By Bruce Mohl

The House budget plan is not expected to include Gov. Deval Patrick’s proposal to move the state’s probation service out of the judiciary and into the executive branch, according to a source briefed on the situation.

Patrick had proposed in his budget plan merging probation with parole as part of a new department of community supervision. He said the new entity would bring Massachusetts in line with other states and save more than $15 million by eliminating duplicative services. He said the new management structure would also address concerns he has about probation being a legislative patronage haven.

The source said the House is not going to embrace the governor’s plan, although it was unclear whether the House Ways and Means budget for fiscal 2011 would make any other changes in regard to probation. The Ways and Means budget is scheduled for release Wednesday.

Robert A. Mulligan, the trial court’s chief justice for administration and management, has called on the Legislature to restore to him oversight over probation’s budget, its 2,200 employees, and its commissioner. Michael Keating, who heads a court advisory group, calls probation “an island of its own.”