Criminal justice realignment.

Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, participating counties, and the State Public Works Board to acquire, design, and construct local jail facilities approved by the Corrections Standards Authority. Existing law authorizes the State Public Works Board to issue revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes in the amounts of $750,000,000 and $470,000,000 to finance the acquisition, design, or construction, and a reasonable construction reserve, of approved local jail facilities, as specified. The funds derived from those revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes are continuously appropriated for the purposes described above. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Corrections Standards Authority to give funding preference to counties that assist the state in siting specified facilities. Existing law also prohibits the department and the authority from awarding funds pursuant to these provisions until specified construction progress and siting requirements are met. This bill would decrease the authorization for revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes from $750,000,000 to $617,119,000 and increase the authorization of $470,000,000 to $602,881,000. By increasing moneys to a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would delete the provisions requiring the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Corrections Standards Authority to give funding preference to counties that assist the state in siting specified facilities and would instead require those entities to give that preference to counties that committed the largest percentage of inmates to state custody in relation to the total inmate population of the department in 2010. The bill would also delete the provision prohibiting the department and the authority from awarding funds pursuant to these provisions until specified construction progress and siting requirements are met. The bill would appropriate the sum of $1,000 from the General Fund to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for purposes of state operations to be used by the Corrections Standards Authority. The bill would become operative contingent upon the enactment of SB 85 or AB 109 of the 2011–12 Regular Session. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.