Public Safety.

Existing law establishes the Department of Finance with general powers of supervision over all matters concerning the financial and business policies of the state. Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a participating county, as defined, and the State Public Works Board to enter into a construction agreement in order to acquire, design, and construct a local jail facility, as specified, using the proceeds of revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes issued by the State Public Works Board for that purpose. This bill would require the Department of Finance, in consultation with the County of Los Angeles, to identify options for ways the state may assist in addressing the mental health and health infrastructure needs of the County of Los Angeles jail system and report its findings to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on or before January 15, 2015. Existing law authorizes 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. Existing law authorizes the State Public Works Board to issue up to $500,000,000 in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes to finance the acquisition, design, and construction of approved adult local criminal justice facilities. The funds derived from those revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes are continuously appropriated for those purposes. Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to oversee the state prison system. Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to design, construct, or renovate housing units, support buildings, and programming space in order to add capacity to facilities under its jurisdiction. This bill would enact provisions similar to the provisions described above authorizing the Board of State and Community Corrections or the department, the State Public Works Board, and a participating county, as defined, to acquire, design, and construct an adult local criminal justice facility, as defined. The bill would authorize the State Public Works Board to issue up to $500,000,000 in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation 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 establish procedures for approving and funding these projects. Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, which consists of specified departments and entities including, among others, the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Social Services, and the Office of Patient Advocate. This bill would establish the Office of Law Enforcement Support within the agency. Existing law provides that certain persons are peace officers whose authority extends to any place in the state for the purpose of performing their primary duty or when making an arrest, as specified. These specified peace officers are not authorized to carry firearms, except as provided. Existing law classifies certain police officers, sheriff deputies, and firefighters who have responsibility for the direct supervision of state peace officer/firefighter personnel as state peace officer/firefighter members under the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) . Employees classified as safety members under PERS, including state peace officer/firefighter members, are generally entitled to higher benefits and subject to higher contribution rates than employees classified as miscellaneous or general members. Member contributions to PERS are deposited in the Public Employees' Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would provide that the Chief, Deputy Chief, supervising investigators, and investigators of the Office of Protective Services of the State Department of State Hospitals and the Office of Investigations and Law Enforcement Support of the California Health and Human Services Agency are peace officers for purposes of the provision described above. The bill would make an appropriation by increasing the amount of employee contributions to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund. Existing law authorizes the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) , a participating county, as defined, and the State Public Works Board to acquire, design, and construct an adult local criminal justice facility, as specified, and requires them to enter into an agreement for each facility that provides related performance expectations of the parties, guidelines and criteria for the use and application of the financing instruments used to pay for the facility, and ongoing maintenance and staffing responsibilities for the term of the financing. Existing law also authorizes the State Public Works Board and the BSCC to borrow funds from the Pooled Money Investment Account or from another appropriate source for project costs of an adult local criminal justice facility. Existing law authorizes the BSCC and a participating county, with the consent of the State Public Works Board, to enter into leases, contracts, or other agreements for property use, maintenance, or operation of an adult local criminal justice facility. This bill would also authorize the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to participate in the financing program with participating counties and the State Public Works Board for the acquisition, design, and construction of adult local criminal justice facilities, to enter into the required agreements, to borrow funds, and to enter into leases, contracts, or other agreements for these purposes, as specified. Existing law requires the establishment of a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account in each county to be allocated for jail construction, criminal prosecution, law enforcement grants, and for the implementation of a comprehensive multiagency juvenile justice plan. Existing law requires that moneys allocated from a Supplemental Law Enforcement Service Account to a recipient entity be used to supplement existing services and not to supplant any existing funding. This bill would instead prohibit local agencies from using these moneys to supplant other funding for Public Safety Services, as defined. Existing law requires specified funds to be allocated to county sheriff's departments from funds remaining in the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, as specified. Existing law requires that funds allocated pursuant to these provisions be used to supplement rather than supplant existing law enforcement resources. This bill would instead prohibit funds allocated pursuant to these provisions from being used by local agencies to supplant other funding for Public Safety Services, as defined. Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates health facilities, including general acute care hospitals and correctional treatment centers, including those operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and those located on prison grounds. