AB 2720: Juveniles: juvenile reentry.

Existing law establishes the Local Revenue Fund 2011 to provide funding to counties for public safety services, including juvenile justice, among others. Existing law directs each county to establish a County Local Revenue Fund 2011 for receipt of funds allocated from the Local Revenue Fund 2011, and further directs the county to establish various accounts and subaccounts within the County Local Revenue Fund 2011, including a Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account. Existing law requires funds in the Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account to be used to fund grants exclusively to address local program needs for persons discharged from the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice. Existing law requires county probation departments, in expending the Juvenile Reentry Grant allocation, to provide evidence-based supervision and detention practices and rehabilitative services to persons who are subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, and who were committed to and discharged from the division.

The California Constitution requires specified funds to be deposited in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 and continuously appropriates these funds exclusively to fund the provision of Public Safety Services, as defined, by local agencies. The California Constitution requires that the methodology for allocating these funds be as specified in the 2011 Realignment Legislation, defined as legislation enacted on or before September 30, 2012, that is entitled 2011 Realignment.

This bill would expand the use of Juvenile Reentry Grant Special Account funds to allow counties to use any unexpended Juvenile Reentry Grant allocation to provide rehabilitative services for reentry youth who have been discharged from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court within the prior 2 years. By expanding the use of continuously appropriated funds, this bill would make an appropriation.

This bill would only become operative if a Constitutional Amendment, as specified, is passed during the 201920 Regular Session and approved by the voters.