BILL NUMBER: AB 1876	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2014

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   detention facilities  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1876, as amended, Quirk.  County jails:  
Jails and juvenile facilities:  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  require any contract to provide telephone
services to any person detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile
facility to be negotiated and awarded to an entity that meets the
jail or juvenile facility's technical and functional requirements for
services, and that provides the lowest cost of service to any person
who pays for the telephone service. The bill would additionally
 prohibit  a county jail from accepting a  
any contract to provide telephone services to any person detained or
sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility from including any 
commission or other payment  from a telephone company as an
incentive to adopt a contract for providing telephone services to
inmates of the jail   to the entity operating the jail
or juvenile facility  .
   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   CONTRACTS
FOR TELEPHONE SERVICES IN JAILS AND JUVENILE FACILITIES 


   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. 
    22120.    (a) Any contract to provide telephone
services to any person detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile
facility shall be negotiated and awarded to an entity that meets the
jail or juvenile facility's technical and functional requirements for
services, and that provides the lowest cost of service to any person
who pays for the telephone service.  
   (b) A contract to provide telephone services to any person
detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility shall not
include any commission or other payment to the entity operating the
jail or juvenile facility.  
   (c) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:  
   (1) "Jail" means a county jail, a municipal jail, or a privately
operated jail.  
   (2) "Juvenile facility" means any juvenile hall, camp, ranch, or
other facility where a person is detained as a result of a petition
pursuant to Section 601 or 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.