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, upon application of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to change the license category of a general acute care hospital licensed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or any health facility located on prison grounds, to a correctional treatment center license. Existing law, the Superior Court Security Act of 2012, generally requires the sheriff to be responsible for court security services pursuant to a memorandum of understanding entered into with the superior court of the relevant county. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to establish a process and funding mechanism for sheriffs that overall incur increased trial court security costs as a result of court construction projects that had an occupancy date on or after October 9, 2011. The bill would allow counties that demonstrate increased trial court security costs to request funding from the Department of Finance. The bill would require this funding to be funded by the General Fund, subject to an annual appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law sets forth various findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to crime, including the Legislature's reaffirmation of its commitment to reducing recidivism among criminal offenders and a declaration that California must reinvest its criminal justice resources to support community-based corrections programs and evidence-based practices that will achieve improved public safety returns on the state's substantial investment in its criminal justice system, as specified. This bill would set forth legislative findings and declarations that strategies supporting reentering offenders through practices and programs have been demonstrated to significantly reduce recidivism among offenders in other states, that improving outcomes among offenders reentering the community after serving time in a correctional facility will promote public safety and reduce California's prison and jail populations, and that establishing a California reentry program that encompasses strategies known to reduce recidivism warrants a vigorous short-term startup in the 2014–15 fiscal year using readily available resources in the community, as specified. Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to oversee the state prison system. Existing law establishes the Administrative Office of the Courts, which has various responsibilities and authority over state court matters granted by law and delegated by the Judicial Council. Existing law, as added by Proposition 8, adopted June 8, 1982, and amended by Proposition 21, adopted March 7, 2000, among other things, defines a serious felony. Existing law, as amended by Proposition 36, adopted November 6, 2012, commonly known as the Three Strikes Law, requires increased penalties for certain recidivist offenders in addition to any other enhancement or penalty that may apply, including individuals with current and prior convictions of a serious felony, as specified. This bill would, subject to the availability of funding for and space in the programs and services, authorize the department to provide programs and services, including, but not limited to, transitional housing, mental health, and substance abuse treatment to an offender who is released pursuant to the provisions of Proposition 36, and who is not subject to parole or postrelease community supervision. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the Administrative Office of the Courts, to establish a referral process for those offenders to participate in or receive the types of programs and services described above that the department has existing contracts to provide. The bill would also require the Administrative Office of the Courts to inform courts of the availability of those programs and services. Existing law designates various persons and peace officers, including officers of a state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Developmental Services. This bill would require, by July 1, 2015, the California Health and Human Services Agency to develop training protocols and policies and procedures for peace officers of a state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Developmental Services. The bill, when appropriate, would require the training protocols and policies and procedures to be uniformly implemented in both state hospitals and developmental centers, and would require additional training protocols and policies and procedures shall be developed to address the unique characteristics of the residents in each type of facility. The bill would require the agency, in consultation with system stakeholders, to develop recommendations to further improve the quality and stability of law enforcement and investigative functions at both developmental centers and state hospitals in a meaningful and sustainable manner and to submit those recommendations to the budget committees and relevant policy committees of both houses of the Legislature no later than January 10, 2015. Existing law authorizes a court, when sentencing a person to county jail for a felony, to commit the person to county jail for either the full term in custody, as specified, or to suspend the execution of a concluding portion of the term selected at the court's discretion. Under existing law, this period of suspended execution is supervised by the county probation officer and is known as mandatory supervision. This bill would require, unless the court finds, in the interests of justice, that it is not appropriate in a particular case, that a period of the concluding portion of a county jail term be served on mandatory supervision. The bill would make this change applicable prospectively to a person sentenced on or after January 1, 2015. The bill would require the Judicial Council to adopt rules of court to implement these provisions and related provisions of existing law no later than January 1, 2015. By increasing the duties of probation officers, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to offer a program under which eligible female inmates who have been committed to state prison may be allowed to participate in a voluntary alternative custody program in lieu of confinement in state prison. Existing law defines that alternative custody program to include confinement to a residential home, a residential drug or treatment program, or a transitional care facility that offers appropriate services. