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                    Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
          
                                          AB2316  (Mazzoni)
          
          Hearing Date:8/7/00             Amended:6/28/00        
          Consultant: Lisa Matocq         Policy Vote:Pub Saf 6-0
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          BILL SUMMARY:

          AB 2316 requires the California Research Bureau (CRB) to  
          conduct a study of the children of incarcerated women, as  
          specified, and appropriates $69,000 to the CRB for this  
          purpose.  

                              Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
           Major Provisions                 2000-01           2001-02              
           2002-03               Fund  
          
          Study                       $ 99*                  --                 
                   --             General
          CDC                         Unknown costs, minor to potentially $48   
              General
                                      one-time
          *$69 is appropriated in the bill. CRB staff indicate they have  
          already raised $30 for purposes of the study.  
          
          STAFF COMMENTS:   The bill requires CRB, with the  
          assistance of an advisory group, to design the study.  It  
          also requires CRB to survey selected prisoners, in  
          cooperation with the California Department of Corrections  
          (CDC), and to review the records of local agencies.  The  
           survey  is to include information about prisoners' children  
          such as medical issues, possible delinquency, and school  
          performance.  The bill states that the  review  of records  
          "may be of value in establishing public costs associated  
          with the care of these children and in determining any  
          special needs and problems that targeted public programs  
          might meet". 

          STAFF NOTES that according to the author's staff and CRB  
          staff, the study is to include not more than 500 female  
          inmates, not more than five counties, the advisory  
          committee is to be comprised of eight members (two from the  
          public, two from the research community, two from CDC, and  
          two from CRB), and the study is due January 1, 2003.  The  










          author may wish to consider amending the bill to clarify  
          these points.  In addition, the author's staff indicates  
          that advisory committee members are to serve without  
          compensation but are to be reimbursed for travel and per  
          diem from the $69,000 appropriation; STAFF RECOMMENDS that  
          the bill be amended to (1) clarify this point, (2)  
          correctly number the Penal Code sections, and (3) make a  
          technical correction on page 3, line 26, after "care",  
          insert "of".   

          CDC staff estimate unknown increased costs, depending on  
          the extent to which the CRB and/or CDC need to review  
          central files to locate participants, and facilitate  
          personal interviews, potentially $48,000 one-time.