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Juvenile Justice Bills Introduced in the California Legislature (2005 Session)
Note: this list was compiled by David Steinhart. It represents an initial scan of bills introduced by the February 18, 2005 deadline for bill introduction. It is a selected listing of bills in the subject area and is not necessarily comprehensive or complete at this time.
AB 314 (Parra), Revises diagnostic, education, treatment and post-release service requirements for Youth Authority wards.
AB 442 (Villines), Spot bill stating Legislative intent to enact law establishing new monitoring and program requirements for group homes serving juvenile court wards.
AB 605 (Nakanishi), Adds-- to the list of reasons for suspension or expulsion of a student at Ed. Code Sec. 48900-- making a false accusation against a school employee.
AB 743 (Strickland), Amends Prop.21 by adding new sex (rape) offenses to the list of crimes for which minors are automatically tried in adult court (WIC 602 b).
AB 763 (Tran), Establishes an exemption from state conflict of interest law for public agency personnel sitting on county Schiff-Cardenas Juvenile Justice Coordinating Councils.
AB 863 (Bass), Establishes a state Child Welfare Council to advise on the management of multi-agency services for juvenile court wards.
AB 971 (Horton), Requires correctional peace officers, other than managers or supervisors, to undergo at least 80 hours of job-related training each fiscal year, and requires each prison warden or CYA superintendent to undergo psychological evaluation prior to assuming his or her duties.
AB 1080 (Runner), Prohibits placement of any person who has been a CYA ward and a juvenile sex offender (under PC 290) in any facility located within one mile of a school.
AB 1094 (Nakanishi), Authorizes lease of 5 acres at Preston for a regional juvenile detention facility operated by Amador County.
AB 1198 (Mullin), Adds WIC Sec 831 allowing San Mateo County to authorize a 3 year demonstration project in which otherwise confidential information could be shared by agencies and providers serving juvenile justice clients.
AB 1267 (Leslie), Designates the Bd. of Corrections as the agency housing the State Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice for purposes of administering federal JJDPA funds.
AB 1294 (Umberg), Provides that segregation and classification decisions made by the Youth Authority cannot be delegated to the Department of Corrections.
AB 1448 (Saldana), Establishes an exemption from state conflict of interest law for public agency personnel sitting on county-level, Schiff-Cardenas Juvenile Justice Coordinating Councils (same as AB 763).
AB 1470 (Negrete-McLeod), Requires local criminal justice agencies to report the data and fingerprints to Dept of Justice for any minor arrested for any offense except a WIC 601 status offense.
AB 1509 (Yee), Establishes a five year pilot project in Alameda, Contra Costa and SF Counties to address the needs of minors arrested for prostitution.
SB 128 (Strickland), Expands the reach of the criminal gang statute, amending PC 186.22 (e) to add, to the list of crimes considered in determining a "pattern of criminal gang activity", certain credit card and identify theft offenses.
SB 447 (Poochigian), Amends the criteria in WIC Sec 1800 for the continued incarceration of youthful offenders who are physically dangerous to the public by adding the requirement that the offender be determined to be unable to control his or her behavior (per the California Supreme Court decision in In Re Howard N).
SB 486 (Migden), Expresses the intent of the Legislature to overhaul the community care licensing laws in California so that group homes can better address the needs of youth (including probation youth) in a scheme that includes funding and rate changes.
SB 520 (Ashburn), Spot bill amending WIC 707 provisions regarding fitness of minors for juvenile court and transfer to the adult system.
SB 570 (Migden), Revises Juvenile Court laws affecting a) competency of minors in delinquency proceedings and b) assessment, processing and placement of WIC 602 minors with mental health or developmental disorders or substance abuse problems (reintroducing mid-session versions of AB 2019, Steinberg, from 2004).
SB 609 (Romero), Mandates specific Youth Authority reforms including overhaul of the institutions to meet specific treatment objectives by 2010, closure of the Chaderjian School and other reforms.
SB 620 (Speier), Requires that every person entering any CYA property or private facility under CYA contract--including staff, vendors and visitors-- shall be subject to random drug tests and searches for weapons or contraband, and requires CYA to establish and implement a uniform protocol for conducting these tests and searches. Applies these same requirements to CDC.
SB 737 (Romero), Reprints the Administration's Corrections Reorganization Plan which includes merging multiple CYA and CDC operations into a new organizational structure under a new Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; serves as a spot bill for legislative changes to the Administration plan.
SB 740 (Romero), Spot bill on Corrections Reorganization.
SB 793 (Romero), Spot bill amending WIC Sec. 1000 on Youth Authority responsibility for the operation of education and treatment programs for wards.
SB 795 (Romero), Expresses Legislative intent to reform Youth Authority parole by transferring state funds and responsibility for supervision and services to local probation departments.
SB 1034 (Hollingsworth), Requires that at least two-thirds of the occupants of a group home serving probation wards be placed by the court of the county in which the group home is located.
SB 1051 (Hollingsworth), Prohibits group homes located within one mile of a school from accepting placements of sex offenders, and prohibits sex offenders from living within one mile of a school (versus one-fourth mile under current law).