41-2409

41-2409. State aid; administration

A. The Arizona criminal justice commission shall administer the state aid to county
attorneys fund established by section 11-539. By September 1 of each year, the
commission shall distribute monies in the fund to each county according to the following
composite index formula:

1. The three year average of the total felony filings in the superior court in the
county, divided by the statewide three year average of the total felony filings in the
superior court.

2. The county population, as adopted by the department of economic security,
divided by the statewide population, as adopted by the department of economic security.

3. The sum of paragraphs 1 and 2 divided by two equals the composite index.

4. The composite index for each county shall be used as the multiplier against the
total funds appropriated from the state general fund and other monies distributed to the
fund pursuant to section 41-2421.

B. The board of supervisors in each county shall separately account for the monies
transmitted pursuant to subsection A of this section and may expend these monies only for
the purposes specified in section 11-539. The county treasurer shall invest these monies
and interest earned shall be expended only for the purposes specified in section 11-539.

C. The Arizona criminal justice commission shall administer the state aid to
indigent defense fund established by section 11-588. By September 1 of each fiscal year,
the commission shall distribute monies in the fund to each county according to the
following composite index formula:

1. The three year average of the total felony filings in the superior court in the
county divided by the statewide three year average of the total felony filings in the
superior court.

2. The county population, as adopted by the department of economic security,
divided by the statewide population, as adopted by the department of economic security.

3. The sum of paragraphs 1 and 2 divided by two equals the composite index.

D. The board of supervisors shall separately account for the monies transmitted
pursuant to subsection C of this section and may expend these monies only for the
purposes specified in section 11-588. The county treasurer shall invest these monies and
interest earned shall be expended only for the purposes specified in section 11-588.

E. By January 8, 2001 and by January 8 each year thereafter, the commission shall
report to each county board of supervisors, the governor, the legislature, the joint
legislative budget committee, the chief justice of the supreme court and the attorney
general on the expenditure of the monies in the state aid to county attorneys fund and
the state aid to indigent defense fund for the prior fiscal year and on the progress made
in achieving the goal of improved criminal case processing.