Amended in Senate August 15, 2016

Amended in Senate June 16, 2016

Amended in Assembly April 5, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1998

Introduced by Assembly Member Campos

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Cristina Garcia and Gonzalez)

February 16, 2016

An act to amend Section 30061 of the Government Code, to add Section 6033 to the Penal Code, and to amend begin delete Sections 1961 and 1962 of end delete begin insert Section 1961 of, and to repeal and add Section 1962 of, end insert the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1998, as amended, Campos. Juveniles: data collection.

Existing law establishes in each county treasury a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA) to fund specified local programs related to corrections. Existing law requires that 50% of the moneys received into the county SLESA be allocated to implement a comprehensive multiagency juvenile justice plan developed by the local juvenile justice coordinating council in each county or city and county, and approved by the Board of State and Community Corrections begin delete (Board). end delete begin insert (board). end insert Existing law requires the juvenile justice plans to include specified assessments of services and strategies to assist at-risk juveniles.

This bill would recast those requirements to also include, among other things, a description of the programs, strategies, and system enhancements proposed to be funded by the county SLESA. The bill would delete the requirement that the begin delete Board end delete begin insert board end insert review the plan, and would instead require annual review and updating of the plan by the local juvenile justice coordinating council in a format specified by the begin delete Board, end delete begin insert board, end insert and annual reports by the county or city and county to the county board of supervisors and to the begin delete Board end delete begin insert board end insert on the programs, strategies, and system enhancements funded by the county SLESA and expenditures for those purposes. The bill would require the begin delete Board end delete begin insert board end insert to compile those local reports summarizing the programs, strategies, and system enhancements and related expenditures made by each county and city and county and to report that data annually to the Governor and the Legislature. The bill would require the begin delete Board end delete begin insert board end insert to post on its Internet Web site a description or summary of the programs, strategies, or system enhancements from the local reports and to post the annual report. The bill would authorize the local reports and the annual report to be consolidated with certain reports pertaining to the Youthful Offender Block Grant program. By imposing additional duties on local entities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law establishes, within the begin delete Board, end delete begin insert board, end insert the California Juvenile Justice Data Working Group, as provided. Existing law requires the working group to, among other things, analyze the capacities and limitations of the data systems and networks used to collect and report state and local juvenile caseload and outcome data and prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, as specified.

This bill would require the begin delete Board, end delete begin insert board, end insert by January 1, 2018, to develop recommendations on best practices and begin delete standardizations end delete begin insert standardization end insert for counties on how to disaggregate juvenile justice caseload and performance and outcome data by race and ethnicity.

Existing law requires each county to prepare and submit a Juvenile Justice Development Plan to the Corrections Standards Authority on or before May 1 of each year for approval.

This bill would require the Juvenile Justice Development Plan to be submitted to the begin delete Board end delete begin insert board end insert instead of the Corrections Standards Authority and would recast the report requirements to include proposed programs, strategies, or system enhancements to be funded by the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund. The bill would require the Juvenile Justice Development Plan to be consolidated with the comprehensive multiagency juvenile justice plans created by the local councils for funding from county begin delete SLEAs, end delete begin insert SLESAs, end insert as described above. The bill would require annual reports by counties regarding the use of the block grant funds be submitted to the begin delete Board, end delete begin insert board, end insert instead of the authority. The bill would require annual reports to the Governor and the Legislature by the begin delete Board end delete begin insert board end insert regarding the programs, strategies, and system enhancements supported by the block grants, and posting of those annual reports on the begin delete Board’s end delete begin insert board’s end insert Internet Web site. The bill would make additional conforming changes. By imposing additional reporting duties on local government entities, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

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The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

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This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.

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The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

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This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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This act consolidates the submission of reports
required by counties by paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section
30061 of the Government Code and Section 1961 of the Welfare
and Institutions Code, as those sections read prior to the enactment
of this act. The act streamlines county reporting requirements,
eliminates duplicative reporting requirements, substitutes other
reporting requirements, and allows counties to utilize existing
available data instead of generating new data. As such, the
Legislature finds and declares that changes to the reporting
requirements in this measure do not constitute a higher level of
service within the meaning of paragraph (4) of subdivision (c) of
Section 36 of Article XIII of the California Constitution.

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Section 30061 of the Government Code is amended
to read:

30061.  

(a) There shall be established in each county treasury
a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA), to
receive all amounts allocated to a county for purposes of
implementing this chapter.

