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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Padilla</ns0:AuthorText>
                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR_ORIGINATING">(Principal coauthors: Senators Caballero and Hurtado)</ns0:AuthorText>
                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR_OPPOSITE">(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Carrillo)</ns0:AuthorText>
                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="COAUTHOR_ORIGINATING">(Coauthors: Senators Archuleta, Durazo, and Gonzalez)</ns0:AuthorText>
                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="COAUTHOR_OPPOSITE">(Coauthors: Assembly Members Elhawary, Garcia, Ortega, Celeste Rodriguez, and Solache)</ns0:AuthorText>
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                                <ns0:Name>Archuleta</ns0:Name>
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                                <ns0:Name>Durazo</ns0:Name>
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                                <ns0:Name>Gonzalez</ns0:Name>
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                                <ns0:Name>Elhawary</ns0:Name>
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                                <ns0:Contribution>COAUTHOR</ns0:Contribution>
                                <ns0:House>ASSEMBLY</ns0:House>
                                <ns0:Name>Garcia</ns0:Name>
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                                <ns0:Contribution>COAUTHOR</ns0:Contribution>
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                                <ns0:Name>Ortega</ns0:Name>
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                                <ns0:Contribution>COAUTHOR</ns0:Contribution>
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                                <ns0:Name>Celeste Rodriguez</ns0:Name>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to add Chapter 24.6 (commencing with Section 22756) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to detention facilities.</ns0:Title>
                <ns0:RelatingClause>detention facilities</ns0:RelatingClause>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Private detention facilities: canteens.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to maintain a canteen at its active facilities, and until January 1, 2028, prohibits the sale prices of the articles offered for sale in a canteen from exceeding a 35% markup above the price of the articles paid to the vendors. Existing law, commencing on January 1, 2028, requires the sale amounts of the articles to be offered for sale to be fixed by the secretary at amounts that will render each canteen self-supporting.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would prohibit the sale price of an article offered for sale in a commissary, as defined, at a private detention facility, defined as a detention facility that is operated by a private, nongovernmental, for-profit entity, and operating pursuant to a contract or agreement with a governmental entity, from exceeding a 35% markup above the amount paid to
                a vendor for that article.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                        <ns0:Num>SECTION 1.</ns0:Num>
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                                Chapter 24.6 (commencing with Section 22756) is added to Division 8 of the
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                                , to read:
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                                        <ns0:Num>24.6.</ns0:Num>
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                                                <ns0:LawHeadingText>Private Detention Facilities</ns0:LawHeadingText>
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                                                                        (a)
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                                                                        For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
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                                                                        (1)
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                                                                        “Commissary” means any onsite or online store, canteen, vendor-operated program, or retail service that sells goods, food, hygiene supplies, phone cards, or other items to people confined in a private detention facility, whether operated directly by the facility or through a third-party contractor.
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                                                                        “Private detention facility” has the same meaning as defined in Section 9500 of the Penal Code.
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                                                                        The sale price of an article offered for sale in a commissary at a private detention facility shall not exceed a 35-percent
                                         markup above the amount paid to a vendor for that article.
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