Court facilities: County of Colusa.

Existing law establishes the State Court Facilities Construction Fund for the planning, design, construction, rehabilitation, renovation, replacement, leasing, or acquisition of court facilities. Existing law levies a state court construction penalty on every criminal offense, as specified, to be deposited into the fund. Existing law requires, with specified exceptions, that 25% of moneys collected from a county for the fund be designated for implementation of trial court projects in that county. Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors to establish in the county treasury a Courthouse Construction Fund into which shall be deposited the amounts specified in the resolutions adopted by the board of supervisors, for the purpose of rehabilitating existing courtrooms, an existing courtroom building or buildings, or court facilities, for other uses if a new courtroom, a courtroom building or buildings, or court facilities are acquired, constructed, or financed. Existing law requires that any amount in a county's courthouse construction fund be transferred to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund at the later of specified dates. This bill would transfer $844,000 of the amount that was held in the Courthouse Construction Fund for the County of Colusa on December 31, 2009, to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, and would appropriate that amount to the Judicial Council for the purpose of constructing or renovating facilities, as specified, located within the courthouse building in the County of Colusa that was transferred to state responsibility on March 24, 2009. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Colusa.