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          Bill No:  SB 1054
          Author:   Steinberg (D)
          Amended:  8/18/14
          Vote:     21


           SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE  :  6-0, 4/22/14
          AYES:  Hancock, Anderson, De León, Liu, Mitchell, Steinberg
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Knight

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE  :  7-0, 5/23/14
          AYES:  De León, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg

           SENATE FLOOR  :  36-0, 5/28/14
          AYES:  Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Cannella, Correa, De  
            León, DeSaulnier, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Hancock,  
            Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson, Knight, Lara, Leno,  
            Lieu, Liu, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nielsen, Padilla,  
            Pavley, Roth, Steinberg, Torres, Vidak, Walters, Wolk, Wyland
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Calderon, Corbett, Wright, Yee

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  76-0, 8/20/14 - See last page for vote


           SUBJECT  :    Mentally ill offender crime reduction grants

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill extends a recommendations plan deadline for  
          the California Juvenile Justice Data Working Group (CJJDWG) and  
          makes changes to the Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction  
          (MIOCR) grant program.
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           Assembly Amendments  revise and recast with similar intent as  
          when it left the Senate.

           ANALYSIS  :    

          Existing law:

          1.Establishes, within the Board of State and Community  
            Corrections (BSCC), the CJJDWG, as provided, and the CJJDWG is  
            required, among other things, to recommend a plan for  
            improving specified juvenile justice reporting requirements,  
            including streamlining and consolidating requirements without  
            sacrificing meaningful data collection.  The CJJDWG is  
            required to submit its recommendations to the BSCC no later  
            than December 31, 2014.

          2.Requires the BSCC to administer MIOCR grants on a competitive  
            basis to counties that expand or establish a continuum of  
            timely and effective responses to reduce crime and criminal  
            justice costs related to mentally ill juvenile and adult  
            offenders.  The grants administered by the BSCC are required  
            to be divided between adult and juvenile MIOCR grants in  
            accordance with the funds appropriated for each type of grant.

          3.Requires an application for a MIOCR grant to describe a  
            four-year plan for programs, services, or strategies, and  
            requires the BSCC to award grants that provide funding for  
            four years with the proviso that funding beyond the first year  
            of the plan is contingent upon annual appropriations and the  
            availability of funds to support MIOCR grants beyond the first  
            funding year.

          4.Requires the BSCC to create an evaluation design for adult and  
            juvenile MIOCR grants that assesses the effectiveness of the  
            program in reducing crime, adult and juvenile offender  
            incarceration and placement levels, early releases due to jail  
            overcrowding, and local criminal and juvenile justice costs.   
            The BSCC is required to annually submit a report to the  
            Legislature based on the evaluation design, commencing October  
            1, 2015, with a final report due on December 31, 2019.

          This bill:


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          1.Extends from December 31, 2014, to April 30, 2015 the deadline  
            by which CJJDWG is required to recommend a plan to the BSCC  
            for improving the current juvenile justice reporting  
            requirements, including streamlining and consolidating current  
            requirements without sacrificing meaningful data collection.

          2.Requires that MIOCR grants be divided equally between adult  
            and juvenile MIOCR grants in accordance with the funds  
            appropriated for each type of grant.

          3.Reduces from four years to three years the amount of funding  
            BSCC is required to award to counties receiving MIOCR grants.

          4.Shortens the deadline from December 31, 2019, to December 31,  
            2018, by which BSCC is required to submit its final report to  
            the Legislature on the MIOCR grant program, as specified.

           Comments
           
          According to the author, "SB 1054 makes technical amendments to  
          the Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction (MIOCR) Grant program  
          which was re-established in the Budget Act of 2014-15. 

          "The bill now shortens the timeframe of the MIOCR grant program  
          from four years to three years; clarifies the funds are to be  
          divided equally between juvenile and adult programs; and moves  
          the BSCC reporting requirements from December 31, 2014 to April  
          30, 2015."

           FISCAL EFFECT :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
          Local:  No

          According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, no  
          additional state or local cost.

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  8/20/14) 

          AFSCME
          American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
          California Council of Community Mental Health Agencies
          California Mental Health Directors Association
          California State Association of Counties
          California State Attorney General
          California State Sheriffs Association

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          California Welfare Directors Association
          Californians for Safety and Justice
          County of Los Angeles
          Mental Health America of California
          National Alliance on Mental Illness
          Sacramento County


           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  76-0, 8/20/14
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,  
            Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian  
            Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,  
            Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier,  
            Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell,  
            Gray, Hagman, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones,  
            Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,  
            Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,  
            Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.  
            Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,  
            Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,  
            Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Donnelly, Grove, Hall, Vacancy


          JG:e  8/20/14   Senate Floor Analyses 

                           SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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