No. CS/SB 820
Filed under Healthcare.
Problem-solving Court Reports; Requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to provide a problem-solving court report to the Legislature annually by a specified date; requiring specified court programs to collect certain data and information for program evaluation; requiring each such court program to report such data and information annually to the office, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDEvery problem-solving court -- drug courts, veterans courts, mental health courts, and more -- must now collect the same nine data points, from participant counts to job and housing changes, for a single statewide report.
Early childhood court and veterans treatment court programs get this data-collection duty for the first time; mental health courts and drug courts simply swap their old bespoke lists for the new uniform standard.
Full statewide compliance phases in over two years -- just 30 percent of state-funded courts the first year, then all of them, then every problem-solving court regardless of funding source by 2027-2028.
Community courts are removed from the list of programs counted as "problem-solving courts," taking them out of this reporting requirement; every other program keeps its January 31 annual reporting deadline to the Legislature.
AIEvery problem-solving court must now collect nine specific data points for OSCA's annual report, including participant counts, offense type, treatment compliance, completion status, court appearance frequency, and changes in employment, housing, and child custody.
AIThe definition of a problem-solving court now expressly includes early childhood court programs and dependency drug courts, pulling both into the same annual data and reporting scheme as drug courts and veterans courts.
AIEarly childhood court programs, which had no data-collection duty under this statute before, must now collect the uniform data set plus admissions, terminations, and treatment details, and report it to OSCA every year.
AIVeterans treatment court programs, which had no dedicated data-collection subsection before, must now collect the uniform data set plus admissions, terminations, and treatment details, and report annually to OSCA.
AICommunity courts, previously named in the list of programs the term "problem-solving court" covers, are removed from that list, taking them out of this section's data-collection and reporting requirement.
AIMental health court programs drop their own bespoke client-level and programmatic data lists and instead collect the same uniform data set now defined for every problem-solving court.
AIOSCA's annual problem-solving court report to the Senate President and House Speaker must now be filed no later than January 31 each year, covering the previous fiscal year -- a specific deadline the law didn't set before.
AIFull uniform reporting is required for every state-funded problem-solving court starting in fiscal year 2026-2027, one year after a partial 30 percent benchmark applies, before covering every problem-solving court regardless of funding source the year after that.