SB 142: Criminal offenders: mental health.
- Session Year: 2017-2018
- House: Senate
- Latest Version Date: 2018-08-06
(1)Existing law generally requires, if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court to immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person. Existing law also authorizes, when a defendant has been granted probation, the court to impose conditions of probation, including, among others, that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition.
This bill would authorize a defendant to provide documentation to the court that he or she is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. The bill would prohibit a finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress report concerning his or her treatment, or any other record related to a mental disorder from being used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The bill would also require the court to consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
(2)Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and authorizes the state to annually allocate moneys into a State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities, as specified.
This bill would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish. The bill would require that the incentive payments be made available to the board of supervisors of a county for purposes of a community mental health program. The bill would require the board of supervisors to use the incentive payments to provide adult offenders subject to local supervision and those at risk of arrest or incarceration with treatment services through community-based services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
The bill would require the Judicial Council, at specified intervals and in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to provide a report to the Department of Finance containing specified statistics regarding felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county and related statistics regarding the population in each county receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.The bill would, until January 1, 2025, require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to annually report to the Department of Finance the number of inmates per county sentenced in the calendar year to imprisonment in the state prison that were placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison.
The bill would would, until January 1, 2025, require the Director Department of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the California State Association of Counties, to determine the amount of the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments for a county, as calculated pursuant to a prescribed formula based, in part, on the countys successful reduction in the number of adults with mental illness who are sent to state prison and the corresponding savings to the state. equal to the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison multiplied by 50% of the average cost to incarcerate an inmate with mental illness.
(1)Existing law generally requires, if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court to immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person. Existing law also authorizes, when a defendant has been granted probation, the court to impose conditions of probation, including, among others, that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition.
This bill would authorize a defendant to provide documentation to the court that he or she is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. The bill would prohibit a finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress report concerning his or her treatment, or any other record related to a mental disorder from being used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The bill would also require the court to consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
(2)Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and authorizes the state to annually allocate moneys into a State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities, as specified.
This bill would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish. The bill would require that the incentive payments be made available to the board of supervisors of a county for purposes of a community mental health program. The bill would require the board of supervisors to use the incentive payments to provide adult offenders subject to local supervision and those at risk of arrest or incarceration with treatment services through community-based services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
The bill would require the Judicial Council, at specified intervals and in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to provide a report to the Department of Finance containing specified statistics regarding felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county and related statistics regarding the population in each county receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.
The bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, among other things, Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to determine the amount of the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments for a county, as calculated pursuant to a prescribed formula based, in part, on the countys successful reduction in the number of adults with mental illness who are sent to state prison and the corresponding savings to the state.
(1)Existing law generally requires, if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court to immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person. Existing law also authorizes, when a defendant has been granted probation, the court to impose conditions of probation, including, among others, that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition.
This bill would require, upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer to include in his or her report whether the defendant authorize a defendant to provide documentation to the court that he or she is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. The bill would prohibit a finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress report concerning his or her treatment, or any other record related to a mental disorder from being used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The bill would also require the court, when the probation report specified that the circumstances described above are present, court to consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration. By imposing additional duties on probation officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(2)Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and authorizes the state to annually allocate moneys into a State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities, as specified.
This bill would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish. The bill would require that the incentive payments be made available to the board of supervisors of a county for purposes of a community mental health program. The bill would require the board of supervisors to use the incentive payments to provide adult offenders subject to local supervision and those at risk of arrest or incarceration with treatment services through community-based services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
The bill would require the Judicial Council, at specified intervals and in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to provide a report to the Department of Finance containing specified statistics regarding felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county and related statistics regarding the population in each county receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.
The bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, among other things, the amount of the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments for a county, as calculated pursuant to a prescribed formula based, in part, on the countys successful reduction in the number of adults with mental illness who are sent to state prison and the corresponding savings to the state.
(3)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 the statutory provisions noted above.(1)Existing law generally requires, if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court to immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person. Existing law also authorizes, when a defendant has been granted probation, the court to impose conditions of probation, including, among others, that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition.
This bill would require, upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer to include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. The bill would prohibit a finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress report concerning his or her treatment, or any other record related to a mental disorder from being used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The bill would also require the court, when the probation report specified that the circumstances described above are present, to consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration. By imposing additional duties on probation officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(2)Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and authorizes the state to annually allocate moneys into a State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities, as specified.
This bill would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish. The bill would require that the incentive payments be made available to the board of supervisors of a county for purposes of a community mental health program. The bill would require the board of supervisors to use the incentive payments to provide adult offenders subject to local supervision and those at risk of arrest or incarceration with treatment services through community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated to reduce recidivism among those individuals, as specified. services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
The bill would require the Judicial Council, at specified intervals and in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to provide a report to the Department of Finance containing specified statistics regarding felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county and related statistics regarding the population in each county receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.
The bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, among other things, the amount of the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments for a county, as calculated pursuant to a prescribed formula based, in part, on the countys successful reduction in the number of adults with mental illness who are sent to state prison and the corresponding savings to the state.
(3)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 the statutory provisions noted above.
(1)Existing law generally requires, if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court to immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person. Existing law also authorizes, when a defendant has been granted probation, the court to impose conditions of probation, including, among others, that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition.
This bill would require, upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer to include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. The bill would prohibit a finding that the defendant suffers from has a mental disorder, any progress report concerning his or her treatment, or any other record related to a mental disorder from being used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The bill would also require the court, when the probation report specified that the circumstances described above are present, to consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration. By imposing additional duties on probation officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(2)Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and authorizes the state to annually allocate moneys into a State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities, as specified.
This bill would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish. The bill would require that the incentive payments be made available to the board of supervisors of a county for purposes of a community mental health program. The bill would require the board of supervisors to use the incentive payments to provide adult offenders subject to local supervision and those at risk of arrest or incarceration with treatment services through community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated to reduce recidivism among those individuals, as specified.
The bill would require the Judicial Council, at specified intervals and in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to provide a report to the Department of Finance containing specified statistics regarding felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county and related statistics regarding the population in each county receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.
The bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, among other things, the amount of the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments for a county, as calculated pursuant to a prescribed formula based, in part, on the countys successful reduction in the number of adults with mental illness who are sent to state prison and the corresponding savings to the state.
(3)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 the statutory provisions noted above.
(1)Existing law generally requires, if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court to immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person. Existing law also authorizes, when a defendant has been granted probation, the court to impose conditions of probation, including, among others, that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition.
This bill would require, upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer to include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. The bill would prohibit a finding that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, any progress report concerning his or her treatment, or any other record related to a mental disorder from being used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The bill would also require the court, when the probation report specified that the circumstances described above are present, to consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration. By imposing additional duties on probation officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(2)Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and authorizes the state to annually allocate moneys into a State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities, as specified.
This bill would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish. The bill would require that the incentive payments be made available to the board of supervisors of a county for purposes of a community mental health program. The bill would require the board of supervisors to use the incentive payments to provide adult offenders subject to local supervision and those at risk of arrest or incarceration with treatment services through community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated to reduce recidivism among those individuals, as specified.
The bill would require the Judicial Council, at specified intervals and in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county, among others, county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to provide a quarterly report to the Department of Finance containing specified statistics regarding felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county and related statistics regarding the population in each county receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.
The bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, among other things, the amount of the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments for a county, as calculated pursuant to a prescribed formula based, in part, on the countys successful reduction in the number of mentally ill offenders adults with mental illness who are incarcerated in sent to state prison and the corresponding savings to the state.
(3)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 the statutory provisions noted above.
(1)Existing law generally requires, if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court to immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person. Existing law also authorizes, when a defendant has been granted probation, the court to impose conditions of probation, including, among others, that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition.
This bill would require, upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer to include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. The bill would prohibit a finding that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, any progress report concerning his or her treatment, or any other record related to a mental disorder from being used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The bill would also require the court, when the probation report specified that the circumstances described above are present, to consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration. By imposing additional duties on probation officers, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(2)Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, authorizes each county to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund, and authorizes the state to annually allocate moneys into a State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities, as specified.
This bill would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish. The bill would require that the incentive payments be made available to the board of supervisors of a county for purposes of a community mental health program. The bill would require the board of supervisors to use the incentive payments to provide adult offenders subject to local supervision with treatment services through community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated to reduce recidivism among those individuals, as specified.
The bill would require the Judicial Council, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county, among others, to provide a quarterly report to the Department of Finance containing specified statistics regarding felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county and related statistics regarding the population in each county receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.
The bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, among other things, the amount of the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments for a county, as calculated pursuant to a prescribed formula based, in part, on the countys successful reduction in the number of mentally ill offenders who are incarcerated in state prison and the corresponding savings to the state.
(3)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 the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law prohibits a person from being tried, adjudged to punishment, or having his or her probation, mandatory supervision, postrelease community supervision, or parole revoked while that person is mentally incompetent. Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that ensures a defendants history of mental illness will inform case processing and the nature of any criminal charges. The bill would also declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that incentivizes counties to provide community-based mental health services by sharing with counties the states cost savings from reduced prison admissions of people with mental illness and to direct counties to invest these cost savings in additional mental health services.Existing law prohibits a person from being tried, adjudged to punishment, or having his or her probation, mandatory supervision, postrelease community supervision, or parole revoked while that person is mentally incompetent. Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that ensures a defendants history of mental illness will inform case processing and the nature of any criminal charges. The bill would also declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that incentivizes counties to provide community-based mental health services by sharing with counties the states cost savings from reduced prison admissions of people with mental illness and to direct counties to invest these cost savings in additional mental health services.
(a)As used in this code, probation means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a probation officer. As used in this code, conditional sentence means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of revocable release in the community subject to conditions established by the court without the supervision of a probation officer. It is the intent of the Legislature that both conditional sentence and probation are authorized whenever probation is authorized in any law as a sentencing option for infractions or misdemeanors.
(b)(1)Except as provided in subdivision (j), if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment.
(2)(A)The probation officer shall immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted.
(B)Pursuant to Section 828 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the probation officer shall include in his or her report any information gathered by a law enforcement agency relating to the taking of the defendant into custody as a minor, which shall be considered for purposes of determining whether adjudications of commissions of crimes as a juvenile warrant a finding that there are circumstances in aggravation pursuant to Section 1170 of this code or to deny probation.
(C)If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation report recommends that registration be ordered at sentencing pursuant to Section 290.006, the probation officers report shall include the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable.
(D)A defendant may provide documentation to the court that he or she is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. A finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendants treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The court shall consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
(E)The probation officer may also include in the report his or her recommendation of both of the following:
(i)The amount the defendant should be required to pay as a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(ii)Whether the court shall require, as a condition of probation, restitution to the victim or to the Restitution Fund and the amount thereof.
(F)The report shall be made available to the court and the prosecuting and defense attorneys at least five days, or upon request of the defendant or prosecuting attorney nine days, prior to the time fixed by the court for the hearing and determination of the report, and shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case at the time of the hearing. The time within which the report shall be made available and filed may be waived by written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court.
(3)At a time fixed by the court, the court shall hear and determine the application, if one has been made, or, in any case, the suitability of probation in the particular case. At the hearing, the court shall consider any report of the probation officer, including the results of the SARATSO, if applicable, and shall make a statement that it has considered the report, which shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case. If the court determines that there are circumstances in mitigation of the punishment prescribed by law or that the ends of justice would be served by granting probation to the person, it may place the person on probation. If probation is denied, the clerk of the court shall immediately send a copy of the report to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at the prison or other institution to which the person is delivered.
(4)The preparation of the report or the consideration of the report by the court may be waived only by a written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court, except that a waiver shall not be allowed unless the court consents thereto. However, if the defendant is ultimately sentenced and committed to the state prison, a probation report shall be completed pursuant to Section 1203c.
(c)If a defendant is not represented by an attorney, the court shall order the probation officer who makes the probation report to discuss its contents with the defendant.
(d)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, the court may either refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation and a report or summarily pronounce a conditional sentence. If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation officer recommends that the court, at sentencing, order the offender to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290.006, the court shall refer the matter to the probation officer for the purpose of obtaining a report on the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable, which the court shall consider. If the case is not referred to the probation officer, in sentencing the person, the court may consider any information concerning the person that could have been included in a probation report. The court shall inform the person of the information to be considered and permit him or her to answer or controvert the information. For this purpose, upon the request of the person, the court shall grant a continuance before the judgment is pronounced.
(e)Except in unusual cases where the interests of justice would best be served if the person is granted probation, probation shall not be granted to any of the following persons:
(1)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon, other than a firearm, at the time of the perpetration of the crime or his or her arrest, any person who has been convicted of arson, robbery, carjacking, burglary, burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes and who was armed with the weapon at either of those times.
(2)Any person who used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(3)Any person who willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(4)Any person who has been previously convicted twice in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony.
(5)Unless the person has never been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, any person who has been convicted of burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, extortion, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, a violation of Section 286, 288, 288a, or 288.5, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes.
(6)Any person who has been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, if he or she committed any of the following acts:
(A)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon at the time of the perpetration of the previous crime or his or her arrest for the previous crime, he or she was armed with a weapon at either of those times.
(B)The person used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the previous crime.
(C)The person willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the previous crime.
(7)Any public official or peace officer of this state or any city, county, or other political subdivision who, in the discharge of the duties of his or her public office or employment, accepted or gave or offered to accept or give any bribe, embezzled public money, or was guilty of extortion.
(8)Any person who knowingly furnishes or gives away phencyclidine.
(9)Any person who intentionally inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of arson under subdivision (a) of Section 451 or who intentionally set fire to, burned, or caused the burning of, an inhabited structure or inhabited property in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 451.
(10)Any person who, in the commission of a felony, inflicts great bodily injury or causes the death of a human being by the discharge of a firearm from or at an occupied motor vehicle proceeding on a public street or highway.
(11)Any person who possesses a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun under Section 33215, a machinegun under Section 32625, or a silencer under Section 33410.
(12)Any person who is convicted of violating Section 8101 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(13)Any person who is described in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 27590.
(f)When probation is granted in a case which comes within subdivision (e), the court shall specify on the record and shall enter on the minutes the circumstances indicating that the interests of justice would best be served by that disposition.
(g)If a person is not eligible for probation, the judge shall refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation of the facts relevant to determination of the amount of a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4 in all cases where the determination is applicable. The judge, in his or her discretion, may direct the probation officer to investigate all facts relevant to the sentencing of the person. Upon that referral, the probation officer shall immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior record and history of the person and make a written report to the court of his or her findings. The findings shall include a recommendation of the amount of the restitution fine as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(h)If a defendant is convicted of a felony and a probation report is prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) or (g), the probation officer may obtain and include in the report a statement of the comments of the victim concerning the offense. The court may direct the probation officer not to obtain a statement if the victim has in fact testified at any of the court proceedings concerning the offense.
(i)A probationer shall not be released to enter another state unless his or her case has been referred to the Administrator of the Interstate Probation and Parole Compacts, pursuant to the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Probationer or Parolee Supervision (Article 3 (commencing with Section 11175) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4) and the probationer has reimbursed the county that has jurisdiction over his or her probation case the reasonable costs of processing his or her request for interstate compact supervision. The amount and method of reimbursement shall be in accordance with Section 1203.1b.
(j)In any court where a county financial evaluation officer is available, in addition to referring the matter to the probation officer, the court may order the defendant to appear before the county financial evaluation officer for a financial evaluation of the defendants ability to pay restitution, in which case the county financial evaluation officer shall report his or her findings regarding restitution and other court-related costs to the probation officer on the question of the defendants ability to pay those costs.
Any order made pursuant to this subdivision may be enforced as a violation of the terms and conditions of probation upon willful failure to pay and at the discretion of the court, may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment in a civil action, if any balance remains unpaid at the end of the defendants probationary period.
(k)Probation shall not be granted to, nor shall the execution of, or imposition of, sentence be suspended for, any person who is convicted of a violent felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5, or a serious felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7, and who was on probation for a felony offense at the time of the commission of the new felony offense.
(l)For any person granted probation prior to January 1, 2021, at the time the court imposes probation, the court may take a waiver from the defendant permitting flash incarceration by the probation officer, pursuant to Section 1203.35.
SEC. 2.Section 1203.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1203.1.(a)The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation, may suspend the imposition or the execution of the sentence and may direct that the suspension may continue for a period of time not exceeding the maximum possible term of the sentence, except as hereinafter set forth, and upon those terms and conditions as it shall determine. The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation and as a condition thereof, may imprison the defendant in a county jail for a period not exceeding the maximum time fixed by law in the case.
However, where the maximum possible term of the sentence is five years or less, then the period of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence may, in the discretion of the court, continue for not over five years. The following conditions apply to this subdivision:
(1)The court may fine the defendant in a sum not to exceed the maximum fine provided by law in the case.
(2)The court may, in connection with granting probation, impose either imprisonment in a county jail or a fine, both, or neither.
(3)The court shall provide for restitution in proper cases. The restitution order shall be fully enforceable as a civil judgment forthwith and in accordance with Section 1202.4.
(4)The court may require bonds for the faithful observance and performance of any or all of the conditions of probation.
(b)The court shall consider whether the defendant as a condition of probation shall make restitution to the victim or the Restitution Fund. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of cash or money order shall be forwarded to the victim within 30 days from the date the payment is received by the department. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of a check or draft shall be forwarded to the victim within 45 days from the date the payment is received, provided, that payment need not be forwarded to a victim until 180 days from the date the first payment is received, if the restitution payments for that victim received by the court or probation department total less than fifty dollars ($50). In cases where the court has ordered the defendant to pay restitution to multiple victims and where the administrative cost of disbursing restitution payments to multiple victims involves a significant cost, any restitution payment received by a probation department shall be forwarded to multiple victims when it is cost effective to do so, but in no event shall restitution disbursements be delayed beyond 180 days from the date the payment is received by the probation department.
(c)In a city, county, or city and county where road camps, farms, or other public work is available, the court may place the probationer in the road camp, farm, or other public work instead of in jail. In this case, Section 25359 of the Government Code shall apply to probation and the court shall have the same power to require adult probationers to work, as prisoners confined in the county jail are required to work, at public work. Each county board of supervisors may fix the scale of compensation of the adult probationers in that county.
(d)In all cases of probation the court may require as a condition of probation that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition, to keep an account of his or her earnings, to report them to the probation officer and apply those earnings as directed by the court.
(e)The court shall also consider whether the defendant, as a condition of probation, shall make restitution to a public agency for the costs of an emergency response pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Government Code.
(f)In all felony cases in which, as a condition of probation, a judge of the superior court sitting by authority of law elsewhere than at the county seat requires a convicted person to serve his or her sentence at intermittent periods, the sentence may be served on the order of the judge at the city jail nearest to the place at which the court is sitting, and the cost of his or her maintenance shall be a county charge.
(g)(1)The court and prosecuting attorney shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the removal of graffiti in the performance of the community service. For the purpose of this subdivision, a nonserious offense shall not include the following:
(A)Offenses in violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Law, as defined in Section 23500.
(B)Offenses involving the use of a dangerous or deadly weapon, including all violations of Section 417.
(C)Offenses involving the use or attempted use of violence against the person of another or involving injury to a victim.
(D)Offenses involving annoying or molesting children.
(2)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), any person who violates Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29610) of Division 9 of Title 4 of Part 6 shall be ordered to perform not less than 100 hours and not more than 500 hours of community service as a condition of probation.
(3)The court and the prosecuting attorney need not consider a defendant pursuant to paragraph (1) if the following circumstances exist:
(A)The defendant was convicted of any offense set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 or subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7.
(B)The judge believes that the public safety may be endangered if the person is ordered to do community service or the judge believes that the facts or circumstances or facts and circumstances call for imposition of a more substantial penalty.
(h)The probation officer or his or her designated representative shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent and nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the performance of house repairs or yard services for senior citizens and the performance of repairs to senior centers through contact with local senior service organizations in the performance of the community service.
(i)(1)Upon conviction of any offense involving child abuse or neglect, the court may require, in addition to any or all of the above-mentioned terms of imprisonment, fine, and other reasonable conditions, that the defendant shall participate in counseling or education programs, or both, including, but not limited to, parent education or parenting programs operated by community colleges, school districts, other public agencies, or private agencies.
(2)Upon conviction of any sex offense subjecting the defendant to the registration requirements of Section 290, the court may order as a condition of probation, at the request of the victim or in the courts discretion, that the defendant stay away from the victim and the victims residence or place of employment, and that the defendant have no contact with the victim in person, by telephone or electronic means, or by mail.
(j)The court may impose and require any or all of the terms of imprisonment, fine, and conditions, as specified in this section, and other reasonable conditions, as it may determine are fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, for any injury done to any person resulting from that breach, and generally and specifically for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer. If the probationer violates any of the terms or conditions imposed by the court in the matter, the court has the authority to modify and change any and all the terms and conditions and to reimprison the probationer in the county jail within the limitations of the penalty of the public offense involved. Upon the defendant being released from the county jail under the terms of probation as originally granted or any modification subsequently made, and in all cases where confinement in a county jail has not been a condition of the grant of probation, the court shall place the defendant or probationer in and under the charge of the probation officer of the court, for the period or term fixed for probation. However, upon the payment of any fine imposed and the fulfillment of all conditions of probation, probation shall cease at the end of the term of probation, or sooner, in the event of modification. In counties and cities and counties in which there are facilities for taking fingerprints, those of each probationer shall be taken and a record of them kept and preserved.
(k)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, except as provided in Section 13967, as operative on or before September 28, 1994, of the Government Code and Section 13967.5 of the Government Code and Sections 1202.4, 1463.16, paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1463.18, and Section 1464, and Section 1203.04 of this code, as operative on or before August 2, 1995, all fines collected by a county probation officer in any of the courts of this state, as a condition of the granting of probation or as a part of the terms of probation, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed in the general fund for the use and benefit of the county.
(l)If the court orders restitution to be made to the victim, the entity collecting the restitution may add a fee to cover the actual administrative cost of collection, but not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount ordered to be paid. The amount of the fee shall be set by the board of supervisors if it is collected by the county and the fee collected shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury for the use and benefit of the county. The amount of the fee shall be set by the court if it is collected by the court and the fee collected shall be paid into the Trial Court Operations Fund or account established by Section 77009 of the Government Code for the use and benefit of the court.
SEC. 3.Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1233.51) is added to Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, to read:3.5.County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program1233.51.(a)Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each county treasury a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, to receive all amounts allocated to that county for purposes of implementing this chapter.
(b)Notwithstanding any other law, in any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for the implementation of this chapter, the moneys, including any interest, shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county, within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund, for the implementation of the community mental health program authorized by this chapter.
(1)The community mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership formed pursuant to Section 1230 and the behavioral health department of that county.
(2)Funds allocated to the board of supervisors pursuant to this chapter shall be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and to the extent that funds are available shall be spent on community-based services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
(3)Each county receiving funds under this chapter shall maintain a complete and accurate accounting of all funds received pursuant to this chapter.
1233.52.(a)The Judicial Council shall, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance, including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:(1)The number of felony filings.(2)The number of felony convictions.(3)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.(4)The number of felony convictions in each county in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.(5)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation.(6)The adult felon probation population.(7)The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.(b)In the first year of implementation the report required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted quarterly. After the first year, the report shall be submitted biannually.1233.52.(a)By December 31, 2019, and by December 31 of each calendar year, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall report to the Department of Finance the number of inmates per county sentenced in that calendar year to imprisonment in the state prison that were placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
(b)The number of inmates described in subdivision (a) who entered state prison between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018, as reported on January 1, 2019, shall serve as the baseline for the funding formula described in Section 1233.53.
1233.53.After Beginning January 1, 2020, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director Department of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, Counties, shall calculate the following for that calendar year:
(a)The average cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services and is sent to prison. an inmate with mental illness.
(b)The total statewide number of inmates in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year.(c)The total number of inmates described in subdivision (b) from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission. (d)(b)An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. For each county, this estimate shall be calculated based on the reduction in the number of inmates described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 for that year from the number in the previous year. of inmates who entered state prison between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018, as described in subdivision (b) of Section 1233.52. This estimate shall not include persons who were prevented from being incarcerated in state prison due to statewide changes to sentencing laws.
1233.54.(a)Annually, the Director Department of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the California State Association of Counties, shall calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year. The mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison, as provided in subdivision (d) (b) of Section 1233.53, multiplied by 35 percent of the states average costs to incarcerate a prison felony offender in a contract facility, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 1233.53. 50 percent of the average cost to incarcerate an inmate with mental illness, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1233.53.
(b)If data of sufficient quality and of the types required for implementation of this chapter are not available to the Department of Finance, the Department of Finance shall, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent with that described in this chapter as is reasonably possible.
