BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 1920 (Campos)
As Amended August 19, 2014
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |75-0 |(April 24, |SENATE: |31-2 |(August 21, |
| | |2014) | | |2014) |
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Original Committee Reference: PUB. S.
SUMMARY : Specifies that the Board of State and Community
Corrections (BSCC) must include training and employment
opportunities within the services to be delivered through
regional partnerships and grant funds, and includes at-risk
youth in the target population that would receive those
services.
The Senate amendments delete recently added provisions related
to the "social impact partnership pilot program."
EXISTING LAW :
1)Establishes BSCC, commencing July 1, 2012, an entity
independent of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation.
2)States that the mission of BSCC shall include providing
statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance
to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships
in California's adult and juvenile criminal justice system,
including addressing gang problems. This mission shall reflect
the principle of aligning fiscal policy and correctional
practices, including, but not limited to prevention,
intervention, suppression, supervision, and incapacitation, to
promote a justice investment strategy that fits each county
and is consistent with the integrated statewide goal of
improved public safety through cost-effective, promising, and
evidence-based strategies for managing criminal justice
populations.
3)States that it shall be the duty of BSCC to collect and
maintain available information and data about state and
community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and
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needs, including, but not limited to, prevention,
intervention, suppression, supervision, and incapacitation, as
they relate to both adult corrections, juvenile justice, and
gang problems.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill specified that BSCC must
include training and employment opportunities within the
services to be delivered through regional partnerships and grant
funds, and includes at-risk youth in the target population that
would receive those services.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, no direct state costs to add a non-substantive
component to the duties of the BSCC concerning the development
of comprehensive regional partnerships and job
training/employment opportunities for at-risk youth, as
specified.
COMMENTS : According to the author, "This bill would increase
job training and employment opportunities for at-risk youth
through locally funded programs that help prevent youth and gang
violence. Specifically, the bill would expand the types of
programs eligible for funding through the California Gang
Reduction, Intervention, and Prevention Program (CalGRIP).
"The YouthBuild Program is one of many programs available
throughout the state that provide an alternative school setting
for at-risk youth. The program provides construction job
training through a pre-apprenticeship program. For example,
youth build housing for the homeless and low-income families.
"Hands-on job training combined with personal counseling and
peer support groups has proven to be effective in assisting
youth in healing from their past. One of the main missions of
YouthBuild is for youth to develop leadership skills, learn the
value of civic engagement and participate actively in community
affairs.
"Focusing only on gang intervention and suppression is not
sufficient anymore. Research shows that the next step in
permanent gang reduction is job training because it offers a way
out of a violent and gang oriented lifestyle."
Please see the policy committee analysis for a full discussion
of this bill.
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Analysis Prepared by : Stella Choe / PUB. S. / (916) 319-3744
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