Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that appropriates funding for the state public safety budget in California.

Highlights:

• Appropriates funding for the state public safety budget in California (Sec. 1-9).

• Establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections and sets forth its powers and duties, including, among other things, collecting and maintaining available information and data about state and community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and needs (Sec. 1-9).

• Repeals the provisions requiring the board to collect and analyze data regarding the implementation of local plans, as specified, and to provide a report on the implementation of those plans to the Governor and the Legislature (Sec. 1-9).

• Authorizes the board to delegate authority to approve or disapprove a corrective action plan to the board’s executive director or a deputy director (Sec. 1-9

• Requires an inmate enrolled in a degree-granting college or university program, as specified, to receive the same privileges as an inmate with a full-time work or training assignment (Sec. 1-9).

• Authorizes mental health professionals to be employed or under contract to provide mental health diagnostic, treatment, or other mental health services in the state correctional system (Sec. 1-9).

• Authorizes the secretary to additionally waive that requirement for persons in the professions of marriage and family therapy or professional clinical counseling who are gaining qualifying experience for licensure in those professions (Sec. 1-9).

• Authorizes an extension of a waiver to persons employed less than full time as marriage and family therapists or professional clinical counselors and prohibit the waiver from exceeding 6 years for those professions (Sec. 1-9).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval of the Governor (Sec. 10).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that appropriates funding for the state public safety budget in California.

Highlights:

• Appropriates funding for the state public safety budget in California (Sec. 1-9).

• Establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections and sets forth its powers and duties, including, among other things, collecting and maintaining available information and data about state and community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and needs (Sec. 1-9).

• Repeals the provisions requiring the board to collect and analyze data regarding the implementation of local plans, as specified, and to provide a report on the implementation of those plans to the Governor and the Legislature (Sec. 1-9).

• Authorizes the board to delegate authority to approve or disapprove a corrective action plan to the board’s executive director or a deputy director (Sec. 1-9

• Requires an inmate enrolled in a degree-granting college or university program, as specified, to receive the same privileges as an inmate with a full-time work or training assignment (Sec. 1-9).

• Authorizes mental health professionals to be employed or under contract to provide mental health diagnostic, treatment, or other mental health services in the state correctional system (Sec. 1-9).

• Authorizes the secretary to additionally waive that requirement for persons in the professions of marriage and family therapy or professional clinical counseling who are gaining qualifying experience for licensure in those professions (Sec. 1-9).

• Authorizes an extension of a waiver to persons employed less than full time as marriage and family therapists or professional clinical counselors and prohibit the waiver from exceeding 6 years for those professions (Sec. 1-9).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval of the Governor (Sec. 10).

Full Bill Text