(b) In any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be
expended for the implementation of this chapter, the county auditor
shall allocate the moneys in the county’s SLESA within 30 days
of the deposit of those moneys into the fund. The moneys shall be
allocated as follows:

(1) Five and fifteen-hundredths percent to the county sheriff for
county jail construction and operation. In the case of Madera,
Napa, and Santa Clara Counties, this allocation shall be made to
the county director or chief of corrections.

(2) Five and fifteen-hundredths percent to the district attorney
for criminal prosecution.

(3) Thirty-nine and seven-tenths percent to the county and the
cities within the county, and, in the case of San Mateo, Kern,
Siskiyou, and Contra Costa Counties, also to the Broadmoor Police
Protection District, the Bear Valley Community Services District,
the Stallion Springs Community Services District, the Lake
Shastina Community Services District, and the Kensington Police
Protection and Community Services District, in accordance with
the relative population of the cities within the county and the
unincorporated area of the county, and the Broadmoor Police
Protection District in the County of San Mateo, the Bear Valley
Community Services District and the Stallion Springs Community
Services District in Kern County, the Lake Shastina Community
Services District in Siskiyou County, and the Kensington Police
Protection and Community Services District in Contra Costa
County, as specified in the most recent January estimate by the
population research unit of the Department of Finance, and as
adjusted to provide, except as provided in subdivision (i), a grant
of at least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to each law
enforcement jurisdiction. For a newly incorporated city whose
population estimate is not published by the Department of Finance,
but that was incorporated prior to July 1 of the fiscal year in which
an allocation from the SLESA is to be made, the city manager, or
an appointee of the legislative body, if a city manager is not
available, and the county administrative or executive officer shall
prepare a joint notification to the Department of Finance and the
county auditor with a population estimate reduction of the
unincorporated area of the county equal to the population of the
newly incorporated city by July 15, or within 15 days after the
Budget Act is enacted, of the fiscal year in which an allocation
from the SLESA is to be made. No person residing within the
Broadmoor Police Protection District, the Bear Valley Community
Services District, the Stallion Springs Community Services District,
the Lake Shastina Community Services District, or the Kensington
Police Protection and Community Services District shall also be
counted as residing within the unincorporated area of the County
of San Mateo, Kern, Siskiyou, or Contra Costa, or within any city
located within those counties. Except as provided in subdivision
(i), the county auditor shall allocate a grant of at least one hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000) to each law enforcement jurisdiction.
Moneys allocated to the county pursuant to this subdivision shall
be retained in the county SLESA, and moneys allocated to a city
pursuant to this subdivision shall be deposited in begin delete an end delete begin insert a end insert SLESA
established in the city treasury.

(4) Fifty percent to the county or city and county to implement
a comprehensive multiagency juvenile justice plan as provided in
this paragraph. The juvenile justice plan shall be developed by the
local juvenile justice coordinating council in each county and city
and county with the membership described in Section 749.22 of
the Welfare and Institutions Code. The plan shall be reviewed and
updated annually by the council. The plan or updated plan may,
at the discretion of the county or city and county, be approved by
the county board of supervisors. The plan or updated plan shall be
submitted to the Board of State and Community Corrections by
May 1 of each year in a format specified by the board that
consolidates the form of submission of the annual comprehensive
juvenile justice multiagency plan to be developed under this chapter
with the form for submission of the annual Youthful Offender
Block Grant plan that is required to be developed and submitted
pursuant to Section 1961 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(A) The multiagency juvenile justice plan shall include, but not
be limited to, all of the following components:

(i) An assessment of existing law enforcement, probation,
education, mental health, health, social services, drug and alcohol,
and youth services resources that specifically target at-risk
juveniles, juvenile offenders, and their families.

(ii) An identification and prioritization of the neighborhoods,
schools, and other areas in the community that face a significant
public safety risk from juvenile crime, such as gang activity,
daylight burglary, late-night robbery, vandalism, truancy, controlled
substances sales, firearm-related violence, and juvenile substance
abuse and alcohol use.

(iii) A local juvenile justice action strategy that provides for a
continuum of responses to juvenile crime and delinquency and
demonstrates a collaborative and integrated approach for
implementing a system of swift, certain, and graduated responses
for at-risk youth and juvenile offenders.

(iv) A description of the programs, strategies, or system
enhancements that are proposed to be funded pursuant to this
subparagraph.

(B) Programs, strategies, and system enhancements proposed
to be funded under this chapter shall satisfy all of the following
requirements:

(i) Be based on programs and approaches that have been
demonstrated to be effective in reducing delinquency and
addressing juvenile crime for any elements of response to juvenile
crime and delinquency, including prevention, intervention,
suppression, and incapacitation.

