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Revenue Distribution TrainingMarch 2013

Presented by the State Controller’s Office

and the Administrative Office of the Courts 1

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INTRODUCTION

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Faculty and Contacts

State Controller’s Office:• Jim Reisinger • Darryl Mar• Sandeep Singh

Administrative Office of the Courts:

• John Judnick• Robert Cabral• Ryan Mendoza

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

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Housekeeping Information

• Breaks: 15 minutes• Lunch: 60 minutes, lunch will be provided.• Restrooms: Hallway, same floor• Questions:

• Please ask at any time and use the microphone.• Please use index cards to submit written

questions, and include your name in case we need more information.

• Evaluations: Please complete after each session and return at end of day..

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Training Agenda 9:30 – Opening and Introduction

• Complexity of Revenue Collection and Distribution Process

• Court Ordered Debt Task Force

9:45 – Distribution Resources• Judicial Council - Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedule• State Controller’s Office - Appendix C

11:00 – Morning Break

11:15 – Revenue Distribution Audits

11:45 – Statutes

12:30 – Lunch Break

Times are approximate.

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Training Agenda

1:30 – Breakout Sessions – A• Parking• Basic Distributions

2:45 – Afternoon Break

3:00 – Breakout Sessions – B• Special Distributions• Hands On Specific Issues

4:15– Closing• Evaluations• Questions and answers• WebEx training

4:30 – End

Times are approximate.

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Attendee Expectations

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Instruction Goals

• Identify sources of resource materials for distribution calculation, analysis, and research.

• Walk-through and explain calculations of distribution examples for select case types using worksheet tools.

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Assessment / Collection Courts Counties Cities Higher Education

Collection Companies *

Processing Agencies *

Cities

Calculations / Distributions Courts Counties Higher Education

Recipients State Counties Cities Higher Education

* Entities under contract to perform collections.

ASSESSMENT, COLLECTION, AND DISTRIBUTIONCOMPLEXITY OF THE PROCESS

Civil / Traffic / Criminal Parking

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Court-Ordered Debt

Task Force

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Court-Ordered Debt Task Force (CODTF)

• Established by Penal Code 1463.02(b)

• Representatives from various• State entities, agencies, and

organizations• Counties, cities, and other

external organizations

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CODTF PRIMARY GOALS (PC 1463.02(b))

1. Identify all criminal and traffic-related court-ordered fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties and assessments imposed under law.

2. Identify the distribution of revenue derived from those debts and the expenditures made by those entities that benefit from the revenues.

3. Consult with state and local entities that would be affected by a simplification and consolidation of criminal and traffic-related court-ordered debts.

4. Evaluate and make recommendations to the Judicial Council and the Legislature for consolidating and simplifying the imposition of criminal and traffic-related court-ordered debts and the distribution of the revenue derived from those debts with the goal of improving the process for those entities that benefit from the revenues, and recommendations, if any, for adjustment to the court-ordered debts.

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CODTF ACTIVITIES

• Current activities of CODTF subgroups:• Survey to determine revenue streams to state,

counties, cities, etc., and associated financial information

• Evaluation of SCO Appendix C• Sponsor training on revenue distribution

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RESOURCES

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Distribution Resource Interrelationships

• Statutes• SCO Revenue Distribution

Guidelines, Appendix C• Judicial Council Uniform Bail and

Penalty Schedule• Revenue Distribution Audit

Worksheets

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Distribution Resource Sites

California Statutes: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml

Distribution Resources/Guides:

JC Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules www.courts.ca.gov/documents/2013-JC-BAIL.pdf

Email Distribution Questions to AOC [email protected]

SCO Appendix C Guidelines www.sco.ca.gov/ard_trialcourt_manual_guidelines.html

Distribution Training Materials www.sco.ca.gov/ard_trialcourt_manual_guidelines.html

Local Court Websites: www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm

County Websites: www.csac.counties.org/county-websites-profile-information

Audit Reports:

State Controller’s www.sco.ca.gov/aud_court_revenues.html

AOC www.courts.ca.gov/12050.htm

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JUDICIAL COUNCIL

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Judicial Council Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules

(Rule 4.102)

• PC 1269b(c): requires that courts prepare, adopt, and annually revise a uniform countywide schedule of bail for all bailable felony offenses and for all misdemeanor and infraction offenses except Vehicle Code infractions.

