Appropriates $314,100 to the Public Defense Commission for fiscal year 2017; and limits the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions to 1.5.

Thisbillappropriates$314,100tothePublicDefenseCommissionforFY2017andcapsthenumber of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 1.50. The bill includes funding for the employer's share of increased benefit costs and accounts for increases in statewide cost allocation. It provides for an ongoing 3% merit-based increase in employee compensation for permanent employees to be distributed at the discretion of agency heads and funds the 27th payroll. One line item provides for a net-zero object transfer of $110,000 from trustee and benefit payments to operating expenditures to align the appropriation with the use of the funds.