BILL NUMBER: SB 818	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 26, 2007

INTRODUCED BY    Senator   Negrete McLeod
  Senators   Negrete McLeod   and
Romero 

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2007

   An act  to add Title 2.3 (commencing with Section 3550) to
Part 3 of the Penal Code, relating to correctional facilities, by
providing funds necessary therefor through an election for the
issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California and for the
handling and disposition of those funds.   relating to
correctional facilities. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 818, as amended, Negrete McLeod.  Correctional
facilities: Rehabilitation and Re-entry Facilities Bond Act of 2008.
  Correctional facilities. 
   Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, and charges it with, among other duties, operation
and administration of state correctional facilities.  
   This bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature
relative to the need for rehabilitation of inmates in state prison.
The bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to fund the construction of rehabilitation programming
facilities that would be operated by the Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation.  
   Existing law, the California Constitution, prohibits the
Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the
aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of
$300,000, except by an act that (1) authorizes the debt for a single
object or work specified in the act, (2) has been passed by a 2/3
vote of all the members elected to each house of the Legislature, (3)
has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary
election, and (4) has received a majority of all the votes cast for
and against it at that election.  
   This bill would enact the Rehabilitation and Re-entry Facilities
Bond Act of 2008 which, if adopted, would authorize, for purposes of
financing a specified rehabilitation and re-entry correctional
facilities program, the issuance, pursuant to the State General
Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $2,000,000,000.
 
   The bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the
voters at the next statewide election in accordance with specified
law. 
   Vote:  2/3   majority  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee:  yes   no  .
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:  
   (a) There is a great need to provide opportunities for inmates of
the state prison system to participate in rehabilitation programs.
 
   (b) Rehabilitation facilities should include, but not be limited
to, substance abuse treatment space and academic and vocational
classrooms. 
   SEC. 2.    It is the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation to fund the construction of rehabilitation
programming facilities that will be operated by the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation.  All matter omitted in this
version of the bill appears in the bill as introduced in the Senate,
February 23, 2007 (JR11)