§1349-F.__Review

Review of a revocation of administrative release pursuant to section 1349-E must be by appeal.__The appeal is as provided under section 1207.

Sec. 30. 34-A MRSA §1210-A, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 753, §2, is amended to read:

5. Community Corrections Program Account. Each county treasurer shall place 20% of the funds received from the department pursuant to this section into a separate community corrections program account. Funds placed in this account may be used only for adult or juvenile community corrections as defined in subsection 1.

A.__Those counties that demonstrate to the department that at least 50% of the community corrections funds received are expended for the purposes of community corrections as defined in subsection 1 are eligible to receive an additional 8% increase in funds received pursuant to this section to be used as defined in subsection 1.

B.__If a county does not comply with the requirement in this subsection, that county's allocation of community corrections funds for the next year must be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of funds not spent by that county on adult or juvenile community corrections as defined in subsection 1. Funds from the reduced allocation to counties in noncompliance must be redistributed to counties that use the funds as described in paragraph A.

Sec. 31. PL 2003, c. 451, Pt. K, §2, sub-§6 is amended to read:

6. Initial report to address immediate needs. The commission shall submit a an initial report that includes its findings and recommendations, including legislation, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over sentencing policies during the Second Regular Session of the 121st Legislature criminal justice and public safety matters no later than December 3, 2003 February 2, 2004. The commission is authorized to introduce legislation related to its report to the Second Regular Session of the 121st Legislature at the time of submission of its report.