Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding payment and deposit of county misdemeanor probation supervision fees and to provide for the reporting of certain payments.

The misdemeanor probation supervision program is to be a self-funded county program utilizing fees collected from probationers sentenced to the program. Fees collected from the probationers are to be used exclusively for misdemeanor probation services. Currently, not all of the supervision fees collected by the clerks of the court using the Odyssey Program are being used to fund misdemeanor probation as the supervision fees are being diverted, pursuant to the Idaho Supreme Court priority of payments list, to satisfy other costs, fines or fees that a probationer may be required to pay. This proposed amendment to Idaho Code § 31-3201D provides a mechanism to ensure that the supervision fees are used exclusively for misdemeanor probation services at the time the service is rendered. Allowing probationers to make their monthly payments to the board of county commissioners or its designee ensures that those payments are deposited, accounted for, and used to support misdemeanor probation supervision at the time supervision occurs rather than the fees being diverted to satisfy other costs, fines or fees pursuant to the Idaho Supreme Court's priority of payments list. A county may continue having the fees paid to the clerk of the court and having it distributed pursuant to the Idaho Supreme Court's priority of payments list. The amendment simply provides a county the option of having the fee paid to the board of county commissioners or its designee so that the supervision fee does not get diverted to first satisfy other costs, fines or fees pursuant to the priority of payments list.