(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.
(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 41, Sec. 75. (SB 1021) Effective June 27, 2012.)