Correctional facilities.

Existing law, the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007, authorizes certain revenue bond construction of prison facilities. Under phase I of the act, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is authorized to design, construct, or renovate housing units, support buildings, and programming space in order to add up to 12,000 beds at facilities under its jurisdiction. The department is also authorized to acquire land, design, construct, and renovate reentry program facilities to provide housing for up to 6,000 inmates, as specified, and to design and construct new, or renovate existing, buildings and any necessary ancillary improvements, at facilities under the jurisdiction of the department to provide medical, dental, and mental health treatment or housing for up to 6,000 inmates. The provisions of phase I of the act authorize the State Public Works Board to issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes to finance the acquisition, design, and construction pursuant to those provisions, and provides that the authorized costs for the acquisition, design, and construction shall not exceed $1,800,000,000, $975,000,000, and $857,100,000, respectively, for the costs of the projects specified above. The provisions of phase I also authorize the board to borrow funds for project costs, including acquisition, design, construction, and construction-related costs, from the Pooled Money Investment Account, as specified. This bill would instead authorize the department to design and construct new, or renovate existing, housing units, support buildings, programming space, and any necessary ancillary improvements in order to add capacity at facilities and to provide medical, dental, and mental health treatment or housing to inmates, and would specify the facilities and projects for which funds may be used. The bill would revise the maximum amount of costs authorized for the design and construction of the projects specified above. The bill would delete the provisions authorizing the department to acquire land, design, construct, and renovate reentry program facilities. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund for capital outlay to be allocated to renovate, improve, or expand infrastructure capacity at existing prison facilities. Existing law authorizes the funds to be used for specified other purposes, including for study and acquisition of options to purchase real property for reentry facilities, as specified. This bill would eliminate the authorization to use the funds for study and acquisition of options to purchase real property for reentry facilities and would authorize the funds to be used for the design and construction of improvements to medication distribution facilities at state prison facilities. The bill would also revise various reporting and accounting requirements with respect to the funds. Under phase II of the act, the department is required to complete site assessments at facilities where it intends to construct or renovate additional housing units, support buildings, and programming space in order to add up to 4,000 beds at facilities under its jurisdiction. Those provisions authorize the department to design and construct new, or renovate existing, buildings and any necessary ancillary improvements at facilities to provide medical, dental, and mental health treatment or housing for up to 2,000 inmates, and to acquire land, design, construct, and renovate reentry program facilities throughout the state that will house up to 10,000 inmates. Phase II of the act authorizes the State Public Works Board to issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes to finance those projects. This bill would repeal phase II of the act. Existing law authorizes 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 $617,119,000 and $602,881,000 to finance the acquisition, design, and 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. This bill would decrease the authorization for revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes from $617,119,000 to $445,771,000 and increase the authorization of $602,881,000 to $774,229,000. By increasing moneys deposited into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would authorize the Board of State and Community Corrections, the State Public Works Board, and a participating county, as defined, to acquire, design, and construct an adult local criminal justice facility approved by the Board of State and Community Corrections, or to acquire a site or sites owned by, or subject to a lease option to purchase held by, a participating county. The bill would authorize the State Public Works Board to issue up to $500,000,000 in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipate notes to finance the acquisition, design, and construction of approved adult local criminal justice facilities, and would continuously appropriate the funds for those purposes. The bill would authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to design and construct 3 level II dorm facilities adjacent to specified institutions, including Folsom State Prison, and would authorize the department to use specified funds previously appropriated to complete site suitability studies at those locations. The bill would authorize the State Public Works Board to issue up to $810,000,000 in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes to finance design, construction, and construction-related costs for this project, and would continuously appropriate those funds for purposes relating to the project. The bill would also require the department, after completion of 3 Level II dorm facilities, to remove all inmates from, cease operations of, and close the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, as specified. The bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical changes. The bill would appropriate the sum of $1,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for administration. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.