The penalty schedule for infraction violations of the Vehicle Code shall be established by the Judicial Council in accordance with Section 40310 of the Vehicle Code.

• VC 40310: requires Judicial Council to annually adopt a uniform traffic penalty schedule for all non-parking Vehicle Code infractions.

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Countywide Schedule of Bail

• The judges in each county adopt a countywide bail schedule that sets bail based on the requirements that apply to that jurisdiction.

• Each countywide bail schedule may have bail amounts that are different from the council's bail amounts.

• You must contact the court where a case is filed to get local bail information for that court.

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JC Uniform Bail and Penalty Scheduleswww.courts.ca.gov/documents/2013-JC-BAIL.pdf

The Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules are revised to conform to recent legislation. The Judicial Council adopted the proposed 2013 Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules at the December 2012 council meeting.

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JC Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules

Purpose of schedules:

1. To provide the standard bail amount, which for Vehicle Code offenses is the amount that may be used for a bail forfeiture instead of further proceedings.

2. Serve as a guideline for the imposition of a fine as all or a portion of the penalty for a first conviction of a listed offense where a fine is used as all or a portion of the penalty for such offense.

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Questions?

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Court Revenue Distribution TrainingMarch 2013

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Overview

• State Controller’s Office (SCO) Roles and Responsibilities

• Trial Courts Revenue Distribution Guide – Appendix C

• Additional Resources • SCO Court Revenue Audits

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State Controller’s Office (SCO) Roles and Responsibilities

• Division of Audits• Division of Accounting and Reporting

County Policy Section• GC 71380 statutory requirements

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Trial Courts Revenue Distribution Guide - Appendix C

• What it covers• Where to find it• How to use it• Recent changes

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Trial Courts Revenue Distribution Guide - Appendix C

• Fees – a sum paid or charged for a service • Fines – a sum imposed as punishment • Forfeitures – the loss of property or money

through seizure• Penalties/Assessments – a sum imposed

as punishment in addition to a fine

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Trial Courts Revenue Distribution Guide - Appendix C

Unlawful Acts

Civil Violations

Civil violations can result only in monetary

penalties or regulatory sanctions, such as

suspension of a license.

Note: Parking violations, with a few specific

exceptions, are civil violations under the

California Vehicle code.

Criminal Violations

Misdemeanors

Punishable by confinement in county or city jail for up

to six months.

Felonies

Punishable by confinement in state prison for more

than one year.

Infraction

Punished monetarily, but the statutory classification

prevails. (Most traffic violations are infractions)

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Trial Courts Revenue Distribution Guide - Appendix C

http://www.sco.ca.gov/ard_trialcourt_manual_guidelines.html

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Trial Courts Revenue Distribution Guide - Appendix C

Let’s navigate to Appendix C!

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Trial Courts Revenue Distribution Guide - Appendix C

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Additional Resources

California Legislative Information Websitehttp://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov

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Additional Resources

California Code Books

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SCO Court Revenue Audits

http://www.sco.ca.gov/aud_court_revenues.html

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SCO Court Revenue Audits

Common findings:• Fees being deducted from Traffic Violator

School (TVS) bail• Maintenance of Effort payments• Penalty distribution• Distribution priorities• Surcharge distribution on parking violations

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SCO Court Revenue Audits

Let’s take a look at TC-31’s!

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Trial Court Improvement Fund-GC 77205(a) $(698,962) Finding 1

State Court Facilities Construction Fund-Penalties- $173,107 Finding 6GC 70372(b)

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$(563,694) Trial Court Improvement Fund-GC 77205-50% Excess AUDIT FINDING

$173,107 State Court Facilities Construction Fund – Immediate & Critical Needs Account – GC 70372(b) – Parking penalty AUDIT FINDING

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Morning Break

(15 Minutes, please)

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AOC Internal Audit Services Audits

www.courts.ca.gov/12050.htm

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Audit Comments

• Minimize Under-Remittance Penalties• Penalties for Under-Remittance to the State

• Destruction of Records Between Audits (FIN Manual - Record Retention, Policy FIN 12.01, 6.1)

• Records: Receipts for Fines, Fees, Penalties Collected and other collection receipts

• Retention: Current year plus four additional years (or from the close date of the State Controller’s Office audit, whichever is longer)

• Suggestion: Confirm with SCO before destroying records

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Audit Report IssuesSome of the more common Revenue Distribution issues

reported:

• 2% State Court Automation is not calculated from all applicable fines and penalties.

