BILL NUMBER: AB 1197	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Hill and V. Manuel Pérez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act relating to prison construction funding.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1197, as introduced, Hill. Prison construction funding.
   Existing law, the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation
Services Act of 2007, authorizes the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to design, construct, or renovate prison housing
units, prison support buildings, and programming space in order to
add additional beds, to acquire land, design, construct, and renovate
reentry program facilities, and to construct and establish new
buildings at facilities under the jurisdiction of the department to
provide medical, dental, and mental health treatment or housing, as
specified.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would authorize a different purpose for the
unallocated portions of the Phase 1 and Phase 2 local jail and
reentry funds, as authorized pursuant to the Public Safety and
Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007, for jail construction
and county jail beds. The bill would also express the intent of the
Legislature to enact statutory changes that would eliminate the
requirement that counties coordinate a local program with a state
reentry facility in order to access local funds provided pursuant to
that act. The bill would also express the intent of the Legislature
that these proposed statutory changes would be prospective only, and
would apply only to county projects and future applicants.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would authorize a different purpose for the
unallocated portions of the Phase 1 and Phase 2 local jail and
reentry funds, as authorized pursuant to the Public Safety and
Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007, for jail construction
and county jail beds. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
statutory changes that would eliminate the requirement that counties
coordinate a local program with a state reentry facility in order to
access local funds provided pursuant to that act. It is further the
intent of the Legislature that these proposed statutory changes would
be prospective only, and would apply only to county projects and
future applicants.