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19-6-489. Specialty Court Program Fund.
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19-6-489. Specialty Court Program Fund.
(a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a special revenue fund to be known as the “Specialty Court Program Fund”.
(b) The fund shall consist of the specialty court program user fees under § 16-10-701 and any other moneys provided by law.
(c) The fund shall be used exclusively for:
(1) Treatment services provided by the Department of Community Correction as defined by and distributed under § 16-98-305(1)(E);
(2) Treatment services provided by the Department of Human Services as defined by and distributed under § 16-98-305(2)(C);
(3) The cost of the evaluation of specialty court programs by the Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee as required under § 16-10-139; and
(4) Drug and mental health crisis intervention centers.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 19-6-489
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19-6-489. Specialty Court Program Fund.
(a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a special revenue fund to be known as the “Specialty Court Program Fund”.
(b) The fund shall consist of the specialty court program user fees under § 16-10-701 and any other moneys provided by law.
(c) The fund shall be used exclusively for:
(1) Treatment services provided by the Department of Community Correction as defined by and distributed under § 16-98-305(1)(E);
(2) Treatment services provided by the Department of Human Services as defined by and distributed under § 16-98-305(2)(C);
(3) The cost of the evaluation of specialty court programs by the Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee as required under § 16-10-139; and
(4) Drug and mental health crisis intervention centers.
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16-10-139. Specialty court program evaluation and approval — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “specialty court program” means one of the following:
(1) A pre-adjudication program under § 5-4-901 et seq.;
(2) An approved drug court program under the Arkansas Drug Court Act, § 16-98-301 et seq.;
(3) The Swift and Certain Accountability on Probation Pilot Program under § 16-93-1701 et seq.; and
(4) Any other specialty court program that has been approved by the Supreme Court, including without limitation specialty court programs known as:
(A) A DWI court;
(B) A mental health court;
(C) A veteran's court;
(D) A juvenile drug court;
(E) A “HOPE” court;
(F) A “smarter sentencing” court; and
(G) A mental health crisis intervention center.
(b) A specialty court program operated by a circuit court or district court must be approved by the Supreme Court in the administrative plan submitted under Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 14.
(c)(1) The Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee shall evaluate and make findings with respect to all specialty court programs operated by a circuit court or district court in this state and refer the findings to the Supreme Court.
(2) An evaluation under this section shall reflect nationally recognized and peer-reviewed standards for each particular type of specialty court program.
(3) The Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee shall also:
(A) Establish, implement, and operate a uniform specialty court program evaluation process to ensure specialty court program resources are uniformly directed to high-risk and medium-risk offenders and that specialty court programs provide effective and proven practices that reduce recidivism, as well as other factors such as substance dependency, among partici
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-10-139
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16-10-701. Additional fees for specialty court programs — Definitions.
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Pre-adjudication” means the period of time after:
(A) The prosecuting attorney files a criminal information or an indictment is filed in circuit court;
(B) The person named in the criminal information or indictment is arraigned on the charge in circuit court; and
(C) The person enters a specialty court program without a guilty plea or the person enters a plea of guilty but before the circuit court enters a judgment and pronounces a sentence against the person; and
(2) “Specialty court program” means:
(A) A pre-adjudication program under § 5-4-901 et seq.;
(B) An approved drug court program under the Arkansas Drug Court Act, § 16-98-301 et seq.;
(C) A Swift and Certain Accountability on Probation Pilot Program under § 16-93-1701 et seq.; and
(D) Any other specialty court program that has been approved by the Supreme Court, including without limitation specialty court programs known as:
(i) A DWI court;
(ii) A mental health court;
(iii) A veteran's court;
(iv) A juvenile drug court;
(v) A “HOPE” court;
(vi) A “smarter sentencing” court; and
(vii) A mental health crisis intervention center.
(b) In addition to any other court cost or court fee provided by law:
(1) A specialty court program user fee of up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250) shall be assessed on any participant in a specialty court program and remitted to the Administration of Justice Funds Section by the court clerk for deposit into the State Treasury as special revenues credited to the Specialty Court Program Fund; and
(2) A specialty court program public defender user fee not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250) may be assessed by the court for a defendant w
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-10-701
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 16-10-701. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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16-98-305. Required resources.
Each approved drug court program established under this subchapter, subject to an appropriation, funding, and position authorization, both programmatic and administrative, shall be provided with the following resources:
(1) The Department of Community Correction shall provide the following pursuant to § 16-98-303(b)(2) for adult offenders:
(A)(i) Except as provided in subdivision (1)(A)(ii) of this section, provide a minimum of one (1) drug counselor position for every thirty (30) drug court participants.
(ii) If a drug court judge does not require the drug counselor position or positions described in subdivision (1)(A)(i) of this section, funding for a drug counselor or counselors shall be provided under subdivision (1)(E)(i) of this section;
(B) Provide a minimum of one (1) probation officer position for every forty (40) drug court participants;
(C) Provide a minimum of one (1) administrative assistant position for each drug court program;
(D) Provide for drug screens and testing as needed; and
(E)(i) Based upon a formula to be developed by the Administrative Office of the Courts, reviewed by the Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee, and approved by the Legislative Council, provide for:
(a) Intensive outpatient treatment to be made available to the drug court program in each judicial district;
(b) Short-term and long-term inpatient treatment to be made available to the drug court program in each judicial district; and
(c) A drug court judge to contract with a local licensed treatment provider for counseling services for drug court participants so that each privately contracted addiction counselor does not have more than thirty (30) drug court participants in his or her caseload.
(ii) The Department of Communi
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-98-305
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 16-98-305. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.