SF 1044 Senate Long Description
E Relating to criminal justice; authorizing the commissioner of + corrections to continue supervised release terms of inmates with serious and +persistent mental illness violating conditions of release and require successful completion of an appropriate supervised alternative living program +with a mental health component when consistent with public safety, +authorizing the court to place certain offenders on probation in lieu of +incarceration under the same conditions and requiring the commissioner to cooperate with +nonprofit entities to establish supervised alternative living programs for +offenders with serious and persistent mental illness, specifying certain program +requirements; increasing the surcharge imposed on criminal and traffic offenders +and imposing a surcharge on parking violations, requiring crediting of the amounts+ to the general fund; requesting the supreme court to temporarily impose a +surcharge on attorney license renewals to support the public defender system and +civil legal aid; specifying certain copayment requirements of applicants for +public defender services and providing for collection of copayments under +the revenue recapture act; appropriating money to the board of public defense for+ the financing of the public defense system(ra, ja)