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into contracts with county agencies, not-for-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, and others in order to promote alternative custody placements. Existing law requires the department to use electronic monitoring, global positioning system devices, or other supervising devices for the purpose of helping to verify a participant's compliance with the rules and regulations of the program. This bill would authorize a sheriff or a county director of corrections to implement a similar voluntary alternative custody program for male and female inmates who have been committed to a county jail for a determinate term of imprisonment for a felony or for a misdemeanor, except that the bill would define an alternative custody program operated by a sheriff or a county director of corrections to additionally include confinement to a mental health clinic or hospital that offers appropriate mental health services, and would authorize, but not require, the sheriff or the county director of corrections to use electronic monitoring, global positioning system devices, or other supervising devices. The bill would provide that the willful failure of the program participant to return to the place of detention prior to the expiration of any period of time during which he or she is authorized to be away from the place of detention, unauthorized departures from the place of detention, or tampering with or disabling, or attempting to tamper with or disable, an electronic monitoring device is punishable under a specified statute. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections to collect and maintain available information and data about state and community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and needs, as specified. Existing law establishes the Recidivism Reduction Fund, to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for activities designed to reduce the state's prison population, including, but not limited to, reducing recidivism. Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and authorizes the state to annually allocate moneys into the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to be used for specified purposes related to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities. Under existing law, if a county establishes a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, the county is required to establish a local Community Corrections Partnership, as specified. This bill would require a county board of supervisors, upon agreement to accept funding from the Recidivism Reduction Fund and in collaboration with the county's Community Corrections Partnership, to develop, administer, and collect and submit data to the Board of State and Community Corrections regarding a competitive grant program intended to fund community recidivism and crime reduction services, as specified. The bill would require the county board of supervisors to grant the funds allocated to the county under these provisions to community recidivism and crime reduction service providers based on the needs of their community. The bill would specify the grant amounts for which the counties and individual service providers would be eligible and would limit the total amount of grants awarded to a single community recidivism and crime reduction service provider by all counties pursuant to these provisions to $100,000. The bill would authorize up to 5% of the grant to be withheld by the county to pay administrative costs. The bill would require funds allocated to a county that are not expended within 4 years to revert to the state General Fund and would require funds not encumbered with a community recidivism and crime reduction service provider within one year after the allocation of grant funding to revert to the state General Fund. Existing law provides for a probation failure reduction incentive payment for each eligible county, and establishes 3 tiers for evaluating counties for purposes of calculating that payment. Existing law also provides high performance grants to county probation departments for purposes of bolstering practices to reduce recidivism. Existing law provides for these incentive payments and grants to be paid from the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, as specified. Existing law appropriates $1,000,000 from the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to the judicial branch for the costs of implementing and administering those probation failure reduction incentive payments and high performance grants, as specified. Under existing law, those funds are available for encumbrance and expenditure until June 30, 2014. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, continuously appropriate $1,000,000 from the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for the costs of implementing and administering those probation failure reduction incentive payments and high performance grants, as specified. Existing law allocates any moneys remaining in the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, after the calculation and award determination of each county's tier payments or high performance grant payments, to county probation departments, as specified. Specifically, existing law requires that the award amount for any county whose tier payment or high performance grant totals less than $200,000 be increased to no more than $200,000, as specified. Existing law also requires that the award amount for any county that has a probation failure rate that is below the statewide average be adjusted so that these counties receive no less than $200,000, as specified. Existing law requires that any funds remaining after the allocations described above be evenly distributed to those counties that did not receive a tier payment or a high performance grant payment, as specified. This bill would instead require that these remaining funds, up to $200,000 per county, be evenly distributed to those counties that did not receive a tier payment or a higher performance grant payment, as specified, and would provide for the further distribution of any funds that remain. Existing law establishes the State Department of State Hospitals for the administration of state hospitals and provides for the involuntary confinement of certain individuals in those state hospitals, including defendants who have been found incompetent to stand trial and defendants found to be guilty of a crime, or who have plead not guilty by reason of insanity, and found to be insane at the time he or she committed the crime. Existing law provides that the court shall order that the mentally incompetent defendant be delivered by the sheriff to a state hospital, or to any other available public or private treatment facility, including a local county jail treatment facility, approved by the community program director that will promote the defendant's speedy restoration to mental competence, or placed on outpatient status. This bill would include the community-based residential treatment system, as described, as a public or private treatment facility to which the above provisions apply, if the facility has a secured perimeter or a locked and controlled treatment facility. Existing law requires the court to select the state hospital in accordance with the policies established by the State Department of State Hospitals when directing that the defendant be confined in a state