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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 87
Author: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Amended: 3/14/11
Vote: 27 - Urgency
PRIOR SENATE VOTES NOT RELEVANT
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not available
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2011: low level offenders
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes statutory changes that are
necessary to implement provisions of the Budget Bill
related to realignment of low level offenders.
Assembly Amendments delete intent language and now provide
statutory changes that are necessary to implement
provisions of the Budget Bill related to realignment of
low-level offenders.
ANALYSIS : This is the Trailer Bill related to expanding
capacity of local jails for the purpose of supporting the
realignment of low level offenders. It contains provisions
necessary to implement the 2011-12 budget, including these
key changes:
1. Accelerates Availability of Jail Construction Funding .
Shifts $132.9 million in undesignated funds appropriated
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in AB 900 (Solorio), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007, from
Phase I to Phase II, as well as removes requirements
that this funding cannot be awarded until at least 4,000
local jail beds and 2,000 reentry beds are under
construction or sited. These changes will allow all
Phase II jail funding to be available more quickly.
2. Changes Award Preferences for Counties Seeking Jail
Construction Funding . Removes requirements under AB 900
that the state give funding preference to those counties
seeking jail funding that assist the state in siting
reentry facilities, or those that assist the state in
siting mental health day treatment and crisis care and
continuum of care programs for parolees. Requires that
preference shall be given to counties that have the
largest percentage of inmates in state prison in 2010.
3. Concurrent Passage of Corrections Realignment Trailer
Bill . For this bill to go into effect, requires passage
of the corrections realignment trailer bill (either SB
85 or AB 109).
4. Appropriates the sum of $1,000 from the General Fund to
the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for
purposes of state operations to be used by the
Corrections Standards Authority.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
RJG:kc 3/15/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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