(a)
Commencing on July 1, 1997, no county shall be responsible for funding court operations, as defined in Section 77003 and Rule 10.810 of the California Rules of Court as it read on January 1, 2007.
(b)
Commencing in the 1999–2000 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter until the 2006–07 fiscal year, each county shall remit to the state
in four equal installments due on October 1, January 1, April 1, and May 1, the amounts specified in paragraphs (1) and (2). For the purpose of determining the counties’ payments commencing in the 2006–07 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, the amounts listed in subdivision (a) of Section 77201.3 shall be used in lieu of the amounts listed in this subdivision.
(1)
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, each county shall remit to the state the amount listed below, which is based on an amount expended by the respective county for court operations during the 1994–95 fiscal year:
Jurisdiction
Amount
Alameda
$ 22,509,905
Alpine
-
Amador
-
Butte
-
Calaveras
-
Colusa
-
Contra Costa
11,974,535
Del Norte
-
El Dorado
-
Fresno
11,222,780
Glenn
-
Humboldt
-
Imperial
-
Inyo
-
Kern
9,234,511
Kings
-
Lake
-
Lassen
-
Los Angeles
175,330,647
Madera
-
Marin
-
Mariposa
-
Mendocino
-
Merced
-
Modoc
-
Mono
-
Monterey
4,520,911
Napa
-
Nevada
-
Orange
38,846,003
Placer
-
Plumas
-
Riverside
17,857,241
Sacramento
20,733,264
San Benito
-
San Bernardino
20,227,102
San Diego
43,495,932
San Francisco
19,295,303
San Joaquin
6,543,068
San Luis Obispo
-
San Mateo
12,181,079
Santa Barbara
6,764,792
Santa Clara
28,689,450
Santa Cruz
-
Shasta
-
Sierra
-
Siskiyou
-
Solano
6,242,661
Sonoma
6,162,466
Stanislaus
3,506,297
Sutter
-
Tehama
-
Trinity
-
Tulare
-
Tuolumne
-
Ventura
9,734,190
Yolo
-
Yuba
-
(2)
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, each county shall also remit to the state the amount listed below, which is based on an amount of fee, fine, and forfeiture revenue remitted to the state pursuant to Sections 27361 and 76000 of this
code, Sections 1463.001, 1463.07, and 1464 of the Penal Code, and Sections 42007, 42007.1, and 42008 of the Vehicle Code during the 1994–95 fiscal year:
Jurisdiction
Amount
Alameda
$ 9,912,156
Alpine
58,757
Amador
265,707
Butte
1,217,052
Calaveras
310,331
Colusa
397,468
Contra Costa
4,486,486
Del Norte
124,085
El
Dorado
1,028,349
Fresno
3,695,633
Glenn
360,974
Humboldt
1,025,583
Imperial
1,144,661
Inyo
614,920
Kern
5,530,972
Kings
982,208
Lake
375,570
Lassen
430,163
Los Angeles
71,002,129
Madera
1,042,797
Marin
2,111,712
Mariposa
135,457
Mendocino
717,075
Merced
1,733,156
Modoc
104,729
Mono
415,136
Monterey
3,330,125
Napa
719,168
Nevada
1,220,686
Orange
19,572,810
Placer
1,243,754
Plumas
193,772
Riverside
7,681,744
Sacramento
5,937,204
San Benito
302,324
San Bernardino
8,163,193
San Diego
16,166,735
San Francisco
4,046,107
San Joaquin
3,562,835
San Luis Obispo
2,036,515
San Mateo
4,831,497
Santa Barbara
3,277,610
Santa Clara
11,597,583
Santa Cruz
1,902,096
Shasta
1,044,700
Sierra
42,533
Siskiyou
615,581
Solano
2,708,758
Sonoma
2,316,999
Stanislaus
1,855,169
Sutter
678,681
Tehama
640,303
Trinity
137,087
Tulare
1,840,422
Tuolumne
361,665
Ventura
4,575,349
Yolo
880,798
Yuba
289,325
(3)
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, county remittances
specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not be increased in subsequent years.
