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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                           2262 (Bass)
          
          Hearing Date:  08/12/2010           Amended: 07/15/2010
          Consultant:  Jacqueline Wong-HernandezPolicy Vote: Public Safety  
          7-0
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          BILL SUMMARY: AB 2262 would require the Department of  
          Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to provide each inmate,  
          prior to his or her release, with the inmate's driver's license  
          number or state identification card number if one is in the  
          inmate's central file.
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions                 2010-11                  2011-12      
               2012-13                     Fund
                                                                  
          New procedure and form               Likely minor development  
          and training costs  General

          Provide inmates with ID numbers      $63                   $126   
                         $126          General     
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          STAFF COMMENTS: SUSPENSE FILE.

          Approximately 100,000 inmates per year are released from state  
          prisons. This bill would require CDCR to provide each of those  
          inmates with his or her driver's license number or state ID  
          number, if those numbers exist in the inmate's central file.  
          These provisions could be implemented in a number of ways, and  
          the bill is silent on the exact procedure. One option would be  
          to have a Case Records Technician would have to access the  
          inmate's central file, find the appropriate number (if it exists  
          in the file), and transmit that number (presumably on a form) to  
          the Receiving and Release Sergeant. The process is likely to  
          take approximately 10 minutes per file, on average, considering  
          that the process is shorter when the number does not exist in  
          the file and does not need to be transferred.











          A mid-level Case Records Technician earns $16.78 per hour.  
          Processing 6 files per hour (using the rate of 10 minutes per  
          file), a technician would be able to process 960 files per month  
          (or 11,520 files per year). The true number that could be  
          processed in a year is likely lower due to employee vacations,  
          holidays, and sick leave. Conservatively, CDCR would need to  
          dedicate 8.5 technicians to implementing this process, at an  
          annually staff cost of approximately $274,000 General Fund, in  
          salary costs (plus additional benefits costs). If the task of  
          noting the driver's license or identification number on the  
          Release Form could be performed as part of an additional step in  
          an existing process, rather than a new, separate process, it  
          would eliminate several steps in the previously described  
          process, and likely cut costs by more than 50 percent.