(1) Existing law creates the California Emergency Council consisting of certain members and assigned certain powers and duties.
This bill would, effective January 1, 2012, eliminate the California Emergency Council and would empower the California Emergency Management Agency to serve as the state disaster council for purposes of the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aid Agreement.
(2) Existing law creates the independent Office of the Inspector General and provides that it is not a subdivision of any other government entity. The Inspector General and certain other employees of the office are peace officers provided that the primary duty of these peace officers is conducting audits of investigatory practices and other audits, as well as conducting investigations, of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the
Division of Juvenile Justice, and the Board of Parole Hearings.
This bill would remove the Inspector General and the other employees from peace officer status. The bill would authorize the Inspector General and certain other employees to exercise the powers of arrest and serving warrants, as provided.
Existing law requires the Inspector General to, among other things, review departmental policy and procedures, conduct audits of investigatory practices and other audits, be responsible for contemporaneous oversight of internal affairs investigations and the disciplinary process, and conduct investigations of the department, and audit each warden of an institution one year after his or her appointment and each correctional institution at least once every 4 years. Existing law establishes within the Office of the Inspector General a Bureau of Independent Review (BIR).
This bill would
revise and recast the duties of the Inspector General to, among other things, remove the requirement that the Inspector General review departmental policy and procedures, conduct audits of investigatory practices and other audits, and conduct investigations of the department, and would instead provide that the Inspector General be responsible for contemporaneous oversight of internal affairs investigations and the disciplinary process of the department pursuant to provisions specifying the responsibilities of the Bureau of Independent Review. The bill would remove the requirement of the Inspector General to audit wardens. The bill would require the Inspector General to conduct an objective, clinically appropriate, and metric-oriented medical inspection program to periodically review delivery of medical care at each state prison.
Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for the Inspector General or any employee or former employee of the Inspector General to divulge or
make known in any manner not expressly permitted by law to any person not employed by the Inspector General any particulars of any record, document, or information the disclosure of which is restricted by law from release to the public. The prohibition also applies to, among others, any person or business entity that is contracting with or has contracted with the Inspector General and to the employees and former employees of that person or business entity.
This bill would add any person that has been furnished a draft copy of any report for comment or review to the persons to whom the prohibition applies. Because the bill would expand the scope of a crime, it would create a state-mandated local program.
(3) Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the State Department of Health Care Services to develop a process to maximize federal financial participation for the
provision of inpatient hospital services rendered to individuals who, but for their status as inmates, would otherwise be eligible for Medi-Cal or for the Coverage Expansion and Enrollment Demonstration Project, as provided.
This bill would limit the development of the process to maximize federal financial participation to acute inpatient hospital services for inmates, and would require the federal reimbursement for inmates enrolled in Medi-Cal to occur through the State Department of Health Care Services, who would reimburse the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and the federal reimbursement for inmates not enrolled in Medi-Cal but who are eligible for a Low Income Health Program (LIHP) would occur through a county LIHP, as provided.
(4) Existing law creates the Corrections Standards Authority established within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation with the duty of studying the
entire subject of crime. Existing law creates the California Council on Criminal Justice with certain powers and duties. Existing law creates the Office of Gang and Youth Violence Policy which is, among other things, responsible for identifying and evaluating state, local, and federal gang and youth violence suppression, intervention, and prevention programs and strategies, along with funding for those efforts.
This bill, commencing July 1, 2012, would eliminate the Corrections Standards Authority, and assign its former duties to the newly created 12-member Board of State and Community Corrections and assign additional duties, as provided. Commencing July 1, 2012, the bill would eliminate the California Council on Criminal Justice and assign its powers and duties to the Board of State and Community Corrections, as provided. Commencing January 1, 2012, the bill would eliminate the Office of Gang and Youth Violence Policy.
(5) Under existing law, the Corrections Standards Authority is responsible for developing, approving, and monitoring standards for the selection and training of state correctional peace officers and apprentices.
This bill would create the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training, which would succeed to those functions.
(6) Existing law establishes the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund in order to receive moneys budgeted for the purposes of providing probation revocations incentive payments and high performance grants to county probation departments, as provided.
This bill would provide that the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund is established in the
State Treasury, that the fund is continuously appropriated, thereby creating an appropriation, and that the moneys appropriated for the purposes of providing probation revocations incentive payments and high performance grants be transferred from the General Fund and administered as provided.
(7) Existing law, beginning in 2012, requires the Judicial Council to provide a report twice a year to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee that provides information related to procurement contracts for the judicial branch. Existing law requires that certain required audits include an audit and report by the State Auditor on his or her assessment of the implementation of certain contracting provisions by the judicial branch.
This bill would require that the report on procurements also be made to the State Auditor. The bill would require that, instead of the audit and report required above, commencing no earlier
than July 1, 2011, and no later than December 15, 2012, the State Auditor establish a pilot program to audit 6 trial courts, and based on the results of the pilot program, on or before December 15, 2013, commence audits of the trial courts, as provided. The bill would also require that on or before December 15, 2013, and biennially thereafter, the State Auditor audit the Administrative Office of the Courts, the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, and the appellate courts, as provided.
(8) Existing law permits a court committing a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, to recall a commitment in the case of a ward whose commitment offense is not a specified offense and not a sex offense.
This bill would allow the court to recall a commitment without regard to the underlying commitment offense. The bill would provide that this provision shall only be
operative if the Director of Finance reduces an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2011, as specified.
(9) Existing law required the county from which persons are committed to the Department of the Youth Authority to pay the state $176 per month for the time that person remains in any institution at the expense of the department.
This bill would require counties from which persons are committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities to pay the state an annual rate of $125,000 for the time those persons remain in any institution under the direct supervision of the division or any other institution in which they are placed by the division. The bill would make conforming changes. The bill would provide that these provisions shall only become operative if the Director of Finance reduces an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2011, as specified.
(10) This bill would appropriate $1,000 from the Trial Court Trust Fund to the judicial branch for court administration.
(11) The bill would also make conforming changes.
(12) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(13) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.