Section 5031 Of Chapter 1. The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation From California Penal Code >> Title 7. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1.
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. (a) The department shall submit an estimate of expenditures
for each state or contracted facility housing offenders and for the
cost of supervising offenders on parole, by region, for inclusion in
the annual Governor's Budget and the May Revision thereto. The
department shall submit its preliminary estimates for the current and
next fiscal years to the Department of Finance by October 1 of each
year and revised estimates by April 1 of the following year. The
Department of Finance shall approve, modify, or deny the assumptions
underlying all estimates and the population estimates released for
the annual Governor's Budget and the May Revision. The April 1
submission shall only be a revision of the October 1 estimates and
may not include any new assumptions or estimates from those submitted
in the October 1 estimate.
(b) The population estimate for each state or contracted adult or
juvenile facility shall contain, at least, the following:
(1) The capacity, as measured by the number of beds, categorized
by cells, dorms, and intended security level.
(2) The projected number of offenders, by security level.
(3) The actual number of offenders, by security level.
(4) The number of offenders in a security level that differ from
the classification score.
(5) The number of offenders, by program, that could benefit from
rehabilitative programming, as identified by an assessment of risk
and criminogenic needs.
(6) The actual number of offenders, by program, that receive
rehabilitative programming based on an assessment of risk and
criminogenic needs.
(7) A comparison of the number of authorized positions, filled
positions, and vacant positions, by classification.
(8) The budget authority, as displayed in the annual Budget Act by
program, compared to fiscal year-to-date expenditures and projected
expenditures for the fiscal year.
(c) The population estimate for the Division of Adult Parole
Operations shall contain at least the following:
(1) The projected number of offenders in each subpopulation, by
region, and the total number of offenders.
(2) The actual number of offenders in each subpopulation, by
region, and the total number of offenders.
(3) The number of offenders, by region, that could benefit from
rehabilitative programming, as identified by an assessment of risk
and criminogenic needs.
(4) The actual number of offenders, by region, that receive
rehabilitative programming based on an assessment of risk and
criminogenic needs.
(5) The number of ratio-driven positions budgeted in each region.
(6) The number of nonratio positions budgeted in each region, by
function.
(7) A comparison of the number of authorized positions, filled
positions, and vacant positions, by region and function.
(8) The budget authority, as displayed in the annual Budget Act by
program, compared to fiscal year-to-date expenditures and projected
expenditures for the fiscal year.
(d) The estimates shall include fiscal charts that track
appropriations from the Budget Act to the current Governor's Budget
and the May Revision for all fund sources for the current year and
budget year.
(e) In the event that the methodological steps employed to arrive
at previous estimates differ from those proposed, the department
shall submit a descriptive narrative of the revised methodology. This
information shall be provided to the Department of Finance, the
Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the public safety policy
committees and fiscal committees of the Legislature.
(f) On or after January 10, if the Department of Finance discovers
a material error in the information provided pursuant to this
section, the Department of Finance shall inform the consultants to
the fiscal committees of the Legislature of the error in a timely
manner.
(g) The departmental estimates, assumptions, and other supporting
data prepared for purposes of this section shall be forwarded
annually to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the public
safety policy committees and fiscal committees of the Legislature.