BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 118 (Budget Committee)
As Amended June 28, 2011
Majority vote. Budget Bill Appropriation Takes Effect
Immediately
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SUMMARY : Implements the 2011 Public Safety Realignment,
transferring the equivalent of $5,559 million of annual state
fiscal responsibilities for public safety programs to counties.
This bill also creates the account structure and allocations for
some of this funding, and dedicates 1.0625% of existing state
sales tax revenue to fund these local costs in 2011-12.
The Senate amendments delete the Assembly version of this bill,
and instead:
1)Define public safety programs as local responsibilities.
These programs are:
a) Employing and training public safety officials, public
defenders, and court security staff;
b) Managing local jails housing, treatment, and treating
youthful offenders, and providing services for and
overseeing the supervised release of offenders;
c) Preventing child abuse, providing services to children
who are abused, neglected, or exploited, providing services
to vulnerable children and their families and providing
adult protective services;
d) Providing mental health services to children and adults
in order to reduce the failure in school, harm to
themselves and others, homelessness, and preventable
incarceration; and,
e) Preventing, treating, and providing recovery services
for alcohol and drug abuse.
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2)Dedicate 1.0625% of the existing state sales and use tax to
pay for the local public safety costs. In 2011-12, this
percent is projected to yield $5,105.7 million in revenue for
local realignment costs.
3)Establish the Local Revenue Fund 2011 that will receive the
dedicated sales and use tax and Vehicle License Fee (VLF)
revenues through a continuous appropriation. This includes
establishing the fund account structure for the public safety
realignment. The accounts are:
a) Trial Court Security Account;
b) Local Community Corrections Account;
c) Local Law Enforcement Services Account;
d) Mental Health Account;
e) District Attorney and Public Defender Account;
f) Juvenile Justice Account, including the Youthful
Offender Block Grant Subaccount and the Juvenile Reentry
Grant Subaccount;
g) Health and Human Services Account, including the Adult
Protective Services Subaccount, the Foster Care Subaccount,
the Child Welfare Subaccount, the Adopts Subaccount, the
Adoptions Assistance Subaccount, the Child Abuse Prevention
and Treatment Subaccount, the Woman and Children's
Residential Treatment Services, the Drug Court Subaccount,
and the Drug Medi-Cal Subaccount; and,
h) Reserve Account.
4)Require local county treasurers to create a parallel account
structure.
5)Allocate the anticipated $5,559 million of revenue between the
various accounts, and subaccounts.
6)Specify allocation methodology or the process for establishing
the allocation of funding for the various accounts and
subaccounts to counties.
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7)Modify the Community Oriented Policing Services and Juvenile
Justice Crime Prevention Act funding to ensure that
allocations continue consistent with current law, but are
payable from the Local Law Enforcement Services Account within
the Local Revenue Fund 2011. Also makes technical adjustments
to ensure a mechanism for providing full funding for this
program in the 2010-11 fiscal year. SB 94 (Budget and Fiscal
Review Committee), Chapter 21, Statutes of 2011 temporarily
reduced VLF revenue while final decisions were made on whether
to maintain existing rates prior to July 1, 2011.
8)Convert existing court security fee to a fee to assist in
funding court operations. These funds are deposited in the
Trial Court Trust Fund and will continue to support court
operations. The full funding required to support costs
associated with sheriffs providing court security in the trial
courts is being realigned to the counties in this bill so this
fee revenue is no longer needed for that purpose.
9)Create a Community Corrections Grant Program for the purposes
of funding AB 109 (Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of
2011 as of October 1, 2011. The moneys in the Local Community
Corrections Account within the Local Revenue Fund 2011 shall
be used to fund the grant program.
10)State that any costs determined to be mandates by the
Commission on State Mandates must be first paid for out of the
County Local Revenue Fund 2011 to the fullest extent possible.
11)Dedicate funding provided to the 1991 Mental Health
Subaccount to the 1991 Social Services Account for the
purposes of paying an additional share of the California Work
Opportunities and Responsibilities to Kids (CalWORKs) grant
costs. The local mental health program costs supported by the
funds that are transferred will be instead be supported by
revenue provided by the Mental Health Account created by this
bill.
12)Add an appropriation allowing this bill to take effect
immediately upon enactment.
COMMENT : This bill provides the statutory framework, allocation
methodology, and most of the dedicated revenue to implement the
Governor's Public Safety Realignment. When combined with
companion measure SB 89/AB 108, this bill provides local funding
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for $5,559 million of public safety responsibilities that would
shift to counties. By 2014-15, this dedicated revenue is
expected to grow to $6.8 billion, allowing for over $1 billion
of potential funding for program growth.
According to the Administration, the allocations stipulated in
this bill were developed in consultation with the California
State Association of Counties.
Analysis Prepared by : Christian Griffith / BUDGET / (916)
319-2099
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