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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 884
Author: Bonilla (D)
Amended: 5/15/13 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE : 7-0, 6/11/13
AYES: Hancock, Anderson, Block, De León, Knight, Liu, Steinberg
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-0, 5/20/13 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : County Board of Parole Commissioners: parole terms
SOURCE : California State Sheriff's Association
DIGEST : This bill increases the term of years that a county
parole board may place a county jail prisoner on county parole
from two to three years.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1.Provides for county parole programs.
2.Requires each county parole board to establish written rules
and regulations for inmates serving county-jail sentences to
apply for parole.
3.Allows the sentencing judge to deny parole eligibility at
sentencing if the time to be served in county jail is a
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condition of felony probation.
4.Limits the term of county parole to two years.
5.Limits the term for post release community supervision to
three years.
This bill increases the term of years that a county parole board
may place a county jail prisoner on county parole from two to
three years.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/12/13)
California State Sheriff's Association (source)
Alameda County Sheriff
Contra Costa County Sheriff
Crime Victims United
Lassen County Sheriff
Orange County Sheriff
Santa Barbara County Sheriff
Shasta County Sheriff
Solano County Sheriff
Yolo County Sheriff
OPPOSITION : (Verified 6/12/13)
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
California Public Defenders Association
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author, "This bill
will allow county parole boards to release an inmate on parole
for a term not to exceed three years. Since realignment and AB
109 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, Chapter 15,
Statutes of 2011) local governments are in need of more tools
and flexibility to monitor and manage parolees. Unfortunately,
some counties are not utilizing so-called "split sentences" and
are merely sentencing offenders to "straight time" with no
period of supervision and no evidence-based programming. In
counties where there is severe overcrowding, this bill will
provide an option to relieve overcrowding while providing the
opportunity for supervision under county parole."
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ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION : The California Attorneys for
Criminal Justice (CACJ) state, "This bill strikes CACJ as a
legislative solution in search of a problem. Courts and county
officials currently possess the necessary tools to monitor
inmates released under supervision and to alleviate issues with
jail overcrowding that may arise because of the continuing
implementation of realignment. Moreover, this bill may have the
unintended consequence of undermining courts' well-considered
decisions to structure sentences in a manner that best
effectuates the "evidence based" approach to criminal
confinement and supervision established by AB 109. Finally, the
bill seeks to implement a regime of county parole that is
infrequently used in many counties, and is not necessarily
funded under realignment. By doing so, the bill threatens to
overburden counties with unfunded supervision of criminal
populations transferred to county jails under AB 109."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-0, 5/20/13
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Blumenfield, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown,
Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway,
Cooley, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gordon, Gorell,
Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Jones, Levine,
Linder, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez,
Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande,
Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk,
Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, John A.
Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gray, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Logue, Vacancy,
Vacancy
JG:ej 6/12/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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