Section 405 – Indigent Defense Resources Restricted Account — Administration.

• (1)
  • (a) There is created within the General Fund a restricted account known as the “Indigent Defense Resources Restricted Account.”
  • (b) Appropriations from the account are nonlapsing.

• (2) The account consists of:
  • (a) money appropriated by the Legislature based upon recommendations from the commission consistent with principles of shared state and local funding;
  • (b) any other money received by the commission from any source to carry out the purposes of this part; and
  • (c) any interest and earnings from the investment of account money.

• (3) The commission shall administer the account and, subject to appropriation, disburse money from the account for the following purposes:
  • (a) to establish and maintain a statewide indigent defense data collection system;
  • (b) to establish and administer a grant program to provide grants of state money and other money to indigent defense systems as set forth in Section 78B-22-406;
  • (c) to provide training and continuing legal education for indigent defense service providers; and
  • (d) for administrative costs.

Amended by Chapter 392, 2020 General Session