BILL NUMBER: AB 227 CHAPTERED 10/10/07 CHAPTER 383 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 10, 2007 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 10, 2007 PASSED THE SENATE JUNE 28, 2007 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY APRIL 26, 2007 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 22, 2007 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 14, 2007 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Beall JANUARY 29, 2007 An act to amend Sections 77200, 77201.1, and 77201.2 of, and to add Section 77201. 3 to, the Government Code, and to amend Section 1463.17 of the Penal Code, relating to trial court funding. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 227, Beall. Trial court funding. Existing law specifies the amounts that the counties are required to remit to the state for the purposes of trial court funding. Under existing law, the state and the counties have negotiated transfers of county civil assessment revenue and the counties' portion of certain fees. Existing law provides, commencing July 1, 2005, that the counties' obligation to remit specified amounts to the Trial Court Trust Fund is reduced each fiscal year through the 2008-09 fiscal year, in accordance with specified procedures. This bill would revise the amounts that the counties are obligated to remit to the Trial Court Trust Fund commencing in the 2006-07 fiscal year. The bill would provide that these new amounts do not apply for purposes of a calculation related to fee, fine, and forfeiture revenue. The bill would specifically provide the amount that the County of Santa Clara was required to remit in the 2005-06 fiscal year and would provide that this amount is to be reduced by a specified calculation. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that this provision operate retroactively. The bill would provide a specified amount that the County of Santa Clara is required to remit in the 2006-07 fiscal year and in subsequent fiscal years, and would provide that it is to be reduced by a specified calculation. The bill would also make conforming changes. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 77200 of the Government Code is amended to read: 77200. On and after July 1, 1997, the state shall assume sole responsibility for the funding of court operations, as defined in Section 77003 and Rule 810 of the California Rules of Court as it read on July 1, 1996. In meeting this responsibility, the state shall do all of the following: (a) Deposit in the State Trial Court Trust Fund, for subsequent allocation to or for the trial courts, all county funds remitted to the state pursuant to Section 77201 until June 30, 1998, pursuant to Section 77201.1 from July 1, 1998, until June 30, 2006, inclusive, and pursuant to Section 77201.3, thereafter. (b) Be responsible for the cost of court operations incurred by the trial courts in the 1997-98 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years. (c) Allocate funds to the individual trial courts pursuant to an allocation schedule adopted by the Judicial Council, but in no case shall the amount allocated to the trial court in a county be less than the amount remitted to the state by the county in which that court is located pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 77201 until June 30, 1998, pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 77201.1 from July 1, 1998, until June 30, 2006, inclusive, and pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 77201.3, thereafter. (d) The Judicial Council shall submit its allocation schedule to the Controller at least 5 days before the due date of any allocation. SEC. 2. Section 77201.1 of the Government Code is amended to read: 77201.1. (a) Commencing on July 1, 1997, no county shall be responsible for funding court operations, as defined in Section 77003 and Rule 810 of the California Rules of Court as it read on July 1, 1996. (b) Commencing in the 1999-2000 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter until the 2006-07 fiscal year, each county shall remit to the state in four equal installments due on October 1, January 1, April 1, and May 1, the amounts specified in paragraphs (1) and (2). For the purpose of determining the counties' payments commencing in the 2006-07 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, the amounts listed in subdivision (a) of Section 77201.3 shall be used in lieu of the amounts listed in this subdivision. (1) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, each county shall remit to the state the amount listed below which is based on an amount expended by the respective county for court operations during the 1994-95 fiscal year: Jurisdiction Amount Alameda..................... $ 22,509,905 Alpine...................... - Amador...................... - Butte....................... - Calaveras................... - Colusa...................... - Contra Costa................ 11,974,535 Del Norte................... - El Dorado................... - Fresno...................... 11,222,780 Glenn....................... - Humboldt.................... - Imperial.................... - Inyo........................ - Kern........................ 9,234,511 Kings....................... - Lake........................ - Lassen...................... - Los Angeles................. 175,330,647 Madera...................... - Marin....................... - Mariposa.................... - Mendocino................... - Merced...................... - Modoc....................... - Mono........................ - Monterey.................... 4,520,911 Napa........................ - Nevada...................... - Orange...................... 38,846,003 Placer...................... - Plumas...................... - Riverside................... 17,857,241 Sacramento.................. 20,733,264 San Benito.................. - San Bernardino.............. 20,227,102 San Diego................... 43,495,932 San Francisco............... 19,295,303 San Joaquin................. 6,543,068 San Luis Obispo............. - San Mateo................... 12,181,079 Santa Barbara............... 6,764,792 Santa Clara................. 28,689,450 Santa Cruz.................. - Shasta...................... - Sierra...................... - Siskiyou.................... - Solano...................... 6,242,661 Sonoma...................... 6,162,466 Stanislaus.................. 3,506,297 Sutter...................... - Tehama...................... - Trinity..................... - Tulare...................... - Tuolumne.................... - Ventura..................... 9,734,190 Yolo........................ - Yuba........................ - (2) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, each county shall also remit to the state the amount listed below which is based on an amount of fine and forfeiture revenue remitted to the state pursuant to Sections 27361 and 76000 of this code, Sections 1463.001, 1463.07, and 1464 of the Penal Code, and Sections 42007, 42007.1, and 42008 of the Vehicle Code during the 1994-95 fiscal year: Jurisdiction Amount Alameda.......................... $ 9,912,156 Alpine........................... 58,757 Amador........................... 265,707 Butte............................ 1,217,052 Calaveras........................ 310,331 Colusa........................... 397,468 Contra Costa..................... 4,486,486 Del Norte........................ 124,085 El Dorado........................ 1,028,349 Fresno........................... 3,695,633 Glenn............................ 360,974 Humboldt......................... 1,025,583 Imperial......................... 1,144,661 Inyo............................. 614,920 Kern............................. 5,530,972 Kings............................ 982,208 Lake............................. 375,570 Lassen........................... 430,163 Los Angeles...................... 71,002,129 Madera........................... 1,042,797 Marin............................ 2,111,712 Mariposa......................... 135,457 Mendocino........................ 717,075 Merced........................... 1,733,156 Modoc............................ 104,729 Mono............................. 415,136 Monterey......................... 3,330,125 Napa............................. 719,168 Nevada........................... 1,220,686 Orange........................... 19,572,810 Placer........................... 1,243,754 Plumas........................... 193,772 Riverside........................ 7,681,744 Sacramento....................... 5,937,204 San Benito....................... 302,324 San Bernardino................... 8,163,193 San Diego........................ 16,166,735 San Francisco.................... 4,046,107 San Joaquin...................... 3,562,835 San Luis Obispo.................. 2,036,515 San Mateo........................ 4,831,497 Santa Barbara.................... 3,277,610 Santa Clara...................... 11,597,583 Santa Cruz....................... 1,902,096 Shasta........................... 1,044,700 Sierra........................... 42,533 Siskiyou......................... 615,581 Solano........................... 2,708,758 Sonoma........................... 2,316,999 Stanislaus....................... 1,855,169 Sutter........................... 678,681 Tehama........................... 640,303 Trinity.......................... 137,087 Tulare........................... 1,840,422 Tuolumne......................... 361,665 Ventura.......................... 4,575,349 Yolo............................. 880,798 Yuba............................. 289,325 (3) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, county remittances specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not be increased in subsequent years. (4) Except for those counties with a population of 70,000, or less, on January 1, 1996, the amount a county is required to remit pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be adjusted by the amount equal to any adjustment resulting from the procedures in subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 77201 as that section read on June 30, 1998, to the extent a county filed an appeal with the Controller with respect to the findings made by the Department of Finance. This paragraph shall not be construed to establish a new