BILL NUMBER: SB 601	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act relating to corrections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 601, as introduced, Hancock. Corrections: prisons: budget
accountability.
   Existing law provides for a system of prisons under the
supervision of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Existing law authorizes the department to contract for provisions,
clothing, medicines, forage, fuel, and all other staple supplies
needed for the support of the prisons, as specified. Existing law
requires the department to provide to the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee operational and fiscal information, as specified, no later
than January 10 of each year.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation addressing budget accountability and program
accountability for prisons, parole, and juvenile offender operations,
and to require the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to issue a quarterly, publicly posted report detailing
the department's budget by line items, and report on moneys spent
for each line item.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation addressing budget accountability and program
accountability for prison, parole, and juvenile offender operations,
and to require the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to issue a quarterly, publicly posted report detailing
the department's budget by line items, and report on moneys spent
for each line item.