HB 2003 - DIGEST

     Directs the secretary of the department of corrections in consultation with the division of alcohol and substance abuse, the sentencing guidelines commission, and any other person deemed by the secretary to be necessary, to establish a fair and equitable method to distribute funds from the criminal justice treatment account to counties.

     Provides that, beginning in fiscal year 2004, seventy percent of the funds in the account shall be subject to this distribution formula.  The remaining thirty percent of the funds in the account shall be distributed as grants.

     Provides that funds must be used to provide treatment for offenders filed upon by the prosecuting attorney.

     Appropriates the sum of two million four hundred fifteen thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, from the general fund to the criminal justice treatment account for the purposes of this act.