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          SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
                              Senator Mark Leno, Chair
                                2015 - 2016  Regular 

          Bill No:            AB 112          Hearing Date:    June 18,  
          2015
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          |Author:   |Committee on Budget                                   |
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          |Version:  |January 9, 2015    Introduced                         |
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          |Urgency:  |No                     |Fiscal:    |Yes              |
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          |Consultant|Julie Salley-Gray                                     |
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                            Subject:  Budget Act of 2015.


          Summary: Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact the public  
          safety provisions of the Budget Act of 2015.

          Background:  As part of the 2015-16 budget package, AB 112 makes statutory  
          changes to implement the budget act.
          
          Proposed  
          Law:  
          
          This bill makes the following statutory changes:

          1.Debt Amnesty Program. Establishes an 18-month amnesty program,  
            which allows individuals with past-due court-ordered debt to  
            receive a reduction in the amount owed if they meet certain  
            eligibility criteria. Allow drivers with suspended licenses to  
            reinstate their licenses as part of the amnesty program.  

          2.Drug Interdiction. Requires an independent evaluation of the  
            effectiveness of the California Department of Corrections and  
            Rehabilitation's (CDCR) enhanced drug interdiction effort.   
            Removes the requirement that visitors be offered a strip  
            search as an option if they test positive using an Ion scanner  
            or canines. 

          3.Enhanced Treatment Program Reporting Requirements. Requires  
            the Department of State Hospitals to submit written draft  







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            policies and procedures that will guide the operation of the  
            Enhanced Treatment Units (ETPs) prior to the activation of the  
            ETPs.

          4.Closure of the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC).  
            Requires the Administration to provide an updated  
            comprehensive plan for the state prison system, including a  
            permanent solution for the decaying infrastructure of the  
            California Rehabilitation Center.  In addition, states  
            legislative findings and declarations that given the reduction  
            in the prison population, the Legislature believes that  
            further investment in building additional prisons is  
            unnecessary at this time and that the California  
            Rehabilitation Center can be closed without jeopardizing the  
            court-ordered population cap.

          5.Community Performance Incentive Grants. Updates the formula  
            for the Community Performance Incentive Grants to reflect  
            changes in the prison and county probation populations as a  
            result of 2011 Public Safety Realignment.   

          6.Office of Law Enforcement Support (OLES) Reporting  
            Requirements. Requires OLES to submit reports to the  
            Legislature semi-annually, beginning October 1, 2016, that  
            include, but are not limited to, the following:

               a.     The number, type, and disposition of complaints made  
                 against employees.
               b.     A synopsis of each investigation reviewed by the  
                 Office of Law Enforcement Support.
               c.     An assessment of the quality of each investigation.
               d.     The report of any settlement and whether the Office  
                 of Law Enforcement Support concurred with the settlement.
               e.     The extent to which any disciplinary action was  
                 modified after imposition.
               f.     Timeliness of investigations and completion of  
                 investigation reports.
               g.     The number of reports made to an individual's  
                 licensing board, in cases involving serious or criminal  
                 misconduct by the individual.
               h.     The number of investigations referred for criminal  
                 prosecution and employee disciplinary action and the  
                 outcomes of those cases.
               i.     The adequacy of the State Department of State  








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                 Hospitals' and the Developmental Centers Division of the  
                 State Department of Developmental Services' systems for  
                 tracking patterns and monitoring investigation outcomes  
                 and employee compliance with training requirements.

          7.Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training (CPOST).  
            Reduces the length of the correctional officer training  
            academy from 16 to 12 weeks and re-establishes CPOST. CPOST is  
            responsible for developing and monitoring standards for the  
            selection and training of correctional officers and would be  
            governed by six members (three from CDCR management and three  
            from the correctional officers' union) appointed by the  
            Governor. In addition, requires CPOST to regularly consult  
            with experts in the area of correctional officer training.

          8.Body-Worn Camera Pilot Program. Authorizes the California  
            Highway Patrol to develop a plan, by January 1, 2016, for  
            conducting a body-worn camera pilot program that explores  
            things such as the types of officers that would be assigned or  
            permitted to wear body-worn cameras, the minimum  
            specifications for the cameras to be used in the program, and  
            the best practices for notifying the public that an officer's  
            body-worn camera is recording.

          9.Involuntary Medication Process for Individuals found Not  
            Guilty by Reason of Insanity. Modifies the fair hearing  
            process for individuals who have been found not guilty by  
            reason of insanity and refuse to take medication. 

          10.Restoration of Competency. Removes the sunset date for the  
            Restoration of Competency program. Streamlines current local  
            restoration of competency programs, funded by the Department  
            of State Hospitals to allow more counties to participate in  
            the program. 

          11.Native American Heritage Day. Clarifies that Native American  
            Heritage Day is not a court holiday. 

          12.Sunset Extension for Enhanced Civil Fees. Extends the sunset  
            for enhanced civil fees from July 1, 2015 to July 1, 2018. 

          13.Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Growth Special Account.  
            Deletes the requirement that funds in the Enhancing Law  
            Enforcement Activities Growth Special Account be distributed  








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            on August 25th of each fiscal year.  Specifies that each  
            growth allocation from the Enhancing Law Enforcement  
            Activities Growth Special Account shall utilize the same  
            allocation schedules calculated for the base allocations from  
            the same fiscal year to which the growth is attributed.

          14.Includes other technical and clarifying changes necessary to  
            enact the budget. 

          Fiscal  
          Effect:  The funding related to the changes in this bill is contained  
          in the 2015-16 budget act. The bill also contains a  
          reappropriation for the Board of State and Community Corrections  
          to administer the mentally ill crime reduction grants.

          Support:   Unknown.
          
          Opposed:  Unknown.
          
          Comments:  This bill provides the necessary statutory references to enact  
          the 2015-16 budget related to public safety.
          
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