BILL NUMBER: AB 1445	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 17, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 28, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mitchell
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal)

                        JANUARY 4, 2012

   An act to amend Section 4025.5 of the Penal Code, relating to
jails.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1445, as amended, Mitchell. Jails:  county  inmate
welfare  fund.   funds. 
   Existing law provides that the sheriff of each county may maintain
an inmate welfare fund to be kept in the treasury of the county into
which profit from a store operated in connection with the county
jail, 10% of all gross sales of inmate hobbycraft, and any rebates or
commissions received from a telephone company, as specified, is
required to be deposited. Existing law authorizes the sheriff to
expend money from the fund to assist indigent inmates, prior to
release, with clothes and transportation expenses, as specified.
   Existing law, until January 1, 2013, creates a pilot program that
authorizes the sheriff of certain counties and the Chief of
Correction of Santa Clara County to spend money from the inmate
welfare fund for the purpose of assisting indigent inmates with the
reentry process within 14 days after the inmate's release from the
county jail or other adult detention facility, as specified. 
Existing law specifies that the assistance provided may include, but
is not limited to, work placement, counseling, obtaining proper
identification, education, and housing. 
   This bill would  authorize the program to operate
indefinitely  extend the operation of those provisions
until January 1, 2015,  and would add the Counties of Marin,
 Napa,  San Luis Obispo, and Ventura to the program. The
bill would authorize the sheriffs of counties participating in the
program  ,  or  , in Santa Clara County,
 the county officer responsible for operating the jails, to
spend money from the inmate welfare fund for the purpose of assisting
indigent inmates with the reentry process within 30 days after the
inmate's release from the county jail or other adult detention
facility, as specified.  The bill would also specify that money
from the inmate welfare fund shall not be used under the pilot
program to provide services that are required to be provided by the
sheriff or county, as specified. 
   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 4025.5 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   4025.5.   (a)    There is hereby created a 
pilot  program in the Counties of Alameda, Kern, Los Angeles,
Marin,  Napa,  Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San
Francisco, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara,
Stanislaus, and Ventura. In each county, the sheriff  ,
 or  , in the County of Santa Clara,  the
county officer responsible for operating the jails  ,
 may expend money from the inmate welfare fund to provide
indigent inmates, after release from the county jail or any other
adult detention facility under the jurisdiction of the sheriff
 ,  or  , in the County of Santa Clara,
 the county officer responsible for operating the jails,
assistance with the reentry process within 30 days after the inmate's
release. The assistance provided may include  , but is not
limited to,  work placement, counseling, obtaining proper
identification, education, and housing. 
   (b) Nothing in this section authorizes money from the inmate
welfare fund to be used to provide any services that are required to
be provided by the sheriff or the county. Money in the fund shall
supplement existing services, and shall not be used to supplant any
existing funding for services provided by the sheriff or the county.
 
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2015, deletes or extends
that date.