BILL NUMBER: AB 1556	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cook
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Carter,   Knight,  and Nestande   )

    (   Coauthors:   Senators  
Dutton,   Huff,   and Emmerson   ) 

                        JANUARY 26, 2012

   An act to amend Section 15820.910 of the Government Code, relating
to jail facilities, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1556, as amended, Cook. Financing of county jail facilities.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, participating counties, and the State Public Works
Board (SPWB) to acquire, design, and construct local jail facilities
approved by the Corrections Standards Authority. Existing law
authorizes the SPWB to issue revenue bonds, notes, or bond
anticipation notes in specified amounts to finance the acquisition,
design, or construction, and a reasonable construction reserve, of
approved local jail facilities, as specified.
   Existing law authorizes a participating county that has received a
conditional award under one specified jail facilities financing
program to relinquish its conditional award, provided that no state
moneys have been encumbered in contracts let by the county, and
reapply for a conditional award under a separate financing program
that requires the county to contribute 10% of the total project
costs. Moneys derived under the separate financing program are
continuously appropriated for the acquisition, design, or
construction of approved jail facilities.
   This bill would require that, notwithstanding the provisions
above, any qualified county, as defined, that has received a
conditional award under one specified jail facilities financing
program whereby state moneys have been encumbered in contracts let by
the county, to be awarded $16,000,000 by December 31, 2012, from the
separate financing program. By expanding the purposes of a
continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an
appropriation.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 15820.910 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   15820.910.  (a) A participating county that has received a
conditional award under the financing program, as set forth in
Chapter 3.11 (commencing with Section 15820.90), may relinquish its
conditional award, provided that no state moneys have been encumbered
in contracts let by the county, and may reapply for a conditional
award under the financing program set forth in this chapter, as
amended by the act adding this section.
   (b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), any qualified county that
has received a conditional award under the financing program, as set
forth in Chapter 3.11 (commencing with Section 15820.90), whereby
state moneys have been encumbered in contracts let by the county,
shall be awarded sixteen million dollars ($16,000,000) from funds
derived  to  pursuant to Section 15820.913 by
December 31, 2012.
   (2) Any amount received by a qualified county pursuant to
paragraph (1) shall be deposited into the county's general fund.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "qualified county" means a
participating county that prior to January 1, 2011, had state moneys
encumbered in contracts let by the county under the Public Safety and
Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007 that was precluded from
benefiting from the lower county match of 10 percent as authorized
by Chapter 23 of the Statutes of 2011.