BILL ANALYSIS Ó ------------------------------------------------------------ |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 111| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 CONTINUED AB 111 Page 2 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 SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED **** END ****