BILL NUMBER: SB 564	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 20, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 5, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hollingsworth

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 6610 to the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to sexually violent predators.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 564, as amended, Hollingsworth. Sexually violent predators.
   Existing law provides for the civil commitment of criminal
offenders who have been determined to be sexually violent predators
for treatment in a secure state hospital facility, as specified.
Existing law also sets forth provisions governing the release of
sexually violent predators from state custody.
   This bill would require sexually violent predators who are
released into a forensic conditional release program after January 1,
2010, to be placed in a reentry facility administered by the State
Department of Mental Health until suitable housing is found 
, but would   the bill would, however,  preclude
failure to be  place   placed  in a reentry
facility from being grounds for preventing conditional release.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares the
following:
   (a) The High Risk Sex Offender and Sexually Violent Predator Task
Force, in their December 2006 report, stated that, "[h]omeless
releases cause an unacceptable and unnecessary risk to the public
because the individual cannot be properly supervised and many of the
terms and conditions of release cannot be enforced (such as global
positioning satellite monitoring, curfews, and associations with
other felons). The Task Force believes that the release of 
any SVP   a sexually violent predator  without a
home into the community creates an unacceptably high risk to the
public and the  SVP   sexually violent predator
 .
   (b) Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide
appropriate reentry housing for  SVPs   sexually
violent predators  until suitable residential housing may be
found.
  SEC. 2.  Section 6610 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
   6610.  Notwithstanding any other law,  any  
a  sexually violent predator who is released into a forensic
conditional release program after January 1, 2010, pursuant to this
article shall be placed in a reentry facility administered by the
State Department of Mental Health  , which may include either a
new or existing facility,  until suitable housing is found for
the sexually violent predator. The failure of the department to place
a person in a reentry facility shall not be grounds to prevent
conditional release of the person who has demonstrated that he or she
would not be a danger to others while under supervision and
treatment in the community.