SB 630 (Skinner) – Jails: Financing Bonds.
As Amended April 20, 2017 – OPPOSE
SB 630 by Senator Nancy Skinner would prevent counties that
receive state funding for improving, renovating or replacing
local adult correctional facilities from leasing housing capacity
to other entities. Specifically, SB 630 would strictly prohibit,
for contracts approved on or after January 1, 2018, any county –
regardless of whether its construction project increases jail
housing capacity – from leasing housing capacity to any private
or public entity for a period of 10 years following the
completion of construction. By tightening restrictions on leasing
beds to other counties, SB 630 will create significant challenges
in improving local detention correction facilities and addressing
the population demands. SB 630 passed out of the Senate Public
Safety Committee 5-2, passed off of the Senate Floor 22-14 and is
set to be heard in the Assembly Public Safety Committee on June
13, 2017.
AB 1401 (Maienschein) – Juveniles: Protective Custody
Warrant.
As Amended April 19, 2017 – Support
AB 1401 by Assembly Member Brian Maienschein would make changes
to the issuance of protective custody warrants. Under existing
law, the juvenile court is allowed to order the removal of a
child from his or her home when a petition is filed
simultaneously, or if social workers investigate child abuse and
neglect and find that there is imminent danger or bodily harm.
There is some ambiguity in existing law regarding the issue of
obtaining warrants without filing a petition. AB 1401 would
clarify this ambiguity by allowing social workers, under certain
circumstances, to seek a court order to remove a child without
filing a petition while still retaining the judge’s discretion as
to whether a warrant is appropriate or needed as a precondition.
AB 1401 passed out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee 11-0,
passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee 17-0, passed
off of the Assembly Floor 69-0 and is set to be heard in the
Senate Human Services Committee on June 13, 2017.
