AB 1876, as amended, Quirk. Jails and juvenile facilities: 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 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’sbegin delete technical and functionalend deletebegin insert technical, functional, and securityend insert requirements for services, and that provides the lowest cost of service to any person who pays for the telephone service. The bill would additionally prohibit any contract to provide telephone services
to any person detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility from including any commission or other paymentbegin insert, as defined,end insert to the entity operating the jail or juvenile facility.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 22120)
2is added to Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, to
3read:
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(a) Any contract to provide telephone services to any
9person detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility shall be
10negotiated and awarded to an entity that meets the jail or juvenile
11facility’sbegin delete technical and functionalend deletebegin insert technical, functional, and
12securityend insert requirements for services, and that provides the lowest
13cost of service to any person who pays for the telephone service.
14begin insert A county may require a telephone service provider to cover all
15costs related to the installation and maintenance of the
telephone
16devices and services.end insert
17(b) A contract to provide telephone services to any person
18detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility shall not include
19any commission or other payment to the entity operating the jail
20or juvenile facility.
21(c) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the
22following meanings:
23(1) “Jail” means a county jail, a municipal jail, or a privately
24operated jail.
25(2) “Juvenile facility” means any juvenile hall, camp, ranch, or
26other facility where a person is detained as a result of a petition
27pursuant to Section 601 or 602 of the Welfare and Institutions
28Code.
29(3) “Commission or other payment” means any payments made
30to incentivize procurement of contracts, but does not include grants
31and other payments that do not increase the cost of telephone calls
32billed to consumers.
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