Vote to concur with House amendments and pass a bill that authorizes the release of permanently incapacitated prisoners on medical parole.

-The prison's Head Physician determines that he or she is permanently incapacitated such that he or she is incapable of performing the activities of daily life; -The Board of Parole Hearings determines that the prisoner's release would not pose a threat to public safety; -His or her medical condition requires 24 hour care, and it did not exist at the time of sentencing; and -He or she is not sentenced to death or to any sentence which prohibits parole.

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes the release of permanently incapacitated prisoners on medical parole.

-The prison's Head Physician determines that he or she is permanently incapacitated such that he or she is incapable of performing the activities of daily life; -The Board of Parole Hearings determines that the prisoner's release would not pose a threat to public safety; -His or her medical condition requires 24 hour care, and it did not exist at the time of sentencing; and -He or she is not sentenced to death or to any sentence which prohibits parole.

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes medical parole for permanently debilitated and incapacitated inmates.

-Enter into memoranda of understanding with the Social Security Administration and the State Department of Health Care Services to facilitate prerelease agreements to help inmates initiate benefits claims; -Pay the state share of Medi-Cal costs for inmates that have been granted medical parole; -Reimburse providers for the medical treatment and long-term care costs of inmates granted medical parole who have not retained medical insurance, at a rate no lower than the Medi-Cal rate until the point that a parolee retains alternate health care coverage; and -Reimburse counties that for the costs associated with providing an inmate granted medical parole with a public guardian.

-Specifies that 1 year before the inmate is eligible for parole that a panel of 3, consisting of only 1 deputy commissioner, will convene to set an exact date of parole within 120 days of the meeting. -Requires that the Board of Parole Hearing approve the date that the panel decides on. -Specifies that if there is no backlog for parole hearings that the board can be made up of a majority of commissioners. -Specifies that an en banc review board shall reconcile a tie vote upon review of a recording of the hearing, explain the reasons for voting a certain way, and exclude any commissioner involved in the initial panel of the tie vote.