BILL ANALYSIS
AB 552
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 552 (Solorio)
As Amended April 6, 2010
2/3 vote. Urgency
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|ASSEMBLY: | |(June 3, 2009) |SENATE: |30-0 |(May 10, 2010) |
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(vote not relevant)
Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.
SUMMARY: Modifies the funding authority for new state prison
beds constructed pursuant to the Public Safety and Offender
Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007.
The Senate amendments:
1)Authorize the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation (CDCR) to develop beds and treatment space to
serve inmates requiring mental health or medical services.
2)Provide that any beds developed with a medical or mental
health purpose shall be supported with rehabilitative
programming, as defined, that is consistent with the medical
or mental health services needed by the inmates.
3)Authorize CDCR to renovate existing buildings at existing
facilities for medical, dental and mental health treatment, as
well as design, construct, or renovate any ancillary
improvements as specified.
4)Modify the calculation of design-build project augmentations
from construction funds.
5)Revise the Phase II conditional language requiring that at
least 4,000 beds from Phase I be "under construction" to
instead require that at least 4,000 beds be "established by
the by State Public Works Board."
EXISTING LAW :
1)Authorizes $6.2 billion in lease-revenue bond financing for
construction of 40,000 new state prison beds and $1.2 billion
for an estimated 13,000 new county jail beds, phased-in over
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time and contingent upon a series of construction and
rehabilitation program implementation benchmarks.
2)Authorizes CDCR to design, construct, or renovate housing
units, support buildings, and programming space in order to
add up to 12,000 beds at facilities under its jurisdiction.
CDCR is required to complete site assessments at facilities at
which it intends to construct or renovate additional housing
units, support buildings, and programming space. CDCR may use
the funding provided to complete these site assessments.
After completing these site assessments, the department shall
define the scope and cost of each project.
3)Provides that the authority described above may be used to
develop new beds including appropriate programmatic space.
4)Requires that any new beds constructed pursuant to the
provisions described above shall be supported by
rehabilitative programming for inmates, including, but not
limited to, education, vocational programs, substance abuse
treatment programs, employment programs, and prerelease
planning.
5)Provides that the purpose of beds constructed pursuant to the
provisions described above is to replace the temporary beds
currently in use, and they are not intended to house
additional inmates. For the purposes of this section,
'temporary beds' shall be defined as those that are placed in
gymnasiums, classrooms, hallways, or other public spaces that
were not constructed for the purpose of housing inmates.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY, this bill established the Commission
on Adequate Funding for Career Technical and Vocational
Education at the California Community Colleges (Commission),
funded through private funds, comprised of specified members
with specified powers and duties.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
Analysis Prepared by : Gabriel Caswell / PUB. S. / (916)
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