BILL NUMBER: SB 759	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 1, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 2, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 5, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 14, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Anderson and Hancock
   (Coauthors: Senators Leno, Liu, and Mitchell)
   (  Coauthor:   Assembly Member 
 Jones-Sawyer   Coauthors:   Assembly
Members   Jones-Sawyer   and Quirk  )

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to repeal and add Section 2933.6 of the Penal Code,
relating to prisoners.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 759, as amended, Anderson. Prisoners:  Secured Housing
Units.   segregation housing. 
   Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to oversee the state prison system. Existing law
authorizes Security Housing Units for segregation of certain
prisoners for disciplinary or security purposes, and because of gang
membership or association. Existing law requires a prisoner of the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to be awarded credit
reductions from his or her term of confinement of 6 months for every
6 months of continuous confinement, as specified. Existing law
provides for up to 6 weeks of additional credit in a 12-month period
for the successful completion of certain rehabilitative programs, for
certain inmates, as specified. Existing law makes a person who is
placed in a Security Housing Unit, Psychiatric Services Unit,
Behavioral Management Unit, or an Administrative Segregation Unit for
specified misconduct, or upon validation as a prison gang member or
associate, ineligible to earn credits pursuant to these provisions.
   This bill would repeal those provisions regarding ineligibility to
earn credits and instead require the department, no later than July
1, 2017, to establish regulations to allow specified inmates placed
in  a Security Housing Unit, Psychiatric Services Unit,
Behavioral Management Unit, or an Administrative Segregation Unit
  segregation housing  to earn credits during the
time he or she is in  the Security Housing Unit, Psychiatric
Services Unit, Behavioral Management Unit, or the Administrative
Segregation Unit.   segregation   housing.

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


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2933.6 of the Penal Code is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 2933.6 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   2933.6.  The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall,
no later than July 1, 2017, establish regulations to allow specified
inmates placed in  a Security Housing Unit, Psychiatric
Services Unit, Behavioral Management Unit, or an Administrative
Segregation Unit   segregation housing  to earn
credits pursuant to Section 2933 or 2933.05, or credits as otherwise
specified in regulation, during the time he or she is in  the
Security Housing Unit, Psychiatric Services Unit, Behavioral
Management Unit, or the Administrative Segregation Unit. 
 segregation housing.  The regulations may establish
separate classifications of serious disciplinary infractions to
determine the rate of restoration of credits, the time period
required before forfeited credits or a portion thereof may be
restored, and the percentage of forfeited credits that may be
restored for those time periods, not to exceed those percentages
authorized for general population inmates. The regulations shall
provide for credit earning for inmates who successfully complete
specific program performance objectives.