1233.55.If data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of this chapter are not available to the Director of Finance, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent with that described in this chapter as is reasonably possible.1233.56.(a)A mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment calculated pursuant to Section 1233.54 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year. The total annual payment to a county shall be divided into four equal quarterly payments.(b)The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governors proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in April and May of each year.(c)There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments authorized pursuant to Section 1233.54 shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council, and the share calculated for each county board of supervisors shall be transferred to its Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, authorized in Section 1233.51.(d)For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to this section and Section 1233.54, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.1233.57.(a)A county receiving funding pursuant to this chapter shall submit a report to the Judicial Council and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California describing how it plans on using the funds to enhance its ability to be successful under this chapter. Commencing January 1, 2020, a county that fails to submit this report by March 1 annually shall not receive funding pursuant to this chapter in the subsequent fiscal year.(b)A county that fails to provide the information specified in Section 1233.52 to the Judicial Council shall not be eligible for payment pursuant to this chapter.1233.58.Any moneys appropriated pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.1233.55.(a)A mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment calculated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1233.54 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year.
(b)The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governors proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by the Department of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the California State Association of Counties. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in April and May of each year.
(c)There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1233.54 shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Department of Finance, and the share calculated for each county board of supervisors shall be transferred to its Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, authorized in Section 1233.51.
(d)For each fiscal year, the Department of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to this section and Section 1233.54, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
1233.56.A county receiving funding pursuant to this chapter shall submit a report to the Judicial Council and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California describing how it plans on using the funds to enhance its ability to be successful under this chapter. Commencing January 1, 2020, a county that fails to submit this report by March 1 annually shall not receive funding pursuant to this chapter in the subsequent fiscal year.
1233.57.Any moneys appropriated pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, sheriffs department, or county department of behavioral health.
1233.58.The department shall contract with a nonprofit research entity, university, or college to evaluate the effectiveness of this chapter. The evaluation design shall include assessment of the effectiveness of county procedures to reduce the number of inmates sent to state prison who enter into the mental health delivery system and assess the impact of any other changes to sentencing which may have impacted prison population reductions. By January 1, 2024, a report of the findings shall be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature pursuant to Section 9795 of the Government Code.
1233.59.This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2025, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2025, deletes or extends that date.
(a)As used in this code, probation means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a probation officer. As used in this code, conditional sentence means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of revocable release in the community subject to conditions established by the court without the supervision of a probation officer. It is the intent of the Legislature that both conditional sentence and probation are authorized whenever probation is authorized in any law as a sentencing option for infractions or misdemeanors.
(b)(1)Except as provided in subdivision (j), if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment.
(2)(A)The probation officer shall immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted.
(B)Pursuant to Section 828 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the probation officer shall include in his or her report any information gathered by a law enforcement agency relating to the taking of the defendant into custody as a minor, which shall be considered for purposes of determining whether adjudications of commissions of crimes as a juvenile warrant a finding that there are circumstances in aggravation pursuant to Section 1170 of this code or to deny probation.
(C)If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation report recommends that registration be ordered at sentencing pursuant to Section 290.006, the probation officers report shall include the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable.
(D)A defendant may provide documentation to the court that he or she is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. A finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendants treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The court shall consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
(E)The probation officer may also include in the report his or her recommendation of both of the following:
(i)The amount the defendant should be required to pay as a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(ii)Whether the court shall require, as a condition of probation, restitution to the victim or to the Restitution Fund and the amount thereof.
(F)The report shall be made available to the court and the prosecuting and defense attorneys at least five days, or upon request of the defendant or prosecuting attorney nine days, prior to the time fixed by the court for the hearing and determination of the report, and shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case at the time of the hearing. The time within which the report shall be made available and filed may be waived by written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court.
(3)At a time fixed by the court, the court shall hear and determine the application, if one has been made, or, in any case, the suitability of probation in the particular case. At the hearing, the court shall consider any report of the probation officer, including the results of the SARATSO, if applicable, and shall make a statement that it has considered the report, which shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case. If the court determines that there are circumstances in mitigation of the punishment prescribed by law or that the ends of justice would be served by granting probation to the person, it may place the person on probation. If probation is denied, the clerk of the court shall immediately send a copy of the report to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at the prison or other institution to which the person is delivered.
(4)The preparation of the report or the consideration of the report by the court may be waived only by a written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court, except that a waiver shall not be allowed unless the court consents thereto. However, if the defendant is ultimately sentenced and committed to the state prison, a probation report shall be completed pursuant to Section 1203c.
(c)If a defendant is not represented by an attorney, the court shall order the probation officer who makes the probation report to discuss its contents with the defendant.
(d)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, the court may either refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation and a report or summarily pronounce a conditional sentence. If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation officer recommends that the court, at sentencing, order the offender to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290.006, the court shall refer the matter to the probation officer for the purpose of obtaining a report on the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable, which the court shall consider. If the case is not referred to the probation officer, in sentencing the person, the court may consider any information concerning the person that could have been included in a probation report. The court shall inform the person of the information to be considered and permit him or her to answer or controvert the information. For this purpose, upon the request of the person, the court shall grant a continuance before the judgment is pronounced.
(e)Except in unusual cases where the interests of justice would best be served if the person is granted probation, probation shall not be granted to any of the following persons:
(1)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon, other than a firearm, at the time of the perpetration of the crime or his or her arrest, any person who has been convicted of arson, robbery, carjacking, burglary, burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes and who was armed with the weapon at either of those times.
(2)Any person who used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(3)Any person who willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(4)Any person who has been previously convicted twice in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony.
(5)Unless the person has never been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, any person who has been convicted of burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, extortion, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, a violation of Section 286, 288, 288a, or 288.5, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes.
(6)Any person who has been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, if he or she committed any of the following acts:
(A)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon at the time of the perpetration of the previous crime or his or her arrest for the previous crime, he or she was armed with a weapon at either of those times.
(B)The person used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the previous crime.
(C)The person willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the previous crime.
(7)Any public official or peace officer of this state or any city, county, or other political subdivision who, in the discharge of the duties of his or her public office or employment, accepted or gave or offered to accept or give any bribe, embezzled public money, or was guilty of extortion.
(8)Any person who knowingly furnishes or gives away phencyclidine.
(9)Any person who intentionally inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of arson under subdivision (a) of Section 451 or who intentionally set fire to, burned, or caused the burning of, an inhabited structure or inhabited property in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 451.
(10)Any person who, in the commission of a felony, inflicts great bodily injury or causes the death of a human being by the discharge of a firearm from or at an occupied motor vehicle proceeding on a public street or highway.
(11)Any person who possesses a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun under Section 33215, a machinegun under Section 32625, or a silencer under Section 33410.
(12)Any person who is convicted of violating Section 8101 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(13)Any person who is described in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 27590.
(f)When probation is granted in a case which comes within subdivision (e), the court shall specify on the record and shall enter on the minutes the circumstances indicating that the interests of justice would best be served by that disposition.
(g)If a person is not eligible for probation, the judge shall refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation of the facts relevant to determination of the amount of a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4 in all cases where the determination is applicable. The judge, in his or her discretion, may direct the probation officer to investigate all facts relevant to the sentencing of the person. Upon that referral, the probation officer shall immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior record and history of the person and make a written report to the court of his or her findings. The findings shall include a recommendation of the amount of the restitution fine as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(h)If a defendant is convicted of a felony and a probation report is prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) or (g), the probation officer may obtain and include in the report a statement of the comments of the victim concerning the offense. The court may direct the probation officer not to obtain a statement if the victim has in fact testified at any of the court proceedings concerning the offense.
(i)A probationer shall not be released to enter another state unless his or her case has been referred to the Administrator of the Interstate Probation and Parole Compacts, pursuant to the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Probationer or Parolee Supervision (Article 3 (commencing with Section 11175) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4) and the probationer has reimbursed the county that has jurisdiction over his or her probation case the reasonable costs of processing his or her request for interstate compact supervision. The amount and method of reimbursement shall be in accordance with Section 1203.1b.
(j)In any court where a county financial evaluation officer is available, in addition to referring the matter to the probation officer, the court may order the defendant to appear before the county financial evaluation officer for a financial evaluation of the defendants ability to pay restitution, in which case the county financial evaluation officer shall report his or her findings regarding restitution and other court-related costs to the probation officer on the question of the defendants ability to pay those costs.
Any order made pursuant to this subdivision may be enforced as a violation of the terms and conditions of probation upon willful failure to pay and at the discretion of the court, may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment in a civil action, if any balance remains unpaid at the end of the defendants probationary period.
(k)Probation shall not be granted to, nor shall the execution of, or imposition of, sentence be suspended for, any person who is convicted of a violent felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5, or a serious felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7, and who was on probation for a felony offense at the time of the commission of the new felony offense.
(l)For any person granted probation prior to January 1, 2021, at the time the court imposes probation, the court may take a waiver from the defendant permitting flash incarceration by the probation officer, pursuant to Section 1203.35.
SEC. 2.Section 1203.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1203.1.(a)The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation, may suspend the imposition or the execution of the sentence and may direct that the suspension may continue for a period of time not exceeding the maximum possible term of the sentence, except as hereinafter set forth, and upon those terms and conditions as it shall determine. The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation and as a condition thereof, may imprison the defendant in a county jail for a period not exceeding the maximum time fixed by law in the case.
However, where the maximum possible term of the sentence is five years or less, then the period of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence may, in the discretion of the court, continue for not over five years. The following conditions apply to this subdivision:
(1)The court may fine the defendant in a sum not to exceed the maximum fine provided by law in the case.
(2)The court may, in connection with granting probation, impose either imprisonment in a county jail or a fine, both, or neither.
(3)The court shall provide for restitution in proper cases. The restitution order shall be fully enforceable as a civil judgment forthwith and in accordance with Section 1202.4.
(4)The court may require bonds for the faithful observance and performance of any or all of the conditions of probation.
(b)The court shall consider whether the defendant as a condition of probation shall make restitution to the victim or the Restitution Fund. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of cash or money order shall be forwarded to the victim within 30 days from the date the payment is received by the department. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of a check or draft shall be forwarded to the victim within 45 days from the date the payment is received, provided, that payment need not be forwarded to a victim until 180 days from the date the first payment is received, if the restitution payments for that victim received by the court or probation department total less than fifty dollars ($50). In cases where the court has ordered the defendant to pay restitution to multiple victims and where the administrative cost of disbursing restitution payments to multiple victims involves a significant cost, any restitution payment received by a probation department shall be forwarded to multiple victims when it is cost effective to do so, but in no event shall restitution disbursements be delayed beyond 180 days from the date the payment is received by the probation department.
(c)In a city, county, or city and county where road camps, farms, or other public work is available, the court may place the probationer in the road camp, farm, or other public work instead of in jail. In this case, Section 25359 of the Government Code shall apply to probation and the court shall have the same power to require adult probationers to work, as prisoners confined in the county jail are required to work, at public work. Each county board of supervisors may fix the scale of compensation of the adult probationers in that county.
(d)In all cases of probation the court may require as a condition of probation that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition, to keep an account of his or her earnings, to report them to the probation officer and apply those earnings as directed by the court.
(e)The court shall also consider whether the defendant, as a condition of probation, shall make restitution to a public agency for the costs of an emergency response pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Government Code.
(f)In all felony cases in which, as a condition of probation, a judge of the superior court sitting by authority of law elsewhere than at the county seat requires a convicted person to serve his or her sentence at intermittent periods, the sentence may be served on the order of the judge at the city jail nearest to the place at which the court is sitting, and the cost of his or her maintenance shall be a county charge.
(g)(1)The court and prosecuting attorney shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the removal of graffiti in the performance of the community service. For the purpose of this subdivision, a nonserious offense shall not include the following:
(A)Offenses in violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Law, as defined in Section 23500.
(B)Offenses involving the use of a dangerous or deadly weapon, including all violations of Section 417.
(C)Offenses involving the use or attempted use of violence against the person of another or involving injury to a victim.
(D)Offenses involving annoying or molesting children.
(2)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), any person who violates Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29610) of Division 9 of Title 4 of Part 6 shall be ordered to perform not less than 100 hours and not more than 500 hours of community service as a condition of probation.
(3)The court and the prosecuting attorney need not consider a defendant pursuant to paragraph (1) if the following circumstances exist:
(A)The defendant was convicted of any offense set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 or subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7.
(B)The judge believes that the public safety may be endangered if the person is ordered to do community service or the judge believes that the facts or circumstances or facts and circumstances call for imposition of a more substantial penalty.
(h)The probation officer or his or her designated representative shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent and nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the performance of house repairs or yard services for senior citizens and the performance of repairs to senior centers through contact with local senior service organizations in the performance of the community service.
(i)(1)Upon conviction of any offense involving child abuse or neglect, the court may require, in addition to any or all of the above-mentioned terms of imprisonment, fine, and other reasonable conditions, that the defendant shall participate in counseling or education programs, or both, including, but not limited to, parent education or parenting programs operated by community colleges, school districts, other public agencies, or private agencies.
(2)Upon conviction of any sex offense subjecting the defendant to the registration requirements of Section 290, the court may order as a condition of probation, at the request of the victim or in the courts discretion, that the defendant stay away from the victim and the victims residence or place of employment, and that the defendant have no contact with the victim in person, by telephone or electronic means, or by mail.
(j)The court may impose and require any or all of the terms of imprisonment, fine, and conditions, as specified in this section, and other reasonable conditions, as it may determine are fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, for any injury done to any person resulting from that breach, and generally and specifically for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer. If the probationer violates any of the terms or conditions imposed by the court in the matter, the court has the authority to modify and change any and all the terms and conditions and to reimprison the probationer in the county jail within the limitations of the penalty of the public offense involved. Upon the defendant being released from the county jail under the terms of probation as originally granted or any modification subsequently made, and in all cases where confinement in a county jail has not been a condition of the grant of probation, the court shall place the defendant or probationer in and under the charge of the probation officer of the court, for the period or term fixed for probation. However, upon the payment of any fine imposed and the fulfillment of all conditions of probation, probation shall cease at the end of the term of probation, or sooner, in the event of modification. In counties and cities and counties in which there are facilities for taking fingerprints, those of each probationer shall be taken and a record of them kept and preserved.
(k)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, except as provided in Section 13967, as operative on or before September 28, 1994, of the Government Code and Section 13967.5 of the Government Code and Sections 1202.4, 1463.16, paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1463.18, and Section 1464, and Section 1203.04 of this code, as operative on or before August 2, 1995, all fines collected by a county probation officer in any of the courts of this state, as a condition of the granting of probation or as a part of the terms of probation, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed in the general fund for the use and benefit of the county.
(l)If the court orders restitution to be made to the victim, the entity collecting the restitution may add a fee to cover the actual administrative cost of collection, but not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount ordered to be paid. The amount of the fee shall be set by the board of supervisors if it is collected by the county and the fee collected shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury for the use and benefit of the county. The amount of the fee shall be set by the court if it is collected by the court and the fee collected shall be paid into the Trial Court Operations Fund or account established by Section 77009 of the Government Code for the use and benefit of the court.
SEC. 3.Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1233.51) is added to Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, to read:3.5.County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program1233.51.(a)Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each county treasury a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, to receive all amounts allocated to that county for purposes of implementing this chapter.
(b)Notwithstanding any other law, in any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for the implementation of this chapter, the moneys, including any interest, shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county, within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund, for the implementation of the community mental health program authorized by this chapter.
(1)The community mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership formed pursuant to Section 1230 and the behavioral health department of that county.
(2)Funds allocated to the board of supervisors pursuant to this chapter shall be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and to the extent that funds are available shall be spent on community-based services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
(3)Each county receiving funds under this chapter shall maintain a complete and accurate accounting of all funds received pursuant to this chapter.
1233.52.(a)The Judicial Council shall, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance, including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
(1)The number of felony filings.
(2)The number of felony convictions.
(3)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.
(4)The number of felony convictions in each county in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(5)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation.
(6)The adult felon probation population.
(7)The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
(b)In the first year of implementation the report required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted quarterly. After the first year, the report shall be submitted biannually.
1233.53.After the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, shall calculate the following for that calendar year:
(a)The average cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services and is sent to prison.
(b)The total statewide number of inmates in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year.
(c)The total number of inmates described in subdivision (b) from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission.
(d)An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. For each county, this estimate shall be calculated based on the reduction in the number of inmates described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 for that year from the number in the previous year. This estimate shall not include persons who were prevented from being incarcerated in state prison due to statewide changes to sentencing laws.
(e)The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county. This rate shall be calculated as the number of individuals described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year as a percentage of the individuals described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year.(f)The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates described in subdivision (e) of all counties.1233.54.(a)(1)Annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53.(2)The calculation of the mental health incarceration rate described in paragraph (1) shall not include any individual sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision, or any individual described in subdivision (d), (h), or (k) of Section 1233.1 used to calculate the funds allocated to the Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund.(b)1233.54.Annually, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year. The mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53, multiplied by 35 percent of the states average costs to incarcerate a prison felony offender in a contract facility, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 1233.53.
1233.55.If data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of this chapter are not available to the Director of Finance, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent with that described in this chapter as is reasonably possible.
1233.56.(a)A mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year. The total annual payment to a county shall be divided into four equal quarterly payments.
(b)The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governors proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in April and May of each year.
(c)There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments authorized pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council, and the share calculated for each county board of supervisors shall be transferred to its Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, authorized in Section 1233.51.
(d)For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to this section and Section 1233.54, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
1233.57.(a)A county receiving funding pursuant to this chapter shall submit a report to the Judicial Council and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California describing how it plans on using the funds to enhance its ability to be successful under this chapter. Commencing January 1, 2018, 2020, a county that fails to submit this report by March 1 annually shall not receive funding pursuant to this chapter in the subsequent fiscal year.
(b)A county that fails to provide the information specified in Section 1233.52 to the Judicial Council shall not be eligible for payment pursuant to this chapter.
1233.58.Any moneys appropriated pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
(a)As used in this code, probation means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a probation officer. As used in this code, conditional sentence means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of revocable release in the community subject to conditions established by the court without the supervision of a probation officer. It is the intent of the Legislature that both conditional sentence and probation are authorized whenever probation is authorized in any law as a sentencing option for infractions or misdemeanors.
(b)(1)Except as provided in subdivision (j), if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment.
(2)(A)The probation officer shall immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted.
(B)Pursuant to Section 828 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the probation officer shall include in his or her report any information gathered by a law enforcement agency relating to the taking of the defendant into custody as a minor, which shall be considered for purposes of determining whether adjudications of commissions of crimes as a juvenile warrant a finding that there are circumstances in aggravation pursuant to Section 1170 of this code or to deny probation.
(C)If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation report recommends that registration be ordered at sentencing pursuant to Section 290.006, the probation officers report shall include the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable.
(D)Upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer shall include in his or her report whether the defendant A defendant may provide documentation to the court that he or she is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. A finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendants treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent. The court shall consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
(E)The probation officer may also include in the report his or her recommendation of both of the following:
(i)The amount the defendant should be required to pay as a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(ii)Whether the court shall require, as a condition of probation, restitution to the victim or to the Restitution Fund and the amount thereof.
(F)The report shall be made available to the court and the prosecuting and defense attorneys at least five days, or upon request of the defendant or prosecuting attorney nine days, prior to the time fixed by the court for the hearing and determination of the report, and shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case at the time of the hearing. The time within which the report shall be made available and filed may be waived by written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court.
(3)At a time fixed by the court, the court shall hear and determine the application, if one has been made, or, in any case, the suitability of probation in the particular case. At the hearing, the court shall consider any report of the probation officer, including the results of the SARATSO, if applicable, and shall make a statement that it has considered the report, which shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case. If the court determines that there are circumstances in mitigation of the punishment prescribed by law or that the ends of justice would be served by granting probation to the person, it may place the person on probation. If probation is denied, the clerk of the court shall immediately send a copy of the report to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at the prison or other institution to which the person is delivered.
(4)The preparation of the report or the consideration of the report by the court may be waived only by a written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court, except that a waiver shall not be allowed unless the court consents thereto. However, if the defendant is ultimately sentenced and committed to the state prison, a probation report shall be completed pursuant to Section 1203c.
(c)If a defendant is not represented by an attorney, the court shall order the probation officer who makes the probation report to discuss its contents with the defendant.
(d)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, the court may either refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation and a report or summarily pronounce a conditional sentence. If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation officer recommends that the court, at sentencing, order the offender to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290.006, the court shall refer the matter to the probation officer for the purpose of obtaining a report on the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable, which the court shall consider. If the case is not referred to the probation officer, in sentencing the person, the court may consider any information concerning the person that could have been included in a probation report. The court shall inform the person of the information to be considered and permit him or her to answer or controvert the information. For this purpose, upon the request of the person, the court shall grant a continuance before the judgment is pronounced.
(e)Except in unusual cases where the interests of justice would best be served if the person is granted probation, probation shall not be granted to any of the following persons:
(1)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon, other than a firearm, at the time of the perpetration of the crime or his or her arrest, any person who has been convicted of arson, robbery, carjacking, burglary, burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes and who was armed with the weapon at either of those times.
(2)Any person who used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(3)Any person who willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(4)Any person who has been previously convicted twice in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony.
(5)Unless the person has never been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, any person who has been convicted of burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, extortion, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, a violation of Section 286, 288, 288a, or 288.5, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes.
(6)Any person who has been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, if he or she committed any of the following acts:
(A)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon at the time of the perpetration of the previous crime or his or her arrest for the previous crime, he or she was armed with a weapon at either of those times.
(B)The person used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the previous crime.
(C)The person willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the previous crime.
(7)Any public official or peace officer of this state or any city, county, or other political subdivision who, in the discharge of the duties of his or her public office or employment, accepted or gave or offered to accept or give any bribe, embezzled public money, or was guilty of extortion.
(8)Any person who knowingly furnishes or gives away phencyclidine.
(9)Any person who intentionally inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of arson under subdivision (a) of Section 451 or who intentionally set fire to, burned, or caused the burning of, an inhabited structure or inhabited property in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 451.
(10)Any person who, in the commission of a felony, inflicts great bodily injury or causes the death of a human being by the discharge of a firearm from or at an occupied motor vehicle proceeding on a public street or highway.
(11)Any person who possesses a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun under Section 33215, a machinegun under Section 32625, or a silencer under Section 33410.
(12)Any person who is convicted of violating Section 8101 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(13)Any person who is described in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 27590.
(f)When probation is granted in a case which comes within subdivision (e), the court shall specify on the record and shall enter on the minutes the circumstances indicating that the interests of justice would best be served by that disposition.
(g)If a person is not eligible for probation, the judge shall refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation of the facts relevant to determination of the amount of a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4 in all cases where the determination is applicable. The judge, in his or her discretion, may direct the probation officer to investigate all facts relevant to the sentencing of the person. Upon that referral, the probation officer shall immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior record and history of the person and make a written report to the court of his or her findings. The findings shall include a recommendation of the amount of the restitution fine as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(h)If a defendant is convicted of a felony and a probation report is prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) or (g), the probation officer may obtain and include in the report a statement of the comments of the victim concerning the offense. The court may direct the probation officer not to obtain a statement if the victim has in fact testified at any of the court proceedings concerning the offense.
(i)A probationer shall not be released to enter another state unless his or her case has been referred to the Administrator of the Interstate Probation and Parole Compacts, pursuant to the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Probationer or Parolee Supervision (Article 3 (commencing with Section 11175) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4) and the probationer has reimbursed the county that has jurisdiction over his or her probation case the reasonable costs of processing his or her request for interstate compact supervision. The amount and method of reimbursement shall be in accordance with Section 1203.1b.
(j)In any court where a county financial evaluation officer is available, in addition to referring the matter to the probation officer, the court may order the defendant to appear before the county financial evaluation officer for a financial evaluation of the defendants ability to pay restitution, in which case the county financial evaluation officer shall report his or her findings regarding restitution and other court-related costs to the probation officer on the question of the defendants ability to pay those costs.
Any order made pursuant to this subdivision may be enforced as a violation of the terms and conditions of probation upon willful failure to pay and at the discretion of the court, may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment in a civil action, if any balance remains unpaid at the end of the defendants probationary period.
(k)Probation shall not be granted to, nor shall the execution of, or imposition of, sentence be suspended for, any person who is convicted of a violent felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5, or a serious felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7, and who was on probation for a felony offense at the time of the commission of the new felony offense.
(l)For any person granted probation prior to January 1, 2021, at the time the court imposes probation, the court may take a waiver from the defendant permitting flash incarceration by the probation officer, pursuant to Section 1203.35.
SEC. 2.Section 1203.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1203.1.(a)The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation, may suspend the imposition or the execution of the sentence and may direct that the suspension may continue for a period of time not exceeding the maximum possible term of the sentence, except as hereinafter set forth, and upon those terms and conditions as it shall determine. The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation and as a condition thereof, may imprison the defendant in a county jail for a period not exceeding the maximum time fixed by law in the case.
However, where the maximum possible term of the sentence is five years or less, then the period of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence may, in the discretion of the court, continue for not over five years. The following conditions apply to this subdivision:
(1)The court may fine the defendant in a sum not to exceed the maximum fine provided by law in the case.
