BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    



                                                          AB 1255
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Date of Hearing:   May 26, 1999

              ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 
                    Carole Migden, Chairwoman

          AB 1255 (Wright) - As Amended: April 7, 1999 

Policy Committee:                              Public  
SafetyVote:  6-1

Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local  
Program:NoReimbursable:            

  SUMMARY  :

As proposed to be amended, this bill:

1)Creates a $21 million grant program for county probation  
  departments to fund intensive supervision programs and creates  
  a $6 million intensive supervision probation pilot project in  
  L.A., San Francisco, San Diego and Shasta counties. 

2)Creates a $500,000 risk model classification system for  
  probation and parole in San Diego County.

3)Requires the Department of Corrections to establish pilot  
  projects, in two or more locations within the state parole  
  system, to determine whether a revised approach to the  
  supervision, sanction, and control of parolees can result in a  
  more cost-effective deployment of parole staff, reduced  
  recidivism by parole violators, savings on state incarceration  
  costs, and improved public safety.

  FISCAL EFFECT  :

1)States legislative intent to appropriate $21 million to the  
  Board of Corrections in the 1999-00 budget for grants to  
  county probation departments and to appropriate $6 million to  
  the Board of Corrections to L.A., San Francisco, San Diego and  
  Shasta counties for intensive probation pilot programs.

2)Directs the Board of Corrections to allocate $500,000 to San  
  Diego County for development of a uniform risk model  
  classification system for probation and parole.









                                                          AB 1255
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3)$1.5 million, contingent upon a budget appropriation, to fund  
  state parole pilot projects. 

  COMMENTS  :

(This bill, which is not in print, has not been heard in this  
form by the policy committee.)

  Rationale  . The author's intent is to provide funding to  
implement and test intermediate punishment and parole options. 

  Analysis Prepared by  :    Geoff Long / APPR. / (916)319-2081