Bill Text: CA AB2385 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Probation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-30 - Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 18. Noes 11. Page 5033.). [AB2385 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB2385-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2385 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 7, 2012 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 9, 2012 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 29, 2012 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Harkey and Hall FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act to add Section 1203.019 to the Penal Code, relating to probation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2385, as amended, Harkey. Probation. Existing law authorizes a county correctional administrator, as defined, to offer a program under which specified offenders committed to a county jail or other county correctional facility may voluntarily participate, or involuntarily be placed, in a home detention program, including electronic monitoring, in lieu of confinement in the county jail or other county correctional facility under the auspices of the probation officer. Existing law authorizes the correctional administrator, with the approval of the board of supervisors of the county, to administer the home detention program pursuant to written contracts with appropriate public or private agencies or entities. This bill wouldrequire anyauthorize a court to place a personwho participates or is placedina county-administeredan electronic monitoring programto be assigned to an electronic monitoring program operatingthat is operated by a private vendor only if that program is operated pursuant to a contractwith the countyand standards that complies withthe above provisions.specified provisions, including requiring the private vendor to demonstrate evidence of financial responsibility. The bill wouldstateprovide that it is not intended to limit or restrict the use of electronic monitoring. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1203.019 is added to the Penal Code, to read: 1203.019. (a)A person who participates or is placed in a county-administered electronic monitoring program shall be assigned to an electronic monitoring program operating pursuant to a contract with the county that complies with the provisions of subdivision (j) of Section 1203.016.A court may place a person into an electronic monitoring program that is operated by a private vendor only if the program is operated pursuant to a contract and standards that comply with the provisions of subdivision (j) of Section 1203.016 . (b) Nothing in this section is intended to limit or restrict the use of electronic monitoring.