Bill Text: CA AB2077 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Postrelease community supervision: employment

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-25 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB2077 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2077-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2077	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to add Section 3453.5 to the Penal Code, and to add Section
328 to the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to inmates.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2077, as introduced, Davis. Postrelease community supervision:
employment opportunities.
   Existing law establishes the Employment Development Department
within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency for the purpose of
job creation activities and administering the unemployment and
disability insurance coverage systems. Existing law authorizes the
department, by regulation, to prescribe the information required to
be reported by employing units and employers subject to withholding
tax.
   Existing law requires persons serving a prison term for specified
offenses, upon release, to be subject to community supervision
provided by a county agency designated by each county's board of
supervisors. Each person eligible for postrelease community
supervision is required by existing law to enter into a postrelease
community supervision agreement.
   This bill would require the Employment Development Department to
gather information as to specific employers that would be willing to
employ people who have been incarcerated in a state prison or county
jail. The bill would require the department to make a list of those
employers, sorted by county, available to the public. The bill would
also require the department to send the list to the supervising
county agency and require the supervising county agency to give the
list for that county to a person who has entered into a postrelease
community supervision agreement. By creating additional duties for
county agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 3453.5 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   3453.5.  The supervising county agency shall give each person who
enters into a postrelease community supervision agreement a list,
created pursuant to Section 328 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
of employers in that county that have expressed a willingness to
employ people who have been incarcerated in a state prison or county
jail.
  SEC. 2.  Section 328 is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
to read:
   328.  (a) The department shall gather information as to specific
employers that are willing to employ people who have been
incarcerated in a state prison or county jail.
   (b) The department shall make a list of employers that are willing
to employ people who have been incarcerated in a state prison or
county jail and shall make that list, sorted by county, available to
the public on the department's Internet Web site and upon request in
the department's offices.
   (c) The department shall send the list created pursuant to
subdivision (b) and updates, as necessary, to the supervising county
agency described in subdivision (a) of Section 3451 of the Penal
Code.
  SEC. 3.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.
          
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