BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 1054| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- UNFINISHED BUSINESS 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. CONTINUED SB 1054 Page 2 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: CONTINUED SB 1054 Page 3 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 CONTINUED SB 1054 Page 4 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 **** END **** CONTINUED