The Legislature transferred the Jail Reimbursement Program funding to the Finance Mandated line item beginning FY 2010. See 2009 General Session House Bill 220, "State Payment and Reimbursement to County Correctional Facilities." This action transfers the responsibility to disburse county jail reimbursement funds from Corrections to the Division of Finance.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $0 from all sources for Jail Reimbursement. This is a 100 percent reduction from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $0 from the General/Education Funds, a reduction of 100 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
The Beginning Nonlapsing balance in FY 2010 comes from the Department of Corrections, which formerly administered this program. This program received an $11,967,100 appropriation from the General Fund in FY 2014.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.