community supervision; rehabilitation; costs

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details about the exact amounts prisoners must pay for rehabilitation programs or drug testing, leaving these as unknowns.

Community Supervision and Rehabilitation Costs

This bill allows the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) to require prisoners on community supervision to pay for their participation in drug testing or rehabilitation programs.

What This Bill Does

• Allows ADCRR to make it a condition of community supervision that prisoners pay the reasonable costs associated with participating in drug testing or rehabilitation programs.
• Specifies that money collected from prisoners must only be used to cover the costs of these programs.
• Establishes a fund called the Community Corrections Enhancement Fund, which receives 30% of the monies collected from community supervision fees.

Who It Names or Affects

• Prisoners on community supervision who are required to participate in drug testing or rehabilitation programs and pay for them.
• The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) that administers these requirements.

Terms To Know

Community Supervision

A period after a prisoner's imprisonment where they are monitored by the state to ensure compliance with certain conditions.

Rehabilitation Program

Programs designed to help prisoners reintegrate into society through education, job training, and other support services.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify the exact amount that prisoners must pay for drug testing or rehabilitation programs.
• It is unclear how this will affect prisoners who cannot afford to pay these costs.

Official Summary Text

HB2771 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet

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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session

FACT SHEET FOR
H.B. 2771

community supervision;
rehabilitation; costs

Purpose

Allows the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry
(ADCRR) to require as a condition of community supervision that a prisoner pay
the reasonable costs associated with the prisoner's participation in a
rehabilitation program.

Background

����������� If a person is convicted of a felony offense
and the court sentences the person to a term of imprisonment, the court at the
time of sentencing must impose on the convicted person a term of community
supervision. The term of community supervision must be served consecutively to
the actual period of imprisonment if the person signs and agrees to abide by the
conditions of supervision established by ADCRR. During the period of time that
the prisoner remains on community supervision, ADCRR must require that the
prisoner pay a monthly supervision fee of at least $65 unless, after
determining the inability of the prisoner to pay the fee, ADCRR requires
payment of a lesser amount. The supervising community supervision officer must
monitor the collection of the fee (A.R.S. ��
13-603
and
31-418
).

����������� In
addition to any other fee, ADCRR may require as a condition of community
supervision that a prisoner pay the reasonable costs associated with the
prisoner's participation in a drug testing program. The prisoner's costs must
not exceed ADCRR's cost for the drug testing program. The monies collected
by ADCRR may only be used to offset the costs of the drug testing program (
A.R.S.
� 31-418
).

����������� There
is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.

Provisions

1.

Allows
ADCRR to require, as a condition of community supervision, a prisoner to pay
the reasonable costs associated with the prisoner's participation in a
rehabilitation program.

2.

Stipulates
that the monies collected by ADCRR may only be used to offset the costs of the
rehabilitation program.

3.

Makes
technical and conforming changes.

4.

Becomes
effective on the general effective date.

House Action

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Current Bill Text

HB2771 - 572R - H Ver

House Engrossed

community
supervision; rehabilitation; costs

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HOUSE BILL 2771

AN
ACT

Amending section 31-418, Arizona Revised
Statutes; relating to community supervision.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 31-418, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
31-418.

Community supervision fee; deposit; community corrections
enhancement fund; drug testing costs; rehabilitation costs

A. During the period of time that the prisoner
remains on community supervision, the state department of corrections shall
require as a condition of community supervision that the prisoner pay a monthly
supervision fee of at least
sixty-five dollars

$65
unless, after determining the inability of the prisoner to
pay the fee, the department requires payment of a lesser amount. The
supervising community supervision officer shall monitor the collection of the
fee.

B. Seventy
per cent

percent
of the monies collected pursuant to subsection A of
this section shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147,
in the victim compensation and assistance fund established by section 41-2407
and thirty
per cent

percent
shall be
deposited in the community corrections enhancement fund established by this
section.

C. The community corrections enhancement fund is
established consisting of monies received pursuant to subsection B of this
section, sections 31-411, 31-467.06 and 41-1604.08 and
section 41-1604.13, subsection D, paragraph 8.� The department shall
administer the fund and use fund monies to pay for costs related to community
corrections.

D. In addition to any other fees, the department may
require as a condition of community supervision that the prisoner pay the
reasonable costs associated with the prisoner's participation in a drug testing
program
or a rehabilitation program
. The prisoner's costs
shall not exceed the department's cost for the program.� The monies collected
pursuant to this subsection by the department may only be used to offset the
costs of the drug testing program
or the rehabilitation program
.

END_STATUTE