hospital. Under existing law, prior to admission to the Napa State Hospital or the Metropolitan State Hospital, the State Department of State Hospitals is required to evaluate each patient committed pursuant to specified provisions of law, and a patient determined to be a high-security risk is required to be treated in the department's most secure facilities, as provided. Existing law requires a court to provide copies of specified documents, including, among others, the commitment order, to be taken with the defendant to the state hospital when the court orders that a defendant be confined in a state hospital or other public or private treatment facility. This bill would repeal the provision requiring the court to select the state hospital in accordance with the policies established by the State Department of State Hospitals when directing that the defendant be confined in a state hospital. The bill would instead require, prior to admission to the State Department of State Hospitals, the department to evaluate each patient committed pursuant to specified provisions of law to determine the placement of the patient to the appropriate state hospital. The bill would also require a court that orders that a defendant be committed to the State Department of State Hospitals or other public or private treatment facility to provide copies of any medical records with the documents described above prior to the admission of the defendant to the department or other treatment facility where the defendant is to be committed. The bill would require the department to utilize specified documents, including those described above and any medical records, to make the appropriate placement. The bill would make conforming changes. The bill would also require the State Department of State Hospitals to establish a Patient Management Unit (PMU) to facilitate patient movement across all facilities under the department's jurisdiction and any psychiatric programs operated by the department pursuant to a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The PMU's responsibilities would include, among others, oversight and centralized management of patient admissions. The bill would authorize the State Department of State Hospitals to adopt regulations, as specified, concerning policies and procedures to be implemented by the PMU, including, among others, policies and procedures for patient referral to the department. Existing law, in placing a mentally incompetent defendant, requires the community program director to evaluate the appropriate placement for the defendant between a state hospital or a local county jail treatment facility. If a local county jail treatment facility is selected, existing law requires the State Department of State Hospitals to provide treatment at the county jail treatment facility and to reimburse the county jail treatment facility for the reasonable costs of the bed during the treatment. This bill would require the State Department of State Hospitals to provide reimbursement to the community-based residential treatment system if a mentally incompetent defendant is placed in that facility. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to expand substance abuse treatment services in prisons to accommodate at least 4,000 additional inmates who have histories of substance abuse, as specified. This bill would generally require a substance abuse treatment program funded by the department and offered in a facility under the jurisdiction of the department pursuant to the provision described above to include a peer counseling component, as defined, allowing prisoners to receive the necessary training within those facilities to become certified addiction counselors, including necessary course work and clinical hours. The bill would require the department to notify in writing the Assembly and Senate Committees on Budget and the relevant Assembly and Senate policy committees at the time the determination is made if the department determines that a peer counseling component shall not be included as part of a substance abuse treatment program offered in a facility under the department's jurisdiction. Existing law requires offenders convicted of certain felonies to be incarcerated in state prison. Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract for the establishment and operation of community correctional reentry centers to enhance the potential for successful paroles. This bill would require the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish the Case Management Reentry Pilot Program for offenders, under the jurisdiction of the department, who have been sentenced to a term of imprisonment in state prison for purposes of assisting certain inmates in reentering society upon their release from prison. The bill would require the program to be established in at least 3 counties over a period of 3 years after enactment of the budget act of 2014, and would require case management social workers to assist offenders assigned to the program in managing basic needs, as specified. The program would provide specified case management services. The bill would require the department to contract for an evaluation of the program that will assess its effectiveness in reducing recidivism among offenders transitioning from prison into the community. The bill would require the department to submit a final report to the Legislature and the Governor of the findings from its evaluation of the program not later than 3 years after the establishment of the program. Implementation of the program would be contingent upon availability of funds, as specified. Existing law requires a supervising parole agency to notify a person classified within the highest control or risk classification that he or she is required to report to his or her assigned parole officer or designated local agency within 2 days of release from prison to parole or postrelease community supervision. Existing law requires the supervising parole agency to report a parolee's failure to report within 24 hours. Existing law requires that the department release an inmate who is subject to these provisions and was sentenced prior to June 27, 2012, one or 2 days before his or her scheduled release date if the inmate's release date falls on the day before a holiday or weekend. Existing law requires all other inmates to be released one or 2 days after their scheduled release date if the release date falls on the day before a holiday or weekend. This bill would instead apply the one or 2-day early release requirement to an inmate who is subject to the above provisions and was sentenced prior to January 1, 1996. Existing law establishes the Inmate Welfare Fund of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the State Treasury. Existing law provides that the moneys in the fund constitute a trust to be used for the benefit and welfare of inmates of prisons and institutions under the jurisdiction of the department. Existing law allows the funds to be used for the establishment of canteens, hobby shops, educational programs, hobby and recreational programs, inmate family visiting services, leisure-time activities, and assistance with obtaining photo identification from the Department of Motor Vehicles. Under existing law, moneys in the fund, as they relate to state prison camps, are continuously appropriated. This bill would additionally authorize the use of fund moneys for innovative programming by not-for-profit organizations offering programs that have demonstrated success and focus on offender responsibility and restorative justice principles, thereby making an appropriation. Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections to collect and maintain available information and data about state and community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and needs, as they relate to both adult corrections, juvenile justice, and gang problems. Existing law requires the board to seek to collect and make publicly available data and information reflecting the impact of state and community corrections, juvenile justice, and gang-related policies and practices enacted in the state, and information regarding evidence-based practices from other jurisdictions. This bill would establish the California Juvenile Justice Data Working Group within the Board of State and Community Corrections, consisting of members comprised of representatives from, among others, the Department of Justice and the Judicial Council. The bill would require the working group to analyze the capacities and limitations of data systems and networks used to collect and report state and local juvenile justice caseload and outcome data. The bill would require the working group, no later than January 1, 2016, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature on the options for improving interagency coordination, modernization, and upgrading of state and local juvenile justice data and information systems, as specified. The bill would also require the working group, no later than December 31, 2014, to recommend a plan for improving current juvenile justice reporting requirements. This bill would also require the board to administer and award mentally ill offender crime reduction grants on a competitive basis to counties that expand or establish a continuum of timely and effective responses to reduce crime and criminal justice costs related to mentally ill offenders and require those grant funds to be used to support prevention, intervention, supervision, and incarceration-based services and strategies to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for mentally ill juvenile adults and offenders. The bill would require the board to establish minimum requirements, funding criteria, and procedures for awarding grants and would require counties applying for grant funding to comply with certain requirements, including a requirement that the county establish a strategy committee to design the grant application. The bill would require the board to develop an evaluation design for grants that assesses the effectiveness of the program and to annually report to the Legislature based on that evaluation design. Existing law establishes the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board in the Office of the Inspector General to regularly examine and report to the Legislature and the Governor on the various mental health, substance abuse, educational, and employment programs for inmates and parolees operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the board to meet at least quarterly, and to report to the Governor and the Legislature biannually, on March 15 and September 15. This bill would instead require the board to meet twice annually, and to report to the Governor and the Legislature annually, on September 15. Existing law requires that a regulation adopted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that may impact the visitation of inmates recognize and consider the value of visiting as a means to improve the safety of prisons for both staff and inmates. This bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop policies related to the department's contraband interdiction efforts for individuals entering detention facilities under the jurisdiction of the department. The bill would require that these policies, among other requirements, apply to all individuals, use methods to ensure that profiling is not practiced, and establish a method that ensures that no one, except as specified, has advance notice of when a random search is scheduled. 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 additional purposes, including design and construction of improvements to dental facilities and medication distribution facilities at state prisons, as specified. This bill would also authorize the use of these funds for the design and construction of projects in the Health Care Facility Improvement Program at state prison facilities, thereby making it an appropriation. Existing law establishes in the State Treasury the Local Revenue Fund 2011, a continuously appropriated fund, and requires that moneys in the fund be allocated exclusively for public safety services, as defined. Existing law further establishes the Law Enforcement Services Account within that fund, and creates the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount within the Law Enforcement Services Account. Existing law allocates moneys in the subaccount for county sheriffs' departments, and, among other things, various crime reduction programs, including the High Technology Theft Apprehension and Prosecution Program, among others. This bill would revise the percentage of funds to be allocated for the High Technology Theft Apprehension and Prosecution Program from the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount. Existing law establishes the Gang Violence Suppression Program in the Board of State and Community Corrections for financial and technical assistance to district attorneys' offices, local law enforcement agencies, county probation departments, school districts, county offices of education, and community-based organizations which are primarily engaged in the suppression of gang violence. Existing law prohibits funds made available pursuant to these provisions from being used to supplant local funds that would, in the absence of the Gang Violence Suppression Program, be made available to support the activities specified in these provisions establishing the program. This bill would instead prohibit these funds from being used by local agencies to supplant other funding for Public Safety Services, as defined. Existing law authorizes the Director of the California Conservation Corps, implementing the California Conservation Corps program, to recruit and employ corpsmembers and to adopt criteria for employment in the program. This