BILL NUMBER: SB 776	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 8090 of the Penal Code, relating to
punishment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 776, as introduced, Hancock. Punishment: community-based
punishment programs.
   Existing law, the Community-Based Punishment Act, establishes the
state's community-based punishment plan. Existing law provides that
the act shall be administered by the Corrections Standards Authority.
Existing law provides that implementation of these provisions is
contingent upon the availability of funding and that funding for
community-based programs shall be administered by the authority from
funds appropriated by the Legislature or from a variety of sources,
including federal funds for community-based punishment programs.
   This bill would allow the use of federal funds that are not
designated for community-based programs.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8090 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   8090.  Implementation of this chapter pursuant to Section 8060 is
contingent upon the availability of funding. Funding for
community-based punishment programs shall be administered by the
board from funds appropriated by the Legislature. In addition to
state funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act or other
legislation, programs may be funded from a variety of sources,
including, but not limited to, the following:
   (a) Federal funds  for community-based punishment programs
 .
   (b) Private or corporate grants, or both.
   (c) Service and administrative fees that may be charged to
offenders who participate in community corrections programs, provided
that no offender shall be denied entrance into a community-based
punishment program solely for inability to pay fees.
   (d) Income derived from community development corporations
established as part of community-based punishment programs of a
county or collaboration of counties, including, but not limited to,
revenue generated by businesses owned and operated by community-based
punishment programs, or by offender work programs, or by both, after
the cost of operating and administering the business or work program
has been paid.
   (e) Other sources as may be identified as suitable for funding
community corrections.
   It is the intent of the Legislature that community corrections
reduce the number of offenders who would be incarcerated in the state
prison in the absence of a community-based punishment approach.