KRS 196.731: Pilot projects to grant performance incentive funding to community

corrections programs -- Annual calculations of cost savings of state funds.

(1) The commission may:

(a) Approve up to five (5) pilot projects to grant performance incentive funding to

community corrections programs in judicial circuits with high rates of targeted

offenders who are ordered to serve a term of imprisonment; and

(b) Approve up to five (5) pilot projects to grant performance incentive funding to

community corrections program s in judicial circuits with high rates of

supervised individuals who are revoked for violations of their conditions of

supervision and ordered to serve a term of imprisonment.

(2) Upon development of an approved pilot project described in subsection (1)(a) of

this section, the commission shall annually calculate:

(a) The percentage of targeted offenders in the judicial circuit for that pilot

project who are convicted of a felony offense and sentenced to a term of

imprisonment. This calculation shall be base d on the fiscal year prior to the

fiscal year in which the report is required pursuant to KRS 196.736. The

baseline shall be the percentage of targeted offenders convicted and

imprisoned for that judicial circuit in the fiscal year prior to the

implementation of the pilot project; and

(b) Any state expenditures that have been avoided by reductions in the baseline

percentage as calculated in paragraph (a) of this subsection.

(3) Upon development of an approved pilot project described in subsection (1)(b) of

this section, the commission shall annually calculate:

(a) The percentage of supervised individuals in the judicial circuit for that pilot

project who are revoked for violations of their conditions of supervision and

ordered to serve a term of imprisonment . This calculation shall be based on

the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year in which the report is required pursuant

to KRS 196.736. The baseline revocation percentage shall be the percentage

of revocations for that judicial circuit in the fiscal year pr ior to the

implementation of the pilot project; and

(b) Any state expenditures that have been avoided by reductions in the revocation

percentage as calculated in paragraph (a) of this subsection.