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CCPOA's Legislative Update: Winter 2008To: State Board of Directors From: Lance Corcoran, Chief of Government Affairs Date: January 17, 2008 Re: CCPOA Legislative Update CCPOA Sponsored Bills The Legislature returned from its fall recess on January 7, 2008. There has been no change is the status of our sponsored bills since the October Board Report. Bills remaining in the house of origin (like AB 457, below) will die on Jan31, 2008. Those in the second house (like AB 696 and AB 890) may be acted on anytime in 2008. For the full text of any of the following bills go to www.leginfo.ca.gov. AB 457 (Paul Cook - R) Corrections: Investigation Summary: This bill would amend existing law that specifies certain standard for internal affairs investigations for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Requires that all allegations and complaints of employee misconduct be investigated and the results of every investigation to be written. It also requires CDCR to develop a plan for the increased use of surveillance cameras at their institutions. 3/27/07 Passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee 7-0 5/31/07 Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee AB 696 (Ed Hernandez - D) State Employees: Military Benefits Summary: This bill would provide for a state employee who is employed by the state on or after a specified date that military pay and allowance does not include hazardous duty pay, hostile fire pay, imminent danger, or any other special and incentive pay from the federal government, for allowance on or after a specified date by a state employee eligible for benefits. Permits state employees to retain that pay. It makes prior CCPOA legislation (AB 276, 2005) on this subject retroactive to September 11, 2001. 3/28/07 Passed the Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee 5-0 4/10/07 Passed the Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee 8-0 5/31/07 Passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee 13-0 6/04/07 Passed the Assembly Floor 75-1 6/26/07 Passed the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee 4-0 8/30/07 Held in Senate Appropriations Committee - Two year bill AB 890 (Greg Aghazarian-R) Correctional Peace Officer Standard and Training Summary: This sponsored bill would amend existing law under which the Corrections Standards Authority is responsible for developing, approving and monitoring standards for the selection and training of state correctional peace officers and apprentices. It would create the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training, which would succeed to such functions. 3/27/07 Passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee 7-0 5/31/07 Passed Assembly Appropriations Committee 17-0 6/05/07 Passed Assembly Floor 78-0 7/10/07 Passed Senate Public Safety 4-0 8/30/07 Held in Senate Appropriations Committee SB 225 (Gilbert Cedillo-D) State Employees: State Bargaining Unit 6 Summary: SB 225 would approve provisions that require the expenditure of funds of an unspecified memorandum of understanding entered into between the state employer and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. Location: Senate Rules Committee SB 391 (Denise Ducheny - D) Corrections - Signed by Governor 10/13/07 Summary: This bill would establish, within the CDCR, a Parole Violations Intermediate Sanctions Program for non-serious, non-violent parolees whose alleged parole violation is also non-serious and non-violent. Also, parolees required to register as a sex offender would not be eligible for the program, nor would parolees accused of committing a parole violation involving a sex crime requiring registration. The program would require close monitoring by parole agents and frequent drug and alcohol testing of any parolees assigned to the program. No programs would be established pursuant to this measure unless funded in next year's budget. 4/24/07 Passed Senate Public Safety Committee 3-0 5/31/07 Passed Senate Appropriations Committee 10-6 6/06/07 Passed Senate Floor 28-6 7/03/07 Passed Assembly Public Safety Committee 6-0 8/30/07 Passed Assembly Appropriations Committee 12-5 9/05/07 Passed Assembly Floor 54-23 9/06/07 Passed Senate Floor 33-5 Chaptered SB 818 (Gloria Negrete McLeod - D) Correctional Facilities: Facilities Bond Act Summary: This bill enacts the Rehabilitation and Re-entry Facilities Bond Act of 2008 which, if adopted, would authorize, for purposes of financing a specified rehabilitation and re-entry correctional facilities program, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2 billion. 4/17/07 Passed the Senate Public Safety Committee 5-0 Location: Senate Appropriations Committee SCR 11 (Gloria Negrete McLeod-D) Correctional Officer Gonzalez Memorial Highway Summary: Designates a portion of State Highway 71 as the Correctional Officer Manuel A. Gonzalez, Jr. Memorial Highway. 3/27/07 Passed the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee 10-0 4/23/07 Passed Senate Floor 39-0 5/07/07 Passed Assembly Transportation Committee 14-0 6/27/07 Passed Assembly Appropriations Committee 16-0 7/03/07 Passed Assembly Floor 80-0 7/10/07 Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2007 Governor's Budget Proposal for 2008-09 On January 10, 2008, the governor introduced his budget proposal for the next fiscal year (2008-09). He also declared a fiscal emergency in the current fiscal year as a result of substantially declining revenues. In balancing the budget, the Governor proposed approximately 10 percent cuts from the amounts that would otherwise be needed to operate state government in his opinion. The Governor's Budget proposes to spend $11.4 billion on CDCR in 2008-09, an increase of over $600 million from 2007-08. The General Fund portion of the CDCR budget is proposed at $ 10.3 billion, an increase of about $172 million over the current year. The gross numbers mask significant policy changes proposed as a part of the Governor's effort to balance the budget without a tax increase. Most significantly, he is proposing the enactment of legislation to give inmates committed for non-serious, non-violent, and non-sex offenses a 20-month early out. Such inmates could not have a prior disqualifying offense. As a result of these limitations, it is likely that most of these offenders will serve no time. (Most such offenders serve less than 20 months under current law.) The Governor is also proposing summary parole for these types of offenders who go to parole. Under the Governor's proposal such parolees would not be supervised or re-incarcerated (absent a new commitment from the courts). This proposal would reduce the average daily parole population by more than 18,000 parolees and would reduce the institutional population by 6,249 due to the lack of revocations among this parole population. The Governor's Budget assumes that the average daily population in DJJ facilities will fall to about 1,800 in 2008-09 from approximately 2,300 in the current year. The DJJ parole population will from about 2,400 to fewer than 2,000. At the same time the Governor is proposing to significantly reduce populations and staff, he is adding 3,000 out-of-state privatized beds, spending $30 million on community based female facilities, and spending almost $20 million to expand the parole academy, run a special academy at a difficult to staff institution and speed up background and medical clearance for peace officer candidates. All of these proposals are inconsistent with the staff reductions resulting from the "budget balancing" proposals discussed above. The budget also includes $30 million in compensation increases for Unit 6 members. Apparently, the rest of the funding needed to implement management's "last, best and final" offer will come from the staff reductions resulting from the proposed population reductions.  Print This PageRETURN to Legislative Update Archive RETURN to CCPOA Capitol Watch MAIN PAGE |
