Intensive drug enforcement grants

Item 453 #1c

Language
Page 268, line 18, strike "$25,756,856" and insert "$24,756,856".
Page 268, line 18, strike "$27,352,137" and insert "$26,352,137".
Page 268, after line 29, insert:
"A.  The amounts for Financial Assistance to Localities for Intensified Drug Enforcement Services include $1,500,000 in nongeneral funds each year for grants to continue or establish "Weed and Seed" programs in selected localities on a competitive basis.  Such new grants as may be awarded shall require local cash matching funds of 25 percent in the first grant year, 35 percent in the second grant year, and 50 percent in any subsequent grant years.
B.  The amounts for Financial Assistance to Localities for Intensified Drug Enforcement Services include $250,000 in nongeneral funds each year to establish drug courts in selected judicial circuits.  Such funds shall be provided as matching grant funds and shall be limited to those circuits which have received a federal grant for the planning of a drug court program and which have applied for federal grants to implement such programs.  It is the intent of the General Assembly that all funds and services provided to such courts be provided through district probation and parole offices of the Department of Corrections."

Explanation
(This amendment establishes policy regarding the use of funds from the Intensified Drug Enforcement Act grant program. This amendment also eliminates the proposed use of general funds in this program, since sufficient nongeneral funds are available for these purposes.)