BILL NUMBER: AB 1727	CHAPTERED  09/07/00

	CHAPTER   310
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 7, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 2, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 25, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 20, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 9, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Reyes
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Ashburn, Bock, Briggs, Cardoza,
Lowenthal, Olberg, Robert Pacheco, Pescetti, Strickland, and Zettel)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Costa and Solis)

                        JANUARY 4, 2000

   An act to amend Sections 14172 and 14175 of the Penal Code,
relating to crime prevention, making an appropriation therefor, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1727, Reyes.  Crime prevention.
   Existing law authorizes the Counties of Tulare, Fresno, Kern,
Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus to develop the
Rural Crime Prevention Program, modeled on the Rural Crime Prevention
Demonstration Project to be administered as specified until June 30,
2000.  Existing law also requires the Legislative Analyst to prepare
and submit to the Legislature by December 31, 2000, a detailed
cost-benefit analysis of the entire program, and appropriates
$100,000 for this purpose.
   This bill would extend the operation of the program until January
1, 2002.  The bill would require the Legislative Analyst to instead
submit the evaluation by December 31, 2001.  The bill would make an
appropriation by extending the time period for the expenditure of the
$100,000 appropriation from December 31, 2000, to December 31, 2001.

   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 14172 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   14172.  By  June 30, 2001, each designated county shall prepare
and submit to the Legislative Analyst a detailed cost-benefit
analysis of the entire program, wherein the cost to operate the
program shall be measured against savings realized from crime
prevention, crime suppression, and the number of prosecutions
resulting from the program.  These savings shall include the
reduction of economic loss resulting from crime during the life of
the project.  The Legislative Analyst shall evaluate the program, in
consultation with the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, and shall
present its evaluation, including a detailed cost-benefit analysis of
the entire program, to the Governor, the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee, and the fiscal committees of the Legislature, by December
31, 2001.
  SEC. 2.  Section 14175 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   14175.  This title shall become inoperative on January 1, 2002,
and, is repealed as of that date, unless a later enacted statute,
which is enacted before January 1, 2002, deletes or extends the dates
on which the title becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 3.  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 prevent the Rural Crime Prevention Program from
becoming inoperative after June 30, 2000, it is necessary that this
act take effect immediately.