(ii) Collaborate and integrate services of all the resources set
forth in clause (i) of subparagraph (A), to the extent appropriate.

(iii) Employ information sharing systems to ensure that county
actions are fully coordinated, and designed to provide data for
measuring the success of juvenile justice programs and strategies.

(C) To assess the effectiveness of programs, strategies, and
system enhancements funded pursuant to this paragraph, each
county or city and county shall submit by October 1 of each year
a report to the county board of supervisors and to the Board of
State and Community Corrections on the programs, strategies, and
system enhancements funded pursuant to this chapter. The report
shall be in a format specified by the board that consolidates the
report to be submitted pursuant to this chapter with the annual
report to be submitted to the board for the Youthful Offender Block
Grant program, as required by subdivision (c) of Section 1961 of
the Welfare and Institutions Code. The report shall include all of
the following:

(i) An updated description of the programs, strategies, and
system enhancements that have been funded pursuant to this
chapter in the immediately preceding fiscal year.

(ii) An accounting of expenditures during the immediately
preceding fiscal year for each program, strategy, or system
enhancement funded pursuant to this chapter.

(iii) A description and expenditure report for programs,
strategies, or system enhancements that have been cofunded during
the preceding fiscal year using funds provided under this chapter
and Youthful Offender Block Grant funds provided under Chapter
1.5 (commencing with Section 1950) of Division 2.5 of the Welfare
and Institutions Code.

(iv) Countywide juvenile justice trend data available from
existing statewide juvenile justice data systems or networks, as
specified by the Board of State and Community Corrections,
including, but not limited to, arrests, diversions, petitions filed,
petitions sustained, placements, incarcerations, subsequent
petitions, and probation violations, and including, in a format to
be specified by the board, a summary description or analysis, based
on available information, of how the programs, strategies, or system
enhancements funded pursuant to this chapter have or may have
contributed to, or influenced, the juvenile justice data trends
identified in the report.

(D) The board shall, within 45 days of having received the
county’s report, post on its Internet Web site a description or
summary of the programs, strategies, or system enhancements that
have been supported by funds made available to the county under
this chapter.

(E) The Board of State and Community Corrections shall
compile the local reports and, by March 1 begin insert of each year end insert following
their begin delete October 1 end delete submission, begin delete and annually thereafter, end delete make a report
to the Governor and the Legislature summarizing the programs,
strategies, and system enhancements and related expenditures
made by each county and city and county from the appropriation
made for the purposes of this paragraph. The annual report to the
Governor and the Legislature shall also summarize the countywide
trend data and any other pertinent information submitted by
counties indicating how the programs, strategies, or system
enhancements supported by funds appropriated under this chapter
have or may have contributed to, or influenced, the trends
identified. The board may consolidate the annual report to the
Legislature required under this paragraph with the annual report
required by subdivision (d) of Section 1961 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code for the Youthful Offender Block Grant program.
The annual report shall be submitted pursuant to Section 9795,
and shall be posted for access by the public on the Internet Web
site of the board.

(c) Subject to subdivision (d), for each fiscal year in which the
county, each city, the Broadmoor Police Protection District, the
Bear Valley Community Services District, the Stallion Springs
Community Services District, the Lake Shastina Community
Services District, and the Kensington Police Protection and
Community Services District receive moneys pursuant to paragraph
(3) of subdivision (b), the county, each city, and each district
specified in this subdivision shall appropriate those moneys in
accordance with the following procedures:

(1) In the case of the county, the county board of supervisors
shall appropriate existing and anticipated moneys exclusively to
provide frontline law enforcement services, other than those
services specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b), in
the unincorporated areas of the county, in response to written
requests submitted to the board by the county sheriff and the district
attorney. Any request submitted pursuant to this paragraph shall
specify the frontline law enforcement needs of the requesting
entity, and those personnel, equipment, and programs that are
necessary to meet those needs.

(2) In the case of a city, the city council shall appropriate
existing and anticipated moneys exclusively to fund frontline
municipal police services, in accordance with written requests
submitted by the chief of police of that city or the chief
administrator of the law enforcement agency that provides police
services for that city.

(3) In the case of the Broadmoor Police Protection District
within the County of San Mateo, the Bear Valley Community
Services District or the Stallion Springs Community Services
District within Kern County, the Lake Shastina Community
Services District within Siskiyou County, or the Kensington Police
Protection and Community Services District within Contra Costa
County, the legislative body of that special district shall appropriate
existing and anticipated moneys exclusively to fund frontline
municipal police services, in accordance with written requests
submitted by the chief administrator of the law enforcement agency
that provides police services for that special district.

