5. Rules.__Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2- A.

6.__ Accounting and application of savings.__The commissioner shall identify, itemize and track all costs associated with the program and all savings that accrue from the release of prisoners under the program.__The annual fiscal year surplus of these savings over these costs must be applied as follows:

A. Forty percent credited to the General Fund;

B. Forty percent applied to increase the number of field probation officers appointed under section 5402 over the number employed by the commissioner in fiscal year 2004;

C. Ten percent applied to fund DNA analysis under the DNA Data Base and Data Bank Act, Title 25, chapter 194; and

D. Ten percent applied to fund state law enforcement officers to conduct investigations as part of the Maine Computer Crimes Task Force established under Title 25, section 1521-A.

The commissioner shall by January 15th of each year present a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice matters and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs that identifies all costs and savings resulting from the program, the net savings and a proposed budgeted application of net savings in accordance with this subsection.

SUMMARY

This bill requires the Department of Corrections to establish a GPS tracking release program for certain nonviolent prisoners. Eligibility for the program would be limited to prisoners with no history of violent or sexual crimes who have earned good time while in prison, have served more than half of