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                    Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
          
                                          AB2316  (Mazzoni)
          
          Hearing Date:8/23/00            Amended:8/18/00        
          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 provides that  
          specified funds in the 2000 Budget Act are to be used for  
          this purpose. 

                              Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
           Major Provisions                 2000-01           2001-02              
           2002-03               Fund  
          
          Study                       $ 99*                  --                 
                   --             General
          CDC                         Unknown costs, potentially $24 one-time   
             General
          *CRB staff indicate they have raised $30 for purposes of the study.   

          
          STAFF COMMENTS:   SUSPENSE FILE.   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. 

          STAFF NOTES that according to the author's staff and CRB  
          staff, the study is to include not more than 250 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 specify  
          these points.  In addition, the author's staff indicates  
          that advisory committee members are to serve without  
          compensation; STAFF RECOMMENDS that the bill be amended to  
          (1) specify that advisory committee members are to serve  
          without compensation, and (2) correctly number the Penal  










          Code sections (  7  440 et. seq. rather than  77  440 et. seq.)   

          STAFF ALSO NOTES that the Governor vetoed, in the 2000  
          Budget Act, the $69,000 legislative augmentation for this  
          purpose.   The Governor sustained a $250,000 legislative  
          augmentation for the CRB, in consultation with the Senate  
          Rules and Assembly Rules Committees, to contract with  
          outside researchers to address public policy research  
          questions; the author submitted a request to the Speaker  
          for $69,000 from that augmentation to fund this study.  
           
          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 $24,000 one-time.