Committee for Public Counsel Services

FISCAL YEAR 2008 RESOURCE SUMMARY ($000)
ACCOUNT		FY 2008 Conference	FY 2008 GAA
0321-1500	Committee for Public Counsel Services	18,400	18,400
0321-1510	Private Counsel Compensation	119,763	119,763
0321-1513	Public Defender Division Expansion	8,132	8,132
0321-1520	Indigent Persons Fees and Court Costs	8,457	8,457
0321-1518	Indigent Counsel Fees Retained Revenue	750	750
TOTAL		155,502	155,502

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account	description	amount
COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES		155,501,721
Budgetary Direct Appropriations
Direct Appropriations
0321-1500	Committee for Public Counsel Services For the operation of the committee for public counsel services, as authorized by chapter 211D of the General Laws; provided, that the committee shall submit a report to the clerks of the house of representatives and senate, not later than January 31, 2008, that shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) the number of clients assisted by the committee in the prior fiscal year; (b) any proposed expansion of legal services delineated by type of service, target population and cost; (c) the total number of persons who received legal services by the committee, by type of case and geographic location; (d) the costs for services rendered per client, by type of case and geographic location; (e) the amount paid, if any, to the committee by clients for services rendered by type of case and geographic location; (f) the average cost for services rendered by the committee by type of case; and (g) the average number of hours spent per attorney or staff per type of case	18,399,624
0321-1510	Private Counsel Compensation For compensation paid to private counsel assigned to criminal and civil cases under subsection (b) of section 6 of chapter 211D of the General Laws, pursuant to section 11 of said chapter 211D; provided, that not more than $2,000,000 of the sum appropriated in this item may be expended for services rendered before fiscal year 2008	119,763,305
0321-1513	Public Defender Division Expansion For the expansion of the public defender division pursuant to section 7 of chapter 54 of the acts of 2005; provided, that the committee shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than January 31, 2008, on the progress of said expansion; provided further, that said report shall include the following: (1) the number of offices that have been opened; (2) the number of staff hired to work in the district offices; and (3) the estimated savings the commonwealth has realized from having cases assigned to public defenders as opposed to being assigned to private bar advocates; and provided further, that no funds from this appropriation shall support existing costs associated with line item 0321-1500	8,132,279
0321-1520	Indigent Persons Fees and Court Costs For fees and costs as defined in section 27A of chapter 261 of the General Laws, as ordered by a justice of the appeals court or a justice of a department of the trial court of the commonwealth on behalf of indigent persons, as defined in said section 27A of said chapter 261; provided, that not more than $1,000,000 of the sum appropriated in this item may be expended for services rendered before fiscal year 2008	8,456,513

account	description	amount
Retained Revenues
0321-1518	Indigent Counsel Fees Retained Revenue The chief counsel for the committee for public services may expend an amount not to exceed $750,000 from revenues collected from fees charged for attorney representation of indigent clients	750,000