(2)The court may, in connection with granting probation, impose either imprisonment in a county jail or a fine, both, or neither.
(3)The court shall provide for restitution in proper cases. The restitution order shall be fully enforceable as a civil judgment forthwith and in accordance with Section 1202.4.
(4)The court may require bonds for the faithful observance and performance of any or all of the conditions of probation.
(b)The court shall consider whether the defendant as a condition of probation shall make restitution to the victim or the Restitution Fund. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of cash or money order shall be forwarded to the victim within 30 days from the date the payment is received by the department. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of a check or draft shall be forwarded to the victim within 45 days from the date the payment is received, provided, that payment need not be forwarded to a victim until 180 days from the date the first payment is received, if the restitution payments for that victim received by the court or probation department total less than fifty dollars ($50). In cases where the court has ordered the defendant to pay restitution to multiple victims and where the administrative cost of disbursing restitution payments to multiple victims involves a significant cost, any restitution payment received by a probation department shall be forwarded to multiple victims when it is cost effective to do so, but in no event shall restitution disbursements be delayed beyond 180 days from the date the payment is received by the probation department.
(c)In a city, county, or city and county where road camps, farms, or other public work is available, the court may place the probationer in the road camp, farm, or other public work instead of in jail. In this case, Section 25359 of the Government Code shall apply to probation and the court shall have the same power to require adult probationers to work, as prisoners confined in the county jail are required to work, at public work. Each county board of supervisors may fix the scale of compensation of the adult probationers in that county.
(d)In all cases of probation the court may require as a condition of probation that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition, to keep an account of his or her earnings, to report them to the probation officer and apply those earnings as directed by the court.
(e)The court shall also consider whether the defendant, as a condition of probation, shall make restitution to a public agency for the costs of an emergency response pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Government Code.
(f)In all felony cases in which, as a condition of probation, a judge of the superior court sitting by authority of law elsewhere than at the county seat requires a convicted person to serve his or her sentence at intermittent periods, the sentence may be served on the order of the judge at the city jail nearest to the place at which the court is sitting, and the cost of his or her maintenance shall be a county charge.
(g)(1)The court and prosecuting attorney shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the removal of graffiti in the performance of the community service. For the purpose of this subdivision, a nonserious offense shall not include the following:
(A)Offenses in violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Law, as defined in Section 23500.
(B)Offenses involving the use of a dangerous or deadly weapon, including all violations of Section 417.
(C)Offenses involving the use or attempted use of violence against the person of another or involving injury to a victim.
(D)Offenses involving annoying or molesting children.
(2)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), any person who violates Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29610) of Division 9 of Title 4 of Part 6 shall be ordered to perform not less than 100 hours and not more than 500 hours of community service as a condition of probation.
(3)The court and the prosecuting attorney need not consider a defendant pursuant to paragraph (1) if the following circumstances exist:
(A)The defendant was convicted of any offense set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 or subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7.
(B)The judge believes that the public safety may be endangered if the person is ordered to do community service or the judge believes that the facts or circumstances or facts and circumstances call for imposition of a more substantial penalty.
(h)The probation officer or his or her designated representative shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent and nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the performance of house repairs or yard services for senior citizens and the performance of repairs to senior centers through contact with local senior service organizations in the performance of the community service.
(i)(1)Upon conviction of any offense involving child abuse or neglect, the court may require, in addition to any or all of the above-mentioned terms of imprisonment, fine, and other reasonable conditions, that the defendant shall participate in counseling or education programs, or both, including, but not limited to, parent education or parenting programs operated by community colleges, school districts, other public agencies, or private agencies.
(2)Upon conviction of any sex offense subjecting the defendant to the registration requirements of Section 290, the court may order as a condition of probation, at the request of the victim or in the courts discretion, that the defendant stay away from the victim and the victims residence or place of employment, and that the defendant have no contact with the victim in person, by telephone or electronic means, or by mail.
(j)The court may impose and require any or all of the terms of imprisonment, fine, and conditions, as specified in this section, and other reasonable conditions, as it may determine are fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, for any injury done to any person resulting from that breach, and generally and specifically for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer. If the probationer violates any of the terms or conditions imposed by the court in the matter, the court has the authority to modify and change any and all the terms and conditions and to reimprison the probationer in the county jail within the limitations of the penalty of the public offense involved. Upon the defendant being released from the county jail under the terms of probation as originally granted or any modification subsequently made, and in all cases where confinement in a county jail has not been a condition of the grant of probation, the court shall place the defendant or probationer in and under the charge of the probation officer of the court, for the period or term fixed for probation. However, upon the payment of any fine imposed and the fulfillment of all conditions of probation, probation shall cease at the end of the term of probation, or sooner, in the event of modification. In counties and cities and counties in which there are facilities for taking fingerprints, those of each probationer shall be taken and a record of them kept and preserved.
(k)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, except as provided in Section 13967, as operative on or before September 28, 1994, of the Government Code and Section 13967.5 of the Government Code and Sections 1202.4, 1463.16, paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1463.18, and Section 1464, and Section 1203.04 of this code, as operative on or before August 2, 1995, all fines collected by a county probation officer in any of the courts of this state, as a condition of the granting of probation or as a part of the terms of probation, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed in the general fund for the use and benefit of the county.
(l)If the court orders restitution to be made to the victim, the entity collecting the restitution may add a fee to cover the actual administrative cost of collection, but not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount ordered to be paid. The amount of the fee shall be set by the board of supervisors if it is collected by the county and the fee collected shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury for the use and benefit of the county. The amount of the fee shall be set by the court if it is collected by the court and the fee collected shall be paid into the Trial Court Operations Fund or account established by Section 77009 of the Government Code for the use and benefit of the court.
(m)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony and the probation report includes any of the circumstances specified in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1203, the court shall consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.SEC. 3.Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1233.51) is added to Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, to read:3.5.County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program1233.51.(a)Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each county treasury a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, to receive all amounts allocated to that county for purposes of implementing this chapter.
(b)Notwithstanding any other law, in any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for the implementation of this chapter, the moneys, including any interest, shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county, within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund, for the implementation of the community mental health program authorized by this chapter.
(1)The community mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership formed pursuant to Section 1230 and the behavioral health department of that county.
(2)Funds allocated to the board of supervisors pursuant to this chapter shall be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and to the extent that funds are available shall be spent on community-based services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
(3)Each county receiving funds under this chapter shall maintain a complete and accurate accounting of all funds received pursuant to this chapter.
1233.52.(a)The Judicial Council shall, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance, including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
(1)The number of felony filings.
(2)The number of felony convictions.
(3)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.
(4)The number of felony convictions in each county in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(5)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation.
(6)The adult felon probation population.
(7)The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
(b)In the first year of implementation the report required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted quarterly. After the first year, the report shall be submitted biannually.
1233.53.After the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, shall calculate the following for that calendar year:
(a)The average cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services and is sent to prison.
(b)The total statewide number of inmates in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year.
(c)The total number of inmates described in subdivision (b) from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission.
(d)An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. For each county, this estimate shall be calculated based on the reduction in the number of inmates described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 for that year from the number in the previous year. This estimate shall not include persons who were prevented from being incarcerated in state prison due to statewide changes to sentencing laws.
(e)The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county. This rate shall be calculated as the number of individuals described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year as a percentage of the individuals described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year.
(f)The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates described in subdivision (e) of all counties.
1233.54.(a)(1)Annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53.
(2)The calculation of the mental health incarceration rate described in paragraph (1) shall not include any individual sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision, or any individual described in subdivision (d), (h), or (k) of Section 1233.1 used to calculate the funds allocated to the Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund.
(b)Annually, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year. The mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53, multiplied by 35 percent of the states average costs to incarcerate a prison felony offender in a contract facility, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 1233.53.
1233.55.If data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of this chapter are not available to the Director of Finance, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent with that described in this chapter as is reasonably possible.
1233.56.(a)A mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year. The total annual payment to a county shall be divided into four equal quarterly payments.
(b)The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governors proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in April and May of each year.
(c)There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments authorized pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council, and the share calculated for each county board of supervisors shall be transferred to its Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, authorized in Section 1233.51.
(d)For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to this section and Section 1233.54, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
1233.57.(a)A county receiving funding pursuant to this chapter shall submit a report to the Judicial Council and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California describing how it plans on using the funds to enhance its ability to be successful under this chapter. Commencing January 1, 2018, a county that fails to submit this report by March 1 annually shall not receive funding pursuant to this chapter in the subsequent fiscal year.
(b)A county that fails to provide the information specified in Section 1233.52 to the Judicial Council shall not be eligible for payment pursuant to this chapter.
1233.58.Any moneys appropriated pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
SEC. 4.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.(a)As used in this code, probation means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a probation officer. As used in this code, conditional sentence means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of revocable release in the community subject to conditions established by the court without the supervision of a probation officer. It is the intent of the Legislature that both conditional sentence and probation are authorized whenever probation is authorized in any law as a sentencing option for infractions or misdemeanors.
(b)(1)Except as provided in subdivision (j), if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment.
(2)(A)The probation officer shall immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted.
(B)Pursuant to Section 828 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the probation officer shall include in his or her report any information gathered by a law enforcement agency relating to the taking of the defendant into custody as a minor, which shall be considered for purposes of determining whether adjudications of commissions of crimes as a juvenile warrant a finding that there are circumstances in aggravation pursuant to Section 1170 of this code or to deny probation.
(C)If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation report recommends that registration be ordered at sentencing pursuant to Section 290.006, the probation officers report shall include the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable.
(D)Upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer shall include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. A finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendants treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent.
(E)The probation officer may also include in the report his or her recommendation of both of the following:
(i)The amount the defendant should be required to pay as a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(ii)Whether the court shall require, as a condition of probation, restitution to the victim or to the Restitution Fund and the amount thereof.
(F)The report shall be made available to the court and the prosecuting and defense attorneys at least five days, or upon request of the defendant or prosecuting attorney nine days, prior to the time fixed by the court for the hearing and determination of the report, and shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case at the time of the hearing. The time within which the report shall be made available and filed may be waived by written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court.
(3)At a time fixed by the court, the court shall hear and determine the application, if one has been made, or, in any case, the suitability of probation in the particular case. At the hearing, the court shall consider any report of the probation officer, including the results of the SARATSO, if applicable, and shall make a statement that it has considered the report, which shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case. If the court determines that there are circumstances in mitigation of the punishment prescribed by law or that the ends of justice would be served by granting probation to the person, it may place the person on probation. If probation is denied, the clerk of the court shall immediately send a copy of the report to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at the prison or other institution to which the person is delivered.
(4)The preparation of the report or the consideration of the report by the court may be waived only by a written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court, except that a waiver shall not be allowed unless the court consents thereto. However, if the defendant is ultimately sentenced and committed to the state prison, a probation report shall be completed pursuant to Section 1203c.
(c)If a defendant is not represented by an attorney, the court shall order the probation officer who makes the probation report to discuss its contents with the defendant.
(d)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, the court may either refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation and a report or summarily pronounce a conditional sentence. If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation officer recommends that the court, at sentencing, order the offender to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290.006, the court shall refer the matter to the probation officer for the purpose of obtaining a report on the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable, which the court shall consider. If the case is not referred to the probation officer, in sentencing the person, the court may consider any information concerning the person that could have been included in a probation report. The court shall inform the person of the information to be considered and permit him or her to answer or controvert the information. For this purpose, upon the request of the person, the court shall grant a continuance before the judgment is pronounced.
(e)Except in unusual cases where the interests of justice would best be served if the person is granted probation, probation shall not be granted to any of the following persons:
(1)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon, other than a firearm, at the time of the perpetration of the crime or his or her arrest, any person who has been convicted of arson, robbery, carjacking, burglary, burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes and who was armed with the weapon at either of those times.
(2)Any person who used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(3)Any person who willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(4)Any person who has been previously convicted twice in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony.
(5)Unless the person has never been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, any person who has been convicted of burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, extortion, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, a violation of Section 286, 288, 288a, or 288.5, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes.
(6)Any person who has been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, if he or she committed any of the following acts:
(A)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon at the time of the perpetration of the previous crime or his or her arrest for the previous crime, he or she was armed with a weapon at either of those times.
(B)The person used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the previous crime.
(C)The person willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the previous crime.
(7)Any public official or peace officer of this state or any city, county, or other political subdivision who, in the discharge of the duties of his or her public office or employment, accepted or gave or offered to accept or give any bribe, embezzled public money, or was guilty of extortion.
(8)Any person who knowingly furnishes or gives away phencyclidine.
(9)Any person who intentionally inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of arson under subdivision (a) of Section 451 or who intentionally set fire to, burned, or caused the burning of, an inhabited structure or inhabited property in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 451.
(10)Any person who, in the commission of a felony, inflicts great bodily injury or causes the death of a human being by the discharge of a firearm from or at an occupied motor vehicle proceeding on a public street or highway.
(11)Any person who possesses a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun under Section 33215, a machinegun under Section 32625, or a silencer under Section 33410.
(12)Any person who is convicted of violating Section 8101 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(13)Any person who is described in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 27590.
(f)When probation is granted in a case which comes within subdivision (e), the court shall specify on the record and shall enter on the minutes the circumstances indicating that the interests of justice would best be served by that disposition.
(g)If a person is not eligible for probation, the judge shall refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation of the facts relevant to determination of the amount of a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4 in all cases where the determination is applicable. The judge, in his or her discretion, may direct the probation officer to investigate all facts relevant to the sentencing of the person. Upon that referral, the probation officer shall immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior record and history of the person and make a written report to the court of his or her findings. The findings shall include a recommendation of the amount of the restitution fine as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(h)If a defendant is convicted of a felony and a probation report is prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) or (g), the probation officer may obtain and include in the report a statement of the comments of the victim concerning the offense. The court may direct the probation officer not to obtain a statement if the victim has in fact testified at any of the court proceedings concerning the offense.
(i)A probationer shall not be released to enter another state unless his or her case has been referred to the Administrator of the Interstate Probation and Parole Compacts, pursuant to the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Probationer or Parolee Supervision (Article 3 (commencing with Section 11175) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4) and the probationer has reimbursed the county that has jurisdiction over his or her probation case the reasonable costs of processing his or her request for interstate compact supervision. The amount and method of reimbursement shall be in accordance with Section 1203.1b.
(j)In any court where a county financial evaluation officer is available, in addition to referring the matter to the probation officer, the court may order the defendant to appear before the county financial evaluation officer for a financial evaluation of the defendants ability to pay restitution, in which case the county financial evaluation officer shall report his or her findings regarding restitution and other court-related costs to the probation officer on the question of the defendants ability to pay those costs.
Any order made pursuant to this subdivision may be enforced as a violation of the terms and conditions of probation upon willful failure to pay and at the discretion of the court, may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment in a civil action, if any balance remains unpaid at the end of the defendants probationary period.
(k)Probation shall not be granted to, nor shall the execution of, or imposition of, sentence be suspended for, any person who is convicted of a violent felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5, or a serious felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7, and who was on probation for a felony offense at the time of the commission of the new felony offense.
(l)For any person granted probation prior to January 1, 2021, at the time the court imposes probation, the court may take a waiver from the defendant permitting flash incarceration by the probation officer, pursuant to Section 1203.35.
SEC. 2.Section 1203.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1203.1.(a)The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation, may suspend the imposition or the execution of the sentence and may direct that the suspension may continue for a period of time not exceeding the maximum possible term of the sentence, except as hereinafter set forth, and upon those terms and conditions as it shall determine. The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation and as a condition thereof, may imprison the defendant in a county jail for a period not exceeding the maximum time fixed by law in the case.
However, where the maximum possible term of the sentence is five years or less, then the period of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence may, in the discretion of the court, continue for not over five years. The following conditions apply to this subdivision:
(1)The court may fine the defendant in a sum not to exceed the maximum fine provided by law in the case.
(2)The court may, in connection with granting probation, impose either imprisonment in a county jail or a fine, both, or neither.
(3)The court shall provide for restitution in proper cases. The restitution order shall be fully enforceable as a civil judgment forthwith and in accordance with Section 1202.4.
(4)The court may require bonds for the faithful observance and performance of any or all of the conditions of probation.
(b)The court shall consider whether the defendant as a condition of probation shall make restitution to the victim or the Restitution Fund. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of cash or money order shall be forwarded to the victim within 30 days from the date the payment is received by the department. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of a check or draft shall be forwarded to the victim within 45 days from the date the payment is received, provided, that payment need not be forwarded to a victim until 180 days from the date the first payment is received, if the restitution payments for that victim received by the court or probation department total less than fifty dollars ($50). In cases where the court has ordered the defendant to pay restitution to multiple victims and where the administrative cost of disbursing restitution payments to multiple victims involves a significant cost, any restitution payment received by a probation department shall be forwarded to multiple victims when it is cost effective to do so, but in no event shall restitution disbursements be delayed beyond 180 days from the date the payment is received by the probation department.
(c)In a city, county, or city and county where road camps, farms, or other public work is available, the court may place the probationer in the road camp, farm, or other public work instead of in jail. In this case, Section 25359 of the Government Code shall apply to probation and the court shall have the same power to require adult probationers to work, as prisoners confined in the county jail are required to work, at public work. Each county board of supervisors may fix the scale of compensation of the adult probationers in that county.
(d)In all cases of probation the court may require as a condition of probation that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition, to keep an account of his or her earnings, to report them to the probation officer and apply those earnings as directed by the court.
(e)The court shall also consider whether the defendant, as a condition of probation, shall make restitution to a public agency for the costs of an emergency response pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Government Code.
(f)In all felony cases in which, as a condition of probation, a judge of the superior court sitting by authority of law elsewhere than at the county seat requires a convicted person to serve his or her sentence at intermittent periods, the sentence may be served on the order of the judge at the city jail nearest to the place at which the court is sitting, and the cost of his or her maintenance shall be a county charge.
(g)(1)The court and prosecuting attorney shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the removal of graffiti in the performance of the community service. For the purpose of this subdivision, a nonserious offense shall not include the following:
(A)Offenses in violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Law, as defined in Section 23500.
(B)Offenses involving the use of a dangerous or deadly weapon, including all violations of Section 417.
(C)Offenses involving the use or attempted use of violence against the person of another or involving injury to a victim.
(D)Offenses involving annoying or molesting children.
(2)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), any person who violates Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29610) of Division 9 of Title 4 of Part 6 shall be ordered to perform not less than 100 hours and not more than 500 hours of community service as a condition of probation.
(3)The court and the prosecuting attorney need not consider a defendant pursuant to paragraph (1) if the following circumstances exist:
(A)The defendant was convicted of any offense set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 or subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7.
(B)The judge believes that the public safety may be endangered if the person is ordered to do community service or the judge believes that the facts or circumstances or facts and circumstances call for imposition of a more substantial penalty.
(h)The probation officer or his or her designated representative shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent and nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the performance of house repairs or yard services for senior citizens and the performance of repairs to senior centers through contact with local senior service organizations in the performance of the community service.
(i)(1)Upon conviction of any offense involving child abuse or neglect, the court may require, in addition to any or all of the above-mentioned terms of imprisonment, fine, and other reasonable conditions, that the defendant shall participate in counseling or education programs, or both, including, but not limited to, parent education or parenting programs operated by community colleges, school districts, other public agencies, or private agencies.
(2)Upon conviction of any sex offense subjecting the defendant to the registration requirements of Section 290, the court may order as a condition of probation, at the request of the victim or in the courts discretion, that the defendant stay away from the victim and the victims residence or place of employment, and that the defendant have no contact with the victim in person, by telephone or electronic means, or by mail.
(j)The court may impose and require any or all of the terms of imprisonment, fine, and conditions, as specified in this section, and other reasonable conditions, as it may determine are fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, for any injury done to any person resulting from that breach, and generally and specifically for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer. If the probationer violates any of the terms or conditions imposed by the court in the matter, the court has the authority to modify and change any and all the terms and conditions and to reimprison the probationer in the county jail within the limitations of the penalty of the public offense involved. Upon the defendant being released from the county jail under the terms of probation as originally granted or any modification subsequently made, and in all cases where confinement in a county jail has not been a condition of the grant of probation, the court shall place the defendant or probationer in and under the charge of the probation officer of the court, for the period or term fixed for probation. However, upon the payment of any fine imposed and the fulfillment of all conditions of probation, probation shall cease at the end of the term of probation, or sooner, in the event of modification. In counties and cities and counties in which there are facilities for taking fingerprints, those of each probationer shall be taken and a record of them kept and preserved.
(k)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, except as provided in Section 13967, as operative on or before September 28, 1994, of the Government Code and Section 13967.5 of the Government Code and Sections 1202.4, 1463.16, paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1463.18, and Section 1464, and Section 1203.04 of this code, as operative on or before August 2, 1995, all fines collected by a county probation officer in any of the courts of this state, as a condition of the granting of probation or as a part of the terms of probation, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed in the general fund for the use and benefit of the county.
(l)If the court orders restitution to be made to the victim, the entity collecting the restitution may add a fee to cover the actual administrative cost of collection, but not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount ordered to be paid. The amount of the fee shall be set by the board of supervisors if it is collected by the county and the fee collected shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury for the use and benefit of the county. The amount of the fee shall be set by the court if it is collected by the court and the fee collected shall be paid into the Trial Court Operations Fund or account established by Section 77009 of the Government Code for the use and benefit of the court.
(m)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony and the probation report includes any of the circumstances specified in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1203, the court shall consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
SEC. 3.Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1233.51) is added to Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, to read:3.5.County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program1233.51.(a)Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each county treasury a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, to receive all amounts allocated to that county for purposes of implementing this chapter.
(b)Notwithstanding any other law, in any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for the implementation of this chapter, the moneys, including any interest, shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county, within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund, for the implementation of the community mental health program authorized by this chapter.
(1)The community mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership formed pursuant to Section 1230 and the behavioral health department of that county.
(2)Funds allocated to the board of supervisors pursuant to this chapter shall be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and to the extent that funds are available shall be spent on community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision. services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
(3)Each county receiving funds under this chapter shall maintain a complete and accurate accounting of all funds received pursuant to this chapter.
1233.52.(a)The Judicial Council shall, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance, including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
(1)The number of felony filings.
(2)The number of felony convictions.
(3)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.
(4)The number of felony convictions in each county in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(5)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation.
(6)The adult felon probation population.
(7)The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
(b)In the first year of implementation the report required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted quarterly. After the first year, the report shall be submitted biannually.
1233.53.After the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, shall calculate the following for that calendar year:
(a)The average cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services. services and is sent to prison.
(b)The total statewide number of inmates in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year.
(c)The total number of inmates described in subdivision (b) from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission.
(d)An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. For each county, this estimate shall be calculated based on the reduction in the number of inmates described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 for that year from the number in the previous year. This estimate shall not include persons who were prevented from being incarcerated in state prison due to statewide changes to sentencing laws.
(e)The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county. This rate shall be calculated as the number of individuals described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year as a percentage of the individuals described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year.
(f)The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates described in subdivision (e) of all counties.
1233.54.(a)(1)Annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53.
(2)The calculation of the mental health incarceration rate described in paragraph (1) shall not include any individual sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision, or any individual described in subdivision (d), (h), or (k) of Section 1233.1 used to calculate the funds allocated to the Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund.
(b)Annually, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year. The mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53, multiplied by 50 35 percent of the states average costs to incarcerate a prison felony offender in a contract facility cost, facility, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 1233.53.
1233.55.If data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of this chapter are not available to the Director of Finance, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent with that described in this chapter as is reasonably possible.
1233.56.(a)A mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year. The total annual payment to a county shall be divided into four equal quarterly payments.
(b)The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governors proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in April and May of each year.
(c)There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments authorized pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council, and the share calculated for each county board of supervisors shall be transferred to its Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, authorized in Section 1233.51.
(d)For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to this section and Section 1233.54, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
1233.57.(a)The Department of Finance shall increase to no more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) the award amount for any county whose mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54, totals less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).(b)The Department of Finance shall adjust the award amount up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per county to those counties that did not receive a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54.(c)1233.57.(a)A county receiving funding through subdivision (b) pursuant to this chapter shall submit a report to the Judicial Council and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California describing how it plans on using the funds to enhance its ability to be successful under this chapter. Commencing January 1, 2018, a county that fails to submit this report by March 1 annually shall not receive funding pursuant to subdivision (b) this chapter in the subsequent fiscal year.
(d)(b)A county that fails to provide the information specified in Section 1233.52 to the Judicial Council shall not be eligible for payment pursuant to this section. chapter.
1233.58.Any moneys appropriated pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
SEC. 4.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.
(a)As used in this code, probation means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a probation officer. As used in this code, conditional sentence means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of revocable release in the community subject to conditions established by the court without the supervision of a probation officer. It is the intent of the Legislature that both conditional sentence and probation are authorized whenever probation is authorized in any law as a sentencing option for infractions or misdemeanors.
(b)(1)Except as provided in subdivision (j), if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment.
(2)(A)The probation officer shall immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted.
