BILL ANALYSIS
AB 1255
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 1255 (Wright)
As Amended June 1, 1999
Majority vote
PUBLIC SAFETY 6-1 APPROPRIATIONS 18-3
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|Ayes:|Honda, Cunneen, Battin, |Ayes:|Migden, Battin, Cedillo, |
| |Keeley, Romero, | |Davis, Hertzberg, Kuehl, |
| |Washington | |Maldonado, Papan, Romero, |
| | | |Runner, Shelley, |
| | | |Steinberg, Thomson, |
| | | |Wesson, Wiggins, Wright, |
| | | |Zettel, Aroner |
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|Nays:|Oller |Nays:|Brewer, Ashburn, Pescetti |
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SUMMARY : Creates the Intensive Probation and Parole
Intervention Partnership Act of 2000, a pilot probation program.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Allocates $6 million for the creation of a five-year intensive
supervised probation and parole program for the counties of
Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Shasta.
2)Creates a program that requires a participating offender to:
a) Meet personally with a probation or parole officer at
least once a week; and,
b) Participate five days per week with employment,
education, a job search, job training, community service,
counseling treatment, or a combination of these activities.
3)Authorizes an offender to be placed on electronic monitoring,
home detention or community service during his or her
participation in the program.
4)Makes an offender eligible for this program if it appears from
all information available to the appropriate probation or
parole agency that the offender would benefit from
participation in the program. Public safety and offender
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accountability shall be the primary considerations.
5)Gives priority enrollment to a youthful offender between the
ages of 18-25 who has a substance abuse problem.
6)Creates varying levels of supervision wherein, under the most
intensive supervision, a probation or parole officer may not
supervise more than 50 offenders at one time.
7)Vests sole responsibility in the chief probation officer of
the participating county for coordinating this program and
contracting for all related services.
8)Authorizes the revocation of an offender's eligibility if
after a court hearing it is determined that the offender
committed an additional public offense or has otherwise
violated a condition of probation or parole.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee analysis, this bill:
1)States legislative intent to appropriate $21 million to the
BOC in the 1999-2000 budget for grants to county probation
departments and to appropriate $6 million to the BOC to Los
Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Shasta Counties for
intensive pilot programs.
2)Directs the BOC to allocate $500,000 to San Diego County for
development of a uniform risk model classification system for
probation and parole.
3)$1.5 million, contingent upon a budget appropriation, to fund
state parole pilot projects.
COMMENTS : According to the author, "Prison conditions in
California cannot be ignored forever. Eventually we are going
to have to build more space, be subject to a federal court order
or try some alternative sentencing schemes. AB 1255 is an
effort to work with key stockholders and look at the best models
available to develop alternative sentencing strategies for low
risk offenders to both prevent some from entering the system and
to keep others from returning as parole violations. The cost
savings from successful programs are obvious but we have to
begin soon or face fiscal alternatives that are substantially
costlier to the state in the long run."
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Please see the policy committee analysis for a more
comprehensive discussion of this bill.
Analysis Prepared by : Ignacio Hernandez / PUB.S. / (916)
319-3744
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