defense services to determine eligibility of counties and cities to receive state funds; and |
(3) Establish policies for the distribution of appropriated funds to eligible counties and cities. |
Requires counties and cities to annually provide information on the actual expenditures for public defense services to the office of public defense. |