BILL NUMBER: SB 1987	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 1, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 13, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Vasconcellos, McPherson, 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  $11,925,000  
$4,000,000  from the General Fund to the Department of
Corrections for  the first fiscal year of  a 3-year
demonstration project  created by the bill  , 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 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   existing substance abuse
treatment services.  Employment training services will be provided to
persons already participating in substance abuse treatment programs
administered by the Department of Corrections.  Training  shall
be provided by employment training, placement, and retention and
reentry specialists  in collaboration with substance abuse
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 180 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   a  community employment
training, placement and retention service setting. Services shall
include integrated case management serving the parolees' 
substance abuse treatment,   through recidivism
reduction programs, including  employment preparation, 
and  job placement and retention  needs  .

   (2) (A) When appropriate, a parolee shall obtain 
extensive assistance   recidivism reduction services
 at a community employment facility that  offers
  includes  the following services:
   (i) Relapse prevention and recovery services  , including drug
use prevention and other recidivism retention measures  .
   (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  enhanced  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  enhanced  substance abuse
treatment services and parallel employment preparation training,
placement, and retention services shall be a demonstration project
that shall start on April 1, 2001, and shall continue for three
years.
   (2) The program of  enhanced  substance abuse treatment
services and parallel employment services shall serve at least 500
parolees the first year, 3,000 parolees the second year, and 4,000
parolees in the third and final year.
   (3) The partnership of enhanced substance abuse treatment services
and parallel employment services shall cost no more than one
thousand five hundred  dollars  ($1,500) per participant.
  SEC. 2.  The sum of  eleven million nine hundred
twenty-five thousand dollars ($11,925,000)   four
million dollars ($4,000,000)  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) Eight hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($825,000) for the
first year of the demonstration project in order to serve 500
participants.
   (b) Four million eight hundred thousand dollars ($4,800,000) for
the second year of the demonstration project in order to serve 3,000
participants.
   (c) Six million three hundred thousand dollars ($6,300,000) for
the third and final year of the demonstration project in order to
serve 4,000 participants.   of Corrections, Parole and
Community Services Division for the implementation of this act in the
first year of the program.  It is the intent of the Legislature that
funding for subsequent years will be obtained through the budget
process.