• 30% Red Light/Railroad Allocations are not from correct fines and penalties (exclude DNA and EMS, except traffic school).

• Red Light, Railroad, Child Seat traffic school distributions do not follow applicable statutes.

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California Statutes

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New Statutory Changes• Governor signs legislation that will effect

distributions. Some keys to be aware of:

• Chapter date• Effective date• Urgency legislation

Example:• AB 2094, effective 01/01/13, increases the

domestic violence fee from a minimum of $400 to a minimum of $500, and requires the court to state a reason on the record if it reduces or waives the minimum fee.

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BASIC RULES• 7 of 10 “or portion thereof”

concept (round-up)• “Not withstanding any other

provision of law”• Discretionary language – May,

Should

• Mandatory language – Shall, Must, Will

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BASIC RULES• Base fine and enhancement• Waivers, community service, jail time• Arresting Agencies (City, Sheriff, CHP)• Local ordinances (i.e., GC 76000 local

penalties)• Timely update of master distribution

tables – plan ahead and prepare for changes

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BASIC RULES

• If new statutory sections impose fines, which are punitive, the increased amounts may only be imposed on convictions for violations that occurred on the date of the increase (which for many new statutes is January 1, 2013) or afterwards.

• Imposing the increased fines on violations that occurred prior to the date of the increase would violate ex post facto prohibitions.

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BASIC RULES• Top Down vs. Bottom Up Assessments

PC 1463.004: If a sentencing judge specifies only the total fine or forfeiture, or if an automated case-processing system requires it:• Percentage calculations may be employed to

establish the components of total fines or forfeitures

• Provided that the aggregate monthly distributions resulting from the calculations are the same as would be produced by strict observance of the statutory distributions.

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VC 40508.6 Example of reading statute:

40508.6. The superior court in any county may establish administrative assessments, not to exceed ten dollars ($10), for clerical and administrative costs incurred for the following activities:

(a)An assessment for the cost of recording and maintaining a record of the defendant's prior convictions for violations of this code. The assessment shall be payable at the time of payment of a fine or when bail is forfeited for any subsequent violations of this code other than parking, pedestrian, or bicycle violations.

(b)An assessment for all defendants whose driver's license or automobile registration is attached or restricted pursuant to Section 40509 or 40509.5, to cover the cost of notifying the Department of Motor Vehicles of the attachment or restriction.

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Discussion of Specific Statutes

• State Penalty – PC 1464• Local Penalties – GC 76000(a)• Additional State and Local Penalties• Installment Payment Fee – PC 1205• 20% State Surcharge – PC 1465.7• 2% State Court Automation – GC 68090.8• Priority of Installment Payments – PC 1203.1d• Maintenance of Effort (MOE) Payments• Traffic Violator School Fee (TVS) – VC 42007

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State Penalty – PC 1464• There shall be levied a state penalty in an amount equal to

$10 for every $10 or fraction thereof, upon every fine, forfeiture or penalty imposed on criminal offenses with some exceptions listed at PC 1464(a) (1).

• After a determination by the court of the amount due, the clerk of the court shall collect the penalty and transmit it to the county treasury. • Seventy percent (70%) of the remaining balance shall be

transmitted to the state treasury for deposit in the State Penalty Fund

• Thirty percent (30%) remaining to stay on deposit in the county general fund.

• The State Penalty Fund is further distributed to various state funds in percentages specified in PC 1464 (f).

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State Penalty – PC 14641464.

(a) (1) Subject to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 76000)

of Title 8 of the Government Code, and except as otherwise provided

in this section, there shall be levied a state penalty in the amount

of ten dollars ($10) for every ten dollars ($10), or part of ten

dollars ($10), upon every fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed and

collected by the courts for all criminal offenses, including all

offenses, except parking offenses as defined in subdivision (i) of

Section 1463, involving a violation of a section of the Vehicle Code

or any local ordinance adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code.

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State Penalty – PC 1464(3) The penalty imposed by this section does not apply to the

following:

(A) Any restitution fine.

(B) Any penalty authorized by Chapter 12 (commencing with Section

76000) of Title 8 of the Government Code.

(C) Any parking offense subject to Article 3 (commencing with

Section 40200) of Chapter 1 of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code.

(D) The state surcharge authorized by Section 1465.7.