(B)Pursuant to Section 828 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the probation officer shall include in his or her report any information gathered by a law enforcement agency relating to the taking of the defendant into custody as a minor, which shall be considered for purposes of determining whether adjudications of commissions of crimes as a juvenile warrant a finding that there are circumstances in aggravation pursuant to Section 1170 of this code or to deny probation.
(C)If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation report recommends that registration be ordered at sentencing pursuant to Section 290.006, the probation officers report shall include the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable.
(D)Upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer shall include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. A finding that the defendant suffers from has a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendants treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent.
(E)The probation officer may also include in the report his or her recommendation of both of the following:
(i)The amount the defendant should be required to pay as a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(ii)Whether the court shall require, as a condition of probation, restitution to the victim or to the Restitution Fund and the amount thereof.
(F)The report shall be made available to the court and the prosecuting and defense attorneys at least five days, or upon request of the defendant or prosecuting attorney nine days, prior to the time fixed by the court for the hearing and determination of the report, and shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case at the time of the hearing. The time within which the report shall be made available and filed may be waived by written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court.
(3)At a time fixed by the court, the court shall hear and determine the application, if one has been made, or, in any case, the suitability of probation in the particular case. At the hearing, the court shall consider any report of the probation officer, including the results of the SARATSO, if applicable, and shall make a statement that it has considered the report, which shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case. If the court determines that there are circumstances in mitigation of the punishment prescribed by law or that the ends of justice would be served by granting probation to the person, it may place the person on probation. If probation is denied, the clerk of the court shall immediately send a copy of the report to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at the prison or other institution to which the person is delivered.
(4)The preparation of the report or the consideration of the report by the court may be waived only by a written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court, except that a waiver shall not be allowed unless the court consents thereto. However, if the defendant is ultimately sentenced and committed to the state prison, a probation report shall be completed pursuant to Section 1203c.
(c)If a defendant is not represented by an attorney, the court shall order the probation officer who makes the probation report to discuss its contents with the defendant.
(d)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, the court may either refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation and a report or summarily pronounce a conditional sentence. If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation officer recommends that the court, at sentencing, order the offender to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290.006, the court shall refer the matter to the probation officer for the purpose of obtaining a report on the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable, which the court shall consider. If the case is not referred to the probation officer, in sentencing the person, the court may consider any information concerning the person that could have been included in a probation report. The court shall inform the person of the information to be considered and permit him or her to answer or controvert the information. For this purpose, upon the request of the person, the court shall grant a continuance before the judgment is pronounced.
(e)Except in unusual cases where the interests of justice would best be served if the person is granted probation, probation shall not be granted to any of the following persons:
(1)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon, other than a firearm, at the time of the perpetration of the crime or his or her arrest, any person who has been convicted of arson, robbery, carjacking, burglary, burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes and who was armed with the weapon at either of those times.
(2)Any person who used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(3)Any person who willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(4)Any person who has been previously convicted twice in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony.
(5)Unless the person has never been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, any person who has been convicted of burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, extortion, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, a violation of Section 286, 288, 288a, or 288.5, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes.
(6)Any person who has been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, if he or she committed any of the following acts:
(A)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon at the time of the perpetration of the previous crime or his or her arrest for the previous crime, he or she was armed with a weapon at either of those times.
(B)The person used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the previous crime.
(C)The person willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the previous crime.
(7)Any public official or peace officer of this state or any city, county, or other political subdivision who, in the discharge of the duties of his or her public office or employment, accepted or gave or offered to accept or give any bribe, embezzled public money, or was guilty of extortion.
(8)Any person who knowingly furnishes or gives away phencyclidine.
(9)Any person who intentionally inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of arson under subdivision (a) of Section 451 or who intentionally set fire to, burned, or caused the burning of, an inhabited structure or inhabited property in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 451.
(10)Any person who, in the commission of a felony, inflicts great bodily injury or causes the death of a human being by the discharge of a firearm from or at an occupied motor vehicle proceeding on a public street or highway.
(11)Any person who possesses a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun under Section 33215, a machinegun under Section 32625, or a silencer under Section 33410.
(12)Any person who is convicted of violating Section 8101 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(13)Any person who is described in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 27590.
(f)When probation is granted in a case which comes within subdivision (e), the court shall specify on the record and shall enter on the minutes the circumstances indicating that the interests of justice would best be served by that disposition.
(g)If a person is not eligible for probation, the judge shall refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation of the facts relevant to determination of the amount of a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4 in all cases where the determination is applicable. The judge, in his or her discretion, may direct the probation officer to investigate all facts relevant to the sentencing of the person. Upon that referral, the probation officer shall immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior record and history of the person and make a written report to the court of his or her findings. The findings shall include a recommendation of the amount of the restitution fine as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(h)If a defendant is convicted of a felony and a probation report is prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) or (g), the probation officer may obtain and include in the report a statement of the comments of the victim concerning the offense. The court may direct the probation officer not to obtain a statement if the victim has in fact testified at any of the court proceedings concerning the offense.
(i)A probationer shall not be released to enter another state unless his or her case has been referred to the Administrator of the Interstate Probation and Parole Compacts, pursuant to the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Probationer or Parolee Supervision (Article 3 (commencing with Section 11175) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4) and the probationer has reimbursed the county that has jurisdiction over his or her probation case the reasonable costs of processing his or her request for interstate compact supervision. The amount and method of reimbursement shall be in accordance with Section 1203.1b.
(j)In any court where a county financial evaluation officer is available, in addition to referring the matter to the probation officer, the court may order the defendant to appear before the county financial evaluation officer for a financial evaluation of the defendants ability to pay restitution, in which case the county financial evaluation officer shall report his or her findings regarding restitution and other court-related costs to the probation officer on the question of the defendants ability to pay those costs.
Any order made pursuant to this subdivision may be enforced as a violation of the terms and conditions of probation upon willful failure to pay and at the discretion of the court, may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment in a civil action, if any balance remains unpaid at the end of the defendants probationary period.
(k)Probation shall not be granted to, nor shall the execution of, or imposition of, sentence be suspended for, any person who is convicted of a violent felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5, or a serious felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7, and who was on probation for a felony offense at the time of the commission of the new felony offense.
(l)For any person granted probation prior to January 1, 2021, at the time the court imposes probation, the court may take a waiver from the defendant permitting flash incarceration by the probation officer, pursuant to Section 1203.35.
SEC. 2.Section 1203.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1203.1.(a)The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation, may suspend the imposition or the execution of the sentence and may direct that the suspension may continue for a period of time not exceeding the maximum possible term of the sentence, except as hereinafter set forth, and upon those terms and conditions as it shall determine. The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation and as a condition thereof, may imprison the defendant in a county jail for a period not exceeding the maximum time fixed by law in the case.
However, where the maximum possible term of the sentence is five years or less, then the period of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence may, in the discretion of the court, continue for not over five years. The following conditions apply to this subdivision:
(1)The court may fine the defendant in a sum not to exceed the maximum fine provided by law in the case.
(2)The court may, in connection with granting probation, impose either imprisonment in a county jail or a fine, both, or neither.
(3)The court shall provide for restitution in proper cases. The restitution order shall be fully enforceable as a civil judgment forthwith and in accordance with Section 1202.4.
(4)The court may require bonds for the faithful observance and performance of any or all of the conditions of probation.
(b)The court shall consider whether the defendant as a condition of probation shall make restitution to the victim or the Restitution Fund. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of cash or money order shall be forwarded to the victim within 30 days from the date the payment is received by the department. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of a check or draft shall be forwarded to the victim within 45 days from the date the payment is received, provided, that payment need not be forwarded to a victim until 180 days from the date the first payment is received, if the restitution payments for that victim received by the court or probation department total less than fifty dollars ($50). In cases where the court has ordered the defendant to pay restitution to multiple victims and where the administrative cost of disbursing restitution payments to multiple victims involves a significant cost, any restitution payment received by a probation department shall be forwarded to multiple victims when it is cost effective to do so, but in no event shall restitution disbursements be delayed beyond 180 days from the date the payment is received by the probation department.
(c)In a city, county, or city and county where road camps, farms, or other public work is available, the court may place the probationer in the road camp, farm, or other public work instead of in jail. In this case, Section 25359 of the Government Code shall apply to probation and the court shall have the same power to require adult probationers to work, as prisoners confined in the county jail are required to work, at public work. Each county board of supervisors may fix the scale of compensation of the adult probationers in that county.
(d)In all cases of probation the court may require as a condition of probation that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition, to keep an account of his or her earnings, to report them to the probation officer and apply those earnings as directed by the court.
(e)The court shall also consider whether the defendant, as a condition of probation, shall make restitution to a public agency for the costs of an emergency response pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Government Code.
(f)In all felony cases in which, as a condition of probation, a judge of the superior court sitting by authority of law elsewhere than at the county seat requires a convicted person to serve his or her sentence at intermittent periods, the sentence may be served on the order of the judge at the city jail nearest to the place at which the court is sitting, and the cost of his or her maintenance shall be a county charge.
(g)(1)The court and prosecuting attorney shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the removal of graffiti in the performance of the community service. For the purpose of this subdivision, a nonserious offense shall not include the following:
(A)Offenses in violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Law, as defined in Section 23500.
(B)Offenses involving the use of a dangerous or deadly weapon, including all violations of Section 417.
(C)Offenses involving the use or attempted use of violence against the person of another or involving injury to a victim.
(D)Offenses involving annoying or molesting children.
(2)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), any person who violates Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29610) of Division 9 of Title 4 of Part 6 shall be ordered to perform not less than 100 hours and not more than 500 hours of community service as a condition of probation.
(3)The court and the prosecuting attorney need not consider a defendant pursuant to paragraph (1) if the following circumstances exist:
(A)The defendant was convicted of any offense set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 or subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7.
(B)The judge believes that the public safety may be endangered if the person is ordered to do community service or the judge believes that the facts or circumstances or facts and circumstances call for imposition of a more substantial penalty.
(h)The probation officer or his or her designated representative shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent and nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the performance of house repairs or yard services for senior citizens and the performance of repairs to senior centers through contact with local senior service organizations in the performance of the community service.
(i)(1)Upon conviction of any offense involving child abuse or neglect, the court may require, in addition to any or all of the above-mentioned terms of imprisonment, fine, and other reasonable conditions, that the defendant shall participate in counseling or education programs, or both, including, but not limited to, parent education or parenting programs operated by community colleges, school districts, other public agencies, or private agencies.
(2)Upon conviction of any sex offense subjecting the defendant to the registration requirements of Section 290, the court may order as a condition of probation, at the request of the victim or in the courts discretion, that the defendant stay away from the victim and the victims residence or place of employment, and that the defendant have no contact with the victim in person, by telephone or electronic means, or by mail.
(j)The court may impose and require any or all of the terms of imprisonment, fine, and conditions, as specified in this section, and other reasonable conditions, as it may determine are fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, for any injury done to any person resulting from that breach, and generally and specifically for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer. If the probationer violates any of the terms or conditions imposed by the court in the matter, the court has the authority to modify and change any and all the terms and conditions and to reimprison the probationer in the county jail within the limitations of the penalty of the public offense involved. Upon the defendant being released from the county jail under the terms of probation as originally granted or any modification subsequently made, and in all cases where confinement in a county jail has not been a condition of the grant of probation, the court shall place the defendant or probationer in and under the charge of the probation officer of the court, for the period or term fixed for probation. However, upon the payment of any fine imposed and the fulfillment of all conditions of probation, probation shall cease at the end of the term of probation, or sooner, in the event of modification. In counties and cities and counties in which there are facilities for taking fingerprints, those of each probationer shall be taken and a record of them kept and preserved.
(k)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, except as provided in Section 13967, as operative on or before September 28, 1994, of the Government Code and Section 13967.5 of the Government Code and Sections 1202.4, 1463.16, paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1463.18, and Section 1464, and Section 1203.04 of this code, as operative on or before August 2, 1995, all fines collected by a county probation officer in any of the courts of this state, as a condition of the granting of probation or as a part of the terms of probation, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed in the general fund for the use and benefit of the county.
(l)If the court orders restitution to be made to the victim, the entity collecting the restitution may add a fee to cover the actual administrative cost of collection, but not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount ordered to be paid. The amount of the fee shall be set by the board of supervisors if it is collected by the county and the fee collected shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury for the use and benefit of the county. The amount of the fee shall be set by the court if it is collected by the court and the fee collected shall be paid into the Trial Court Operations Fund or account established by Section 77009 of the Government Code for the use and benefit of the court.
(m)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony and the probation report includes any of the circumstances specified in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1203, the court shall consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
SEC. 3.Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1233.51) is added to Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, to read:3.5.County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program1233.51.(a)Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each county treasury a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, to receive all amounts allocated to that county for purposes of implementing this chapter.
(b)Notwithstanding any other law, in any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for the implementation of this chapter, the moneys, including any interest, shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county, within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund, for the implementation of the community mental health program authorized by this chapter.
(1)The community mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership formed pursuant to Section 1230 and the behavioral health department of that county.
(2)Funds allocated to the board of supervisors pursuant to this chapter shall be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and shall be spent on community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision.
(3)Each county receiving funds under this chapter shall maintain a complete and accurate accounting of all funds received pursuant to this chapter.
1233.52.(a)The Judicial Council shall, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance, including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
(1)The number of felony filings.
(2)The number of felony convictions.
(3)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.
(4)The number of felony convictions in each county in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(5)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation.
(6)The adult felon probation population.
(7)The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
(b)In the first year of implementation the report required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted quarterly. After the first year, the report shall be submitted biannually.
1233.53.After the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, shall calculate the following for that calendar year:
(a)The cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services.
(b)The total statewide number of inmates in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year.
(c)The total number of inmates described in subdivision (b) from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission.
(d)An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. For each county, this estimate shall be calculated based on the reduction in the number of inmates described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 for that year from the number in the previous year.
(e)The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county. This rate shall be calculated as the number of individuals described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year as a percentage of the individuals described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year.
(f)The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates described in subdivision (e) of all counties.
1233.54.(a)Annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53.
(b)Annually, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year. The mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53, multiplied by 50 percent of the contract facility cost, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 1233.53.
1233.55.If data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of this chapter are not available to the Director of Finance, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent with that described in this chapter as is reasonably possible.
1233.56.(a)A mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year. The total annual payment to a county shall be divided into four equal quarterly payments.
(b)The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governors proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in April and May of each year.
(c)There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments authorized pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council, and the share calculated for each county board of supervisors shall be transferred to its Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, authorized in Section 1233.51.
(d)For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to this section and Section 1233.54, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
1233.57.(a)The Department of Finance shall increase to no more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) the award amount for any county whose mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54, totals less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(b)The Department of Finance shall adjust the award amount up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per county to those counties that did not receive a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54.
(c)A county receiving funding through subdivision (b) shall submit a report to the Judicial Council and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California describing how it plans on using the funds to enhance its ability to be successful under this chapter. Commencing January 1, 2018, a county that fails to submit this report by March 1 annually shall not receive funding pursuant to subdivision (b) in the subsequent fiscal year.
(d)A county that fails to provide the information specified in Section 1233.52 to the Judicial Council shall not be eligible for payment pursuant to this section.
1233.58.Any moneys appropriated pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
SEC. 4.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.
(a)As used in this code, probation means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a probation officer. As used in this code, conditional sentence means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of revocable release in the community subject to conditions established by the court without the supervision of a probation officer. It is the intent of the Legislature that both conditional sentence and probation are authorized whenever probation is authorized in any law as a sentencing option for infractions or misdemeanors.
(b)(1)Except as provided in subdivision (j), if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment.
(2)(A)The probation officer shall immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted.
(B)Pursuant to Section 828 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the probation officer shall include in his or her report any information gathered by a law enforcement agency relating to the taking of the defendant into custody as a minor, which shall be considered for purposes of determining whether adjudications of commissions of crimes as a juvenile warrant a finding that there are circumstances in aggravation pursuant to Section 1170 of this code or to deny probation.
(C)If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation report recommends that registration be ordered at sentencing pursuant to Section 290.006, the probation officers report shall include the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable.
(D)Upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer shall include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. A finding that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendants treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent.
(E)The probation officer may also include in the report his or her recommendation of both of the following:
(i)The amount the defendant should be required to pay as a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(ii)Whether the court shall require, as a condition of probation, restitution to the victim or to the Restitution Fund and the amount thereof.
(F)The report shall be made available to the court and the prosecuting and defense attorneys at least five days, or upon request of the defendant or prosecuting attorney nine days, prior to the time fixed by the court for the hearing and determination of the report, and shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case at the time of the hearing. The time within which the report shall be made available and filed may be waived by written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court.
(3)At a time fixed by the court, the court shall hear and determine the application, if one has been made, or, in any case, the suitability of probation in the particular case. At the hearing, the court shall consider any report of the probation officer, including the results of the SARATSO, if applicable, and shall make a statement that it has considered the report, which shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case. If the court determines that there are circumstances in mitigation of the punishment prescribed by law or that the ends of justice would be served by granting probation to the person, it may place the person on probation. If probation is denied, the clerk of the court shall immediately send a copy of the report to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at the prison or other institution to which the person is delivered.
(4)The preparation of the report or the consideration of the report by the court may be waived only by a written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court, except that a waiver shall not be allowed unless the court consents thereto. However, if the defendant is ultimately sentenced and committed to the state prison, a probation report shall be completed pursuant to Section 1203c.
(c)If a defendant is not represented by an attorney, the court shall order the probation officer who makes the probation report to discuss its contents with the defendant.
(d)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, the court may either refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation and a report or summarily pronounce a conditional sentence. If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation officer recommends that the court, at sentencing, order the offender to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290.006, the court shall refer the matter to the probation officer for the purpose of obtaining a report on the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable, which the court shall consider. If the case is not referred to the probation officer, in sentencing the person, the court may consider any information concerning the person that could have been included in a probation report. The court shall inform the person of the information to be considered and permit him or her to answer or controvert the information. For this purpose, upon the request of the person, the court shall grant a continuance before the judgment is pronounced.
(e)Except in unusual cases where the interests of justice would best be served if the person is granted probation, probation shall not be granted to any of the following persons:
(1)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon, other than a firearm, at the time of the perpetration of the crime or his or her arrest, any person who has been convicted of arson, robbery, carjacking, burglary, burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes and who was armed with the weapon at either of those times.
(2)Any person who used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(3)Any person who willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(4)Any person who has been previously convicted twice in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony.
(5)Unless the person has never been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, any person who has been convicted of burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, extortion, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, a violation of Section 286, 288, 288a, or 288.5, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes.
(6)Any person who has been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, if he or she committed any of the following acts:
(A)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon at the time of the perpetration of the previous crime or his or her arrest for the previous crime, he or she was armed with a weapon at either of those times.
(B)The person used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the previous crime.
(C)The person willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the previous crime.
(7)Any public official or peace officer of this state or any city, county, or other political subdivision who, in the discharge of the duties of his or her public office or employment, accepted or gave or offered to accept or give any bribe, embezzled public money, or was guilty of extortion.
(8)Any person who knowingly furnishes or gives away phencyclidine.
(9)Any person who intentionally inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of arson under subdivision (a) of Section 451 or who intentionally set fire to, burned, or caused the burning of, an inhabited structure or inhabited property in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 451.
(10)Any person who, in the commission of a felony, inflicts great bodily injury or causes the death of a human being by the discharge of a firearm from or at an occupied motor vehicle proceeding on a public street or highway.
(11)Any person who possesses a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun under Section 33215, a machinegun under Section 32625, or a silencer under Section 33410.
(12)Any person who is convicted of violating Section 8101 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(13)Any person who is described in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 27590.
(f)When probation is granted in a case which comes within subdivision (e), the court shall specify on the record and shall enter on the minutes the circumstances indicating that the interests of justice would best be served by that disposition.
(g)If a person is not eligible for probation, the judge shall refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation of the facts relevant to determination of the amount of a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4 in all cases where the determination is applicable. The judge, in his or her discretion, may direct the probation officer to investigate all facts relevant to the sentencing of the person. Upon that referral, the probation officer shall immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior record and history of the person and make a written report to the court of his or her findings. The findings shall include a recommendation of the amount of the restitution fine as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(h)If a defendant is convicted of a felony and a probation report is prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) or (g), the probation officer may obtain and include in the report a statement of the comments of the victim concerning the offense. The court may direct the probation officer not to obtain a statement if the victim has in fact testified at any of the court proceedings concerning the offense.
(i)A probationer shall not be released to enter another state unless his or her case has been referred to the Administrator of the Interstate Probation and Parole Compacts, pursuant to the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Probationer or Parolee Supervision (Article 3 (commencing with Section 11175) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4) and the probationer has reimbursed the county that has jurisdiction over his or her probation case the reasonable costs of processing his or her request for interstate compact supervision. The amount and method of reimbursement shall be in accordance with Section 1203.1b.
(j)In any court where a county financial evaluation officer is available, in addition to referring the matter to the probation officer, the court may order the defendant to appear before the county financial evaluation officer for a financial evaluation of the defendants ability to pay restitution, in which case the county financial evaluation officer shall report his or her findings regarding restitution and other court-related costs to the probation officer on the question of the defendants ability to pay those costs.
Any order made pursuant to this subdivision may be enforced as a violation of the terms and conditions of probation upon willful failure to pay and at the discretion of the court, may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment in a civil action, if any balance remains unpaid at the end of the defendants probationary period.
(k)Probation shall not be granted to, nor shall the execution of, or imposition of of, sentence be suspended for, any person who is convicted of a violent felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5, or a serious felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7, and who was on probation for a felony offense at the time of the commission of the new felony offense.
(l)For any person granted probation prior to January 1, 2021, at the time the court imposes probation, the court may take a waiver from the defendant permitting flash incarceration by the probation officer, pursuant to Section 1203.35.
SEC. 2.Section 1203.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1203.1.(a)The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation, may suspend the imposition or the execution of the sentence and may direct that the suspension may continue for a period of time not exceeding the maximum possible term of the sentence, except as hereinafter set forth, and upon those terms and conditions as it shall determine. The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation and as a condition thereof, may imprison the defendant in a county jail for a period not exceeding the maximum time fixed by law in the case.
However, where the maximum possible term of the sentence is five years or less, then the period of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence may, in the discretion of the court, continue for not over five years. The following conditions apply to this subdivision:
(1)The court may fine the defendant in a sum not to exceed the maximum fine provided by law in the case.
(2)The court may, in connection with granting probation, impose either imprisonment in a county jail or a fine, both, or neither.
(3)The court shall provide for restitution in proper cases. The restitution order shall be fully enforceable as a civil judgment forthwith and in accordance with Section 1202.4 of the Penal Code. 1202.4.
(4)The court may require bonds for the faithful observance and performance of any or all of the conditions of probation.
(b)The court shall consider whether the defendant as a condition of probation shall make restitution to the victim or the Restitution Fund. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of cash or money order shall be forwarded to the victim within 30 days from the date the payment is received by the department. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of a check or draft shall be forwarded to the victim within 45 days from the date the payment is received, provided, that payment need not be forwarded to a victim until 180 days from the date the first payment is received, if the restitution payments for that victim received by the court or probation department total less than fifty dollars ($50). In cases where the court has ordered the defendant to pay restitution to multiple victims and where the administrative cost of disbursing restitution payments to multiple victims involves a significant cost, any restitution payment received by a probation department shall be forwarded to multiple victims when it is cost effective to do so, but in no event shall restitution disbursements be delayed beyond 180 days from the date the payment is received by the probation department.
(c)In a city, county, or city and county where road camps, farms, or other public work is available, the court may place the probationer in the road camp, farm, or other public work instead of in jail. In this case, Section 25359 of the Government Code shall apply to probation and the court shall have the same power to require adult probationers to work, as prisoners confined in the county jail are required to work, at public work. Each county board of supervisors may fix the scale of compensation of the adult probationers in that county.
(d)In all cases of probation the court may require as a condition of probation that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition, to keep an account of his or her earnings, to report them to the probation officer and apply those earnings as directed by the court.
(e)The court shall also consider whether the defendant, as a condition of probation, shall make restitution to a public agency for the costs of an emergency response pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Government Code.
(f)In all felony cases in which, as a condition of probation, a judge of the superior court sitting by authority of law elsewhere than at the county seat requires a convicted person to serve his or her sentence at intermittent periods, the sentence may be served on the order of the judge at the city jail nearest to the place at which the court is sitting, and the cost of his or her maintenance shall be a county charge.
(g)(1)The court and prosecuting attorney shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the removal of graffiti in the performance of the community service. For the purpose of this subdivision, a nonserious offense shall not include the following:
(A)Offenses in violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Law, as defined in Section 23500.
(B)Offenses involving the use of a dangerous or deadly weapon, including all violations of Section 417.
(C)Offenses involving the use or attempted use of violence against the person of another or involving injury to a victim.
(D)Offenses involving annoying or molesting children.
(2)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), any person who violates Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29610) of Division 9 of Title 4 of Part 6 shall be ordered to perform not less than 100 hours and not more than 500 hours of community service as a condition of probation.
