BILL NUMBER: AB 320	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Solorio
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Fuentes   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2009

   An act to amend Section 15820.917 of the Government Code, relating
to county jails.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 320, as amended, Solorio. County jails: reentry facilities.
   Existing law provides state financing for construction of county
jails, subject to matching funds from counties, as specified.
Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation and the Corrections Standards Authority to give
funding preference for those purposes to counties that assist the
state in siting reentry facilities, as specified.
   This bill would require the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation and the Corrections Standards Authority to give
coequal funding preference to counties that assist the state in
either siting reentry facilities or providing  beds 
 existing beds and program space  in county jails for use
as reentry facilities. The bill would provide that  counties
  a county  interested in providing reentry
services to state inmates shall be required to enter into  an
  a long-term  agreement with the department to
provide those services and that the department shall certify that the
proposed reentry services meet their approval. The bill would
provide that the changes made by this act are prospective only.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 15820.917 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   15820.917.  (a) Participating county matching funds for projects
funded under this chapter shall be a minimum of 25 percent of the
total project costs. The  CSA   Corrections
Standards Authority (CSA)  may reduce matching fund requirements
for participating counties with a general population below 200,000
upon petition by a participating county to the CSA requesting a lower
level of matching funds.
   (b) (1) The  CDCR   Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation (CDCR)  and CSA shall give coequal funding
preference to counties that assist the state in either siting reentry
facilities or providing  beds   existing beds
and program space  in county jails for use as reentry
facilities, pursuant to Chapter 9.8 (commencing with Section 6270) of
Title 7 of Part 3 of the Penal Code.
   (2)  Counties   A county  interested in
providing reentry services to state inmates shall be required to
enter into  an   a long-term  agreement
with the CDCR to provide those services and the CDCR shall certify
that the proposed reentry services meet their approval.
   (c) The CDCR shall give funding preference to counties that assist
the state in siting mental health day treatment and crisis care,
pursuant to Section 3073 of the Penal Code, and to counties 
who   that  provide a continuum of care so that
parolees with mental health and substance abuse needs can continue to
receive services at the conclusion of their period of parole.
   (d) The amendments made to this section in the 2009-10 Regular
Session by the act that added this subdivision are prospective only
and not intended to affect any Phase 1 grant awards that were made
prior to the enactment of this act.