appeal process beyond what was provided by Section 77201, as that section read on June 30, 1998. (5) Any change in statute or rule of court that either reduces the bail schedule or redirects or reduces a county's portion of fee, fine, and forfeiture revenue to an amount that is less than (A) the fees, fines, and forfeitures retained by that county, and (B) the county's portion of fines and forfeitures transmitted to the state in the 1994-95 fiscal year, shall reduce that county's remittance specified in paragraph (2) of this subdivision by an equal amount. Nothing in this paragraph is intended to limit judicial sentencing discretion. (6) In the 2005-06 fiscal year, the amount that the County of Santa Clara is required to remit to the state under paragraph (2) shall be reduced as described in this paragraph, rather than as described in subdivision (b) of Section 68085.7. It is the intent of the Legislature that this paragraph have retroactive effect. (A) For the County of Santa Clara, the remittance under this subdivision for the 2005-06 fiscal year shall be reduced by an amount equal to one-half of the amount calculated by subtracting the budget reduction for the Superior Court of Santa Clara County for that fiscal year attributable to the reduction of the counties' payment obligation from thirty-one million dollars ($31,000,000) pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 68085.6 from the net civil assessments received in that county in that fiscal year. "Net civil assessments" as used in this paragraph means the amount of civil assessments collected minus the costs of collecting those civil assessments, under the guidelines of the Controller. (B) The reduction under this paragraph of the amount that the County of Santa Clara is required to remit to the state for the 2005-06 fiscal year shall not exceed two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000). If the reduction reaches two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000), the amount the county is required to remit to the state under paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 77201.3 in each subsequent fiscal year shall be eight million four hundred sixty-one thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars ($8,461,293). (C) Nothing in this paragraph shall affect the reduction of the annual remittance for the County of Santa Clara as provided in Section 68085.2. (7) Notwithstanding the changes to the amounts in paragraph (2) made by Section 68085.7 or any other section, the amounts in paragraph (2) shall not be changed for purposes of the calculation required by subdivision (a) of Section 77205. (c) Nothing in this section is intended to relieve a county of the responsibility to provide necessary and suitable court facilities pursuant to Section 68073. (d) Nothing in this section is intended to relieve a county of the responsibility for justice-related expenses not included in Section 77003 which are otherwise required of the county by law, including, but not limited to, indigent defense representation and investigation, and payment of juvenile justice charges. (e) County base year remittance requirements specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) incorporate specific reductions to reflect those instances where the Department of Finance has determined that a county's remittance to both the General Fund and the Trial Court Trust Fund during the 1994-95 fiscal year exceeded the aggregate amount of state funding from the General Fund and the Trial Court Trust Fund. The amount of the reduction was determined by calculating the difference between the amount the county remitted to the General Fund and the Trial Court Trust Fund and the aggregate amount of state support from the General Fund and the Trial Court Trust Fund allocated to the county's trial courts. In making its determination of whether a county is entitled to a reduction pursuant to that paragraph, the Department of Finance subtracted from county revenues remitted to the state, all moneys derived from the fee required by Section 42007.1 of the Vehicle Code and the parking surcharge required by subdivision (c) of Section 76000. (f) Notwithstanding subdivision (e), the Department of Finance shall not reduce a county's base year remittance requirement, as specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), if the county's trial court funding allocation was modified pursuant to the amendments to the allocation formula set forth in paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section 77200, as amended by Chapter 2 of the Statutes of 1993, to provide a stable level of funding for small county courts in response to reductions in the General Fund support for the trial courts. (g) In any fiscal year in which a county of the first class pays the employer-paid retirement contribution for court employees, or any other employees of the county who provide a service to the court, and the amounts of those payments are charged to the budget of the courts, the sum the county is required to pay to the state pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) shall be increased by the actual amount charged