California MAT Re-Entry Incentive Program.

Existing law makes specified persons subject to parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, including a person who has been released from a state prison after conviction for a serious or violent felony or a crime for which the person is classified as a high-risk sex offender, and specifies the length of time the person is required to be supervised on parole. This bill, contingent upon the appropriation to the State Department of Health Care Services of funds received pursuant to a specified federal grant, would establish the California MAT Re-Entry Incentive Program, which would make a person released from prison on parole, with specified exceptions, who has been enrolled in, or successfully completed, an institutional substance abuse program, eligible for a reduction in the period of parole if the person successfully participates in a substance abuse treatment program that employs a multifaceted approach to treatment, including the use of United States Food and Drug Administration approved medically assisted treatment (MAT) . The bill would authorize a 30-day reduction for each 6 months of treatment successfully completed that is not ordered by the court, up to a maximum 90-day reduction. The bill would require, to the extent consistent with the terms of the grant, the sum of $1,000,000 of the appropriated grant funds to be allocated to the department for this purpose. The bill would also require the department to collect data and analyze utilization and program outcomes and to provide that information in a specified report.