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          Bill No:  SB 875
          Author:   Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
          Amended:  8/13/14
          Vote:     21

           
          PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  Not available


           SUBJECT  :    Public safety

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill makes various technical adjustments to the  
          Public Safety 2014 budget actions.

           Assembly Amendments  delete the Senate version of the bill, which  
          expressed legislative intent to enact statutory changes related  
          to the Budget Act of 2014, and instead add the current language.

           ANALYSIS  :    

          This bill: 

          1.Authorizes the Board of Parole Hearings, upon request, to  
            notify a victim, or next of kin of a victim of any hearing to  
            review or consider the parole suitability or the setting of a  
            parole date for that prisoner using United States Postal  
            Services mail.  (Existing law requires any such notice be  
            given by telephone, certified mail, or electronic mail, using  
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            the method of communication selected by the requesting party,  
            if that method is available.) 

          2.Requires the Board of Parole Hearings to send written notice  
            of a parole hearing to the judge of the superior court before  
            whom a prisoner was tried.  (Existing law requires the board  
            to send notice by certified mail.) 

          3.Appropriates $5 million from the Recidivism Reduction Fund to  
            the Board of State and Community Corrections for the  
            establishment of a social innovation financing program for  
            counties. 

          4.Contains an appropriation allowing this bill to take effect  
            immediately upon enactment. 

           Comments
           
          This bill provides necessary statutory changes to enact the  
          2014-15 Budget. 

          This bill does not result in any substantive changes to the  
          Budget Act or related budget actions.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  Yes   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
          Local:  No


          JA:k  8/28/14   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  NONE RECEIVED

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