(b) Where multiple offenses are involved, the state penalty shall

be based upon the total fine or bail for each case. When a fine is

suspended, in whole or in part, the state penalty shall be reduced in

proportion to the suspension.

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Local Penalties GC 76000 (a)

76000. (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this section, in each county there shall be levied an additional penalty in the amount of seven dollars ($7) for every ten dollars ($10), or part of ten dollars ($10), upon every fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed and collected by the courts for all criminal offenses, including all offenses involving a violation of the Vehicle Code or any local ordinance adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code.

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Local Penalties GC 76000 (a)76000. (a) (2)• This additional penalty shall be collected together with and in

the same manner as the amounts established by Section 1464 of the Penal Code.

• These moneys shall be taken from fines and forfeitures deposited with the county treasurer prior to any division pursuant to Section 1463 of the Penal Code.

• The county treasurer shall deposit those amounts specified by the board of supervisors by resolution in one or more of the funds established pursuant to this chapter.

• However, deposits to these funds shall continue through whatever period of time is necessary to repay any borrowings made by the county on or before January 1, 1991, to pay for construction provided for in this chapter.

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Local Penalties GC 76000 (a)(a) (3) This additional penalty does not apply to the following:

(A) Any restitution fine.

(B) Any penalty authorized by Section 1464 of the Penal Code or this chapter.

(C) Any parking offense subject to Article 3 (commencing with Section 40200) of Chapter 1 of Division 17 of the Vehicle Code.

(D) The state surcharge authorized by Section 1465.7 of the Penal Code.

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Local Penalties GC 76000 (a)

• 76100 Local Courthouse Construction Fund (BOS)• 76101 Criminal Justice Facilities Construction Fund

(BOS)• 76102 Automated Fingerprint/Digital Image

Identification Fund (BOS)• 76104 Emergency Medical Services Fund (BOS)• 76104.5 DNA Identification Fund (BOS)

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Additional Penalties

Additional State and Local Penalties:• 76000.5 Emergency Medical Services Additional

Penalty (BOS: 2/10)

• 76000.10(c) Emergency Medical Air Transportation Penalty ($4 per VC conviction)

• 76104.6 DNA Additional Penalty (1/10; 75% County/25% State split)

• 76104.7 DNA Additional State-Only Penalty (4/10)

• 70372 State Court Construction Penalty (5/10)

• Immediate and Critical Needs Account (same $ as LCCF)• State Court Facilities Construction Fund (remainder of 5/10)

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Installment Payment Fee

Penal Code Section 1205(e) The defendant shall pay to the clerk of the court or the

collecting agency a fee for the processing of installment accounts. This fee shall equal the administrative and clerical costs, as determined by the board of supervisors, or by the court, depending on which entity administers the account.

The defendant shall pay to the clerk of the court or the collecting agency the fee established for the processing of the accounts receivable that are not to be paid in installments.

The fee shall equal the administrative and clerical costs, as determined by the board of supervisors, or by the court, depending on which entity administers the account, except that the fee shall not exceed thirty ($30) dollars.

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Installment Payment Fee

Penal Code Section 1205(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit

the clerk of the court, or the judge if there is no clerk, from turning these accounts over to another county department or a collecting agency for processing and collection.

(f) This section shall not apply to restitution fines and restitution orders.

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Court Revenue Distribution TrainingMarch 2013

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Overview

• GC 76000• 20% State Surcharge• 2% Court Automation• Priority of Installment Payments• Maintenance of Effort Payments• Traffic Violator School Fee

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GC 76000

The seven-dollar ($7) additional penalty authorized by subdivision (a) shall be reduced in each county by the additional penalty amount assessed by the county for the local courthouse construction fund established by Section 76100, as of January 1, 1998.

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GC 76000(e)Alameda $5.00 Marin $5.00 San Mateo $4.75