(3)The court and the prosecuting attorney need not consider a defendant pursuant to paragraph (1) if the following circumstances exist:
(A)The defendant was convicted of any offense set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 or subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7.
(B)The judge believes that the public safety may be endangered if the person is ordered to do community service or the judge believes that the facts or circumstances or facts and circumstances call for imposition of a more substantial penalty.
(h)The probation officer or his or her designated representative shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent and nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the performance of house repairs or yard services for senior citizens and the performance of repairs to senior centers through contact with local senior service organizations in the performance of the community service.
(i)(1)Upon conviction of any offense involving child abuse or neglect, the court may require, in addition to any or all of the above-mentioned terms of imprisonment, fine, and other reasonable conditions, that the defendant shall participate in counseling or education programs, or both, including, but not limited to, parent education or parenting programs operated by community colleges, school districts, other public agencies, or private agencies.
(2)Upon conviction of any sex offense subjecting the defendant to the registration requirements of Section 290, the court may order as a condition of probation, at the request of the victim or in the courts discretion, that the defendant stay away from the victim and the victims residence or place of employment, and that the defendant have no contact with the victim in person, by telephone or electronic means, or by mail.
(j)The court may impose and require any or all of the terms of imprisonment, fine, and conditions, as specified in this section, and other reasonable conditions, as it may determine are fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, for any injury done to any person resulting from that breach, and generally and specifically for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer. If the probationer violates any of the terms or conditions imposed by the court in the matter, the court has the authority to modify and change any and all the terms and conditions and to reimprison the probationer in the county jail within the limitations of the penalty of the public offense involved. Upon the defendant being released from the county jail under the terms of probation as originally granted or any modification subsequently made, and in all cases where confinement in a county jail has not been a condition of the grant of probation, the court shall place the defendant or probationer in and under the charge of the probation officer of the court, for the period or term fixed for probation. However, upon the payment of any fine imposed and the fulfillment of all conditions of probation, probation shall cease at the end of the term of probation, or sooner, in the event of modification. In counties and cities and counties in which there are facilities for taking fingerprints, those of each probationer shall be taken and a record of them kept and preserved.
(k)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, except as provided in Section 13967, as operative on or before September 28, 1994, of the Government Code and Section 13967.5 of the Government Code and Sections 1202.4, 1463.16, paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1463.18, and Section 1464, and Section 1203.04, 1203.04 of this code, as operative on or before August 2, 1995, all fines collected by a county probation officer in any of the courts of this state, as a condition of the granting of probation or as a part of the terms of probation, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed in the general fund for the use and benefit of the county.
(l)If the court orders restitution to be made to the victim, the entity collecting the restitution may add a fee to cover the actual administrative cost of collection, but not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount ordered to be paid. The amount of the fee shall be set by the board of supervisors if it is collected by the county and the fee collected shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury for the use and benefit of the county. The amount of the fee shall be set by the court if it is collected by the court and the fee collected shall be paid into the Trial Court Operations Fund or account established by Section 77009 of the Government Code for the use and benefit of the court.
(m)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony and the probation report includes any of the circumstances specified in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1203, the court shall consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
SEC. 3.Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1233.51) is added to Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, to read:3.5.County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program1233.51.(a)Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each county treasury a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, to receive all amounts allocated to that county for purposes of implementing this chapter.
(b)Notwithstanding any other law, in any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for the implementation of this chapter, the moneys, including any interest, shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county, within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund, for the implementation of the community mental health program authorized by this chapter.
(1)The community mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership formed pursuant to Section 1230 and the behavioral health department of that county.
(2)Funds allocated to the board of supervisors pursuant to this chapter shall be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision, supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and shall be spent on community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision.
(3)Each county receiving funds under this chapter shall maintain a complete and accurate accounting of all funds received pursuant to this chapter.
1233.52.(a)The Judicial Council shall, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, provide a quarterly statistical report to the Department of Finance, including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
(a)(1)The number of felony filings.
(b)(2)The number of felony convictions.
(c)(3)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.
(d)(4)The number of felony convictions in each county in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(e)(5)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation.
(f)(6)The adult felon probation population.
(g)The population of adult beneficiaries of the countys Medi-Cal mental health plan.(h)The total number of adult felony convictions for individuals described in subdivision (g).(i)(7)The number of adult felony convictions for individuals described in subdivision (g), in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime. crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
(j)The number of adult felony convictions for individuals described in subdivision (g), in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.(k)The number of adult felony convictions for individuals described in subdivision (g), in which the defendant was granted probation.(b)In the first year of implementation the report required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted quarterly. After the first year, the report shall be submitted biannually.
1233.53.After the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, shall calculate the following for that calendar year:
(a)The cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services.
(b)The total statewide number of inmates in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year.
(c)The total number of inmates described in subdivision (b) from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission.
(d)An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. For each county, this estimate shall be calculated based on the reduction in the number of inmates described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (i) (a) of Section 1233.52 for that year from the number in the previous year.
(e)The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county. This rate shall be calculated as the number of individuals described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (i) (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year as a percentage of the individuals described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (h) (a) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year.
(f)The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates described in subdivision (e) of all counties.
1233.54.(a)Annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53.
(b)Annually, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year. The mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53, multiplied by 50 percent of the contract facility cost, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 1233.53.
1233.55.If data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of this chapter are not available to the Director of Finance, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent with that described in this chapter as is reasonably possible.
1233.56.(a)A mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year. The total annual payment to a county shall be divided into four equal quarterly payments.
(b)The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governors proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in April and May of each year.
(c)There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments authorized pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council, and the share calculated for each county board of supervisors shall be transferred to its Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, authorized in Section 1233.51.
(d)For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to this section and Section 1233.54, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
1233.57.(a)The Department of Finance shall increase to no more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) the award amount for any county whose mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54, totals less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(b)The Department of Finance shall adjust the award amount up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per county to those counties that did not receive a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54.
(c)Any A county receiving funding through subdivision (b) shall submit a report to the Judicial Council and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California describing how it plans on using the funds to enhance its ability to be successful under this chapter. Commencing January 1, 2018, a county that fails to submit this report by March 1 annually shall not receive funding pursuant to subdivision (b) in the subsequent fiscal year.
(d)A county that fails to provide the information specified in Section 1233.52 to the Judicial Council shall not be eligible for payment pursuant to this section.
1233.58.Any moneys appropriated pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
SEC. 4.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.
(a)As used in this code, probation means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a probation officer. As used in this code, conditional sentence means the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of revocable release in the community subject to conditions established by the court without the supervision of a probation officer. It is the intent of the Legislature that both conditional sentence and probation are authorized whenever probation is authorized in any code law as a sentencing option for infractions or misdemeanors.
(b)(1)Except as provided in subdivision (j), if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment.
(2)(A)The probation officer shall immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted.
(B)Pursuant to Section 828 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the probation officer shall include in his or her report any information gathered by a law enforcement agency relating to the taking of the defendant into custody as a minor, which shall be considered for purposes of determining whether adjudications of commissions of crimes as a juvenile warrant a finding that there are circumstances in aggravation pursuant to Section 1170 or to deny probation.
(C)If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation report recommends that registration be ordered at sentencing pursuant to Section 290.006, the probation officers report shall include the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable.
(D)Upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer shall include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. A finding that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendants treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendants consent.
(D)(E)The probation officer may also include in the report his or her recommendation of both of the following:
(i)The amount the defendant should be required to pay as a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(ii)Whether the court shall require, as a condition of probation, restitution to the victim or to the Restitution Fund and the amount thereof.
(E)(F)The report shall be made available to the court and the prosecuting and defense attorneys at least five days, or upon request of the defendant or prosecuting attorney nine days, prior to the time fixed by the court for the hearing and determination of the report, and shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case at the time of the hearing. The time within which the report shall be made available and filed may be waived by written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court.
(3)At a time fixed by the court, the court shall hear and determine the application, if one has been made, or, in any case, the suitability of probation in the particular case. At the hearing, the court shall consider any report of the probation officer, including the results of the SARATSO, if applicable, and shall make a statement that it has considered the report, which shall be filed with the clerk of the court as a record in the case. If the court determines that there are circumstances in mitigation of the punishment prescribed by law or that the ends of justice would be served by granting probation to the person, it may place the person on probation. If probation is denied, the clerk of the court shall immediately send a copy of the report to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at the prison or other institution to which the person is delivered.
(4)The preparation of the report or the consideration of the report by the court may be waived only by a written stipulation of the prosecuting and defense attorneys that is filed with the court or an oral stipulation in open court that is made and entered upon the minutes of the court, except that a waiver shall not be allowed unless the court consents thereto. However, if the defendant is ultimately sentenced and committed to the state prison, a probation report shall be completed pursuant to Section 1203c.
(c)If a defendant is not represented by an attorney, the court shall order the probation officer who makes the probation report to discuss its contents with the defendant.
(d)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, the court may either refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation and a report or summarily pronounce a conditional sentence. If the person was convicted of an offense that requires him or her to register as a sex offender pursuant to Sections 290 to 290.023, inclusive, or if the probation officer recommends that the court, at sentencing, order the offender to register as a sex offender pursuant to Section 290.006, the court shall refer the matter to the probation officer for the purpose of obtaining a report on the results of the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders administered pursuant to Sections 290.04 to 290.06, inclusive, if applicable, which the court shall consider. If the case is not referred to the probation officer, in sentencing the person, the court may consider any information concerning the person that could have been included in a probation report. The court shall inform the person of the information to be considered and permit him or her to answer or controvert the information. For this purpose, upon the request of the person, the court shall grant a continuance before the judgment is pronounced.
(e)Except in unusual cases where the interests of justice would best be served if the person is granted probation, probation shall not be granted to any of the following persons:
(1)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon, other than a firearm, at the time of the perpetration of the crime or his or her arrest, any person who has been convicted of arson, robbery, carjacking, burglary, burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes and who was armed with the weapon at either of those times.
(2)Any person who used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(3)Any person who willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the crime of which he or she has been convicted.
(4)Any person who has been previously convicted twice in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony.
(5)Unless the person has never been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, any person who has been convicted of burglary with explosives, rape with force or violence, torture, aggravated mayhem, murder, attempt to commit murder, trainwrecking, extortion, kidnapping, escape from the state prison, a violation of Section 286, 288, 288a, or 288.5, or a conspiracy to commit one or more of those crimes.
(6)Any person who has been previously convicted once in this state of a felony or in any other place of a public offense which, if committed in this state, would have been punishable as a felony, if he or she committed any of the following acts:
(A)Unless the person had a lawful right to carry a deadly weapon at the time of the perpetration of the previous crime or his or her arrest for the previous crime, he or she was armed with a weapon at either of those times.
(B)The person used, or attempted to use, a deadly weapon upon a human being in connection with the perpetration of the previous crime.
(C)The person willfully inflicted great bodily injury or torture in the perpetration of the previous crime.
(7)Any public official or peace officer of this state or any city, county, or other political subdivision who, in the discharge of the duties of his or her public office or employment, accepted or gave or offered to accept or give any bribe, embezzled public money, or was guilty of extortion.
(8)Any person who knowingly furnishes or gives away phencyclidine.
(9)Any person who intentionally inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of arson under subdivision (a) of Section 451 or who intentionally set fire to, burned, or caused the burning of, an inhabited structure or inhabited property in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 451.
(10)Any person who, in the commission of a felony, inflicts great bodily injury or causes the death of a human being by the discharge of a firearm from or at an occupied motor vehicle proceeding on a public street or highway.
(11)Any person who possesses a short-barreled rifle or a short-barreled shotgun under Section 33215, a machinegun under Section 32625, or a silencer under Section 33410.
(12)Any person who is convicted of violating Section 8101 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(13)Any person who is described in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 27590.
(f)When probation is granted in a case which comes within subdivision (e), the court shall specify on the record and shall enter on the minutes the circumstances indicating that the interests of justice would best be served by that disposition.
(g)If a person is not eligible for probation, the judge shall refer the matter to the probation officer for an investigation of the facts relevant to determination of the amount of a restitution fine pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4 in all cases where the determination is applicable. The judge, in his or her discretion, may direct the probation officer to investigate all facts relevant to the sentencing of the person. Upon that referral, the probation officer shall immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior record and history of the person and make a written report to the court of his or her findings. The findings shall include a recommendation of the amount of the restitution fine as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 1202.4.
(h)If a defendant is convicted of a felony and a probation report is prepared pursuant to subdivision (b) or (g), the probation officer may obtain and include in the report a statement of the comments of the victim concerning the offense. The court may direct the probation officer not to obtain a statement if the victim has in fact testified at any of the court proceedings concerning the offense.
(i)A probationer shall not be released to enter another state unless his or her case has been referred to the Administrator of the Interstate Probation and Parole Compacts, pursuant to the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Probationer or Parolee Supervision (Article 3 (commencing with Section 11175) of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4) and the probationer has reimbursed the county that has jurisdiction over his or her probation case the reasonable costs of processing his or her request for interstate compact supervision. The amount and method of reimbursement shall be in accordance with Section 1203.1b.
(j)In any court where a county financial evaluation officer is available, in addition to referring the matter to the probation officer, the court may order the defendant to appear before the county financial evaluation officer for a financial evaluation of the defendants ability to pay restitution, in which case the county financial evaluation officer shall report his or her findings regarding restitution and other court-related costs to the probation officer on the question of the defendants ability to pay those costs.
Any order made pursuant to this subdivision may be enforced as a violation of the terms and conditions of probation upon willful failure to pay and at the discretion of the court, may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment in a civil action, if any balance remains unpaid at the end of the defendants probationary period.
(k)Probation shall not be granted to, nor shall the execution of, or imposition of sentence be suspended for, any person who is convicted of a violent felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5, or a serious felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7, and who was on probation for a felony offense at the time of the commission of the new felony offense.
(l)For any person granted probation prior to January 1, 2021, at the time the court imposes probation, the court may take a waiver from the defendant permitting flash incarceration by the probation officer, pursuant to Section 1203.35.
SEC. 2.Section 1203.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:1203.1.(a)The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation, may suspend the imposing imposition or the execution of the sentence and may direct that the suspension may continue for a period of time not exceeding the maximum possible term of the sentence, except as hereinafter set forth, and upon those terms and conditions as it shall determine. The court, or judge thereof, in the order granting probation and as a condition thereof, may imprison the defendant in a county jail for a period not exceeding the maximum time fixed by law in the case.
However, where the maximum possible term of the sentence is five years or less, then the period of suspension of imposition or execution of sentence may, in the discretion of the court, continue for not over five years. The following shall conditions apply to this subdivision:
(1)The court may fine the defendant in a sum not to exceed the maximum fine provided by law in the case.
(2)The court may, in connection with granting probation, impose either imprisonment in a county jail or a fine, both, or neither.
(3)The court shall provide for restitution in proper cases. The restitution order shall be fully enforceable as a civil judgment forthwith and in accordance with Section 1202.4 of the Penal Code.
(4)The court may require bonds for the faithful observance and performance of any or all of the conditions of probation.
(b)The court shall consider whether the defendant as a condition of probation shall make restitution to the victim or the Restitution Fund. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of cash or money order shall be forwarded to the victim within 30 days from the date the payment is received by the department. Any restitution payment received by a court or probation department in the form of a check or draft shall be forwarded to the victim within 45 days from the date the payment is received, provided, that payment need not be forwarded to a victim until 180 days from the date the first payment is received, if the restitution payments for that victim received by the court or probation department total less than fifty dollars ($50). In cases where the court has ordered the defendant to pay restitution to multiple victims and where the administrative cost of disbursing restitution payments to multiple victims involves a significant cost, any restitution payment received by a probation department shall be forwarded to multiple victims when it is cost effective to do so, but in no event shall restitution disbursements be delayed beyond 180 days from the date the payment is received by the probation department.
(c)In counties or cities and counties a city, county, or city and county where road camps, farms, or other public work is available available, the court may place the probationer in the road camp, farm, or other public work instead of in jail. In this case, Section 25359 of the Government Code shall apply to probation and the court shall have the same power to require adult probationers to work, as prisoners confined in the county jail are required to work, at public work. Each county board of supervisors may fix the scale of compensation of the adult probationers in that county.
(d)In all cases of probation the court may require as a condition of probation that the probationer go to work and earn money for the support of his or her dependents or to pay any fine imposed or reparation condition, to keep an account of his or her earnings, to report them to the probation officer and apply those earnings as directed by the court.
(e)The court shall also consider whether the defendant defendant, as a condition of probation probation, shall make restitution to a public agency for the costs of an emergency response pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 53150) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Government Code.
(f)In all felony cases in which, as a condition of probation, a judge of the superior court sitting by authority of law elsewhere than at the county seat requires a convicted person to serve his or her sentence at intermittent periods periods, the sentence may be served on the order of the judge at the city jail nearest to the place at which the court is sitting, and the cost of his or her maintenance shall be a county charge.
(g)(1)The court and prosecuting attorney shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the removal of graffiti in the performance of the community service. For the purpose of this subdivision, a nonserious offense shall not include the following:
(A)Offenses in violation of the Dangerous Weapons Control Law, as defined in Section 23500.
(B)Offenses involving the use of a dangerous or deadly weapon, including all violations of Section 417.
(C)Offenses involving the use or attempted use of violence against the person of another or involving injury to a victim.
(D)Offenses involving annoying or molesting children.
(2)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), any person who violates Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29610) of Division 9 of Title 4 of Part 6 shall be ordered to perform not less than 100 hours and not more than 500 hours of community service as a condition of probation.
(3)The court and the prosecuting attorney need not consider a defendant pursuant to paragraph (1) if the following circumstances exist:
(A)The defendant was convicted of any offense set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 or subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7.
(B)The judge believes that the public safety may be endangered if the person is ordered to do community service or the judge believes that the facts or circumstances or facts and circumstances call for imposition of a more substantial penalty.
(h)The probation officer or his or her designated representative shall consider whether any defendant who has been convicted of a nonviolent and nonserious offense and ordered to participate in community service as a condition of probation shall be required to engage in the performance of house repairs or yard services for senior citizens and the performance of repairs to senior centers through contact with local senior service organizations in the performance of the community service.
(i)(1)Upon conviction of any offense involving child abuse or neglect, the court may require, in addition to any or all of the above-mentioned terms of imprisonment, fine, and other reasonable conditions, that the defendant shall participate in counseling or education programs, or both, including, but not limited to, parent education or parenting programs operated by community colleges, school districts, other public agencies, or private agencies.
(2)Upon conviction of any sex offense subjecting the defendant to the registration requirements of Section 290, the court may order as a condition of probation, at the request of the victim or in the courts discretion, that the defendant stay away from the victim and the victims residence or place of employment, and that the defendant have no contact with the victim in person, by telephone or electronic means, or by mail.
(j)The court may impose and require any or all of the above-mentioned terms of imprisonment, fine, and conditions, as specified in this section, and other reasonable conditions, as it may determine are fitting and proper to the end that justice may be done, that amends may be made to society for the breach of the law, for any injury done to any person resulting from that breach, and generally and specifically for the reformation and rehabilitation of the probationer, and that should the probationer violate probationer. If the probationer violates any of the terms or conditions imposed by the court in the matter, it shall have the court has the authority to modify and change any and all the terms and conditions and to reimprison the probationer in the county jail within the limitations of the penalty of the public offense involved. Upon the defendant being released from the county jail under the terms of probation as originally granted or any modification subsequently made, and in all cases where confinement in a county jail has not been a condition of the grant of probation, the court shall place the defendant or probationer in and under the charge of the probation officer of the court, for the period or term fixed for probation. However, upon the payment of any fine imposed and the fulfillment of all conditions of probation, probation shall cease at the end of the term of probation, or sooner, in the event of modification. In counties and cities and counties in which there are facilities for taking fingerprints, those of each probationer shall be taken and a record of them kept and preserved.
(k)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, except as provided in Section 13967, as operative on or before September 28, 1994, of the Government Code and Section 13967.5 of the Government Code and Sections 1202.4, 1463.16, paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1463.18, and Section 1464, and Section 1203.04, as operative on or before August 2, 1995, all fines collected by a county probation officer in any of the courts of this state, as a condition of the granting of probation or as a part of the terms of probation, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed in the general fund for the use and benefit of the county.
(l)If the court orders restitution to be made to the victim, the entity collecting the restitution may add a fee to cover the actual administrative cost of collection, but not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount ordered to be paid. The amount of the fee shall be set by the board of supervisors if it is collected by the county and the fee collected shall be paid into the general fund of the county treasury for the use and benefit of the county. The amount of the fee shall be set by the court if it is collected by the court and the fee collected shall be paid into the Trial Court Operations Fund or account established by Section 77009 of the Government Code for the use and benefit of the court.
(m)If a person is convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony and the probation report includes any of the circumstances specified in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1203, the court shall consider the defendants mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
SEC. 3.Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1233.51) is added to Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, to read:3.5.County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program1233.51.(a)Each county is hereby authorized to establish in each county treasury a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, to receive all amounts allocated to that county for purposes of implementing this chapter.
(b)Notwithstanding any other law, in any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for the implementation of this chapter, the moneys, including any interest, shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county, within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund, for the implementation of the community mental health program authorized by this chapter.
(1)The community mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership formed pursuant to Section 1230 and the behavioral health department of that county.
(2)Funds allocated to the board of supervisors pursuant to this chapter shall be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision, and shall be spent on community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision.
(3)Each county receiving funds under this chapter shall maintain a complete and accurate accounting of all funds received pursuant to this chapter.
1233.52.The Judicial Council shall, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, provide a quarterly statistical report to the Department of Finance, including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
(a)The number of felony filings.
(b)The number of felony convictions.
(c)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison.
(d)The number of felony convictions in each county in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(e)The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation.
(f)The adult felon probation population.
(g)The population of adult beneficiaries of the countys Medi-Cal mental health plan.
(h)The total number of adult felony convictions for individuals described in subdivision (g).
(i)The number of adult felony convictions for individuals described in subdivision (g), in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
(j)The number of adult felony convictions for individuals described in subdivision (g), in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a county jail pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
(k)The number of adult felony convictions for individuals described in subdivision (g), in which the defendant was granted probation.
1233.53.After the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, shall calculate the following for that calendar year:
(a)The cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services.
(b)The total statewide number of inmates in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year.
(c)The total number of inmates described in subdivision (b) from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission.
(d)An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. For each county, this estimate shall be calculated based on the reduction in the number of inmates described in subdivision (i) of Section 1233.52 for that year from the number in the previous year.
(e)The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county. This rate shall be calculated as the number of individuals described in subdivision (i) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year as a percentage of the individuals described in subdivision (h) of Section 1233.52 from each county for that year.
(f)The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates described in subdivision (e) of all counties.
1233.54.(a)Annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53.
(b)Annually, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year. The mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison, as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 1233.53, multiplied by 50 percent of the contract facility cost, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 1233.53.
1233.55.If data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of this chapter are not available to the Director of Finance, the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent with that described in this chapter as is reasonably possible.
1233.56.(a)A mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year. The total annual payment to a county shall be divided into four equal quarterly payments.
(b)The Department of Finance shall include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governors proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted by the Department of Finance, as necessary, to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council. This adjustment shall occur as part of standard budget revision processes completed by the Department of Finance in April and May of each year.
(c)There is hereby established, in the State Treasury, the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments authorized pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54 shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund. Any moneys transferred into this fund from the General Fund shall be administered by the Judicial Council, and the share calculated for each county board of supervisors shall be transferred to its Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, authorized in Section 1233.51.
(d)For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county, pursuant to this section and Section 1233.54, and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund authorized in subdivision (c) to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
1233.57.(a)The Department of Finance shall increase to no more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) the award amount for any county whose mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54, totals less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
(b)The Department of Finance shall adjust the award amount up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per county to those counties that did not receive a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1233.54.
(c)Any county receiving funding through subdivision (b) shall submit a report to the Judicial Council and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California describing how it plans on using the funds to enhance its ability to be successful under this chapter. Commencing January 1, 2018, a county that fails to submit this report by March 1 annually shall not receive funding pursuant to subdivision (b) in the subsequent fiscal year.
(d)A county that fails to provide the information specified in Section 1233.52 to the Judicial Council shall not be eligible for payment pursuant to this section.
1233.58.Any moneys appropriated pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
SEC. 4.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.
SECTION 1.Section 1233.2 is added to the Penal Code, to read:1233.2.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that ensures a defendants history of mental illness will inform case processing and the nature of any criminal charges, in alignment with public safety and a defendants constitutional rights. It is the intent of the Legislature to incentivize counties to provide community-based mental health services by sharing with counties the states cost savings from reduced prison admissions of people with mental illness and to direct counties to invest these cost savings in additional mental health services.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that ensures a defendants history of mental illness will inform case processing and the nature of any criminal charges, in alignment with public safety and a defendants constitutional rights. It is the intent of the Legislature to incentivize counties to provide community-based mental health services by sharing with counties the states cost savings from reduced prison admissions of people with mental illness and to direct counties to invest these cost savings in additional mental health services.
