Bill Text: CA AB266 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Inmates: housing assignments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB266 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB266-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
April 24, 2017 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 266 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Thurmond (Principal coauthor: Senator Beall) |
February 01, 2017 |
An act to add Section 3025 to the Penal Code, relating to inmates.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 266, as amended, Thurmond.
Inmates: housing assignments.
Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct assessments of all inmates regarding the inmate’s history of substance abuse, medical and mental health, education, family background, criminal activity, service in the United States military, and social functioning for use in placing the inmate in programs that will aid in his or her reentry to society and that will most likely reduce the inmate’s chances of reoffending.
This bill would require the department, in making an initial inmate housing assignment, to consider whether the inmate is or was eligible for public mental health services due to a serious mental illness or whether the inmate currently is or was
eligible for benefits under the federal Social Security Disability Insurance program due to a diagnosed mental illness.
