No. HB 831
Filed under Healthcare.
Problem-solving Court Reports; Requires specified data to be included in problem-solving court reports; revises frequency with which mental health & treatment-based drug court program reports must be reported to Office of State Courts Administrator.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDEvery problem-solving court report must now include a uniform, detailed data set: participant counts by court type, offenses and treatment compliance, recidivism by category, and changes in employment, housing, and child custody during the program.
Mental health court and treatment-based drug court programs must now report their data at least quarterly instead of once a year, a fourfold jump in how often the Office of the State Courts Administrator gets updated.
Both types of courts must now also tie their client-level data collection directly to the new statewide uniform-data standard, replacing the older, narrower requirement to just track admissions and terminations by type.
AIEvery problem-solving court report must include, at minimum, participant counts by court type, offenses and treatment compliance, recidivism by category, and changes in participants' employment, housing, and child custody during the program.
AITreatment-based drug court programs, and mental health court programs under a parallel provision, must now send their programmatic information and aggregate data to the Office of the State Courts Administrator at least quarterly instead of once a year.
AIReports must break out recidivism rates by category - separating new arrests, new adjudications, and new felony adjudications - rather than reporting a single combined recidivism figure.
AIThe requirement to report specifically on the number of program admissions and terminations by type of termination is removed and replaced by the fuller s. 43.51 uniform data set, widening what these courts must report, not narrowing it.