BILL NUMBER: AB 787	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hill

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1960.5 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to juveniles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 787, as introduced, Hill. State Commission on Juvenile Justice:
report.
   Existing law requires the State Commission on Juvenile Justice to
develop a Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan. The commission
was required, on or before May 1, 2008, to provide an interim report
to the Legislature, including the status of the work of the
commission and the strategies it has identified to date.
   This bill would specify additional information to be included in
the report of the commission relating to the number of youth
transferred to each county, each county's recidivism rate,
nonresidential dispositions, supervision programs, reentry and
aftercare programs, county costs for caring for the transferred
population, and specified pilot projects.
   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 1960.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   1960.5.  (a) The State Commission on Juvenile Justice, pursuant to
Section 1798.5, shall develop a Juvenile Justice Operational Master
Plan. On or before January 1, 2009, the commission shall develop and
make available for implementation by the counties the following
strategies:
   (1) Risk and needs assessment tools to evaluate the programming
and security needs of all youthful offenders and at-risk youth.
   (2) Juvenile justice universal data collection elements, which
shall be common to all counties.
   (3) Criteria and strategies to promote a continuum of
evidence-based responses to youthful offenders.
   (b) In drafting the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan, the
commission shall take into consideration both of the following:
   (1) Evidence-based programs and risk and needs assessment tools
currently in use by the counties.
   (2) The costs of implementing these strategies.
   (c) On or before May 1, 2008, the commission shall provide an
interim report to the Legislature, which shall include  the
  all of the following: 
    (1)     The  status of the work of the
commission and the strategies it has identified to date. 
   (2) The number of youth transferred to each county.  
   (3) The recidivism rate for each county for the transferred
population.  
   (4) The number of nonresidential dispositions, such as day
treatment, community service, restitution, and mental health, drug
and alcohol, and other counseling programs by county.  
   (5) The number and type of supervision programs, including house
arrest, electronic monitoring, and intensive probation supervision.
 
   (6) The reentry and aftercare programs prepared and observed for
each offender.  
   (7) The total amount of county costs for caring for the
transferred population.  
   (8) The costs and outcomes resulting from the two specialized
population pilot projects.