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| Aug 16, 2018 | August 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. |
| Aug 8, 2018 | August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. |
| Aug 6, 2018 | From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Jun 26, 2018 | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Jun 21, 2018 | From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Jun 27, 2017 | June 27 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Jun 21, 2017 | From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Jun 12, 2017 | Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Jun 1, 2017 | In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. |
| May 31, 2017 | Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 4. Page 1338.) Ordered to the Assembly. |
| May 26, 2017 | From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 25). |
| May 19, 2017 | Set for hearing May 25. |
| May 15, 2017 | May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file. |
| May 4, 2017 | Set for hearing May 15. |
| May 3, 2017 | May 8 hearing postponed by committee. |
| May 1, 2017 | Set for hearing May 8. |
| Apr 24, 2017 | Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Apr 20, 2017 | From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 747.) (April 18). |
| Apr 6, 2017 | From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Mar 23, 2017 | Set for hearing April 18. |
| Mar 16, 2017 | Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Mar 8, 2017 | From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. |
| Jan 26, 2017 | Referred to Com. on RLS. |
| Jan 17, 2017 | From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16. |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. |
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| Jun 26, 2018 | Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] | Assembly Standing Committee on Public Safety |
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| May 31, 2017 | Senate 3rd Reading SB142 Beall | Senate Floor |
Passed |
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| May 25, 2017 | Do pass as amended | Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations |
Passed |
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| May 15, 2017 | Placed on suspense file | Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations |
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| Apr 18, 2017 | Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar | Senate Standing Committee on Public Safety |
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This list shows positions taken on this bill by organizations on the date displayed, which is linked to the original source.
Positions by individuals are not included.
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| American Civil Liberties Union of California | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| American Friends Service Committee | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Anti-Recidivism Coalition | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| anti-recidivism coalition; california catholic conference | ** Support | May 30, 2017 |
| California Access Coalition | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| California Attorneys For Criminal Justice | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| California Council Of Community Behavioral Health Agencies | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| California District Attorneys Association | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| California Public Defenders Association | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| California State Association Of Counties | ** Support | May 30, 2017 |
| Californians for Safety and Justice | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Courage Campaign | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Depression And Bipolar Support Alliance | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Disability Rights California | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| district attorney, county of santa clara | ** Support | Jun 26, 2017 |
| Fair Chance Project | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Los Angeles County District Attorney'S Office | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Los Angeles District Attorney's Office | ** Support | May 30, 2017 |
| Mental Health America of California | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| naacp legal defense and educational fund | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| National Association Of Social Workers, California Chapter | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| National Union Of Healthcare Workers | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| San Diego County District Attorney's Office | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Santa Clara County District Attorney, Jeffrey Rosen | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
| Steinberg Institute | ** Support | Jun 25, 2018 |
Date of Hearing: August 8, 2018
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, Chair
SBPCA Bill Id:SB 142
Author:(Beall) – As Amended Ver:August 6, 2018
Policy Committee: | Public Safety | Vote: | 7 - 0 |
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill creates the County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Program pilot program, to provide monetary incentives for counties to avoid sending mentally ill offenders to prison. Specifically, this bill:
- Authorizes counties to participate in the County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Program. Specifies that the board of supervisors, the Community Corrections Partnership and the behavioral health department of each county will develop and implement mental health programs.
- Requires, beginning January 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, the director of the Department of Finance (DOF), in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) to calculate several statistics to determine the payment rate for the program, including the average cost for CDCR to incarcerate an inmate with mental illness, an estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison, and the number of inmates placed in CDCR’s mental health services delivery system (excluding inmates incarcerated as a result of the termination of community supervision). Requires the number of inmates placed in CDCR’s mental health services delivery program for calendar year 2018 to be used as a baseline for the funding formula. Excludes offenders diverted from state prison due to changes in sentencing laws from the estimates.
- Establishes a funding formula to determine payment levels for the program. Requires the director of DOF in consultation with CDCR and CSAC to calculate the incentive payment for each eligible county. Specifies the incentive payment is equal to the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully preventing from being sent to state prison multiplied by 50% of the average cost to incarcerate an inmate with mental illness.
- Requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), to annually provide a statistical report to DOF, including information necessary to determine incentive payments.
- Requires the director of DOF to estimate the amount of the incentive payments in the proposed state budget each year. Establishes the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to receive incentive payment funds from the General Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
- Sunsets the pilot program as of January 1, 2025.
FISCAL EFFECT:
- Unknown significant GF costs, likely in the tens of millions of dollars annually for the duration of the pilot program, for the state to make incentive payments to counties. For example, the average annual cost for CDCR to incarcerate an inmate is about $80,000, which will result in an incentive payment of $40,000 for each offender diverted from state prison. If a total of 500 offenders are diverted annually the incentive payments will total $20 million. Actual costs for incentive payments may be higher or lower depending on how broadly the program is adopted and the calculation of the incentive payments. In addition, actual costs will be based on the average cost to incarcerate an inmate with a mental illness, which is higher than the overall average cost.
- Unknown potential GF savings, likely in the millions of dollars annually, for CDCR to incarcerate fewer offenders. However, savings will be significantly less than the cost of incentive payments, at least in the initial years of the program, because CDCR will only save the marginal cost of an inmate. For example, if 500 offenders are diverted annually from state prison, CDCR will have first year savings of about $4.2 million, assuming the marginal cost per inmate of $8,300. (The actual marginal savings will be based on the cost per inmate with mental illness, which was not available to be included in this analysis.) If each of those offenders remains diverted for five years and if 500 additional offenders are diverted annually for five years the total savings to CDCR after five years will grow to $21 million. In addition, to the extent that offenders diverted through the program subsequently fail in their treatment or reoffend and are ultimately sentenced to state prison the estimated savings will erode. Similarly, if offenders would have received shorter prison sentences than assumed in this example, savings will be less. Conversely, if offenders would have received longer prison sentences than assumed in this analysis savings will be higher in future years. Based on the difference in the average and marginal costs it is unlikely CDCR would achieve savings in excess of the incentive payments for at least the first five years. It is possible that CDCRs savings will never exceed the incentive payments resulting in ongoing net GF costs.
- Unknown onetime GF costs, likely in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, for CDCR to contract for an evaluation of the program.
- Annual GF costs in the tens of thousands of dollars for CDCR to pay for staff overtime to collect data and calculate statistics required for the funding formula.
COMMENTS:
- Background and purpose. SB 678 (Leno), Chapter 608, Statutes of 2009—commonly referred to as “SB 678”—established a system of performance based funding that shares state General Fund savings with county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation. This bill seeks to create a similar funding program for mentally ill offenders that are diverted to mental health treatment instead of being incarcerated in state prison.
- Staff comments. The goal of diverting mentally ill offenders from state prison is laudable. Offenders with a mental illness are more likely to have improved outcomes and reduced recidivism if they receive needed mental health treatment rather than being incarcerated. The concept of sharing savings in order to incentivize county participation and to fund programs that help mentally ill offenders is also laudable. However, the way this bill is currently written requires the state to pay significantly more to counties than the state actually saves from offenders diverted from state prison, at least for the initial years of program. It is unlikely the state will see any net savings from the program before the pilot sunsets in 2025. It is also possible, if the program were continued, that the state will never achieve net savings.
The issue is in the way this bill requires the calculation of the incentive payments. Specifically, this bill requires the average cost be used to determine the incentive payment. The average cost includes both fixed costs (such as capital costs and fixed staffing costs) and marginal costs (such as clothing, food, and medication). However, CDCR will only save the marginal cost of each offender diverted, because the other costs are fixed and will not change. Thus, under this bill the state will be sharing “savings” it has not actually achieved, at least in the initial years of the program.
Analysis Prepared by: Jessica Peters / APPR. / (916) 319-2081
Date of Hearing: June 26, 2018
Counsel: David Billingsley
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr., Chair
SBPCA Bill Id:SB 142
Author:(Beall) – As Amended Ver:June 21, 2018
SUMMARY: Establishes the County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Program, which would provide monetary incentives for counties to avoid sending mentally ill offenders to prison. Requires courts to consider a defendant’s mental health history when determining sentence and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration. Specifically, this bill:
- Establishes the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to transfer funds to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish.
- Specifies that the funds shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county within 30 days of deposit into the fund and shall be used to implement the community mental health program authorized by the provisions in this bill.
- Specifies that the mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership and the behavioral health department of that county.
- Requires the funds allocated to the board of supervisors to be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and to be spent on community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision.
- Requires Judicial Council, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), to provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance (DOF), including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
- The number of felony filings;
- The number of felony convictions;
- The number of felony convictions for which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in state prison;
- The number of felony convictions in each county which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in county jail pursuant to Realignment;
- The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation;
- The adult felony probation population; and,
- The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
- The number of felony filings;
- States that in the first year of implementation, Judicial Council’s report shall be submitted quarterly, and thereafter the report shall be submitted biannually.
- Requires after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, to calculate the following for that calendar year:
- The average cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole, an offender who receives mental health services and is sent to prison;
- The total statewide number of CDCR inmates who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year;
- The total number of CDCR inmates who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission;
- An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison, as specified;
- The average cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole, an offender who receives mental health services and is sent to prison;
- Requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to annually calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year.
- Specifies that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison multiplied by 35 percent of the state’s average costs to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receive mental health services and is sent to prison.
- Provides that if data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of the provisions in this bill are not available, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent as is reasonably possible with the provisions in this bill.
- States that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year with the total annual payment to a county divided into four equal quarterly payments.
- Requires DOF to include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governor’s proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted as necessary to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by DOF, as part of standard budget revision processes in April and May of each year.
- Establishes in the State Treasury the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund and administered by the Judicial Council.
- Provides that for each fiscal year, DOF shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
- States that a county that fails to provide the necessary information to Judicial Council will not be eligible for payment.
- Provides that the money appropriated shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
- Allows a defendant to provide documentation to the court that he or she is currently or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness.
- Specifies that a finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendant’s treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created because the defendant has provided documentation to the court, shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendant’s consent.
- Requires courts to consider, if provided, a defendant’s mental health history when determining sentence and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
EXISTING LAW:
- Establishes the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act, which is a system of performance-based funding to county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of individuals on adult felony probation, mandatory supervision, and individuals on post release community supervision, going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation. (Pen. Code §§ 1228 et seq.)
- Requires the Department of Finance (DOF) to annually calculate a performance incentive payment for each eligible county based on the number of felons on probation, mandatory supervision, and post release community supervision that were successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. (Pen. Code, §1233.4.)
- Requires DOF to annually calculate a statewide performance incentive payment for each eligible county, based on the counties return to prison rate, as specified. (Pen. Code, § 1233.3.)
- Authorizes each county to establish the county treasury a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund (CCPIF) to receive all amounts allocated to that county from the state. (Pen. Code, § 1230.)
- Requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to calculate the amount of money to be appropriated from the state fund into a CCPIF. (Pen. Code, § 1233.1.)
- Specifies that the calculation of funds are based on costs avoided by CDCR because of a reduction in the percentage of adult probationers sent to prison for a probation failure. (Pen. Code, § 1233.1.)
- Specifies that the funds provided to each county from the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act shall be used for specified purposes relating to supervision and rehabilitative services for adult felony offenders subject to probation and for evidence-based community corrections practices and programs. (Pen. Code, § 1230.)
- Finds and declares that the provision of probation services is an essential element in the administration of criminal justice. The safety of the public, which shall be a primary goal through the enforcement of court-ordered conditions of probation; the nature of the offense; the interests of justice, including punishment, reintegration of the offender into the community, and enforcement of conditions of probation; the loss to the victim; and the needs of the defendant shall be the primary considerations in the granting of probation. (Pen. Code, § 1202.7.)
- Provides if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment. (Pen. Code, § 1203, subd. (b)(1).)
- Requires the probation officer to immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted. (Pen. Code § 1203, subd. (b)(2)(A).)
FISCAL EFFECT:
Unknown
COMMENTS:
- Author's Statement: According to the author, "SB 142 incentivizes counties to treat people with mental health disorders in community-based psychiatric programs by sharing cost-savings of reduced prison admissions of people with mental illness with counties and directing counties to invest cost-savings in additional mental health services. The bill also requires judges, during sentencing, to consider a defendant’s history of mental illness, and whether a defendant could be successfully treated in the community. SB 142 is modeled on successful reforms in California and elsewhere incentivizing criminal justice reforms that improve outcomes and save state funding.
“Recently published findings underscore why passing SB 142 is so critical. Under Governor Brown’s leadership, California has made tremendous progress toward stronger, more equitable criminal justice system. But we must press forward and directly address the mental health crisis in our prisons. By incentivizing effective mental health services, we can reduce our prison population, save taxpayer money, and help families whose lives are impacted everyday by mental illness.
“We are at a crossroads here in California. Using state prisons to house the mentally ill is not just costly, it is punitive, inhumane, and leads to worse outcomes. California has the opportunity to take the lead by committing to treatment-based innovations that help make people suffering from mental illness better able to cope and contribute to society moving forward. It is an approach that is not only just, but is cost-effective as well.” - Prevalence of Mentally Ill Offenders: The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) Council on Mentally Ill Offenders (COMIO) regards the growing number of inmates suffering from mental health issues as a pressing concern.
Nationally, a 2009 American Psychiatric Association study “found that 14.5% of male and 31.0% of female inmates recently admitted to jail have a serious mental illness” which is three to six times higher than rates found in the general population. “A serious mental illness” included major depressive disorder, depressive disorder not otherwise specified, schizophrenia spectrum disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, and psychotic disorder not otherwise specified. (http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/final_jails_v_hospitals_study.pdf)
In 2009, the Division of Correctional Health Care Services for the CDCR estimated that 23 percent of California’s prison inmates have a serious mental illness. According to the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, an estimated “40 to 70 percent of youth in the California juvenile justice system have some mental health disorder or illness,” with 15 to 25 percent considered severely mentally ill. Based on these numbers, youth in California’s juvenile justice system are two to four times more likely to be in need of mental health care than California youth generally. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in 2006 that 74 percent of mentally ill state prisoners and 76 percent of mentally ill local jail inmates also met the criteria for substance dependence or abuse indicating a larger issue with co-occurring disorders among mentally ill offenders. (Id.) - Increased Rates of Recidivism Among Mentally Ill Offenders: A 2012 review conducted by the Utah Criminal Justice Center found that released inmates with serious mental illness experience poorer outcomes overall as they are “twice as likely to have their probation or parole revoked, are at an elevated risk for rearrest, incarceration, and homelessness, lack skills to obtain and sustain employment, and have higher rates of medical problems.”
(http://ucjc.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/MIO-butters-6-30-12-FINAL.pdf)
In 2009, the Council of State Governors Justice Center released a report entitled Improving Outcomes for People with Mental Illnesses under Community Corrections Supervision, which stated that the reasons for increased recidivism among mental ill offenders may be multifaceted:
Once people with mental illnesses are finally released, it is often extremely difficult for them to successfully transition from incarceration to the community. Their mental illnesses may be linked to community corrections supervision failure in a number of ways. Skeem and Loudon have characterized these links as being direct, indirect, or spurious.
First, mental illnesses may directly result in probation or parole revocation. For example, an individual may not access treatment, leading him or her to decompensate, behave in a bizarre or dangerous manner in public, get arrested for this behavior, and have his or her probation revoked.
Second, mental illnesses may indirectly result in revocation. For example, an individual with clinical depression may have impaired functioning that prevents him or her from maintaining employment and paying court ordered fines, which are standard conditions of release. Notably, many people with mental illnesses returning to the community from jail or prison lack financial or social supports. Some were receiving Medicaid and other forms of public assistance at the time of their arrest, and these benefits are typically terminated rather than suspended during incarceration, and rarely reinstated immediately upon release. In short, there is often no safety net to compensate for functional impairments that may place individuals with mental illnesses at risk for revocation.
Third, mental illnesses may not result in revocation. Instead, the relationship between the two may be spurious—that is, more apparent than real—because a third variable associated with mental illness causes revocation. For example, an individual with bipolar disorder may be at risk of committing a new offense not because of his or her mental illness, but because of criminogenic attitudes or affiliation with antisocial peers. Alternatively, an individual with psychosis may be monitored exceptionally closely and revoked readily by his or her probation officer, given that traditional supervision strategies often reflect misconceptions about (and stigma associated with) mental illness. ( https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.nicic.gov/Library/023634.pdf)
CDCR data shows higher rates of recidivism in inmates identified with mental health issues when compared to those without. Upon release, inmates exhibiting mental health problems are assigned one of two mental health services designations: Enhanced Outpatient Program (EOP) or Correctional Clinical Case Management System (CCCMS). Inmates with severe mental illness expected to experience difficulty transitioning out of corrections are designated as EOP and receive treatment at a level similar to day treatment services in the community, while inmates receiving CCCMS services are housed within the general population and participate on an outpatient basis. In the 2012 CDCR Outcome Evaluation Report, 76.7 percent of first-release inmates with an EOP designation recidivated after three years, compared to lower rates found in CCCMS designees (70.6 percent) and those without a designation (62 percent). (http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/adult_research_branch/Research_Documents/ARB_FY_0708_Recidivism_Report_10.23.12.pdf) - Under Existing Law, Judges Have Discretion to Impose Conditions on Felony or Misdemeanor Cases When a Defendant is Placed on Probation: Probation is the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the conditional release of a defendant into the community under the direction of a probation officer. “Probation is generally reserved for convicted criminals whose conditional release into society poses minimal risk to public safety and promotes rehabilitation.” People v. Carbajal (1995) 10 Cal.4th 1114,1120. Probation can be conditioned on serving a period of incarceration in county jail and on conditions reasonably related to the offense. Certain convicted felons are not eligible for probation. Other felons are presumptively ineligible for probation, but may be granted probation in an unusual case.
The primary considerations in granting probation are: (1) Public safety; (2) the nature of the offense; (3) the interests of justice; (4) the victim’s loss; and (5) the defendant’s needs. (Pen. Code, § 1202.7.)
Courts have broad general discretion to fashion and impose additional probation conditions that are particularized to the defendants. People v. Smith (2007) 152. Cal.App.4th 1245, 1249. Courts may impose any “reasonable” conditions necessary to secure justice and assist the rehabilitation of the probationer. Under existing law, a judge can impose a condition of probation that a defendant spend a certain amount of time in a residential mental health facility in conjunction with a jail sentence, or as an alternative to a jail sentence. In imposing probation conditions related to mental health, the court is not limited to ordering residential mental health treatment. The court can order outpatient mental health treatment, or other mental health directives the court finds appropriate. When a defendant is placed on probation the court retains jurisdiction over the case to ensure the defendant complies with probation. The court has the power to impose further punishment if the defendant does not comply with probation. - This Bill Seeks to Provide Incentives to Encourage Counties to Find Alternatives to Prison for Mentally Ill Offenders: SB 678 (Leno), Chapter 608, Statutes of 2009, established a system of performance based funding that shares state General Fund savings with county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation. SB 678 was designed to alleviate state prison overcrowding and save state General Fund monies by reducing the number of adult felony probationers who are sent to state prison for committing a new crime or violating the terms of probation, and to meet these objectives without compromising public safety. The SB 678 program shares state savings from lower prison costs with county probation departments that implement evidence-based supervision practices and achieve a reduction in the number of locally supervised felony offenders who are revoked to state prison. The SB 678 program has been successful in supporting probation departments’ increased use of evidence-based practices and lowering the percentage of individuals returned to custody without evident negative impact to public safety. Through the SB 678 performance based funding mechanism county probation departments have received a total of $708.2 million since program inception, including a $129.7 million allocation in the Governor’s Budget for distribution in fiscal year (FY) 2016-2017.
(www.courts.ca.gov/documents/lr-2016-ccc-performance-incentives-act-2009-PC1232.pdf)
Subsequent to the adoption of SB 678, Realignment created mandatory supervision and post release community supervision. Counties are responsible for individuals in those supervisory programs, in addition to individuals on supervised on probation. The program started by SB 678 has been expanded to include individuals on mandatory supervision and post release community supervision.
This bill takes a similar approach to SB 678. This bill would provide an economic reward to counties that reduce the number of individuals with mental illness sent to state prison on a new offense. The amount of the reward is based on a percentage of money the state saves because a mentally ill offender is not sent to state prison.
There are some difficulties in attempting to calculate savings when counties avoid sending mentally ill offenders to state prison. One difficulty is establishing the criteria for when an offender is mentally ill. There are not clear parameters to define what constitutes mental illness. It can also be difficult to identify an individual in the criminal justice system that is mentally ill. This bill would count an individual as mentally ill if the offender was sent to state prison for a new crime and placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System (MHSDS) upon entry to CDCR. MHSDS provides state prisoners access to mental health services. Recognizing some of the difficulties of accurately identifying mentally ill individuals in the criminal justice system, admission of CDCR inmate to MHSDS provides a metric that can be quantified.
Another complication is the interaction this bill would have with the SB 678 program. Under SB 678, a county receives money based on reductions the number of offenders they send to prison who were being supervised on probation, mandatory supervision, or post release community supervision at the time of the conduct that resulted in them being sent to prison. Mentally ill offenders can also be on probation, mandatory supervision, or post release community supervision at the time they engage in conduct that results in a state prison sentence on a new crime. That results in an overlap between mentally ill offenders and the population of offenders addressed by the SB 678 program. This bill does contain language which seeks to avoid double counting between the SB 678 program and the program described in this bill. - Argument in Support: According to the Steinberg Institute, “Nearly half of all prisoners in California live with a mental illness, and many of their crimes were directly linked to their mental health condition and sometimes the lack of appropriate treatment. The U.S. Supreme Court has stated that conditions in California prisons exacerbate psychiatric disorders of prisoners living with mental illness. According to the Department of Corrections, when released from custody, parolees with mental illness have much higher recidivism rates, thereby creating a revolving door of high-cost individuals within the criminal justice system without access to the treatment they need.
“This bill seeks to address these issues by requiring a probation officer, upon the request of the defendant, to include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any time prior, eligible for public mental health services or Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. SB 142 would also require the court, when the probation report specifies that the defendant has met the criteria regarding their mental health status, to consider the defendant’s mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
“The Judicial Council of California stated in a report that the annual prison cost is approximately $51,000 per inmate, compared to $20,412 for community housing and treatment for people who live with a mental illness. This means that if 500 offenders with a mental illness were sentenced to residential treatment there would be a cost savings of more than $15.2 million annually. The Pew Charitable Trust and MacArthur Foundation conducted a cost analysis and found that mental health courts have demonstrated a savings up to $7 in costs for every $1 spent.
“The cost savings and public benefits that occur when courts consider mental health in sentencing results in drastically reduced recidivism, early and less expensive intervention measures, greater public safety, and an overall reduction in crime.
“Additionally, SB 142 would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties to be deposited in a county-based fund account. Incentive payments would be made available to the County Board of Supervisors for utilization by county and other local community mental health programs to provide adult offenders with treatment services that have been demonstrated to reduce recidivism. SB 142 would require the Judicial Council, with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county, to provide a quarterly report to the Department of Finance so they are able to determine what funds are available for transfer from the State Incentive Fund to counties. The amount transferred to each county will be based on the number of felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county as well as the population receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.
“We believe SB 142 will help mitigate the state's current struggle to treat offenders with a mental health diagnosis in prison and county jails, especially as people with mental illness are far less likely to commit a crime, violate prison rules, or recidivate if they are receiving high-quality and timely treatment.” - Related Legislation:
- SB 215 (Beall), would have authorized a court to postpone prosecution of specified misdemeanors or specified felonies punishable in a county jail, and place the defendant in a pretrial diversion program if the court is satisfied the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, that the defendant’s mental disorder played a significant role in the commission of the charged offense. SB 215 is awaiting hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
- AB 870 (Levine), would require a court to recommend that a defendant sentenced to state prison receive a mental health evaluation, if the court makes specified findings concerning the defendant's mental health status. AB 870 is on the Senate inactive file.
- SB 215 (Beall), would have authorized a court to postpone prosecution of specified misdemeanors or specified felonies punishable in a county jail, and place the defendant in a pretrial diversion program if the court is satisfied the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, that the defendant’s mental disorder played a significant role in the commission of the charged offense. SB 215 is awaiting hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
- Prior Legislation:
- AB 154 (Levine), of the 2015-216 Legislative Session, would have allowed the court to order a defendant to serve all, or part, of their state prison or county jail sentence in a residential mental health facility, when a defendant establishes that they meet specified criteria regarding mental illness. AB 154 was vetoed by the Governor.
- SB 8 (Beall), of the 2015-216 Legislative Session, would have authorized a court to postpone prosecution of a misdemeanor or a felony punishable in a county jail, and place the defendant in a pretrial diversion program if the court is satisfied the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, that the defendant’s mental disorder played a significant role in the commission of the charged offense, and that the defendant would benefit from mental health treatment. SB 8 was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
- SB 678 (Leno), Chapter 608, Statutes of 2009, established a system of performance based funding that shares state General Fund savings with county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation.