(d) For each fiscal year in which the county, a city, or the
Broadmoor Police Protection District within the County of San
Mateo, the Bear Valley Community Services District or the Stallion
Springs Community Services District within Kern County, the
Lake Shastina Community Services District within Siskiyou
County, or the Kensington Police Protection and Community
Services District within Contra Costa County receives any moneys
pursuant to this chapter, in no event shall the governing body of
any of those recipient agencies subsequently alter any previous,
valid appropriation by that body, for that same fiscal year, of
moneys allocated to the county or city pursuant to paragraph (3)
of subdivision (b).

(e) For the 2011-12 fiscal year, the Controller shall allocate
23.54 percent of the amount deposited in the Local Law
Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011
for the purposes of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (b),
and shall allocate 23.54 percent for purposes of paragraph (4) of
subdivision (b).

(f) Commencing with the 2012-13 fiscal year, subsequent to
the allocation described in subdivision (c) of Section 29552, the
Controller shall allocate 23.54363596 percent of the remaining
amount deposited in the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities
Subaccount in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 for the purposes of
paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b), and, subsequent
to the allocation described in subdivision (c) of Section 29552,
shall allocate 23.54363596 percent of the remaining amount for
purposes of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b).

(g) Commencing with the 2013-14 fiscal year, subsequent to
the allocation described in subdivision (d) of Section 29552, the
Controller shall allocate 23.54363596 percent of the remaining
amount deposited in the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities
Subaccount in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 for the purposes of
paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b), and, subsequent
to the allocation described in subdivision (d) of Section 29552,
shall allocate 23.54363596 percent of the remaining amount for
purposes of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). The Controller shall
allocate funds in monthly installments to local jurisdictions for
public safety in accordance with this section as annually calculated
by the Director of Finance.

(h) Funds received pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be expended
or encumbered in accordance with this chapter no later than June
30 of the following fiscal year. A local agency that has not met
the requirement of this subdivision shall remit unspent SLESA
moneys received after April 1, 2009, to the Controller for deposit
in the Local Safety and Protection Account, after April 1, 2012,
to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account, and after July
1, 2012, to the County Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities
Subaccount. This subdivision shall become inoperative on July 1,
2015.

(i) In the 2010-11 fiscal year, if the fourth quarter revenue
derived from fees imposed by subdivision (a) of Section 10752.2
of the Revenue and Taxation Code that are deposited in the General
Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account,
and continuously appropriated to the Controller for allocation
pursuant to this section, are insufficient to provide a minimum
grant of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to each law
enforcement jurisdiction, the county auditor shall allocate the
revenue proportionately, based on the allocation schedule in
paragraph (3) of subdivision (b). The county auditor shall
proportionately allocate, based on the allocation schedule in
paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), all revenues received after the
distribution of the fourth quarter allocation attributable to these
fees for which payment was due prior to July 1, 2011, until all
minimum allocations are fulfilled, at which point all remaining
revenue shall be distributed proportionately among the other
jurisdictions.

(j) The county auditor shall redirect unspent funds that were
remitted after July 1, 2012, by a local agency to the County
Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount pursuant to
subdivision (h), to the local agency that remitted the unspent funds
in an amount equal to the amount remitted.

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Section 6033 is added to the Penal Code, immediately
following Section 6032, to read:

6033.  

The Board of State and Community Corrections shall,
by January 1, 2018, develop recommendations for best practices
and begin delete standardizations end delete begin insert standardization end insert for counties on how to
disaggregate juvenile justice caseload and performance and
outcome data by race and ethnicity.

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Section 1961 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:

1961.  

(a) On or before May 1 of each year, each county shall
prepare and submit to the Board of State and Community
Corrections begin delete for approval end delete a Juvenile Justice Development Plan on
its proposed programs, strategies, and system enhancements for
the next fiscal year from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund
described in Section 1951. The plan shall include all of the
following:

(1) A description of the programs, placements, services,
strategies, and system enhancements to be funded by the block
grant allocation pursuant to this chapter, including, but not limited
to, the programs, tools, and strategies outlined in Section 1960.

(2) A description of how the plan relates to or supports the
county’s overall strategy for dealing with youthful offenders who
have not committed an offense described in subdivision (b) of
Section 707, and who are no longer eligible for commitment to
the Division of Juvenile Facilities under Section 733 as of
September 1, 2007.

(3) A description of any regional agreements or arrangements
to be supported by the block grant allocation pursuant to this
chapter.

