The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act (NORA) would substantially increase state spending on drug treatment, rehabilitation and a range of support programs. NORA sets a base funding level of $460 million per year in FY 2009-10, and adjusts that figure in future years for price inflation and state population. Counties would receive funds for treatment for at-risk youth under the age of 18 and for nonviolent drug offenders in the court system. Nonviolent offenders in the courts would receive treatment through one of three “tracks” depending on criminal history, with the highest level, Track III, most analogous to the current drug court system. Counties must separate their total allocations into three accounts to serve NORA’s different purposes – Youth, Tracks I & II (combined) and Track III. This spreadsheet assumes that the state would use $10 million per year for research and overhead, then estimates how much, from the remaining $450 million, each county might have available for each area in the first full year of the program (FY 2009-10).

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