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Committee for Public Counsel Services

Fiscal Year 2019 Resource Summary ($000)
DEPARTMENT	FY 2019 Budgetary Recommendation	FY 2019 Federal, Trust, and ISF	FY 2019 Total Spending	FY 2019 Budgetary Non-Tax Revenue
Committee for Public Counsel Services	236,939	246	237,185	6,495

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account	description	amount
COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES		237,185,032
Budgetary Recommendation		236,938,646
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 maintain a system in which not less than 20 per cent of indigent clients shall be represented by public defenders; provided further, that the committee shall provide a report to the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means, no later than September 4, 2018, that shall include, but not be limited to, the expected surplus or deficiency for fiscal year 2019 of items 0321-1500, 0321-1510 and 0321-1520; and provided further, that the committee shall submit a report to the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means, no later than September 4, 2018, that shall include, but not be limited to, the following: in a cumulative manner, compared with data from the prior two fiscal years 2016 and 2017, (i) the number of cases handled by the committee, delineated by public defender and private bar advocate representation; (ii) the average number of hours spent per case by public defenders; (iii) the number of cases assigned to private bar advocates; (iv) the average number of hours billed by private bar advocates by type of case; (v) the number of public defenders currently employed by the committee and the total number employed by the committee at the end of the prior fiscal year, delineated by type of case and geographic location; (vi) the number of public defender vacancies to be filled; (vii) the average cost for public defender services rendered per case, delineated by type of case and geographic location in the prior fiscal year; (viii) the total number of support staff, investigators, attorneys in charge and management personnel currently employed by the committee and the total number employed by the committee at the end of each fiscal year for the previous two fiscal years; (ix) the average cost for private bar advocate services rendered per case, delineated by type of case and geographic location; (x) the billable hours of private counsel, delineated by travel time, time spent in court, including wait time and trial preparation time, including interview time, investigating time and research time; (xi) any changes to the private bar billing system; and (xii) a summary of all spending for psychologists, psychiatrists and investigators with the total number of hours billed, the number of unique vendors and the average number of counsel fees paid to the courts by clients for services rendered, delineated by type of case and geographic location	59,485,609
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, and under 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 2019	154,268,437
0321-1520	INDIGENT PERSONS FEES AND COURT COSTS For the fees and court costs of indigent persons	23,184,600

account	description	amount
Federal Grant Spending		171,386
0320-1804	OJJDP JUSTICE REINVESTMENT INITIATIVE For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, OJJDP Justice Reinvestment Initiative	171,386

account	description	amount
Trust Spending		75,000
0321-1606	COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES	65,000
0321-1611	JUVENILE ADVOCACY PROJECT	10,000

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