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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1468
Author: Assembly Budget Committee
Amended: 6/15/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW COMM. : Not available
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not relevant
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2014: Public Safety
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill provides for statutory changes necessary to
enact the public safety provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
ANALYSIS : This bill makes the following statutory changes:
1. Drug and contraband interdiction . Requires that any drug
and contraband interdiction efforts on the part of Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) be applied to all
individuals in a facility including inmates, department
staff, volunteers, and contract employees and that CDCR
establish methods to ensure that the searches shall be done
randomly and without advance notice.
2. Case management reentry pilot . Establishes a pilot program
to provide intensive case management to offenders who have
been released on parole and are likely to benefit from
assistance designed to avoid homelessness and joblessness and
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provide assistance for people with mental illnesses and
developmental disabilities.
3. Split sentencing . Creates a presumption of split
sentencing, which requires the courts to provide a period of
mandatory supervision for the concluding portion of a
sentence, unless the courts find that it is in the best
interest of justice not to do so.
4. Restoration of competency . Expands current local restoration
of competency programs, funded by the Department of State
Hospitals (DSH) to include community-based residential
treatment systems.
5. Community reentry . Includes legislative intent that reentry
programs that provide services including transitional
housing, medical and mental health services in a community
setting have been shown to significantly reduce recidivism
and that the establishment of those programs in the community
should be done quickly and in the context of a comprehensive
long-term development plan.
6. Drug felonies . Removes the drug felony exclusion from
CalWORKs, CalFresh, and General Assistance programs.
Requires the California Conservation Corp to develop criteria
for drug felon participation.
7. Inmate Welfare Fund . Allows the Inmate Welfare Fund to be
used to finance innovative programming provided by non-profit
organizations who have demonstrated success in providing
programs dedicated to restorative justice and offender
responsibility.
8. Proposition 36 . Allows CDCR to provide services to
Proposition 36 offenders who are being released without any
type of post-release supervision.
9. Substance abuse peer counseling . Requires that every state
prison that provides substance abuse treatment also include
as part of that treatment, a peer counseling component that
allows inmates to become certified substance abuse
counselors.
10.Trial court security . Establishes a process by which
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counties that have increased trial court security costs due
to new construction can request a General Fund augmentation.
11.Community grants . Establishes a grant program through
county boards of supervisors for community recidivism
reduction and crime prevention providers.
12.Los Angeles County jail financing . Includes findings and
declarations encouraging that the Department of Finance work
with the County of Los Angeles to develop ways that the state
may assist in addressing the mental health and infrastructure
needs of the Los Angeles County jail system.
13.Alternative Custody Programs (ACP) . Authorizes county
sheriffs and county directors of corrections to develop
alternative custody programs, allowing both men and women to
voluntarily participate in an ACP in lieu of being confined
in a county jail.
14.Juvenile Justice Data Workgroup . Establishes the Juvenile
Justice Data Working Group within the Board of State and
Community Corrections (BSCC) and requires the workgroup to
develop a comprehensive plan to coordinate and modernize the
juvenile justice data systems and reports that are developed
and maintained by state and county agencies.
15.Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction (MIOCR) Grants .
Reestablishes the MIOCR program to provide grants to local
communities to support investment in intervention,
assessment, and treatment of mentally ill individuals.
16.Jail construction funding . Authorizes $500 million for
lease-revenue bond financing for county jail construction
projects designed to improve housing with an emphasis on
expanding program and treatment space to manage the adult
offender population under its jurisdiction.
17.Patient Management Unit . Establishes a Patient Management
Unit at the DSH.
18.Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) Office of
Investigations . Establishes the Office of Investigations and
Law Enforcement within HHSA and requires the office to
establish uniform protocol, procedures, and policies for the
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peace officers employed at developmental centers and state
hospitals.
19.HHSA Independent Oversight . Requires HHSA to develop a
proposal, and report to the Legislature by January 10, 2015,
on the development of independent oversight and adoption of
best practices to effectively address the employee discipline
process, use of force, and criminal and major incident
investigations.
20.Funding for Community Corrections Performance Incentive
Grants and Realignment Data Collection . Specifies that the
$1 million appropriation provided in 2013-14 for the
Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) for Community
Corrections Performance Incentive Grants and realignment data
collection is an on-going, annual appropriation. In
addition, states the intent of the Legislature to expand the
program in 2015-16, to include mandatory supervision and
post-release community supervision.
21.Prison medical beds licensure . Converts General Acute Care
Hospital and Intermediate Care Facility medical beds to more
cost-effective Correction Treatment Center medical beds at
California State Prison - Corcoran, California Men's Colony,
and California Medical Facility.
22.Health Care Facility Improvement Program (HCFIP) . Allows
the use of AB 900 (Solorio, Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007)
construction funding for the design and construction of
remaining projects in HCFIP.
23.California Rehabilitation and Oversight Board (CROB) .
Reduces the minimum frequency of the CROB meetings from four
times per year to two times.
24.High control releases . Allows CDCR to hold high risk
offenders for two additional days in the event that they are
scheduled to be released on the Friday before a three-day
weekend.
25.Allocations for law enforcement services account programs -
juvenile reentry grant minimums . Clarifies that the $15,000
per juvenile minimum allocation, provided prior to public
safety realignment, is no longer guaranteed because, under
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realignment, there is a fixed amount of funding available,
based upon dedicated revenues, rather than upon caseload.
26.Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount . Reduces
the High Technology Theft Apprehension and Prosecution
Program in order to correct an error that causes the funding
formula to total to more than 100%.
27.Felony Disposition Data for Youthful Offender Block Grant .
Requires the Department of Justice to annually provide BSCC
the number of juvenile felony court dispositions by county
for the previous calendar year.
28.SB 1022 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, Chapter
42, Statutes of 2012) Clean Up . Allows counties with awards
from multiple lease-revenue bond jail financing programs to
enter into leases and agreements with either CDCR or the
Board of State and Community Corrections.
29.Realignment Supplantation References . Provides technical
clean-up to the statutes that refer to the supplantation of
funding for programs that have been realigned to the
counties.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
The funding related to the changes in this bill is contained in
the 2014-15 Budget Act. This bill also contains a $1 million
continuous appropriation to the AOC for data collection related
to community corrections performance incentives and public
safety realignment.
JG:k 6/15/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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