AB 145 Summary

• Expands arrest and conviction record relief eligibility to include offenses occurring on or after January 1, 1973 (instead of January 1, 2021) for automatic relief processes conducted by the Department of Justice beginning July 1, 2022.

• Appropriates $122,829,397 from the General Fund to the State Community Corrections Performance Incentives Fund for the 2021-22 fiscal year to be distributed to counties according to a specified allocation schedule.

• Establishes the County Resentencing Pilot Program (September 1, 2021 to September 1, 2024) to evaluate collaborative prosecutorial resentencing discretion, requiring participating district attorneys to develop written policies, collect standardized data, and submit to independent evaluation with preliminary reports by October 2022 and 2023.

• Increases Board of Parole Hearings commissioners from 17 to 21, requires a majority of commissioners for en banc policy decisions, authorizes videoconference proceedings, and eliminates judge notification and input provisions for life sentence parole hearings.

• Makes Deuel Vocational Institution inoperative October 1, 2021 and repeals associated provisions July 1, 2022; expands community correctional reentry facility eligibility by increasing time remaining requirement to two years and changing escape history criteria to prior 10 years; reduces correctional officer cadet training from 520 to 480 hours for those starting July 1, 2021.