BILL NUMBER: SB 1987 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 13, 2000
INTRODUCED BY Senators Vasconcellos and Polanco
FEBRUARY 25, 2000
An act to add Section 3069 to the Penal Code, relating to
parolees, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1987, as amended, Vasconcellos. Parolees: substance abuse
treatment and employment training.
Existing law provides for a parolee substance abuse treatment plan
and for a preventing parolee crime program, as specified.
This bill would appropriate $13,500,000
$11,925,000 from the General Fund to the Department of
Corrections for a 3-year demonstration project, the purpose of which
is to provide substance abuse treatment services and parallel
employment preparation training, as specified, to felons who are to
be paroled.
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 3069 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
3069. (a) (1) A highly structured program of in-prison
substance abuse treatment services and parallel in-prison employment
preparation training shall be provided by agencies within the
California Therapeutic Communities Association, or by similar
agencies approved by the Department of Corrections, to felons who are
to be paroled.
(2) The substance abuse treatment program shall include the
following components, with not less than 20 hours per week of
substance abuse treatment and at least 10 hours of structured
optional treatment:
(A) Orientation and assessment.
(B) Substance abuse and recovery.
(C) Monitoring progress.
(D) Transitional strategies.
(3) The employment preparation training shall be provided for at
least five hours per week for inmates that are 90 days from release
and may include the following:
(A) Skills identification.
(B) Goal setting.
(C) Problem solving and decisionmaking.
(D) Job development.
(E) Interview skills.
(F) Resume development.
(G) Job retention issues and resolutions.
(b) (1) Once the parolee transitions back to the community,
services shall be provided to the parolee in both a residential and
employment training setting.
(2) Agencies participating in the Community Corrections Coalition
of California, or similar agencies approved by the department, shall
assist with reentry services.
(3) Integrated case management serving the parolees' substance
treatment, employment preparation, and job placement shall be
maintained.
(4) (A) When appropriate, a parolee shall obtain extensive
assistance at a multiservice facility that offers the following
services:
(i) Substance abuse treatment.
(ii) Counseling.
(iii) Vocational assessment.
(iv) Transitional supportive services, including, but not limited
to, independent housing, transportation, meals, work clothing, and
work tools.
(v) Job development and placement services.
(vi) Postemployment services.
(vii) Monitoring at 30, 60, 90, 120, or 180 days.
(B) There shall be four multiservice facilities statewide, two in
northern California and two in southern California.
employment preparation program shall be offered by the Department of
Corrections as an in-prison parallel service to enhance current
substance abuse treatment services. Training shall be provided by
employment training, placement, retention and reentry specialists in
collaboration with substance treatment providers. The comprehensive
continuum of care shall continue as the offender transitions back to
the community. Services shall be provided by agencies approved by
the department, to parolees and in-custody offenders who are to be
paroled to designated locations.
(2) The in-custody employment preparation training shall be
provided by job training and placement providers for at least five
hours per week for in-custody offenders that are 90 days from release
and shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(A) Vocational assessment and skills identification.
(B) Life skills training to include goal setting, resume
development, and job seeking and retention skills.
(b) (1) Once the parolee makes the transition back to the
community, services shall be provided to the parolee in both a
residential and community employment training, placement and
retention service setting. Services shall include integrated case
management serving the parolees' substance abuse treatment,
employment preparation, and job placement and retention needs shall
be maintained.
(2) (A) When appropriate, a parolee shall obtain extensive
assistance at a community employment facility that offers the
following services:
(i) Relapse prevention and recovery services.
(ii) Vocational assessment and career counseling.
(iii) Assistance in obtaining transitional supportive services,
including, but not limited to, housing, transportation, meals, work
clothing, and tools.
(iv) Job development and placement services.
(v) Job retention services.
(vi) Postemployment services.
(vii) Monitoring at 30, 60, 90, 120, or 180 days.
(B) The enhanced substance abuse services shall be located at four
community employment settings, two in northern California and two in
southern California.
(c) The Department of Corrections shall conduct a study to
determine the impact of the program of substance abuse treatment
services and parallel employment preparation training ,
placement, and retention services on parolee stability,
employment retention, and recidivism, and a cost-benefit analysis.
The department shall report its findings to the Legislature by July
1, 2004.
(d) (1) The program of substance abuse treatment services and
parallel employment preparation training , placement, and
retention services shall be a demonstration project that shall
start on July 1, 2004 April 1, 2001,
and shall continue for three years.
(2) The program of substance abuse treatment services and parallel
employment preparation training services
shall serve at least 2,000 500
parolees the first year, 3,000 parolees the second year, and 4,000
parolees in the third and final year.
(3) The program of partnership of enhanced
substance abuse treatment services and parallel employment
preparation training services shall
cost no more than one thousand five hundred ($1,500) per participant.
SEC. 2. The sum of thirteen million five hundred thousand
dollars ($13,500,000) eleven million nine hundred
twenty-five thousand dollars ($11,925,000) is hereby
appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Corrections
Office of Substance Abuse Programs for the purposes of
this act, without regard to fiscal year, according to the
following schedule:
(a) Three million dollars ($3,000,000)
Eight hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($825,000) for the
first year of the demonstration project in order to serve
2,000 500 participants.
(b) Four million five eight hundred
thousand dollars ($4,500,000) ($4,800,000)
for the second year of the demonstration project in order to
serve 3,000 participants.
(c) Six million dollars ($6,000,000) three
hundred thousand dollars ($6,300,000) for the third and final
year of the demonstration project in order to serve 4,000
participants.