BILL NUMBER: AB 1998	AMENDED
	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.