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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 79
Author: Assembly Budget Committee
Amended: 6/12/13 in Senate
Vote: 21
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not relevant
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2013: Corrections
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill provides for statutory changes necessary to
enact the corrections provisions of the Budget Act of 2013.
ANALYSIS : This bill makes all of the following statutory
changes:
1. Correctional healthcare re-organization . This bill adds
Health Care Services to the statutory structure and
responsibilities of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation (CDCR). Existing law provides for two
undersecretaries within the CDCR: one for administration and
offender services and one for operations. This bill adds a
third undersecretary for health care services, to be
confirmed by the Senate and serve at the pleasure of the
Governor. This bill also creates under the new
undersecretary, The Division of Health Care Operations and
the Division of Health Care Policy and Administration. This
bill creates a director for each of these new divisions, to
be confirmed by the Senate and to serve at the pleasure of
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the Governor.
2. Structure of the Board of State and Community Corrections
(BSCC) . Existing law establishes the composition of the BSCC
with 12 members including two CDCR executives, one being the
Secretary who serves as the chair of the BSCC, two sheriffs,
a county supervisor or county administrator, two chief
probation officers, a judge, a chief of police, two community
providers of treatment services and a member of the public.
This bill restructures the BSCC, as of July 1, 2013, with 13
members including all members included in the existing
composition, plus the creation of a chair to be appointed by
the Governor with Senate confirmation, and to serve
full-time. The existing chair, the Secretary of CDCR, will
remain as a board member. The new full-time chair is
entitled to receive compensation set by the Department of
Human Resources.
3. BSCC executive committee financial interest exemption .
Specifies that members of a committee created by the BSCC,
including board members, have no financial interest in any
contract made by the board including grants and bond
financing.
4. Co-location of Office of Inspector General (OIG) staff with
CDCR Office of Internal Affairs (OIA) staff and OIG technical
fixes . Both the OIG and the CDCR's OIA perform oversight
activities related to CDCR staff and management. The OIA is
internal, the OIG is external and independent. As part of a
court remedy of a lawsuit against CDCR pertaining to
use-of-force, certain OIG staff is currently co-located with
OIA staff. This bill codifies this co-location and makes
other technical changes consistent with the reorganization of
the OIG, associated with the 2011 Budget Act.
5. Local jail facility financing technical correction . A
trailer bill associated with the 2012 Budget Act, SB 1022
(Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, Chapter 42,
Statutes of 2012) authorized $500,000,000 in bond funding for
local jail construction grants. This bill makes a technical
revision to correct a code reference error.
6. Statewide budget packages and advance planning . Appropriates
$750,000 from the 1990 Prison Construction Fund to the CDCR
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for statewide budget packages and advance planning in CDCR's
capital outlay program during the 2013-14 fiscal year. The
funds are to be allocated by CDCR, upon approval of the
Department of Finance, to develop design and cost information
for new projects for which funds have not been previously
appropriated, but for which preliminary plans funds, working
drawing funds, or working drawings and construction funds are
expected to be included in the subsequent budget acts.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
JG:k 6/13/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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