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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                           1439 (Solorio)
          
          Hearing Date:  07/23/2009           Amended: 07/09/2009
          Consultant:  Jacqueline Wong-HernandezPolicy Vote: Public Safety  
          7-0
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          BILL SUMMARY: AB 1439 adds a new section to the Penal Code  
          requiring the Director of the Office of Gang and Youth Violence  
          Policy (OGYVP) to convene a working group, consisting of  
          specified members, to create recommendations for consolidating  
          and streamlining existing gang and youth violence programs. This  
          bill requires the working group to convene by March 1, 2010, and  
          to submit a specified report to the Legislature on or before  
          June 1, 2010.
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions         2009-10      2010-11       2011-12     Fund
           Codifies existing practice             $0                    $0   
                                               General            
          Requires new working               Likely minor costs*            
                                       Various*
          group report                   

          *If the bill specifies that OGYVP is responsible for the report,  
          the costs are very minor and absorbable. As written, 14 agencies  
          and departments with varied funding sources are responsible for  
          the report, and there will likely be minor costs to those  
          departments.
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          STAFF COMMENTS: This bill requires OGYVP to convene a specified  
          working group, and to make formal recommendations to the  
          Legislature regarding consolidation and streamlining of the  
          state many gang and youth violence programs and, in the case of  
          grant programs, their application processes. 

          The working group required by this bill already exists and has  
          met to discuss the issues prescribed in the bill. Convening this  
          group and facilitating these types of discussions falls within  










          the mission and practice of OGYVP. Functionally, this bill  
          directs the working group to continue to meet, and to develop  
          and report their recommendations by June 1, 2010.

          Staff recommends that the bill be amended to specify that OGYVP  
          is responsible for preparing, and submitting to the legislature,  
          the working group's findings and recommendations. Additionally,  
          the bill should specify that nothing in this section requires  
          the other stakeholders in the working group to participate in  
          the preparation of a final report to the Legislature. 

          OGYVP has indicated that it is capable of preparing and  
          submitting the specified report to the Legislature, without  
          additional resources, by the specified deadline.