BILL NUMBER: AB 2357	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Skinner

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 3020 of the Penal Code, relating to
parole.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2357, as introduced, Skinner. Parole: consideration of an
inmate's military service.
   Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to conduct assessments of all inmates that include,
but are not limited to, data regarding the inmate's history of
substance abuse, medical and mental health, education, family
background, criminal activity, and social functioning, which are
required to be used to place the inmate in programs that will aid in
his or her reentry to society and that will most likely reduce the
inmate's chances of reoffending.
   This bill would additionally require the department to include in
that assessment data regarding the inmate's service in the United
States military.
   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.  Section 3020 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   3020.  The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall
conduct assessments of all inmates that include, but are not limited
to, data regarding the inmate's history of substance abuse, medical
and mental health, education, family background, criminal activity,
 service in the United States military,  and social
functioning. The assessments shall be used to place  inmates
  the inmate  in programs that will aid in 
their   his or her  reentry to society and that
will most likely reduce the inmate's chances of reoffending.