BILL ANALYSIS
Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
AB 2316 (Mazzoni)
Hearing Date:8/29/00 Amended:8/18/00 and as
proposed
to be amended
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 $40,000
of 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. 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 that advisory committee
members are to serve without compensation but are to be
reimbursed for travel and per diem. STAFF RECOMMENDS that
the bill be amended to (1) specify that members are to be
reimbursed for travel and per diem, (2) correctly number
the Penal Code sections ( 7 440 et. seq. rather than 77 440
et. seq.), and (3) include a due date for the study.
STAFF ALSO NOTES that the Governor vetoed, in the 2000
Budget Act, a $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 bill is being amended to provide that
$40,000 may be used for purposes of 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.