- SB 1054 (Steinberg), Chapter 436, Statutes of 2014, clarifies that mental health grants be divided equally between adult and juvenile mentally ill offender crime reduction grants and streamline the grant process.
- SB 1323 (Cedillo), of the 2005-06 Legislative Session, would have appropriated $350,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation, over 5 years, to the County of Los Angeles, at the consent of the county, for the purpose of funding one position to work, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Superior Court, on a 5‑year Prototype Court Pilot Program for nonviolent felony offenders in the state who have been identified as having both serious mental health and substance abuse problems. SB 1323 was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
- SB 643 (Ortiz), of the 2001-02 Legislative Session, would have enacted the Mental Health Enhancement and Crime Prevention Act of 2001, which would require the board to reimburse counties meeting specified requirements for the excess cost of providing more effective psychotropic medications to inmates in county correctional facilities during their incarceration and after release. SB 643 was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
- AB 154 (Levine), of the 2015-216 Legislative Session, would have allowed the court to order a defendant to serve all, or part, of their state prison or county jail sentence in a residential mental health facility, when a defendant establishes that they meet specified criteria regarding mental illness. AB 154 was vetoed by the Governor.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
Anti-Recidivism Coalition
American Civil Liberties Union of California
American Friends Service Committee
California Access Coalition
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
California Catholic Conference
California Civil Liberties Advocacy
California Conference of Machinists
California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies
California District Attorneys Association
California Public Defenders Association
California State Association of Counties
California Youth Empowerment Network
Californians for Safety and Justice
County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California
Courage Campaign
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Director of the Stanford Law School Three Strikes and Justice Advocacy Project
Disability Rights California
Fair Chance Project
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Mental Health America of California
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter
National Union of Healthcare Workers
San Diego County District Attorney’s Office
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
Santa Clara County District Attorney, Jeffrey Rosen
Steinberg Institute
Opposition
None
Analysis Prepared by: David Billingsley / PUB. S. / (916) 319-3744
Date of Hearing: June 27, 2017
Counsel: David Billingsley
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr., Chair
SBPCA Bill Id:SB 142
Author:(Beall) – As Amended Ver:June 21, 2017
SUMMARY:
Establishes the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund, which would provide monetary incentives for counties to avoid sending mentally ill offenders to prison. Requires courts to consider, if provided by probation, a defendant’s mental health history when determining sentence and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration. Specifically, this bill:
- Establishes the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to transfer funds to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish.
- Specifies that the funds shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county within 30 days of deposit into the fund and shall be used to implement the community mental health program authorized by the provisions in this bill.
- Specifies that the mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership and the behavioral health department of that county.
- Requires the funds allocated to the board of supervisors to be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and to be spent on community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision.
- Requires Judicial Council, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), to provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance (DOF), including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
- The number of felony filings;
- The number of felony convictions;
- The number of felony convictions for which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in state prison;
- The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in state prison;
- The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation;
- The adult felon probation population; and,
- The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
- The number of felony filings;
- States that in the first year of implementation, Judicial Council’s report shall be submitted quarterly, and thereafter the report shall be submitted biannually.
- Requires after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, to calculate the following for that calendar year:
- The average cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole, an offender who receives mental health services and is sent to prison;
- The total statewide number of CDCR inmates who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year;
- The total number of CDCR inmates who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission;
- An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison, as specified;
- The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county, as specified; and
- The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates as described.
- The average cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole, an offender who receives mental health services and is sent to prison;
- Requires, annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison.
- States that the calculation of the mental health incarceration rate shall not include any individual sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision, or any individual used to calculate the funds allocated to the Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund.
- Requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to annually calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year.
- Specifies that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison multiplied by 35 percent of the state’s average costs to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receive mental health services and is sent to prison.
- Provides that if data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of the provisions in this bill are not available, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent as is reasonably possible with the provisions in this bill.
- States that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year with the total annual payment to a county divided into four equal quarterly payments.
- Requires DOF to include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governor’s proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted as necessary to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by DOF, as part of standard budget revision processes in April and May of each year.
- Establishes in the State Treasury the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund and administered by the Judicial Council.
- Provides that for each fiscal year, DOF shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
- States that a county that fails to provide the necessary information to Judicial Council will not be eligible for payment.
- Provides that the money appropriated shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
- Allows a defendant to provide documentation to the court that he or she is currently or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness.
- Specifies that a finding that the defendant has a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendant’s treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder that is created because the defendant has provided documentation to the court, shall not be used in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendant’s consent.
- Requires courts to consider, if provided, a defendant’s mental health history when determining sentence and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
EXISTING LAW:
- Establishes the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act, which is a system of performance-based funding to county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of individuals on adult felony probation, mandatory supervision, and individuals on post release community supervision, going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation. (Pen. Code §§ 1228 et seq.)
- Requires the Department of Finance (DOF) to annually calculate a performance incentive payment for each eligible county based on the number of felons on probation, mandatory supervision, and post release community supervision that were successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. (Pen. Code, §1233.4.)
- Requires DOF to annually calculate a statewide performance incentive payment for each eligible county, based on the counties return to prison rate, as specified. (Pen. Code, § 1233.3.)
- Authorizes each county to establish the county treasury a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund (CCPIF) to receive all amounts allocated to that county from the state. (Pen. Code, § 1230.)
- Requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to calculate the amount of money to be appropriated from the state fund into a CCPIF. (Pen. Code, § 1233.1.)
- Specifies that the calculation of funds are based on costs avoided by CDCR because of a reduction in the percentage of adult probationers sent to prison for a probation failure. (Pen. Code, § 1233.1.)
- Specifies that the funds provided to each county from the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act shall be used for specified purposes relating to supervision and rehabilitative services for adult felony offenders subject to probation and for evidence-based community corrections practices and programs. (Pen. Code, § 1230.)
- Finds and declares that the provision of probation services is an essential element in the administration of criminal justice. The safety of the public, which shall be a primary goal through the enforcement of court-ordered conditions of probation; the nature of the offense; the interests of justice, including punishment, reintegration of the offender into the community, and enforcement of conditions of probation; the loss to the victim; and the needs of the defendant shall be the primary considerations in the granting of probation. (Pen. Code, § 1202.7.)
- Provides if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment. (Pen. Code, § 1203, subd. (b)(1).)
- Requires the probation officer to immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted. (Pen. Code § 1203, subd. (b)(2)(A).)
FISCAL EFFECT:
Unknown
COMMENTS:
- Author's Statement: According to the author, "SB 142 incentivizes counties to treat people with mental health disorders in community-based psychiatric programs by sharing cost-savings of reduced prison admissions of people with mental illness with counties and directing counties to invest cost-savings in additional mental health services. The bill also requires judges, during sentencing, to consider a defendant’s history of mental illness, and whether a defendant could be successfully treated in the community. SB 142 is modeled on successful reforms in California and elsewhere incentivizing criminal justice reforms that improve outcomes and save state funding.
“Recently published findings underscore why passing SB 142 is so critical. Under Governor Brown’s leadership, California has made tremendous progress toward stronger, more equitable criminal justice system. But we must press forward and directly address the mental health crisis in our prisons. By incentivizing effective mental health services, we can reduce our prison population, save taxpayer money, and help families whose lives are impacted everyday by mental illness.
“We are at a crossroads here in California. Using state prisons to house the mentally ill is not just costly, it is punitive, inhumane, and leads to worse outcomes. California has the opportunity to take the lead by committing to treatment-based innovations that help make people suffering from mental illness better able to cope and contribute to society moving forward. It is an approach that is not only just, but is cost-effective as well.” - Prevalence of Mentally Ill Offenders: The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) Council on Mentally Ill Offenders (COMIO) regards the growing number of inmates suffering from mental health issues as a pressing concern.
Nationally, a 2009 American Psychiatric Association study “found that 14.5% of male and 31.0% of female inmates recently admitted to jail have a serious mental illness” which is three to six times higher than rates found in the general population. “A serious mental illness” included major depressive disorder, depressive disorder not otherwise specified, schizophrenia spectrum disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, and psychotic disorder not otherwise specified. (http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/final_jails_v_hospitals_study.pdf)
In 2009, the Division of Correctional Health Care Services for the CDCR estimated that 23 percent of California’s prison inmates have a serious mental illness. According to the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, an estimated “40 to 70 percent of youth in the California juvenile justice system have some mental health disorder or illness,” with 15 to 25 percent considered severely mentally ill. Based on these numbers, youth in California’s juvenile justice system are two to four times more likely to be in need of mental health care than California youth generally. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in 2006 that 74 percent of mentally ill state prisoners and 76 percent of mentally ill local jail inmates also met the criteria for substance dependence or abuse indicating a larger issue with co-occurring disorders among mentally ill offenders. (Id.) - Increased Rates of Recidivism Among Mentally Ill Offenders: A 2012 review conducted by the Utah Criminal Justice Center found that released inmates with serious mental illness experience poorer outcomes overall as they are “twice as likely to have their probation or parole revoked, are at an elevated risk for rearrest, incarceration, and homelessness, lack skills to obtain and sustain employment, and have higher rates of medical problems.”
(http://ucjc.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/MIO-butters-6-30-12-FINAL.pdf)
In 2009, the Council of State Governors Justice Center released a report entitled Improving Outcomes for People with Mental Illnesses under Community Corrections Supervision, which stated that the reasons for increased recidivism among mental ill offenders may be multifaceted:
Once people with mental illnesses are finally released, it is often extremely difficult for them to successfully transition from incarceration to the community. Their mental illnesses may be linked to community corrections supervision failure in a number of ways. Skeem and Loudon have characterized these links as being direct, indirect, or spurious.
First, mental illnesses may directly result in probation or parole revocation. For example, an individual may not access treatment, leading him or her to decompensate, behave in a bizarre or dangerous manner in public, get arrested for this behavior, and have his or her probation revoked.
Second, mental illnesses may indirectly result in revocation. For example, an individual with clinical depression may have impaired functioning that prevents him or her from maintaining employment and paying court ordered fines, which are standard conditions of release. Notably, many people with mental illnesses returning to the community from jail or prison lack financial or social supports. Some were receiving Medicaid and other forms of public assistance at the time of their arrest, and these benefits are typically terminated rather than suspended during incarceration, and rarely reinstated immediately upon release. In short, there is often no safety net to compensate for functional impairments that may place individuals with mental illnesses at risk for revocation.
Third, mental illnesses may not result in revocation. Instead, the relationship between the two may be spurious—that is, more apparent than real—because a third variable associated with mental illness causes revocation. For example, an individual with bipolar disorder may be at risk of committing a new offense not because of his or her mental illness, but because of criminogenic attitudes or affiliation with antisocial peers. Alternatively, an individual with psychosis may be monitored exceptionally closely and revoked readily by his or her probation officer, given that traditional supervision strategies often reflect misconceptions about (and stigma associated with) mental illness. ( https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.nicic.gov/Library/023634.pdf)
CDCR data shows higher rates of recidivism in inmates identified with mental health issues when compared to those without. Upon release, inmates exhibiting mental health problems are assigned one of two mental health services designations: Enhanced Outpatient Program (EOP) or Correctional Clinical Case Management System (CCCMS). Inmates with severe mental illness expected to experience difficulty transitioning out of corrections are designated as EOP and receive treatment at a level similar to day treatment services in the community, while inmates receiving CCCMS services are housed within the general population and participate on an outpatient basis. In the 2012 CDCR Outcome Evaluation Report, 76.7 percent of first-release inmates with an EOP designation recidivated after three years, compared to lower rates found in CCCMS designees (70.6 percent) and those without a designation (62 percent). (http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/adult_research_branch/Research_Documents/ARB_FY_0708_Recidivism_Report_10.23.12.pdf) - Under Existing Law, Judges Have Discretion to Impose Conditions on Felony or Misdemeanor Cases When a Defendant is Placed on Probation: Probation is the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the conditional release of a defendant into the community under the direction of a probation officer. “Probation is generally reserved for convicted criminals whose conditional release into society poses minimal risk to public safety and promotes rehabilitation.” People v. Carbajal (1995) 10 Cal.4th 1114,1120. Probation can be conditioned on serving a period of incarceration in county jail and on conditions reasonably related to the offense. Certain convicted felons are not eligible for probation. Other felons are presumptively ineligible for probation, but may be granted probation in an unusual case.
The primary considerations in granting probation are: (1) Public safety; (2) the nature of the offense; (3) the interests of justice; (4) the victim’s loss; and (5) the defendant’s needs. (Pen. Code, § 1202.7.)
Courts have broad general discretion to fashion and impose additional probation conditions that are particularized to the defendants. People v. Smith (2007) 152. Cal.App.4th 1245, 1249. Courts may impose any “reasonable” conditions necessary to secure justice and assist the rehabilitation of the probationer. Under existing law, a judge can impose a condition of probation that a defendant spend a certain amount of time in a residential mental health facility in conjunction with a jail sentence, or as an alternative to a jail sentence. In imposing probation conditions related to mental health, the court is not limited to ordering residential mental health treatment. The court can order outpatient mental health treatment, or other mental health directives the court finds appropriate. When a defendant is placed on probation the court retains jurisdiction over the case to ensure the defendant complies with probation. The court has the power to impose further punishment if the defendant does not comply with probation. - This Bill Seeks to Provide Incentives to Encourage Counties to Find Alternatives to Prison for Mentally Ill Offenders: SB 678 (Leno), Chapter 608, Statutes of 2009, established a system of performance based funding that shares state General Fund savings with county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation. SB 678 was designed to alleviate state prison overcrowding and save state General Fund monies by reducing the number of adult felony probationers who are sent to state prison for committing a new crime or violating the terms of probation, and to meet these objectives without compromising public safety. The SB 678 program shares state savings from lower prison costs with county probation departments that implement evidence-based supervision practices and achieve a reduction in the number of locally supervised felony offenders who are revoked to state prison. The SB 678 program has been successful in supporting probation departments’ increased use of evidence-based practices and lowering the percentage of individuals returned to custody without evident negative impact to public safety. Through the SB 678 performance based funding mechanism county probation departments have received a total of $708.2 million since program inception, including a $129.7 million allocation in the Governor’s Budget for distribution in fiscal year (FY) 2016-2017.
(www.courts.ca.gov/documents/lr-2016-ccc-performance-incentives-act-2009-PC1232.pdf)
Subsequent to the adoption of SB 678, Realignment created mandatory supervision and post release community supervision. Counties are responsible for individuals in those supervisory programs, in addition to individuals on supervised on probation. The program started by SB 678 has been expanded to include individuals on mandatory supervision and post release community supervision.
This bill takes a similar approach to SB 678. This bill would provide an economic reward to counties that reduce the number of individuals with mental illness sent to state prison. The amount reward is based on a percentage of money the state saves because mentally ill offenders are not sent to state prison.
There are some difficulties in attempting to calculate savings when counties avoid sending mentally ill offenders to state prison. One difficulty is establishing the criteria for when an offender is mentally ill. This bill seeks to establish a baseline using the criteria of whether an offender sent to state prison received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System. Another complication is the interaction this bill would have with the SB 678 program. Under SB 678, a county receives money based on reductions the number of offenders they send to prison who were being supervised on probation, mandatory supervision, or post release community supervision at the time of the conduct that resulted in them being sent to prison. Mentally ill offenders can also be on probation, mandatory supervision, or post release community supervision at the time they engage in conduct that could potentially result in a state prison sentence. That results in an overlap between mentally ill offenders and the population offenders addressed by the SB 678 program. This bill does contain provisions which seek to avoid double counting between the SB 678 program and the program in this bill. - Argument in Support: According to the Steinberg Institute, “Nearly half of all prisoners in California live with a mental illness, and many of their crimes were directly linked to their mental health condition and sometimes the lack of appropriate treatment. The U.S. Supreme Court has stated that conditions in California prisons exacerbate psychiatric disorders of prisoners living with mental illness. According to the Department of Corrections, when released from custody, parolees with mental illness have much higher recidivism rates, thereby creating a revolving door of high-cost individuals within the criminal justice system without access to the treatment they need.
“This bill seeks to address these issues by requiring a probation officer, upon the request of the defendant, to include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any time prior, eligible for public mental health services or Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness. SB 142 would also require the court, when the probation report specifies that the defendant has met the criteria regarding their mental health status, to consider the defendant’s mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
“The Judicial Council of California stated in a report that the annual prison cost is approximately $51,000 per inmate, compared to $20,412 for community housing and treatment for people who live with a mental illness. This means that if 500 offenders with a mental illness were sentenced to residential treatment there would be a cost savings of more than $15.2 million annually. The Pew Charitable Trust and MacArthur Foundation conducted a cost analysis and found that mental health courts have demonstrated a savings up to $7 in costs for every $1 spent.
“The cost savings and public benefits that occur when courts consider mental health in sentencing results in drastically reduced recidivism, early and less expensive intervention measures, greater public safety, and an overall reduction in crime.
“Additionally, SB 142 would establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, would be available for transfer to counties to be deposited in a county-based fund account. Incentive payments would be made available to the County Board of Supervisors for utilization by county and other local community mental health programs to provide adult offenders with treatment services that have been demonstrated to reduce recidivism. SB 142 would require the Judicial Council, with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county, to provide a quarterly report to the Department of Finance so they are able to determine what funds are available for transfer from the State Incentive Fund to counties. The amount transferred to each county will be based on the number of felony filings, convictions, and sentencing in each county as well as the population receiving specified mental health services through Medi-Cal.
“We believe SB 142 will help mitigate the state's current struggle to treat offenders with a mental health diagnosis in prison and county jails, especially as people with mental illness are far less likely to commit a crime, violate prison rules, or recidivate if they are receiving high-quality and timely treatment.” - Related Legislation:
- AB 154 (Levine), would have allowed the court to order a defendant to serve all, or part, of their state prison or county jail sentence in a residential mental health facility, when a defendant establishes that they meet specified criteria regarding mental illness. AB 154 was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
- SB 8 (Beall), would authorize a court to postpone prosecution of a misdemeanor or a felony punishable in a county jail, and place the defendant in a pretrial diversion program if the court is satisfied the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, that the defendant’s mental disorder played a significant role in the commission of the charged offense, and that the defendant would benefit from mental health treatment. SB 8 is set for hearing on June 27, 2017, in this committee.
- AB 154 (Levine), would have allowed the court to order a defendant to serve all, or part, of their state prison or county jail sentence in a residential mental health facility, when a defendant establishes that they meet specified criteria regarding mental illness. AB 154 was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
- Prior Legislation:
- SB 678 (Leno), Chapter 608, Statutes of 2009, established a system of performance based funding that shares state General Fund savings with county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation.
- SB 1054 (Steinberg), Chapter 436, Statutes of 2014, clarifies that mental health grants be divided equally between adult and juvenile mentally ill offender crime reduction grants and streamline the grant process.
- SB 1323 (Cedillo), of the 2005-06 Legislative Session, would have appropriated $350,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation, over 5 years, to the County of Los Angeles, at the consent of the county, for the purpose of funding one position to work, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Superior Court, on a 5‑year Prototype Court Pilot Program for nonviolent felony offenders in the state who have been identified as having both serious mental health and substance abuse problems. SB 1323 was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
- SB 643 (Ortiz), of the 2001-02 Legislative Session, would have enacted the Mental Health Enhancement and Crime Prevention Act of 2001, which would require the board to reimburse counties meeting specified requirements for the excess cost of providing more effective psychotropic medications to inmates in county correctional facilities during their incarceration and after release. SB 643 was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
- SB 678 (Leno), Chapter 608, Statutes of 2009, established a system of performance based funding that shares state General Fund savings with county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
Anti-Recidivism Coalition
American Civil Liberties Union of California
American Friends Service Committee
California Access Coalition
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
California Catholic Conference
California Civil Liberties Advocacy
California Conference of Machinists
California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies
California District Attorneys Association
California Public Defenders Association
California State Association of Counties
California Youth Empowerment Network
Californians for Safety and Justice
County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California
Courage Campaign
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Director of the Stanford Law School Three Strikes and Justice Advocacy Project
Disability Rights California
District Attorney, County of Santa Clara
Fair Chance Project
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Mental Health America of California
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter
National Union of Healthcare Workers
San Diego County District Attorney’s Office
Steinberg Institute
Opposition
None
Analysis Prepared by: David Billingsley / PUB. S. / (916) 319-3744
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 142
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SENATE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE: 7-0, 4/18/17
AYES: Skinner, Anderson, Bradford, Jackson, Mitchell, Stone, Wiener
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: 5-1, 5/25/17
AYES: Lara, Beall, Bradford, Hill, Wiener
NOES: Nielsen
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bates
SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
DIGEST:
This bill establishes the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund; and requires courts to consider, if provided by probation, a defendant’s mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
Existing law:
- Establishes, pursuant to the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, a system of performance-based funding to county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation. (Pen. Code §§ 1228 et seq.)
- Authorizes each county to establish the county treasury a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund (CCPIF) to receive all amounts allocated to that county from the state. (Pen. Code § 1230.)
- Requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to calculate the amount of money to be appropriated from the state fund into a CCPIF. (Pen. Code § 1233.1.)
- Specifies that the calculation of funds are based on costs avoided by CDCR because of a reduction in the percentage of adult probationers sent to prison for a probation failure. (Pen. Code § 1233.1.)
- States that the funds provided to each county from the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act shall be used for specified purposes relating to supervision and rehabilitative services for adult felony offenders subject to probation and for evidence-based community corrections practices and programs. (Pen. Code § 1230.)
- Provides that if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment. (Pen. Code § 1203, subd. (b)(1).)
- Requires the probation officer to immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted. (Pen. Code § 1203, subd. (b)(2)(A).)
This bill:
- Establishes the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to transfer funds to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish.
- Requires the funds allocated to the board of supervisors to be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and, to the extent that funds are available, to be spent on community-based mental services that address mental health needs and risk factors for incarceration.
- Requires Judicial Council, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and CDCR, to provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance (DOF) that includes specified statistical information for each county.
- Provides that in the first year of implementation, Judicial Council’s report shall be submitted quarterly, and thereafter the report shall be submitted biannually.
- Requires, annually, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year.
- Specifies that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison multiplied by 35 percent of the state’s average costs to incarcerate a prison felony offender in a contract facility.
- States that the estimate of the number of people with mental illness successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison shall not include effects from statewide changes to sentencing law.
- Requires DOF to include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governor’s proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted as necessary to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by DOF, as part of standard budget revision processes in April and May of each year.
- Provides that for each fiscal year, DOF shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
- Provides that, upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer shall include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness.
- Prohibits the use of a finding that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendant’s treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendant’s consent.
- Requires, when a person is convicted of a misdemeanor or felony and the probation report includes information that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, the court shall consider the defendant’s mental health history when determining sentencing and whether referral to the county behavioral health system for treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: Fiscal Com.: Local:
According to the Senate Committee on Appropriations:
- Incentive payments: Unknown, potentially major ongoing costs up to the millions of dollars annually (General Fund) to be paid into the newly-established Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund as a pass through to counties to provide treatment and spend on mental health treatment programs, as specified. Amount allocated would be dependent on how many specified individuals are calculated to have not been sent to state prison that otherwise would have.
- Prison population: Unknown, potential costs savings (General Fund) in diverted incarcerations of persons who use mental health services in state prison. Savings would be dependent on a reduction of inmates who are placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into state prison.
The assumed marginal rate to incarcerate an inmate is currently $9,370 per year. This figure is higher for inmates who use mental health services (and/or medical services), but it is difficult to accurately capture a standard rate for these individuals because of the highly-variable treatment and services needed by each inmate. (Footnote omitted.) The proponents of this bill presume an average marginal rate for an inmate using mental health services is over $16,000. Using that figure, if this bill were to lead to the diversion of 10 people from state prison, the state would realize a savings of approximately $160,000. (Footnote omitted.) Of this savings, about $10,000 per diverted person would go to counties as incentive payments (based on half of the rate for a contract bed), meaning that the state would realize a net savings of approximately $60,000 for every 10 individuals successfully diverted from state prison.
- Judicial Council: Ongoing workload costs of approximately $100,000 (General Fund) for the collection of additional data that Judicial Council currently does not collect and collecting data that is being collected currently but on a more rigorous time fame.
- Department of Finance: Minor and absorbable costs to calculate data.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (source)
American Civil Liberties Union of California
Anti-Recidivism Coalition; California Catholic Conference
California Access Coalition
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
California Behavioral Health Directors Association
California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies
California Public Defenders Association
California State Association of Counties
Californians for Safety and Justice
Courage Campaign
Disability Rights California
Fair Chance Project
Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office
National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter
National Union of Healthcare Workers
San Diego County District Attorney
Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office
Steinberg Institute
OPPOSITION: (Verified 5/26/17)
Prepared by: Stella Choe / PUB. S. /
5/30/17 9:33:36
SENATE COMMITTEE ON
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2017 - 2018 Regular Session
SB 142 (Beall) - Criminal offenders: mental health
Version: | Policy Vote: |
Urgency: | Mandate: |
Hearing Date: | Consultant: |
*********** ANALYSIS ADDENDUM – SUSPENSE FILE ***********
The following information is revised to reflect amendments
adopted by the committee on May 25, 2017
Bill Summary:
SB 142 would create the County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program which would establish a system of performance-based funding to incentivize the reduction of people with mental illness being sentenced to state prison.