Alpine $5.00 Mariposa $2.50 Santa Barbara $3.50

Amador $5.00 Mendocino $7.00 Santa Clara $5.50

Butte $7.00 Merced $4.75 Santa Cruz $7.00

Calaveras $3.00 Modoc $3.50 Shasta $3.50

Colusa $6.00 Mono $4.00 Sierra $7.00

Contra Costa $5.00 Monterey $5.00 Siskiyou $5.00

Del Norte $7.00 Napa $3.00 Solano $5.00

El Dorado $5.00 Nevada $4.75 Sonoma $5.00

Fresno $7.00 Orange $5.29 Stanislaus $5.00

Glenn $4.00 Placer $4.75 Sutter $6.00

Humboldt $5.00 Plumas $7.00 Tehama $7.00

Imperial $6.00 Riverside $4.60 Trinity $4.50

Inyo $4.00 Sacramento $5.00 Tulare $5.00

Kern $7.00 San Benito $5.00 Tuolumne $7.00

Kings $7.00 San Bernardino $5.00 Ventura $5.00

Lake $7.00 San Diego $7.00 Yolo $7.00

Lassen $2.00 San Francisco $6.99 Yuba $3.00

Los Angeles $5.00 San Joaquin $3.75

Madera $7.00 San Luis Obispo $5.00

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20% State Surcharge

The State Surcharge is equal to 20% of the base fine for any offense listed in PC 1464(a)(1). It is also applied when the court allows a violator to attend Traffic Violator School, though it is not a component of the Traffic Violator School fee.

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2% State Court Automation

GC 68090.8 requires that 2% of all fines, penalties, and forfeitures collected in criminal cases, be remitted to the State Trial Court Improvement Fund (Improvement Modernization Fund) to finance court administrative automation projects. This is a distribution, not an additional fine or fee.

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2% State Court Automation

Applies to (not all-inclusive): • The state court construction penalty• Emergency Medical Air Transportation penalty• State Restitution Fine

Does not apply to (not all-inclusive): • 20% state surcharge (PC 1465.7) • The conviction assessment (GC 70373)

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Priority of Installment Payments

1. Restitution orders to victims2. 20% State Surcharge3. Any fines, penalty assessments, and

restitution fines 4. Other reimbursable costs

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Special Priority Within Priority 3

PC 1463.18(a)(1) - The first twenty dollars ($20) of any amount collected for a conviction shall be transferred to the Restitution Fund. This amount shall be aggregated by the county treasurer and transferred to the State Treasury once per month for deposit in the Restitution Fund.

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Common Distributions of Priority 3

• 2% State Court Automation• “Fees” that increase the total fine:

• Criminal Laboratory Analysis Fee • Drug Program Fee

• Fines or additional fines:• AIDS Education Program • Additional Fine for Robbery, Burglary, etc. • DUI Assessments

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Common Distributions of Priority 3

• Penalty assessments or penalties:• State Penalty Assessment • Local Penalty Assessment • State Construction Penalties

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Common Distributions of Priority 4

• Other reimbursable costs:• In general, fees, assessments, and

reimbursements for services fall into this priority.

• For example:• Civil Assessment• Administrative Fees

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Maintenance of Effort Payments (MOE)

In any given fiscal year if a county collects more specified court revenue than listed in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Government Code Section 77201.1 for the 1998-99 fiscal year.

--Then--

The excess amount is divided between the county and the state, with 50% of the excess transferred to the state and other 50% excess deposited in the county general fund.

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Maintenance of Effort Payments (MOE)

The GC 77205 excess fine and forfeiture revenue calculations are made on the county general fund moneys that are collected from the following sources:

• PC 1463.001 (County Arrest) fines – 75% of base fine. • PC 1463.001 (City Arrest) fines – 75% of county percentage

as listed in PC 1463.002.• PC 1464 State Penalty – 30%, including traumatic brain

penalty. Does not include VC 40611 or fish and game amount.

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Maintenance of Effort Payments (MOE)

The GC 77205 excess fine and forfeiture revenue calculations are made on the county general fund moneys that are collected from the following sources: (continued)

• VC 42007 Traffic Violator School fees – 77% of collections distributed to the county general fund. Does not include distributions to the Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund, Courthouse Construction Fund, Criminal Justice Facilities Construction Fund, or to the cities.

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The GC 77205 excess fine and forfeiture revenue calculations are made on the county general fund moneys that are collected from the following sources: (continued)

• VC 42007.1 Traffic Violator School $24 fee – 100% of collections.

• VC 42008 Amnesty fees (distribution repealed so activity is unlikely) – 100% of funds that would have been remitted to the State General Fund on December 31, 1997.

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The GC 77205 excess fine and forfeiture revenue calculations are made on the county general fund moneys that are collected from the following sources: (continued)

• GC 27361 Recording and Indexing Fee – $1 fee pursuant to section (b).

• PC 1463.07, formerly GC 29550(f), Administrative Screening and Citation Processing fee – 100% of collections.