bill would instead authorize the director to recruit and enroll corpsmembers and to adopt criteria for selecting applicants for enrollment, including individuals convicted of a crime described in the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act. The director would be required, when adopting this criteria, to take specified factors into account. Existing law establishes the Youthful Offender Block Grant Program to enhance the capacity of county departments to provide appropriate rehabilitative and supervision services to youthful offenders. Existing law requires the Director of Finance to annually determine the total amount of the block grant and the allocation for each county, and to report those findings to the Controller who then makes an allocation to each county from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Special Account. Under existing law, 50% of the allocation amount for each county is based on the number of the county's juvenile felony court dispositions, according to the most recent data compiled by the Department of Justice. This bill would instead require, for purposes of determining this allocation amount, the Department of Justice to provide to the Department of Finance the number of juvenile felony court dispositions for each county for the previous calendar year by July 10 of each year. Existing law requires the establishment of a Juvenile Reentry Fund in each county to receive all amounts allocated to that county probation department to address local program needs for persons discharged from the custody of the Division of Juvenile Facilities. Existing law prohibits these funds from being used to supplant any existing funding by local agencies for existing services provided by that entity. This bill would instead prohibit these funds from being used by local agencies to supplant other funding for Public Safety Services, as defined. Existing law establishes the Juvenile Reentry Grant to provide for the local supervision of persons discharged from the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities. Existing law requires that 5.519% of the funds allocated to the Juvenile Justice Subaccount from the Local Revenue Fund 2011 be deposited to the Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account to be used to fund grants for these purposes and requires the amount allocated to each county probation department from the Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account be distributed pursuant to specified criteria. This bill would require the Department of Finance to use this criteria to determine each county's allocation as a percentage of the funds deposited in the Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account and would provide that actual allocations provided to counties pursuant to the criteria would vary under the bill based on the amount of funds deposited in the Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account. Existing law provides for state hospitals for the care, treatment, and education of mentally disordered persons, which are under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals. This bill would require the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to submit a report and recommendations to the fiscal and appropriate policy committees of the Legislature reviewing and evaluating best practices and strategies, including independent oversight, for effectively and sustainably addressing the employee discipline process, criminal and major incident investigations, and the use of force within state hospitals and psychiatric programs run by the State Department of State Hospitals. The bill would authorize the secretary to consult with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Office of the Inspector General, and other resources in the development of the report and recommendations. Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services to needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, state, and county funds. Under existing law, an individual is ineligible for aid if the individual has been convicted in state or federal court after December 31, 1997, of any offense classified as a felony and that has as an element the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance. This bill would, beginning April 1, 2015, authorize CalWORKs benefits to be paid to an individual who is convicted as an adult in state or federal court after December 31, 1997, of any offense classified as a felony that has as an element the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance, as defined. If the person is on probation or parole and is ineligible for aid due to violating a condition of probation or parole or fleeing to avoid prosecution or custody and confinement, he or she would be ineligible for CalWORKs benefits until he or she is no longer in violation of probation or parole or a fleeing felon. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, formerly the Food Stamp Program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Under existing law, a person convicted of specified drug offenses, including transporting, selling, furnishing, administering, giving away, possessing for sale, purchasing for purpose of sale, or manufacturing a controlled substance, is ineligible to receive CalFresh benefits. Existing law authorizes the payment of CalFresh benefits to other convicted drug felons who have participated in, or are on the waiting list for, a drug treatment program, or who can show other evidence that the illegal use of controlled substances has ceased. This bill would, beginning April 1, 2015, authorize CalFresh benefits to be paid to an individual who is convicted as an adult in state or federal court after December 31, 1997, of any offense classified as a felony that has as an element the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance, as defined. If the person is on probation or parole and is ineligible for aid due to violating a condition of probation or fleeing to avoid prosecution or custody and confinement, he or she would be ineligible for CalFresh benefits until he or she is no longer in violation of probation or parole or a fleeing felon. By requiring local agencies to provide a higher level of service, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Until January 1, 2016, the bill would, notwithstanding certain rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, authorize the department to implement and administer the provisions described above relating to CalWORKs and CalFresh by all-county letters or similar instructions. The bill would require those all-county letters or similar instructions to be developed in consultation with the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, and client advocates. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program. By authorizing additional payments from a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.