BILL NUMBER: AB 915	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Chapter 1.7 (commencing with Section 1990) to
Division 2.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to
youthful offenders.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 915, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Juvenile Community
Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2013.
   Existing law establishes the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund to
be used to enhance the capacity of county probation, mental health,
drug and alcohol, and other departments to provide appropriate
rehabilitative and supervision services to specified youthful
offenders.
   This bill, the Juvenile Community Corrections Performance
Incentives Act of 2013, would permit each county to establish in each
county treasury a Youthful Offender Block Grant Part B account. The
bill would require the Department of Finance, in consultation with
the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of State
and Community Corrections, and the Chief Probation Officers of
California, to calculate the cost to the state of housing and
supervising juvenile offenders who have committed certain specified
offenses for the fiscal year 2013-13 and every year thereafter and,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, to allocate 75% the savings
realized for the purposes specified in this bill. The bill would
require, in any fiscal year for which a county receives money
pursuant to these provisions, the funds to be made available to the
local Community Corrections Partnership of that county to be utilized
to improve local probation supervision practices and capacities
serving juvenile offenders and for the implementation or enhancement
of recognized best practices for serving high-need youth offenders.
The bill would require that 40% of the funds be allocated
proportionally and directly to those counties with net decreases in
new admissions of juvenile offenders to the Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice, 40% to be
available to fund a block grant program, as specified, and 20% to be
available to fund technical assistance for counties in the ongoing
implementation of model practices for serving certain specified
juvenile offenders.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 1.7 (commencing with Section 1990) is added to
Division 2.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 1.7.  JUVENILE COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS PERFORMANCE
INCENTIVES


   1990.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Juvenile
Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2013.
   1991.  (a) No later than July 1, 2014, the Department of Finance,
in consultation with the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, the Board of State and Community Corrections, and the
Chief Probation Officers of California, shall calculate the cost to
the state of housing and supervising juvenile offenders who have
committed an offense described in subdivision (b) of Section 707 who
were in the custody of, or subject to supervision by, the Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice for
the 2012-13 fiscal year.
   (b) No later than July 1, 2014, and every July 1 thereafter, the
Department of Finance, in consultation with the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of State and Community
Corrections, and the Chief Probation Officers of California, shall
calculate the cost to the state of housing and supervising juvenile
offenders who have committed an offense described in subdivision (b)
of Section 707 who were in the custody of, or subject to supervision
by, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of
Juvenile Justice in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
   (c) Beginning July 1, 2014, and no later than July 1 of each year
thereafter, the Department of Finance shall calculate the savings to
the state, if savings are realized, by subtracting the amount
calculated annually pursuant to subdivision (b) from the amount
calculated pursuant to subdivision (a). Of this amount, 75 percent
shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be set aside and
allocated as specified in Section 1993.
   1992.  (a) Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each
county treasury a Youthful Offender Block Grant Part B account, to
receive all amounts allocated to that county pursuant to Section
1993.
   (b) In any fiscal year for which a county receives money to be
expended for the implementation of this chapter, the moneys,
including any interest, shall be made available to the local
Community Corrections Partnership of that county for the purposes
specified in Section 1994.
   1993.  The amounts calculated pursuant to subdivision (c) shall be
allocated as follows:
   (a) Forty percent shall be allocated proportionally and directly
to those counties with net decreases in new admissions of juvenile
offenders to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,
Division of Juvenile Justice over the fiscal year 2012-13 baseline
new commitments.
   (b) Forty percent shall be available to fund a block grant program
whereby each county may apply for funds in order to increase
capacity for serving the county's population of juvenile offenders
who committed an offense described in subdivision (b) of Section 707.
The funding made available pursuant to this subdivision shall be
allocated on the basis of a competitive grant that is open to all
counties and is not limited to counties showing decreases in new
admissions to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,
Division of Juvenile Justice.
   (c) Twenty percent shall be available to fund technical assistance
for counties in the ongoing implementation of model practices for
serving juvenile offenders who committed an offense described in
subdivision (b) of Section 707, or for those counties developing
programs to serve a combination of juvenile offenders who committed
an offense described in subdivision (b) of Section 707 and other
juvenile offenders. A portion of these funds may be used to fund
staff positions within the Board of State and Community Corrections.
   1994.  Money allocated to each county Youthful Offender Block
Grant Part B account shall be utilized to improve local probation
supervision practices and capacities serving juvenile offenders
committed for offenses specified in subdivision (b) of Section 707
and for the implementation or enhancement of recognized best
practices for serving high-need youth offenders. Best practices shall
be identified and defined by the Board of State and Community
Corrections, and shall include core values with proven results,
including, but not limited to, strengths-based, individualized,
family-centered, culturally competent services, positive youth
development frameworks, and trauma-informed care.