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GC 77201.1 – Revenues Chaptered on 10/10/97 – AB 233 (FY 98-99)

Alameda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 9,912,156Alpine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58,757Amador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265,707Butte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,217,052Calaveras. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310,331Colusa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397,468Contra Costa. . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,168,194Del Norte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553,730El Dorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,028,349Fresno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,695,633Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360,974Humboldt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,025,583Imperial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,144,661Inyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614,920Kern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5,530,972

Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982,208Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .375,570Lassen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .430,163Los Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . .71,002,129Madera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,042,797Marin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,111,712Mariposa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,457Mendocino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755,680Merced. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,733,156Modoc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..104,729Mono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..415,136Monterey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,330,125Napa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..721,437Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..1,220,686Orange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19,572,810

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Placer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,243,754Plumas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193,772Riverside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7,681,744Sacramento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,440,273San Benito. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..302,324San Bernardino . . . . . . . . . . . 9,092,380San Diego. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,166,735San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . .4,046,107San Joaquin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,562,835San Luis Obispo. . . . . . . . . . . 2,036,515San Mateo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,831,497Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . .3,277,610Santa Clara . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11,597,583Santa Cruz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,902,096Shasta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,044,700

Sierra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42,533

Siskiyou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615,581Solano. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,011,833Sonoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,316,999Stanislaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,855,169Sutter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678,681Tehama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .640,303Trinity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137,087Tulare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,840,422Tuolumne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .361,665Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,575,349Yolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,158,629Yuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318,242

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Maintenance of Effort Payments (MOE)

Example:

Calculating the MOE payment for the Sierra County. Let’s assume that the total revenue amount collected from fees, fines, and forfeitures for fiscal year 2012-13 was $50,533. This amount was deposited in the county general fund.

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Calculation:

Step 1 –

Look at threshold amount for Sierra county listed in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Government Code Section 77201.1 for the 1998-99 fiscal year. (Sierra’s threshold amount = 42,533)

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Placer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,243,754Plumas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193,772Riverside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7,681,744Sacramento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,440,273San Benito. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..302,324San Bernardino . . . . . . . . . . . 9,092,380San Diego. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,166,735San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . .4,046,107San Joaquin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,562,835San Luis Obispo. . . . . . . . . . . 2,036,515San Mateo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,831,497Santa Barbara. . . . . . . . . . . . .3,277,610Santa Clara . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11,597,583Santa Cruz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,902,096Shasta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,044,700

Sierra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42,533

Siskiyou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615,581Solano. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,011,833Sonoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,316,999Stanislaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,855,169Sutter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678,681Tehama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .640,303Trinity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137,087Tulare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,840,422Tuolumne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .361,665Ventura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,575,349Yolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,158,629Yuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318,242

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Calculation: continued

Step 2 –

$50,533Amount collectedfor 2012-13 FY

$42,533Thresholdamount

$8,000Excess revenue for 2012-13 FY

– =

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Calculation: continued

Step 3 –

$8,000Excess revenue for 2012-13 FY

$4,000To the County

$4,000To the State

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Traffic Violator School Fee

The TVS fee includes “As used in this subdivision, ‘total bail’ means the amount established pursuant to PC 1269b in accordance with the Uniform Statewide Bail schedule adopted by the Judicial Council, including all assessments, surcharges, and penalty amounts.” VC 42007(a)(1)

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Traffic Violator School Fee

Let’s look at Appendix C!

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Questions?

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Lunch Break

(60 minutes, please)

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Breakout Sessions

1. Parking

2. Basic Distribution Calculations

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Afternoon Break

(15 minutes, please)

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Breakout Sessions

1. Special Distribution Calculations

2. Hands-on Court/County – Specific Issues

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CLOSING• Review instruction goals and expectations

• Identify sources of revenue distribution resources• Walk-through distribution examples

• Questions and answers – FAQ’s• Evaluations• Next session • Webinar

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Instruction Goals and Expectations

Covered the Following:

1. Identify sources of resource materials for distribution calculation, analysis, and research.

2. Walk-through and explain calculations of distribution examples for select case types using worksheet tools.

Expectations:Identified expectations from survey/discussion

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Questions and Answers

• All questions submitted to be discussed.

• Responses to be discussed between SCO and AOC

• Frequently Asked Questions

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Other Items

• Evaluations• Webinar• Next Session

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THANK YOU

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