Bill Text: CA SB828 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 828

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Bill Title: Minimum wages: health care workers: delay.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-05-31 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 12, Statutes of 2024. [SB828 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB828-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate March 22, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 828

Introduced by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas

February 17, 2023

~~An act relating to corrections.~~ An act to add and repeal Section 2716.7 of the Penal Code, relating to corrections.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 828, as amended, Smallwood-Cuevas. Corrections: vocational training.

Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and sets forth its powers and duties regarding the administration of correctional facilities and the care and custody of inmates. Existing law establishes the Pre-Release Construction Trades Certificate Program within the department to increase employment opportunities in the construction trades for inmates upon release. Existing law requires the department to establish a joint advisory committee to implement the program and specifies the duties of the committee, including exploring the prerelease award of formal credit for apprenticeship hours recognized by joint apprenticeship training programs and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, among other things.
This bill would require the department to provide a report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2026, on the above-described exploratory findings of the joint advisory committee. The bill would repeal this provision on January 1, 2030.
~~Existing law authorizes a sheriff or other official in charge of a county correctional facility to provide for the vocational training and rehabilitation of incarcerated individuals, as specified.~~
~~This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to vocational training for incarcerated individuals.~~

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 2716.7 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

2716.7.
(a) On or before January 1, 2026, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall report to the Legislature the exploratory findings of the joint advisory committee, regarding the feasibility of awarding formal credit for apprenticeship hours to inmates prior to their release, as described in paragraph (6) of subdivision (b) of Section 2716.5.
(b) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.

SECTION 1.
~~It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to vocational training for incarcerated individuals.~~