HB 2333
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
First Regular Session
House: JUD DP 8-0-0-0-0
HB 2333: appropriation; coordinated reentry planning
Sponsor: Representative Bliss, LD 1
Caucus & COW
Overview
Appropriates $17,000,000 from the state General Fund (GF) in FY 2024 to the Arizona
Department of Administration (ADOA) for a coordinated reentry services program (Program).
History
Current law allows each county to establish a Program for the purpose of screening and assessing
persons who are booked into a county jail and connecting them with behavioral health and
substance disorder treatments. Counties that establish a Program must also establish a planning
committee comprised of specific persons to develop the Program's policies and procedures.
Subject to available funding, a Program is required to:
1) Allow entities to access and use a cross-system recidivism tracking data base (Data Base)
which contains data from prearrest diversion programs, reentry screenings and reentry
planning before, during and postrelease;
2) Establish an information exchange mechanism that includes reentry planning efforts
between entities, counties, cities, towns and other state political subdivisions;
3) Enable collaborative efforts that include treatment, peer support, housing, transportation
and employment services by developing or extending a coalition;
4) Establish agreements with coalition partners in which treatment providers use the Data
Base to record postrelease treatment engagement; and
5) Utilize the Data Base to record baseline and ongoing statistics for identified needs,
referrals and future Program participants (A.R.S. § 11-392).
Provisions
1. Appropriates $17,000,000 from the GF in FY 2024 to ADOA to be distributed to counties for
a Program as follows:
a) $2,300,000 to each of Mohave, Pinal and Yavapai counties to continue to implement the
Program in each county;
b) $7,100,000 to distribute as grants to counties other than Mohave, Pinal and Yavapai
counties to implement a Program; and
c) $3,000,000 to the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission to develop a Data Base. (Sec. 1)
2. Exempts the appropriation from lapsing and specifies the Legislature's intent that the
appropriation be considered ongoing in future years. (Sec. 1)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note