Annually, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and the Judicial Council, shall calculate a statewide performance incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year, as follows:

(a) For a county identified as having a return to prison rate less than 1.5 percent, the incentive payment shall be equal to 100 percent of the highest year of funding that a county received for the California Community Incentive Grant Program from the 2011-12 fiscal year to the 2014-15 fiscal year, inclusive.

Terms Used In California Penal Code 1233.3

  • county: includes "city and county". See California Penal Code 7
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.

(b) For a county identified as having a return to prison rate of 1.5 percent or greater, but not exceeding 3.2 percent, the incentive payment shall be equal to 70 percent of the highest year of funding that a county received for the California Community Incentive Grant Program from the 2011-12 fiscal year to the 2014-15 fiscal year, inclusive.

(c) For a county identified as having a return to prison rate of more than 3.2 percent, not exceeding 5.5 percent, the incentive payment shall be equal to 60 percent of the highest year of funding that a county received for the California Community Incentive Grant Program from the 2011 -12 fiscal year to the 2014-15 fiscal year, inclusive.

(d) For a county identified as having a return to prison rate of more than 5.5 percent, not exceeding 6.1 percent, the incentive payment shall be equal to 50 percent of the highest year of funding that a county received for the California Community Incentive Grant Program from the 2011-12 fiscal year to the 2014-15 fiscal year, inclusive.

(e) For a county identified as having a return to prison rate of more than 6.1 percent, not exceeding 7.9 percent, the incentive payment shall be equal to 40 percent of the highest year of funding that a county received for the California Community Incentive Grant Program from the 2011-12 fiscal year to the 2014-15 fiscal year, inclusive.

(f) A county that fails to provide information specified in Section 1231 to the Administrative Office of the Courts is not eligible for a statewide performance incentive payment.

(g) This section shall not be used to calculate incentive payments for the 2021-22 fiscal year.

(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 80, Sec. 5. (AB 145) Effective July 16, 2021.)

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