(4) A description of how the programs, placements, services,
or strategies identified in the plan coordinate with multiagency
juvenile justice plans and programs under paragraph (4) of
subdivision (b) of Section 30061 of the Government Code.

(b) The plan described in subdivision (a) shall be submitted to
the Board of State and Community Corrections in a format, as
specified by the board, that consolidates the form for submission
of the plan with the form for submission of the multiagency
juvenile justice plan to be developed and submitted to the board
as provided by paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 30061
of the Government Code.

(c) Each county receiving an allocation from the Youthful
Offender Block Grant Fund described in Section 1951 shall, by
October 1 of each year, submit an annual report to the Board of
State and Community Corrections on its utilization of the block
grant funds in the preceding fiscal year. The report shall be in a
format specified by the board that consolidates the report required
by this subdivision with the annual report required to be submitted
to the board under the provisions of subparagraph (D) of paragraph
(4) of subdivision (b) of Section 30061 of the Government Code,
and shall include all of the following:

(1) A description of the programs, placements, services,
strategies, and system enhancements supported by block grant
funds in the preceding fiscal year, and an accounting of all of the
county’s expenditures of block grant funds for the preceding fiscal
year.

(2) A description and expenditure report for programs, strategies,
and system enhancements that have been cofunded during the
preceding fiscal year using funds provided under this chapter and
juvenile justice funds provided under paragraph (4) of subdivision
(b) of Section 30061 of the Government Code.

(3) Countywide juvenile justice trend data available from
existing statewide juvenile justice data systems or networks, as
specified by the board, including, but not limited to, arrests,
diversions, petitions filed, petitions sustained, placements,
incarcerations, subsequent petitions and probation violations, and
including, in a format to be specified by the board, a summary
description or analysis, based on available information, of how
the programs, strategies, and system enhancements funded pursuant
to this chapter have or may have contributed to, or influenced, the
juvenile justice data trends identified in the report.

(d) The board shall prepare and make available to the public on
its Internet Web site summaries of the annual county reports
submitted in accordance with subdivision (c). By March 1 of each
year, the board also shall prepare and submit to the Governor and
the Legislature a report summarizing county utilizations of block
grant funds in the preceding fiscal year, including a summary of
the programs, strategies, system enhancements, and related
expenditures made by each county utilizing Youthful Offender
Block Grant funds. The annual report to the Governor and the
Legislature shall also summarize the countywide trend data and
any other pertinent information submitted by counties indicating
how the programs, strategies, and system enhancements supported
by Youthful Offender Block Grant funds have or may have
contributed to, or influenced, the trends identified. The board may
consolidate the annual report to the Governor and the Legislature
required under this section with the annual report required by
subparagraph (E) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of begin insert Section
30061 of end insert the Government Code. The annual report shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government
Code. The annual report shall also be posted for access by the
public on the Internet Web site of the board.

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SEC. 4.  

Section 1962 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:

1962.  

(a) The Board of State and Community Corrections may
provide technical assistance to counties for the purpose of
encouraging and promoting compliance with plan and report
requirements described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of
Section 30061.

(b) The Board of State and Community Corrections may monitor
and inspect any programs or facilities supported by block grant
funds allocated pursuant to this chapter and may enforce violations
of grant requirements with suspensions or cancellations of grant
funds.

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SEC. 5.  

If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

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begin insert Section 1962 of the end insert begin insert Welfare and Institutions Code end insert begin insert is
repealed. end insert

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1962.  

(a) The Corrections Standards Authority, in consultation
with the Division of Juvenile Facilities, may provide technical
assistance to counties, including, but not limited to, regional
workshops, prior to issuing any Request for Proposal.

(b) The Corrections Standards Authority may monitor and
inspect any programs or facilities supported by block grant funds
allocated pursuant to this chapter and may enforce violations of
grant requirements with suspensions or cancellations of grant
funds.

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begin insert Section 1962 is added to the end insert begin insert Welfare and Institutions
Code end insert begin insert , to read: end insert

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The Board of State and Community Corrections may
monitor the forms, documents, and information submitted by
counties pursuant to Section 1961 and may advise counties and
provide technical assistance on the implementation and
requirements of Section 1961.

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begin insert To the extent that this act has an overall effect of
increasing the costs already borne by a local agency for programs
or levels of service mandated by the 2011 Realignment Legislation
within the meaning of Section 36 of Article XIII of the California
Constitution, it shall apply to local agencies only to the extent that
the state provides annual funding for the cost increase. Any new
program or higher level of service provided by a local agency
pursuant to this act above the level for which funding has been
provided shall not require a subvention of funds by the state nor
otherwise be subject to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution. end insert