BILL NUMBER: AB 1662	CHAPTERED  07/07/99

	CHAPTER   79
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 7, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JUNE 16, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JUNE 15, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 15, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 24, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Leonard, Florez, and Granlund and
Senators Brulte, Kelley, Monteith, Costa, McPherson, and Ortiz

                        MARCH 11, 1999

   An act to add Section 29550.4 to the Government Code, relating to
booking fees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

      (Approved by Governor July 7, 1999.  Filed with
Secretary of State July 7, 1999.)

   I am signing Assembly Bill No. 1662, relating to booking fees
after vetoing subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 29550.4 of the
Government Code as added by this bill.
   AB 1662 continuously appropriates up to $50 million annually from
the General Fund to the Controller for allocation to cities for
reimbursement of their actual booking and processing costs paid to
counties.  Under this bill, the amount appropriated from the General
Fund would be increased annually by two percent beginning with the
2000-01 fiscal year.  I am deleting the provisions authorizing this
two percent annual adjustment because future increases in these
reimbursements should be provided subject to the state's ability to
fund these increases rather than automatically through a continuous
appropriation.
                                                GRAY DAVIS, Governor


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1662, Leonard.  Booking fees:  annual appropriation.
   Existing law authorizes a county to impose, among other fees with
respect to criminal justice services, a booking fee upon other local
agencies and colleges and universities for county costs incurred in
processing or booking persons arrested by employees of those entities
and brought to county facilities for booking or detention.
   This bill would continuously appropriate up to $50,000,000
annually from the General Fund to the Controller commencing with the
1999-2000 fiscal year for allocation to cities for reimbursement for
actual booking and processing costs paid to counties.  This amount
would be increased annually by 2% commencing with the 2000-01 fiscal
year.
  This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 29550.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   29550.4.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, the sum of up to
fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) is hereby continuously
appropriated annually from the General Fund to the Controller
commencing with the 1999-2000 fiscal year for allocation to cities
for reimbursement for actual costs incurred by cities in the payment
of booking and processing fees pursuant to this article.  For the
1999-2000 fiscal year, this appropriation shall be allocated to
cities for reimbursement for actual costs incurred by them during the
period July 1, 1997, to July 1, 1998.  If the actual costs incurred
by cities during the period of July 1, 1997, to July 1, 1998, in the
payment to counties of booking and processing fees is greater than
fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), then the Controller shall
prorate the reimbursement to each city accordingly.
   (b) Not later than December 1, 1999, the Controller shall allocate
the funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) to all qualified
cities and shall certify to the Director of Finance the actual amount
of money allocated to cities for the payment of booking and
processing fees pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (c) For the 2000-01 fiscal year, the annual appropriation made
pursuant to this section shall be increased by 2 percent above the
lesser of either the amount appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a)
or the amount certified by the Controller pursuant to subdivision
(b).  In either case, the amount of reimbursement allocated to each
city by the Controller shall increase in proportion to the increase
in the annual appropriation.
   (d) Commencing with the 2001-02 fiscal year, the annual
appropriation made pursuant to this section shall be increased by 2
percent each fiscal year above the appropriation of the previous
fiscal year.  The amount of reimbursement allocated to each city by
the Controller shall increase annually in proportion to the increase
in the annual appropriation.
   (e) Any city that applies for reimbursement pursuant to this
section shall comply with all requests made by the Controller.  Any
city that does not pay booking or processing fees to a county or any
city that contracts with a county for the payment of those fees shall
be ineligible for reimbursement pursuant to this section.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide relief to cities for the costs of criminal
booking and processing fees owed to counties, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.