S257 - Appropriations Act of 2017. (SL 2017-57)

Overview: Section 18A.2 of S.L. 2017-57 requires Indigent Defense Services, in conjunction with the Administrative Office of the Courts and the National Center for State Courts, to use funds available to it to develop a workload formula for the public defender offices. The report must include the number of public defenders that Indigent Defense Services recommends to be allocated to each public defender office and shall be submitted to the chairs of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety and the chairs of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on Justice and Public Safety, and the Senate Appropriations Committee on Justice and Public Safety by May 1, 2018.

This section became effective July 1, 2017.