BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 74| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- UNFINISHED BUSINESS Bill No: SB 74 Author: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Amended: 6/12/13 Vote: 21 PRIOR SENATE VOTES NOT RELEVANT ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not available SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2013: Corrections SOURCE : Author DIGEST : This bill provides for statutory changes necessary to enact the corrections provisions of the Budget Act of 2013. Assembly Amendments delete the Senate version of the bill, which expressed legislative intent to enact statutory changes related to the Budget Act of 2013, and instead add the current language. ANALYSIS : This bill makes all of the following statutory changes: 1. Correctional healthcare re-organization . This bill adds Health Care Services to the statutory structure and responsibilities of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Existing law provides for two undersecretaries within the CDCR: one for administration and offender services and one for operations. This bill adds a third undersecretary for health care services, to be CONTINUED SB 74 Page 2 confirmed by the Senate and serve at the pleasure of the Governor. This bill also creates under the new undersecretary, The Division of Health Care Operations and the Division of Health Care Policy and Administration. This bill creates a director for each of these new divisions, to be confirmed by the Senate and to serve at the pleasure of the Governor. 2. Structure of the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) . Existing law establishes the composition of the BSCC with 12 members including two CDCR executives, one being the Secretary who serves as the chair of the BSCC, two sheriffs, a county supervisor or county administrator, two chief probation officers, a judge, a chief of police, two community providers of treatment services and a member of the public. This bill restructures the BSCC, as of July 1, 2013, with 13 members including all members included in the existing composition, plus the creation of a chair to be appointed by the Governor with Senate confirmation, and to serve full-time. The existing chair, the Secretary of CDCR, will remain as a board member. The new full-time chair is entitled to receive compensation set by the Department of Human Resources. 3. BSCC executive committee financial interest exemption . Specifies that members of a committee created by the BSCC, including board members, have no financial interest in any contract made by the board including grants and bond financing. 4. Co-location of Office of Inspector General (OIG) staff with CDCR Office of Internal Affairs (OIA) staff and OIG technical fixes . Both the OIG and the CDCR's OIA perform oversight activities related to CDCR staff and management. The OIA is internal, the OIG is external and independent. As part of a court remedy of a lawsuit against CDCR pertaining to use-of-force, certain OIG staff is currently co-located with OIA staff. This bill codifies this co-location and makes other technical changes consistent with the reorganization of the OIG, associated with the 2011 Budget Act. 5. Local jail facility financing technical correction . A trailer bill associated with the 2012 Budget Act, SB 1022 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, Chapter 42, CONTINUED SB 74 Page 3 Statutes of 2012) authorized $500,000,000 in bond funding for local jail construction grants. This bill makes a technical revision to correct a code reference error. 6. Statewide budget packages and advance planning . Appropriates $750,000 from the 1990 Prison Construction Fund to the CDCR for statewide budget packages and advance planning in CDCR's capital outlay program during the 2013-14 fiscal year. The funds are to be allocated by CDCR, upon approval of the Department of Finance, to develop design and cost information for new projects for which funds have not been previously appropriated, but for which preliminary plans funds, working drawing funds, or working drawings and construction funds are expected to be included in the subsequent budget acts. FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: No JG:k 6/14/13 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED **** END **** CONTINUED