California MAT Re-Entry Incentive Program.

Existing law makes specified persons subject to parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, including a person who has been released from a state prison after conviction for a serious or violent felony or a crime for which the person is classified as a high-risk sex offender, and specifies the length of time the person is required to be supervised on parole. Existing law, contingent upon the appropriation of specified federal grant funds to the State Department of Health Care Services, establishes the California MAT Re-Entry Incentive Program, which makes a person released from prison on parole, with specified exceptions, eligible for a 30-day reduction in the period of parole for every six months of treatment, up to a maximum 90-day reduction. To receive the reduction to the period of parole, existing law requires that the parolee successfully participate in a substance abuse treatment program that employs a multifaceted approach to treatment, including medically assisted therapy (MAT) , as specified, and to have been enrolled in, or successfully participated in, an institutional substance abuse program. This bill would, instead of requiring the person to have participated in an institutional substance abuse program, require the person to have been enrolled in, or successfully participated in, a post-release substance abuse program.