BILL NUMBER: SB 551	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  346
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 25, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 25, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 26, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 16, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Machado
   (Principal coauthors:  Assembly Members Cox, Dickerson, Leonard,
LaSuer, Leach, Steinberg, and Strickland)
   (Principal coauthors:  Senators Alpert, McPherson, Polanco, and
Vasconcellos)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2001

   An act to add and repeal Sections 13961.6, 13965.6, 13965.7, and
13968.8 of the Government Code, relating to victims of crime, making
an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 551, Machado.  Victims of crime.
   Existing law provides for the indemnification of victims and
derivative victims of specified types of crimes for specified
expenses that become necessary as a direct result of the crime.
Indemnification is made under these provisions from the Restitution
Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the California Victim
Compensation and Government Claims Board for these purposes.
   This bill would, until January 1, 2004, authorize the board to
provide reimbursement up to a specified amount to county boards of
supervisors for specified services provided as a result of specified
crimes of terrorism, and authorize the board to expand the scope of
assistance to specified derivative victims, to provide reimbursement
for mental health services for members of California trauma or search
and rescue teams, and to allocate a specified amount to the victim
compensation program in the State of New York, as a result of the 4
terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.  By
authorizing new uses for a continuously appropriated fund, this bill
would make an appropriation.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 13961.6 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   13961.6.  (a) The board may provide reimbursements, which
cumulatively shall not exceed a total of two million five hundred
seventy-five thousand dollars ($2,575,000), to county boards of
supervisors, upon their request, for either of the following
purposes:
   (1) Providing group mental health counseling for those suffering
trauma as a result of terrorism, as defined in Section 2332a or 2332b
of Title 18 of the United States Code.
   (2) Providing technical assistance in the promotion of tolerance
for individuals whose national origin or religion may be targets of
discrimination as a result of terrorism as described in this
subdivision.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2004, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2004, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 2.  Section 13965.6 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   13965.6.  (a) The board may expand the scope of assistance to
include derivative victims who incur a pecuniary loss as a direct
result of any of the four terrorist attacks that occurred at the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, on
September 11, 2001, as follows:
   (1) A California resident derivative victim, as defined in
paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 13960, when the victim
has been injured or killed in a terrorist attack described in this
section, regardless of whether or not the victim is or was a resident
of the state.
   (2) A California resident grandparent or grandchild of a victim
injured or killed in a terrorist attack described in this section,
regardless of whether or not the victim is or was a resident of the
state.
   (3) A California resident mother-in-law or father-in-law of a
victim injured or killed in a terrorist attack described in this
section, regardless of whether or not the victim is or was a resident
of the state.
   (4) As determined by the board, any other California resident
family member of a victim injured or killed in a terrorist attack
described in this section, regardless of whether or not the victim is
or was a resident of the state.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2004, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2004, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 3.  Section 13968.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   13968.7.  (a) The board may provide reimbursement in an amount not
to exceed  ten thousand dollars ($10,000) each, for the expense of
mental health counseling for members of California trauma or search
and rescue teams that were dispatched to the scene of any of the four
terrorist attacks described in Section 13965.6.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2004, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2004, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 4.  Section 13968.8 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   13968.8.  (a) The board may make a one-time allocation of one
million dollars ($1,000,000) to the victim compensation program in
the State of New York to aid that state in compensating victims of
the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center that occurred on
September 11, 2001.
   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that the provision of funds
for victim compensation in the State of New York as described in
subdivision (a) serves a public purpose and does not constitute a
gift of public funds within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XVI
of the California Constitution.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2004, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2004, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 5.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order that needed services may be provided in response to the
terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, at the
earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.