HF 1242

as introduced - 85th Legislature (2007 - 2008) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to public defense; requiring the Board of Public Defense to allocate
and distribute funds based on weighted caseload; amending Minnesota Statutes
2006, section 611.27, subdivision 1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 611.27, subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

County payment responsibility.

(a) A chief district public defender
shall annually submit a comprehensive budget to the state Board of Public Defense. The
budget shall be in compliance with standards and forms required by the board. The chief
district public defender shall, at times and in the form required by the board, submit
reports to the board concerning its operations, including the number of cases handled and
funds expended for these services.

(b) Money appropriated to the state Board of Public Defense for the board's
administration, for the state public defender, for the judicial district public defenders,
and for the public defense corporations shall be expended as determined by the board.
In distributing funds to district public defenders, the board shall deleted text begin consider the geographic
distribution of public defenders, the equity of compensation among the judicial districts,
public defender case loads, and the results of the weighted case load study deleted text end new text begin allocate funds
on the basis of judicial district weighted caseload new text end .