BILL NUMBER: SB 759	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  191
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 25, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 25, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 11, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 4, 2016
	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)
   (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, Anderson. Prisoners: 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 segregation housing to earn credits during the time he or she is
in segregation housing.


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  Section 2933.6 of the Penal Code is repealed.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 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 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.