to the trial court up to twenty-three million five hundred twenty-seven thousand nine hundred forty-nine dollars ($23,527,949) in that fiscal year. The county and the trial court shall report to the Controller and the Department of Finance the actual amount charged in that fiscal year. (h) This section shall become operative on July 1, 1999. SEC. 3. Section 77201.2 of the Government Code is amended to read: 77201.2. All moneys required to be paid to the Trial Court Trust Fund pursuant to Sections 77201, 77201.1, and 77201.3 shall be considered delinquent if not received by the dates therein specified, and shall be subject to the penalties set forth in Section 68085. SEC. 4. Section 77201.3 is added to the Government Code, to read: 77201.3. (a) Commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, each county shall remit to the state the amounts described in this subdivision in four equal installments due on October 1, January 1, April 1, and May 1. The amounts listed in this subdivision are in lieu of the amounts listed in subdivision (b) of Section 77201.1. However, for purposes of the calculation required by subdivision (a) of Section 77205, the amounts in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 77201.1 shall be used. (1) Each county shall remit to the state the amount listed below, which is based on an amount expended by the respective county for court operations during the 1994-95 fiscal year. The amount listed for Los Angeles County includes the twenty-three million five hundred twenty-seven thousand nine hundred forty-nine dollars ($23,527,949) increase required by subdivision (g) of Section 77201.1. Jurisdiction Amount Alameda..................... $ 22,509,905 Alpine...................... - Amador...................... - Butte....................... - Calaveras................... - Colusa...................... - Contra Costa................ 11,974,535 Del Norte................... - El Dorado................... - Fresno...................... 11,222,780 Glenn....................... - Humboldt.................... - Imperial.................... - Inyo........................ - Kern........................ 9,234,511 Kings....................... - Lake........................ - Lassen...................... - Los Angeles................. 198,858,596 Madera...................... - Marin....................... - Mariposa.................... - Mendocino................... - Merced...................... - Modoc....................... - Mono........................ - Monterey.................... 4,520,911 Napa........................ - Nevada...................... - Orange...................... 38,846,003 Placer...................... - Plumas...................... - Riverside................... 17,857,241 Sacramento.................. 20,733,264 San Benito.................. - San Bernardino.............. 20,227,102 San Diego................... 43,495,932 San Francisco............... 19,295,303 San Joaquin................. 6,543,068 San Luis Obispo............. - San Mateo................... 12,181,079 Santa Barbara............... 6,764,792 Santa Clara................. 28,689,450 Santa Cruz.................. - Shasta...................... - Sierra...................... - Siskiyou.................... - Solano...................... 6,242,661 Sonoma...................... 6,162,466 Stanislaus.................. 3,506,297 Sutter...................... - Tehama...................... - Trinity..................... - Tulare...................... - Tuolumne.................... - Ventura..................... 9,734,190 Yolo........................ - Yuba........................ - (2) (A) This paragraph sets forth the amount of the revenue maintenance of effort payment as modified by the reductions in Sections 68085.2 and 68085.7, including, if applicable, any adjustment made pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 68085.8. Jurisdiction Amount Alameda..................... $ 7,529,814 Alpine...................... 58,459 Amador...................... 261,618 Butte....................... 797,512 Calaveras................... 298,247 Colusa...................... 394,002 Contra Costa................ 3,136,407 Del Norte................... 120,598 El Dorado................... 732,606 Fresno...................... 3,536,164 Glenn....................... 293,014 Humboldt.................... 933,601 Imperial.................... 1,075,275 Inyo........................ 610,438 Kern........................ 5,247,051 Kings....................... 759,717 Lake........................ 133,003 Lassen...................... 379,561 Los Angeles................. 47,023,566 Madera...................... 1,025,684 Marin....................... 2,010,028 Mariposa.................... 131,611 Mendocino................... 441,037 Merced...................... 1,600,227 Modoc....................... 103,798 Mono........................ 409,747 Monterey.................... 2,662,998 Napa........................ 710,832 Nevada...................... 1,197,947 Orange...................... 15,603,484 Placer...................... 835,467 Plumas...................... 154,384 Riverside................... 