BILL ANALYSIS
Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
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| |AB 2228 (Aroner) |
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|Hearing Date: 8/23/00 |Amended: 8/8/00 and as |
| |proposed to be ameded by |
| |LCR #16291 |
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|Consultant: Lisa Matocq |Policy Vote: H & HS 5-1 |
| | Pub |
| |Saf 5-0 |
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BILL SUMMARY: AB 2228 establishes, for two years, the
Juvenile Probation Assessment Pilot Project, to be
administered by the Department of Mental Health (DMH), in
three counties, to provide for the development of screening
and assessment protocols for juvenile offenders to detect
mental and emotional disorders. It also appropriates $2
million to DMH for this purpose.
Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2000-01 2001-02
2002-03 Fund
Pilot project and Unknown costs, potentially $2,000*
General administration/ one-time
evaluation
Treatment ----- Unknown costs -----
Various
*$2,000 appropriated in the bill.
STAFF COMMENTS: SUSPENSE FILE. Among other things, this
bill:
requires a participating county to develop a plan, as
specified, for assessing the service needs of a
statistically significant sample of juvenile offenders,
requires DMH to develop screening and assessment tools
and protocols, and provide technical assistance and
training to the counties,
specifies that DMH shall develop minimum standards and
procedures for allocating funds,
requires county probation departments involved in the
pilot to use data collected to identify service needs of
juveniles who undergo the assessment,
requires DMH, or a contracted entity, to conduct an
evaluation of the pilot and report to the Legislature by
March 1, 2003.
The costs are unknown and depend on the number of juvenile
offenders included in the three counties, and the extent to
which treatment is provided. STAFF NOTES that (1) it is
unclear what eligibility criteria would be used to
determine which three counties participate in the pilot,
(2) there is no sunset date, and (3) it is unclear how much
of the appropriation would be allocated to the three
counties and how much would be retained by DMH to cover the
costs of administering the program and conducting the
evaluation.
SB 2062 (Perata), awaiting action in the Assembly
Appropriations Committee, appropriates $50 million to
establish a mentally ill juvenile offender grant program.
AB 2104 (Strom-Martin), also being heard in this Committee
today, establishes pilot projects and a statewide program
to treat seriously disturbed wards of the court.