Before distributing to a county that county's entire distribution from the County Jail Prisoner Support and Community Corrections Fund, the department shall require that county to submit appropriate documentation verifying that the county expended 20% of its prior distribution for the purpose of community corrections as defined in subsection 1.__If a county fails to submit appropriate documentation verifying that the county expended 20% of its prior distribution for the purpose of community corrections, the department shall distribute to that county only 80% of its distribution from the County Jail Prisoner Support and Community Corrections Fund.__The department shall distribute the 20% not distributed to that county to all other counties that submit appropriate documentation verifying compliance with the 20% expenditure requirement for the purpose of community corrections.__The department shall distribute these funds to those qualifying counties in an amount equal to each county's percent distribution pursuant to subsection 3.

Sec. A-21. 34-A MRSA §3036-A, sub-§2, śC, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 845, §4, is amended to read:

C. A Except as provided in paragraph C-1, a prisoner may not be transferred to supervised community confinement unless the prisoner has no more than one year remaining on the term of imprisonment or, in the case of a split sentence, on the unsuspended portion, after consideration of any deductions that the prisoner has received and retained under Title 17-A, section 1253.

Sec. A-22. 34-A MRSA §3036-A, sub-§2, śC-1 is enacted to read:

C-1.__If the commissioner determines that the average statewide probation case load is no more than 90 probationers to one probation officer, then a prisoner may be transferred to supervised community confinement if that prisoner has no more than 2 years remaining on the term of imprisonment or, in the case of a split sentence, on the unsuspended portion, after consideration of any deductions that the prisoner has received and retained under Title 17- A, section 1253.

Sec. A-23. Addressing mental illness in prisons and jails. No later than July 1, 2004, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services shall develop a joint plan of action to address mental illness in the criminal justice community. In developing the plan the