California Assembly Bill AB1998 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1998AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 5, 2016 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Campos FEBRUARY 16, 2016 An act to add Section  224.7 to the Welfare and Institutions Code,   6033 to the Penal Code,  relating to juveniles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1998, as amended, Campos. Juveniles: data collection.  Existing law establishes, within the Board of State and Community Corrections, the California Juvenile Justice Data Working Group, as provided. Existing law requires the working group to, among other things, analyze the capacities and limitations of the data systems and networks used to collect and report state and local juvenile caseload and outcome data and prepare and submit a report to the Legislature, as specified.   This bill would require the Board of State and Community Corrections to prepare guidelines for counties on how to disaggregate juvenile justice caseload and performance and outcome data by race and ethnicity.   Existing law provides that the juvenile court and probation department have an affirmative and continuing duty to inquire whether a child for whom a petition to declare the child a ward of the court is to be, or has been, filed is or may be an Indian child if the child is at risk of entering foster care or is in foster care.   This bill would require the juvenile court, a juvenile detention facility, and a county probation department, when asking juveniles about their race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, or tribal affiliation in order to comply with federal data collection requirements, to collect additional data by using specified questions, including, among others, "Are you Hispanic or Latino?" By imposing new duties on local juvenile detention facilities and county probation departments, this bill would impose a state-mandated program.   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.  Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program:  yes   no  . THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:  SECTION 1.   Section 6033 is added to the   Penal Code   ,  immediately following Section 6032  , to read:   6033. The Board of State and Community Corrections shall prepare guidelines for counties on how to disaggregate juvenile justice caseload and performance and outcome data by race and ethnicity.   SECTION 1.   Section 224.7 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, immediately following Section 224.6, to read: 224.7. The juvenile court, a juvenile detention facility, and a county probation department, when asking a juvenile about his or her race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, or tribal affiliation in order to comply with federal data collection requirements, shall collect data regarding the juvenile's race and ethnicity by asking the juvenile all of the following questions: (a) Are you Hispanic or Latino? (b) Which of the following describes your race? (1) American Indian or Alaska Native. (2) Asian. (3) Black or African American. (4) Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. (5) White. (c) What is your national origin, ancestry, or tribal affiliation, if that population group or subgroup is not included in question (a) or (b)?   SEC. 2.   If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.