Amended in Assembly April 10, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1876

Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk

February 19, 2014

An act to add Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 22120) to Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, relating to begin delete county jails end delete begin insert detention facilities end insert .

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1876, as amended, Quirk. begin delete County jails: end delete begin insert Jails and juvenile facilities: end insert telephone service contracts.

Existing law imposes specified procedural and substantive content requirements on contracts entered into by local agencies, including cities and counties.

This bill would begin insert require any contract to provide telephone services to any person detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility to be negotiated and awarded to an entity that meets the jail or juvenile facility’s technical and functional requirements for services, and that provides the lowest cost of service to any person who pays for the telephone service. The bill would additionally end insert prohibit begin delete a county jail from accepting a end delete begin insert any contract to provide telephone services to any person detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility from including any end insert commission or other payment begin delete from a telephone company as an incentive to adopt a contract for providing telephone services to inmates of the jail end delete begin insert to the entity operating the jail or juvenile facility end insert .

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.  

Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 22120)
is added to Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, to
read:

 

Chapter  3.2. begin delete County Jails end delete begin insert Contracts For Telephone
Services in Jails and Juvenile Facilities end insert

 

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22120.  

A county jail shall not accept a commission or other
payment from a telephone company as an incentive to adopt a
contract for providing telephone services to inmates of the jail.

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begin insert 22120. end insert   

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(a) Any contract to provide telephone services to any
person detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility shall be
negotiated and awarded to an entity that meets the jail or juvenile
facility’s technical and functional requirements for services, and
that provides the lowest cost of service to any person who pays
for the telephone service.

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(b) A contract to provide telephone services to any person
detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility shall not include
any commission or other payment to the entity operating the jail
or juvenile facility.

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(c) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:

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(1) “Jail” means a county jail, a municipal jail, or a privately
operated jail.

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(2) “Juvenile facility” means any juvenile hall, camp, ranch,
or other facility where a person is detained as a result of a petition
pursuant to Section 601 or 602 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code.

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