BILL NUMBER: AB 1876	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to add Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 22120) to Part
3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, relating to county
jails.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1876, as introduced, Quirk. County jails: telephone service
contracts.
   Existing law imposes specified procedural and substantive content
requirements on contracts entered into by local agencies, including
cities and counties.
   This bill would prohibit a county jail from accepting a commission
or other payment from a telephone company as an incentive to adopt a
contract for providing telephone services to inmates of the jail.
   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.  Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 22120) is added to
Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 3.2.  COUNTY JAILS


   22120.  A county jail shall not accept a commission or other
payment from a telephone company as an incentive to adopt a contract
for providing telephone services to inmates of the jail.