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An Act Regarding Bail Defaults and the Extradition Account
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 15 MRSA §224-A, sub-§1,  as amended by PL 1995, c. 447, §1, is further amended to read:
 
1. Establishment.   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is established an Extradition Account in each prosecutorial district in an amount not to exceed $20,000$35,000, to be administered by the district attorney and to be used solely for the purpose of paying the expenses of extraditing persons charged with or convicted of a crime in this State and who are fugitives from justice, as defined in section 201, subsection 4.
Sec. 2. 15 MRSA §224-A, sub-§2,  as amended by PL 2007, c. 31, §1, is further amended to read:
 
2. Funding.   The Extradition Account in each prosecutorial district is funded by bail forfeited to and recovered by the State pursuant to the Maine Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 46. Whenever bail is so forfeited and recovered by the State and if it is not payable as restitution pursuant to Title 17-A, section 1329, subsection 3-A, the district attorney shall determine whether it or a portion of it is deposited in the Extradition Account for that district attorney's prosecutorial district, but in no event may the account exceed $20,000$35,000. Any bail so forfeited and recovered and not deposited in the Extradition Account must be deposited in the General Fund. Any unexpended balance in the Extradition Account of a prosecutorial district established by this section may not lapse but must be carried forward into the next year.
 
SUMMARY
This bill raises the amount from $20,000 to $35,000 that a prosecutorial district is allowed to collect from forfeited bail.