(4)
Except for those counties with a population of 70,000 or fewer on January 1, 1996, the amount a county is required to remit pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be adjusted by the amount equal to any adjustment resulting from the procedures in subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 77201 as that section read on June 30, 1998, to the extent a county filed an appeal with the Controller with respect to the findings made by the Department of Finance. This paragraph shall not be construed to establish a new appeal process beyond what was provided by Section 77201, as that section read on June 30, 1998.
(5)
A change in statute or rule of court that either reduces the bail schedule or redirects or reduces a county’s portion of fee, fine, and forfeiture revenue to an amount that is less than (A) the fees, fines,
and forfeitures retained by that county, and (B) the county’s portion of fines and forfeitures transmitted to the state in the 1994–95 fiscal year, shall reduce that county’s remittance specified in paragraph (2) of this subdivision by an equal amount. This paragraph is not intended to limit judicial sentencing discretion.
(6)
In the 2005–06 fiscal year, the amount that the County of Santa Clara is required to remit to the state under paragraph (2) shall be reduced as described in this paragraph, rather than as described in subdivision (b) of Section 68085.7. It is the intent of the Legislature that this paragraph have retroactive effect.
(A)
For the County of Santa Clara, the remittance under this subdivision for the 2005–06 fiscal year shall be reduced by an amount equal to one-half of the amount calculated by subtracting the budget reduction for the Superior Court of Santa
Clara County for that fiscal year attributable to the reduction of the counties’ payment obligation from thirty-one million dollars ($31,000,000) pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 68085.6 from the net civil assessments received in that county in that fiscal year. “Net civil assessments” as used in this paragraph means the amount of civil assessments collected minus the costs of collecting those civil assessments, under the guidelines of the Controller.
(B)
The reduction under this paragraph of the amount that the County of Santa Clara is required to remit to the state for the 2005–06 fiscal year shall not exceed two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000). If the reduction reaches two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000), the amount the county is required to remit to the state under paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 77201.3 in each subsequent fiscal year shall be eight million four hundred sixty-one
thousand two hundred ninety-three dollars ($8,461,293).
(C)
This paragraph does not affect the reduction of the annual remittance for the County of Santa Clara as provided in Section 68085.2.
(7)
Notwithstanding the changes to the amounts in paragraph (2) made by Section 68085.7 or any other section, the amounts in paragraph (2) shall not be changed for purposes of the calculation required by subdivision (a) of Section 77205.
(c)
This section is not intended to relieve a county of the responsibility to provide necessary and suitable court facilities pursuant to Section 70311.
(d)
This section is not intended to relieve a county of the responsibility for justice-related expenses not included in Section 77003 which are otherwise required of the county by
law, including, but not limited to, indigent defense representation and investigation, and payment of juvenile justice charges.
(e)
County base year remittance requirements specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) incorporate specific reductions to reflect those instances where the Department of Finance has determined that a county’s remittance to both the General Fund and the Trial Court Trust Fund during the 1994–95 fiscal year exceeded the aggregate amount of state funding from the General Fund and the Trial Court Trust Fund. The amount of the reduction was determined by calculating the difference between the amount the county remitted to the General Fund and the Trial Court Trust Fund and the aggregate amount of state support from the General Fund and the Trial Court Trust Fund allocated to the county’s trial courts. In making its determination of whether a county is entitled to a reduction pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b),
the Department of Finance subtracted from county revenues remitted to the state, all moneys derived from the fee required by Section 42007.1 of the Vehicle Code and the parking surcharge required by subdivision (c) of Section 76000 of this code.
(f)
Notwithstanding subdivision (e), the Department of Finance shall not reduce a county’s base year remittance requirement, as specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), if the county’s trial court funding allocation was modified pursuant to the amendments to the allocation formula set forth in paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section 77200, as amended by Chapter 2 of the Statutes of 1993, to provide a stable level of funding for small county courts in response to reductions in the General Fund support for the trial courts.
(g)
In any fiscal year in which a county of the first class pays the employer-paid retirement contribution
for court employees, or other employees of the county who provide a service to the court, and the amounts of those payments are charged to the budget of the courts, the sum the county is required to pay to the state pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) shall be increased by the actual amount charged to the trial court up to twenty-three million five hundred twenty-seven thousand nine hundred forty-nine dollars ($23,527,949) in that fiscal year. The county and the trial court shall report to the Controller and the Department of Finance the actual amount charged in that fiscal year.