7,108,548 Sacramento.................. 1,829,692 San Benito.................. 270,940 San Bernardino.............. 3,325,704 San Diego................... 13,501,132 San Francisco............... 3,123,814 San Joaquin................. 2,158,803 San Luis Obispo............. 1,754,131 San Mateo................... 2,527,355 Santa Barbara............... 3,117,677 Santa Cruz.................. 1,495,691 Shasta...................... 574,383 Sierra...................... 41,810 Siskiyou.................... 482,082 Solano...................... 1,931,765 Sonoma...................... 1,439,187 Stanislaus.................. 1,079,927 Sutter...................... 644,174 Tehama...................... 627,958 Trinity..................... 102,233 Tulare...................... 1,345,686 Tuolumne.................... 277,573 Ventura..................... 2,283,494 Yolo........................ 464,030 Yuba........................ 273,437 (B) The amount remitted by the County of Santa Clara shall be ten million nine hundred sixty-one thousand two hundred ninety-three dollars ($10,961,293) reduced as described in clauses (i) and (ii). (i) The amount remitted by the County of Santa Clara pursuant to this paragraph for each fiscal year shall be reduced by an amount equal to one-half of the amount calculated by subtracting the budget reduction for the Superior Court of Santa Clara County for that fiscal year attributable to the reduction of the counties' payment obligation from thirty-one million dollars ($31,000,000) pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 68085.6 from the net civil assessments received in that county in that fiscal year. "Net civil assessments" as used in this paragraph means the amount of civil assessments collected minus the costs of collecting those civil assessments, under the guidelines of the Controller. (ii) The reduction calculated pursuant to paragraph (i) shall not exceed two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) in any fiscal year. If the reduction for a fiscal year reaches two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000), the amount that the county is required to remit to the state under this paragraph in that fiscal year and in each subsequent fiscal year shall be eight million four hundred sixty-one thousand two hundred ninety-three dollars ($8,461,293). (b) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, county remittances specified in subdivision (a) shall not be increased in subsequent years. (c) Except for those counties with a population of 70,000, or less, on January 1, 1996, the amount a county is required to remit pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) shall be adjusted by the amount equal to any adjustment resulting from the procedures in subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 77201 as that section read on June 30, 1998, to the extent a county filed an appeal with the Controller with respect to the findings made by the Department of Finance. This subdivision shall not be construed to establish a new appeal process beyond what was provided by Section 77201, as that section read on June 30, 1998. (d) Any change in statute or rule of court that either reduces the bail schedule or redirects or reduces a county's portion of fee, fine, and forfeiture revenue to an amount that is less than (1) the fees, fines, and forfeitures retained by that county, and (2) the county's portion of fines and forfeitures transmitted to the state in the 1994-95 fiscal year, shall reduce that county's remittance specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) by an equal amount. Nothing in this subdivision is intended to limit judicial sentencing discretion. (e) Nothing in this section is intended to relieve a county of the responsibility to provide necessary and suitable court facilities pursuant to Section 68073. (f) Nothing in this section is intended to relieve a county of the responsibility for justice-related expenses not included in Section 77003 which are otherwise required of the county by law, including, but not limited to, indigent defense representation and investigation, and payment of juvenile justice charges. SEC. 5. Section 1463.17 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 1463.17. (a) In a county of the 19th class, notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, of the moneys deposited with the county treasurer pursuant to Section 1463, fifty dollars ($50) for each conviction of a violation of Section 23103, 23104, 23152, or 23153 of the Vehicle Code shall be deposited in a special account to be used exclusively to pay the cost incurred by the county or a city or special district within the county, with approval of the board of supervisors, for performing analysis of blood, breath, or urine for alcohol content or for the presence of drugs, or for services related to the testing. (b) The application of this section shall not reduce the county's remittance to the state specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 77201, paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 77201.1, and paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 77201.3 of the Government Code.