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                                 THIRD READING


          Bill No:  AB 111
          Author:   Assembly Budget Committee 
          Amended:  3/14/11 in Senate 
          Vote:     27 - Urgency

           
          PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT


           SUBJECT  :    Budget Act of 2011:  low level offenders

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill makes statutory changes that are 
          necessary to implement provisions of the Budget Bill 
          related to realignment of low level offenders.

           Senate Floor Amendments  of 3/14/11 delete intent language 
          and now provide statutory changes that are necessary to 
          implement provisions of the Budget Bill related to 
          realignment of low-level offenders.

           ANALYSIS  :    This is the Trailer Bill related to expanding 
          capacity of local jails for the purpose of supporting the 
          realignment of low level offenders.  It contains provisions 
          necessary to implement the 2011-12 budget, including these 
          key changes:

          1.  Accelerates Availability of Jail Construction Funding  .  
             Shifts $132.9 million in undesignated funds appropriated 
             in AB 900 (Solorio), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007, from 
             Phase I to Phase II, as well as removes requirements 
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             that this funding cannot be awarded until at least 4,000 
             local jail beds and 2,000 reentry beds are under 
             construction or sited.  These changes will allow all 
             Phase II jail funding to be available more quickly.

          2.  Changes Award Preferences for Counties Seeking Jail 
             Construction Funding  .  Removes requirements under AB 900 
             that the state give funding preference to those counties 
             seeking jail funding that assist the state in siting 
             reentry facilities, or those that assist the state in 
             siting mental health day treatment and crisis care and 
             continuum of care programs for parolees.  Requires that 
             preference shall be given to counties that have the 
             largest percentage of inmates in state prison in 2010.

          3.  Concurrent Passage of Corrections Realignment Trailer 
             Bill  .  For this bill to go into effect, requires passage 
             of the corrections realignment trailer bill (either SB 
             85 or AB 109).

          4. Appropriates the sum of $1,000 from the General Fund to 
             the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for 
             purposes of state operations to be used by the 
             Corrections Standards Authority. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  Yes   Fiscal Com.:  Yes   
          Local:  No


          RJG:mw  3/15/11   Senate Floor Analyses 

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