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Under current law, people with unpaid court-ordered fines, fees, and surcharges — collectively called a "criminal accounts receivable" — can petition the court to work off that debt through community service at a credit rate of $10 per hour. This bill reorganizes and expands those rules, raising the community service credit rate to at least $12 per hour and adding a new pathway that allows defendants to reduce their outstanding fines and fees by the cost of any court-ordered treatment program or class they have already completed and paid for out of pocket. Both options are available even if the debt is already delinquent or in default, and neither can be used to reduce restitution owed to victims. Prosecutors retain the ability to object if they believe the reduction is not in the interests of justice.