Bill Text: CA AB2168 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prisons: prosecution of nonfelony offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-30 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Kalra. [AB2168 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2168-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2168

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Introduced by Assembly Member Kalra

February 07, 2024

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An act to amend Section 17.7 of the Penal Code, relating to incarcerated persons.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2168, as introduced, Kalra. Incarcerated persons: reentry.

Existing law set forth findings and declarations stating that improving outcomes among offenders reentering the community after serving time in a correctional facility will promote public safety and will reduce California’s prison and jail populations. Existing law further states that strategies supporting reentering offenders through practices and programs have been demonstrated to significantly reduce recidivism among offenders in other states.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 17.7 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

17.7.

 The Legislature finds and declares the following:

(a) Strategies supporting reentering offenders community members through practices and programs, such as standardized risk and needs assessments, transitional community housing, treatment, medical and mental health services, and employment, have been demonstrated to significantly reduce recidivism among offenders in other states.

(b) Improving outcomes among offenders community members reentering the community after serving time in a correctional facility will promote public safety and will reduce California’s prison and jail populations.

(c) Establishing a California reentry program programs that encompasses encompass strategies known to reduce recidivism warrants a vigorous short-term startup in the 2014–15 fiscal year warrant vigorous ongoing support using readily available resources in the community, and a comprehensive long-term development plan for future budget years designed to expand the availability, impact, and sustainability of these strategies as further community partnerships are identified and developed.