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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="9-3209" title_number="9" title_name="Miscellaneous Executive Agencies" subtitle_number="32" subtitle_name="Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Performance Incentive Grant Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The purpose of the Fund is to make use of the savings from the implementation of the recommendations of the Justice Reinvestment Coordinating Council.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, and except as provided in paragraph (4) of this subsection, the Board may recommend to the Executive Director that grants be made to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>ensure that the rights of crime victims are protected and enhanced;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provide for pretrial risk assessments;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>provide for services to reduce pretrial detention;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>provide for diversion programs, including mediation and restorative justice programs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>provide for recidivism reduction programming;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>provide for evidence–based practices and policies;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>provide for specialty courts;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>provide for reentry programs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>provide for substance use disorder and community mental health service programs; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>provide for any other program or service that will further the purposes established in paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>At least 5% of the grants provided to a county under this section shall be used to fund programs and services to ensure that the rights of crime victims are protected and enhanced.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The grants shall be used to supplement, but not supplant, funds received from other sources.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>For fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, up to $1,000,000 of the Fund may be used each year to support the agency operations of the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy shall receive from the Fund each fiscal year the amount necessary to offset the costs of administering the Fund, including the costs incurred in an agreement to collect and interpret data as authorized by § 9–3207 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to the authority of the Executive Director, the Board shall administer the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Executive Director may approve or disapprove any grants from the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>money appropriated in the State budget;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>interest earned on money in the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Fund may be used only for the purposes established in subsection (b) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall invest the money of the Fund in the same manner as other State money may be invested.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any interest earnings of the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>Money expended from the Fund for programs to reduce recidivism and control correctional costs is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for these purposes.</text>
  </level>
</section>