Fiscal Impact:
- Incentive payments: Unknown, potentially major ongoing costs up to the millions of dollars annually (General Fund) to be paid into the newly-established Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund as a pass through to counties to provide treatment and spend on mental health treatment programs, as specified. Amount allocated would be dependent on how many specified individuals are calculated to have not been sent to state prison that otherwise would have.
- Prison population: Unknown, potential costs savings (General Fund) in diverted incarcerations of persons who use mental health services in state prison. Savings would be dependent on a reduction of inmates who are placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into state prison.
The assumed marginal rate to incarcerate an inmate is currently $9,370 per year. This figure is higher for inmates who use mental health services (and/or medical services), but it is difficult to accurately capture a standard rate for these individuals because of the highly-variable treatment and services needed by each inmate.[1] The proponents of this bill presume an average marginal rate for an inmate using mental health services is over $16,000. Using that figure, if this bill were to lead to the diversion of 10 people from state prison, the state would realize a savings of approximately $160,000.[2] Of this savings, about $10,000 per diverted person would go to counties as incentive payments (based on half of the rate for a contract bed), meaning that the state would realize a net savings of approximately $60,000 for every 10 individuals successfully diverted from state prison.
- Judicial Council: Ongoing workload costs of approximately $100,000 (General Fund) for the collection of additional data that Judicial Council currently does not collect and collecting data that is being collected currently but on a more rigorous time fame.
- Department of Finance: Minor and absorbable costs to calculate data.
Author Amendments:
Remove base level of funding to counties and remove the inclusion of individuals captured in the community corrections performance incentive grants from the formula to calculate the number of persons with mental illness who were successfully diverted from state prison.
Committee Amendments:
Change the multiplier for the mental health incarceration rate reduction payment to 35 percent of the state’s average costs to incarcerate a person in a contract facility, aligning it with the community corrections performance incarceration rate reduction payment. Specify that the estimate of the number of people with mental illness successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison does not include effects from statewide changes to sentencing law.
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For example, to treat an inmate in an acute psychiatric bed would cost the state less than to treat an inmate in a crisis bed, but the costs to treat two inmates in acute beds could vary greatly depending on the needs (e.g., medication, supervision, and/or counseling) of each person. Moreover, it is not uncommon for an inmate to move from one bed type to another multiple times (e.g., acute to crisis and vice versa). ↑
Because of the standardized staffing model used for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), an entire yard or housing unit would need to close to realize savings greater than that which is provided by the marginal rate. Housing units average 500 to 700 inmates. ↑
SENATE COMMITTEE ON
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2017 - 2018 Regular Session
SB 142 (Beall) - Criminal offenders: mental health
Version: | Policy Vote: |
Urgency: | Mandate: |
Hearing Date: | Consultant: |
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary:
SB 142 would create the County Mental Health Incarceration Rate Reduction Incentive Program which would establish a system of performance-based funding to incentivize the reduction of people with mental illness being sentenced to state prison.
Fiscal Impact:
- Incentive payments: Major ongoing costs of at least $5.8 million annually (General Fund) to be paid into the newly-established Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund as a pass through to counties to provide treatment and spend on mental health treatment programs, as specified.
Amount allocated could be higher depending on how many specified individuals are calculated to have not been sent to state prison that otherwise would have, but each county would be assured at least $100,000 regardless of how many less (or more) individuals placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System it sent to state prison than the previous year.
- Prison population: Unknown, potential costs savings (General Fund) in diverted incarcerations of persons who use mental health services in state prison. Savings would be dependent on a reduction of inmates who are placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into state prison.
The assumed marginal rate to incarcerate an inmate is currently $9,370 per year. This figure is higher for inmates who use mental health services (and/or medical services), but it is difficult to accurately capture a standard rate for these individuals because of the highly-variable treatment and services needed by each inmate.[1] The proponents of this bill presume an average marginal rate for an inmate using mental health services is over $16,000. Using that figure, if this bill were to lead to the diversion of 10 people from state prison, the state would realize a savings of approximately $160,000.[2] Of this savings, roughly $14,000 per diverted person would go to counties as incentive payments (based on half of the rate for a contract bed), meaning that the state would realize a net savings of approximately $20,000 for every 10 individuals successfully diverted from state prison.
- Judicial Council: Ongoing workload costs of approximately $100,000 (General Fund) for the collection of additional data that Judicial Council currently does not collect and collecting data that is being collected currently but on a more rigorous time fame.
- Department of Finance: Minor and absorbable costs to calculate data.
Background:
Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, establishes a system of performance-based funding to county probation departments that demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation. As part of this system, each county is allowed to establish a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund and the state is authorized to annually allocate moneys into a State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund to be used for specified purposes relating to improving local probation supervision practices and capacities, as specified.
Proposed Law:
This bill would:
- Establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to transfer funds to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish.
- Require that the funds be made available to the board of supervisors of that county within 30 days of deposit into the fund and be used to implement the community mental health program authorized by the provisions in this bill.
- Require that the mental health program be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership and the behavioral health department of that county.
- Require the funds allocated to the board of supervisors be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration and to be spent on community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision.
- Require Judicial Council, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and CDCR, to provide a statistical report to DOF, including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
- The number of felony filings;
- The number of felony convictions;
- The number of felony convictions for which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in state prison;
- The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in state prison;
- The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation;
- The adult felon probation population; and,
- The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
- Require that in the first year of implementation, Judicial Council’s report be submitted quarterly, and thereafter submitted biannually.
- Require after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and Judicial Council, to calculate the following for that calendar year:
- The cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services;
- The total statewide number of CDCR inmates who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year;
- The total number of CDCR inmates who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission;
- An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison, as specified;
- The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county, as specified;
- The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates as described.
- Require, annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison.
- Require the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to annually calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year.
- Require that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment be equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison multiplied by 50 percent of the contract facility cost.
- Provide that if data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of the provisions in this bill are not available, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, to use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent as is reasonably possible with the provisions in this bill.
- Require that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for any calendar year be provided to a county in the following fiscal year with the total annual payment to a county divided into four equal quarterly payments.
- Require DOF to include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governor’s proposed budget and that the estimate be adjusted as necessary to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by DOF, as part of standard budget revision processes in April and May of each year.
- Require, for each fiscal year, DOF to determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county and report those amounts to the Controller.
- Provide that DOF increase to no more than $100,000 the award amount for any county whose mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment totals less than $100,000.
- Provide, for counties that did not receive a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, that DOF adjust the award up to $100,000 per county. Require a county that receives funds through this provision to submit a report to Judicial Council and the County Behavioral health Directors Association of California annually describing how it plans to use the funds; failure to do so would result in that county not receiving funds the subsequent year.
- Provide that a county that fails to provide the necessary information to Judicial Council will not be eligible for payment.
- Require the court to consider a defendant’s mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration, if the defendant chooses to provide such information to the probation officer.
Prior Legislation:
SB 678 (Leno, Ch. 608, Stats. 2009) created the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009 which established a system of performance-based funding to support evidence-based practices relating to the supervision of adult felony probationers.
Staff Comments:
This bill intends to incentivize counties to help lower the rate of individuals sent to state prison who need mental health services. It does so, generally, by attempting to calculate how many fewer (or more) inmates from each county are in CDCR’s Mental Health Delivery System than the previous year, with portions of the costs that the state avoided by not having to incarcerate those people going to the counties to provide treatment at the community level. This program is modeled after an incentive program established by the state in 2009, colloquially known as SB 678, the legislation that enacted the program (see above). SB 678 incentivized counties to reduce probationers (and now those on realigned forms of supervision by the county) being sent to state prison by providing them a portion of savings realized through the avoided incarceration. While this bill requires the calculation of the number of inmates who have received mental health services within the past year excluding those were on probation at the time of admission, this calculation does not appear to be required to be factored into the calculation of determining how many adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison. Consequently, a county could benefit twice from the diversion of the same person from state prison, once under SB 678 and once under this bill.
The formula that this bill uses to calculate how many people with mental illness were successfully diverted from state prison is based on the reduction in the number of inmates sentenced to prison who are placed in CDCR’s Mental Health Services Delivery System for that year from the previous year for each county. This formula of calculating the reduction rate may allow counties to benefit through higher incentive payments for population reductions that may be completely attributable to something other than the counties’ efforts. For example, if the program established by this bill were in place using this formula when Proposition 47 (2014) was enacted by the voters, the counties would have received a boon in payments because of the large reduction of state-prison eligible offenders as a consequence of the proposition. If a similar type of event were to occur again, counties would reap the benefit through possibly-substantially increased incentive payments through no effort of their own.
Additionally, as stated above, this bill would provide a base level of $100,000 in incentive payments to each county regardless of how fewer mentally-ill inmates it sends to state prison. It could be possible that a county that actually increases the number of these individuals being sent to prison still receives that base level. This would appear to provide little to no incentive to counties to reduce their diversion rate if they continue to receive funding regardless of performance, particularly for smaller population counties whose admission rates likely would vary only slightly year to year. Conversely, counties may need to rely on a steady, forecastable funding stream to sustain ongoing treatment and services.
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For example, to treat an inmate in an acute psychiatric bed would cost the state less than to treat an inmate in a crisis bed, but the costs to treat two inmates in acute beds could vary greatly depending on the needs (e.g., medication, supervision, and/or counseling) of each person. Moreover, it is not uncommon for an inmate to move from one bed type to another multiple times (e.g., acute to crisis and vice versa). ↑
Because of the standardized staffing model used for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), an entire yard or housing unit would need to close to realize savings greater than that which is provided by the marginal rate. Housing units average 500 to 700 inmates. ↑
SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
Senator Nancy Skinner, Chair
2017 - 2018 Regular
Bill No: SB 142 Hearing Date: April 18, 2017
Author: | Beall | ||
Version: | April 6, 2017 | ||
Urgency: | No | Fiscal: | Yes |
Consultant: | SC | ||
Subject: Criminal Offenders: Mental Health
HISTORY
Source: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Prior Legislation: SB 678 (Leno), Chapter 608, Stats. 2009
Support: American Civil Liberties Union of California; Anti-Recidivism Coalition; California Catholic Conference; California Attorneys for Criminal Justice; Californians for Safety and Justice; California Attorneys for Criminal Justice; California Public Defenders Association; Courage Campaign; Disability Rights California; Fair Chance Project; National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter; National Union of Healthcare Workers; San Diego County District Attorney; Steinberg Institute
Opposition: None known
PURPOSE
The purpose of this bill is to establish the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund; and to require courts to consider, if provided by probation, a defendant’s mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
Existing law provides if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, before judgment is pronounced, the court shall immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court, at a specified time, upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment. (Pen. Code § 1203, subd. (b)(1).)
Existing law requires the probation officer to immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of his or her findings and recommendations, including his or her recommendations as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted. (Pen. Code § 1203, subd. (b)(2)(A).)
This bill states that upon the request of the defendant, the probation officer shall include in his or her report whether the defendant is currently, or was at any prior time, eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental health illness or eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance due to a diagnosed mental illness.
This bill prohibits the use of a finding that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, any progress reports concerning the defendant’s treatment, and any other record related to a mental disorder in any other civil or administrative proceeding without the defendant’s consent.
This bill requires, when a person is convicted of a misdemeanor or felony and the probation report includes information that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, the court shall consider the defendant’s mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration.
Existing law, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009, establishes a system of performance-based funding to county probation departments when they demonstrate success in reducing the number of adult felony probationers going to state prison because of committing new crimes or violating the terms of probation. (Pen. Code §§ 1228 et seq.)
Existing law authorizes each county to establish the county treasury a Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund (CCPIF) to receive all amounts allocated to that county from the state. (Pen. Code § 1230.)
Existing law requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to calculate the amount of money to be appropriated from the state fund into a CCPIF. (Pen. Code § 1233.1.)
Existing law specifies that the calculation of funds are based on costs avoided by CDCR because of a reduction in the percentage of adult probationers sent to prison for a probation failure. (Id.)
Existing law specifies that the funds provided to each county from the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act shall be used for specified purposes relating to supervision and rehabilitative services for adult felony offenders subject to probation and for evidence-based community corrections practices and programs. (Pen. Code § 1230.)
This bill establishes the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to transfer funds to counties as mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments to be deposited in a Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund that each county would be authorized to establish.
This bill specifies that the funds shall be made available to the board of supervisors of that county within 30 days of deposit into the fund and shall be used to implement the community mental health program authorized by the provisions in this bill.
This bill specifies that the mental health program shall be developed and implemented by the board of supervisors and advised by the Community Corrections Partnership and the behavioral health department of that county.
This bill requires the funds allocated to the board of supervisors to be used to provide treatment services for adult offenders subject to local supervision and for those at risk of arrest or incarceration, and to be spent on community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision.
This bill requires Judicial Council, in consultation with the chief probation officer and behavioral health department of each county and CDCR, to provide a statistical report to the Department of Finance (DOF), including, but not limited to, the following statistical information for each county:
- The number of felony filings;
- The number of felony convictions;
- The number of felony convictions for which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in state prison;
- The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in state prison;
- The number of felony convictions in which the defendant was granted probation;
- The adult felon probation population; and,
- The number of adult felony convictions in which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a new crime and was placed in the Mental Health Services Delivery System upon entry into the state prison. The calculation shall not include any adult sentenced to state prison for termination of probation, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision.
This bill states that in the first year of implementation, Judicial Council’s report shall be submitted quarterly, and thereafter the report shall be submitted biannually.
This bill requires after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Judicial Council, to calculate the following for that calendar year:
- The cost to the state to incarcerate in a contract facility and supervise on parole an offender who receives mental health services;
- The total statewide number of CDCR inmates who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System within the past year;
- The total number of CDCR inmates who have received mental health services through the Mental Health Services Delivery System from each county who were not under the supervision of the county probation department at the time of admission;
- An estimate of the number of adults with mental illness each county successfully prevented from being incarcerated in state prison, as specified;
- The state prison mental health incarceration rate for each county, as specified;
- The statewide average for state prison mental health incarceration rates for each county, which shall be calculated as the mean of the mental health incarceration rates as described.
This bill requires, annually, after the conclusion of each calendar year, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the California State Association of Counties, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to identify the mental health incarceration rate for each county for which it was estimated that the county successfully prevented any number of adults with mental illness from being sent to state prison.
This bill requires the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to annually calculate a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for each eligible county for the most recently completed calendar year.
This bill specifies that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment shall equal the estimated number of adults with mental illness successfully prevented from being sent to prison multiplied by 50 percent of the contract facility cost.
This bill provides that if data of sufficient quality and of the types required for the implementation of the provisions in this bill are not available, the Director of Finance, in consultation with CDCR, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the Judicial Council, shall use the best available data to estimate the statewide performance incentive payments utilizing a methodology that is as consistent as is reasonably possible with the provisions in this bill.
This bill states that the mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment for any calendar year shall be provided to a county in the following fiscal year with the total annual payment to a county divided into four equal quarterly payments.
This bill requires DOF to include an estimate of the total performance incentive payments to be provided to counties in the coming fiscal year as part of the Governor’s proposed budget released no later than January 10 of each year. This estimate shall be adjusted as necessary to reflect the actual calculations of payments completed by DOF, as part of standard budget revision processes in April and May of each year.
This bill establishes in the State Treasury the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payments shall be transferred into this fund from the General Fund and administered by the Judicial Council.
This bill provides that for each fiscal year, DOF shall determine the total amount of the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund and the amount to be allocated to each county and shall report those amounts to the Controller. The Controller shall make an allocation from the State Community Mental Health Performance Incentives Fund to each county in accordance with the amounts provided.
This bill specifies that DOF shall increase to no more than $100,000 the award amount for any county whose mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment totals less than $100,000.
This bill states, for counties that did not receive a mental health incarceration rate reduction incentive payment, DOF shall adjust the award up to $100,000 per county. A county that receives funds through this provision shall submit a report to Judicial Council and the County Behavioral health Directors Association of California by March 1 annually describing how it plans to use the funds. Failure to report by March 1 will result in that county not receiving funds the subsequent year.
This bill states that a county that fails to provide the necessary information to Judicial Council will not be eligible for payment.
This bill provides that the money appropriated shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other state or county appropriation for a chief probation officer, probation department, or county department of behavioral health.
COMMENTS
1. Need for This Bill
According to the author:
The number of people with mental illness in prison is on the rise, despite recent reforms to state prison system. Evidence shows that when counties implement effective mental health services, crime goes down, the number of people with mental illness in prison and jail goes down, and money is saved. SB 142 re-invests savings from reduced prison costs into effective community-based mental health services with incentives to create a positive cycle of effective treatment, reduced crime, and new savings for even more services.
SB 142 also requires, at the request of the defendant, inclusion of a defendant’s mental health history in the pre-sentencing report. Currently, this information is sometimes included in the report, but there is no statewide uniformity. Having this information will help a judge make a sentencing determination based on a full-picture of the defendant.
SB 142 also requires judges to consider a person’s mental health history during sentencing, and whether they can be treated in the community. Data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) shows that people with mental illness often receive longer sentences for the same crime, despite incarceration being less effective and more expensive than community-based treatment. SB 142 seeks to encourage, at every step of the way, opportunities to treat people with mental illness in community settings reducing costs, improving outcomes and increasing public safety.
2. Growing Population of Mentally Ill Inmates
According to several reports, the population of mentally ill inmates in county jails and in state prisons has increased over the years. A Los Angeles Times article from June 2016 reported that “the number of mentally ill inmates has grown in both county jails and state prisons, although overall inmate populations have shrunk. In L.A. County jails, the average population of mentally ill inmates in 2013 was 3,081. As of mid-May it was 4,139, a 34% increase.
“In the state prison system, the mentally ill inmate population was 32,525 in April 2013, making up 24.5% of the overall population. As of February, according to a recently released monitoring report, the overall population had fallen by 5,230 while the mental health population had grown by 4,275, and made up 29% of the total population.
“A spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation gave an even higher percentage — 37% — but noted that most of the patients have lower-level conditions that do not require inpatient or enhanced outpatient treatment.” (Sewell, Mentally ill inmates are swamping the state's prisons and jails. Here's one man's story (June 19, 2016) Los Angeles Times < http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-mentally-ill-inmate-snap-story.html> [as of April 10, 2017].)
A 2015 Stanford Law School report found that the number of mentally ill people in California’s state prisons have almost doubled in the past 15 years. (Mills, Romano and Steinberg, When did prisons become acceptable mental healthcare facilities? Stanford Law School Three Strikes Project (Feb. 12, 2015).) The report defines “mentally ill prisoner” as an inmate suffering from a serious mental illness, as diagnosed by the prison Mental Health Delivery System.
According to the report, approximately 45 percent of prison inmates had been treated for severe mental illness the previous year. The report also found that once a mentally ill offender is in the criminal system, they tend to be subjected to harsher sentencing than others for the same crimes: “despite rules of court in California designed to mitigate punishments for mentally ill offenders, the average sentence imposed on defendants suffering from mental illness is longer than the average sentence imposed on defendants who do not have mental health diagnosis but who committed the same crime. Unfortunately this is true across every category of crime in California. For example, the average sentence for burglary imposed on mentally ill defendants is 30 percent longer than the average sentence for non-mentally ill defendants convicted of the same crime.” Additionally, “[w]hen it comes time to be considered for release, once again the mentally ill fare miserably. For example, the number of mentally ill prisoners denied relief under new resentencing laws enacted under Proposition 36 is three times greater than the number of non-mentally-ill prisoners who have been denied relief. (Id. at 2.)
Once they are released from prison, the report found that mentally ill offenders are not provided with any treatment or services causing them to cycle back through the criminal justice system. “We provide virtually no effective mental health facilities and programs to help released prisoners who are in desperate need of mental health treatment. This service deficit naturally results in higher recidivism rates and an ongoing sense of social isolation and abandonment. And the cycle then begins again with new arrests, new prosecutions, new lengthy sentences, new impediments to release, and eventual release into a system that provides nothing but an inevitable, tragic trajectory back into the criminal justice system.” (Id. at 3.)
The report made three recommendations: (1) reform the way we sentence the mentally ill; (2) provide meaningful treatment in prison; and continue meaningful treatment after prison. (Id. at 3-4.) This bill requires a court to consider a defendant’s mental health history when determining sentencing and whether treatment in the community, including residential treatment, is appropriate in lieu of incarceration. This bill also creates funding incentives for counties that place defendants that have mental disorders in community-based treatment rather than sending them to state prison.
3. Incentive-Based Funding
Existing law, enacted by SB 678 (Leno) Chapter 608, Statutes of 2009 provides incentive funding for counties that reduce the number of adult felony probationers that are sent to state prison for committing a new crime or violating the terms of their probation. (Pen. Code §§ 1228 et seq.)
The Judicial Council is required to submit to the Governor and the Legislature an annual report on the implementation of SB 678. According to Judicial Council’s most recent report,
When originally passed, the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009 (Sen. Bill 678) was designed to alleviate state prison overcrowding and save state General Fund monies by reducing the number of adult felony probationers who are sent to state prison for committing a new crime or violating the terms of probation, and to meet these objectives without compromising public safety. The Senate Bill 678 program shares state savings from lower prison costs with county probation departments that implement evidence-based supervision practices and achieve a reduction in the number of locally supervised felony offenders who are revoked to state prison. The SB 678 program has been successful in supporting probation departments’ increased use of evidence-based practices and lowering the percentage of individuals returned to custody without evident negative impact to public safety. Through the SB 678 performance based funding mechanism county probation departments have received a total of $708.2 million since program inception, including a $129.7 million allocation in the Governor’s Budget for distribution in fiscal year (FY) 2016-2017.
. . . .
Although recent criminal justice initiatives have presented challenges to isolating and identifying the effects of SB 678, in each of the six years since the start of the SB 678 program the state’s overall revocation rate has been lower than the original baseline rate of 7.9%. Post enactment of public safety realignment the Judicial Council’s Criminal Justice Services office began to collect outcome data on all supervised felony offenders (i.e., felony probation, postrelease community supervision, and mandatory supervision), and the return to prison rate for each felony supervision population has declined from 2013 to 2015. Although distinct trends cannot be established, return rates for felony probationers and individuals on mandatory supervision appear to be similar, whereas individuals on postrelease community supervision are returned to prison at a much higher rate.
Overall the SB 678 program and its performance-based funding mechanism created significant state savings by lowering the number of supervised offenders sent to state prison over the past six years with allocations to county probation departments ranging from $88.6 million to $138.3 million per fiscal year. While the number of probationers revoked has decreased since the SB 678 program’s inception, California’s crime rates remain below the 2008 baseline levels, and there is no evidence to suggest that public safety has been negatively affected by the SB 678 program. Given these positive outcomes, the state and the counties have an interest in sustaining and expanding upon the effectiveness of the SB 678 program.
(Report on the California Community Corrections Performance Incentives Act of 2009: Findings from the SB 678 Program, Judicial Council of California (July 2016), pp. 1-2.) Several other states have implemented similar probation funding formulas to incentivize counties to reduce the amount of offenders going to state correctional facilities and to get a portion of the savings back. A study found that incentivized probation results in more successful probation outcomes, and saves millions of dollars each year. (Glod, Incentivizing Results: Lessons from Other States’ Probation Funding Formula Reforms and Recommendations to Texas Lawmakers, Center for Effective Justice (Jan. 2017).)
This bill creates incentive-based funding to counties based on savings at the state level for treating mentally ill offenders in the community rather than through imprisonment in the state prison. This bill requires those funds to be reinvested into community-based mental health treatment programs that have been demonstrated by scientific research to reduce recidivism among individuals under local supervision.
4. Technical Amendment to be Adopted in Committee
This bill will be heard as proposed to be amended to include a technical amendment. Specifically, the bill will be amended to delete the term “suffers from” and replaced with the word “has” when referring to a defendant’s mental disorder.
5. Argument in Support
Disability Rights California writes in support of this bill:
Since 2011, California’s prison system has undergone significant reforms and changes largely in response to federal lawsuits revealing inadequate medical and mental health care in the prison system.
Ironically, people with mental health disabilities have been the least likely to benefit from the reforms – even though the lawsuits were instigated on their behalf and the Supreme Court affirmed their complaints in 2011. The number of people in California state prisons with a mental health disability has increased in the last five years, both in number and proportion, and is expected to continue to increase in coming years.
SB 142 helps to address this issue while also increasing capacity for community-based mental health treatment. The bill incentivizes the placement of defendants with mental health disabilities in community-based treatment, rather than state prison, by sharing the savings from reduced prison admissions with counties to reinvest in community-based treatment. Incarcerating people costs more than twice as much as providing community-based residential treatment, yet community treatment yields better results with reductions in arrests and length of incarceration. This reinvestment will create a positive cycle of increased treatment, reduced crime and more savings for even more services.
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