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S. 1629, District of Columbia Courts, Public Defender Service, and Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Act of 2015 [i] (July 2, 2015)

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0                            COST ESTIMATE
July 2, 2015
S. 1629
District of Columbia Courts, Public Defender Service, and Court
Services and Offender Supervision Agency Act of 2015
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs on June 24, 2015
S. 1629 would make changes to the District of Columbia Official Code that governs the
D.C. Courts system. Under current law, the budget of the D.C. Courts system, including the
Public Defender Service (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Service Agency
(CSOSA), is funded by federal appropriations; thus, its expenditures are recorded in the
federal budget. Among other changes, the bill would allow the D.C. Courts System to
collect debts and erroneous payments owed by its employees and to purchase uniforms for
non-judicial employees. The bill also would allow CSOSA to operate incentive programs
for offender education, accept and spend gifts, and receive reimbursement from the D.C.
government for the use of office space in D.C. Courts facilities. Finally, the bill would
allow PDS to use unpaid volunteers. Based on information provided by the District of
Columbia Courts, PDS, and CSOSA, CBO estimates that the proposed changes would
have an insignificant effect on discretionary spending.
Enacting the legislation would affect direct spending because it would authorize CSOSA to
accept and spend monetary gifts. Therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. However,
CBO estimates that the net effect on direct spending would not be significant. Enacting
S. 1629 would not affect revenues.
S. 1629 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal
governments.
The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Matthew Pickford. This estimate was approved
by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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