BILL NUMBER: AB 1876	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 15, 2014
	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 detention
facilities.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1876, as amended, Quirk. 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  
technical, functional, and security  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 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  , as defined,  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.  CONTRACTS FOR TELEPHONE SERVICES IN JAILS AND
JUVENILE FACILITIES


   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  
technical, functional, and security  requirements for services,
and that provides the lowest cost of service to any person who pays
for the telephone service.  A county may require a telephone
service provider to cover all costs related to the installation and
maintenance of the   telephone devices and services. 
   (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.

   (3) "Commission or other payment" means any payments made to
incentivize procurement of contracts, but does not include grants and
other payments that do not increase the cost of telephone calls
billed to consumers.