| Bill ID |
Author |
Topic |
Summary |
Position |
| AB 136 |
Emmerson, William (R) |
Search and Rescue Memorial. |
Makes the Department of General Services, in consultation with the California Search and Rescue Association, responsible for the planning and construction of a memorial in the Capital Historic Region in honor of search-and-rescue volunteers who have died in the line of duty. |
Co-Sponsor |
| AB 151 |
Berryhill, Tom (R) |
Peace officers: county custodial officers. |
Includes custodial officers in the Counties of Glenn, Lassen, and Stanislaus within the definition of peace officer. |
Sponsor |
| AB 181 |
Beall, Jim (D) |
County penalties: automated fingerprint identification fund. |
Deletes the limitation on the period during which deposits may be made into the county treasury for an Automated Fingerprint Identification and Digital Image Photographic Suspect Booking Identification System Fund. |
Sponsor |
| AB 367 |
De Leon, Kevin (D) |
Court-ordered debts. |
Specifies that various delinquent fees collected by any county or court include public defender and jail booking fees. Requires the Judicial Council to establish a task force to evaluate criminal and traffic related court-ordered debts and to review court and county collections. Decreases the amount of unpaid fines and penalties criminal criminal offenses that provides for referral to the Franchise tax board for collection after being delinquent for 90 days, and deletes the exception for traffic offenses. |
Support |
| AB 475 |
Emmerson, William (R) |
Criminal procedure: motions. |
Amends existing law that requires a person seeking to have a court order the record of his or her arrest destroyed to serve a copy of the petition on the prosecuting attorney of the county or city having jurisdiction over the offense. Requires the petitioner to also serve a copy of the petition on the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the offense and allows the agency to present evidence at the motion through the district attorney. |
Co-Sponsor |
| AB 478 |
Wolk, Lois (D) |
Vehicles: bicycle safety. |
Expands the places where the operator of a bicycle is required to use an illuminated lamp and certain specified reflecting devices to shared use pathways, as defined. Expands the requirement that the operator of the bicycle have reflectors on each pedal to include the option of having reflectors on his or her shoes or ankles. |
Support |
| AB 569 |
Portantino, Anthony (D) |
Wiretaps. |
Relates to government interception of electronic communication. Extends the effective date. |
Support |
| AB 587 |
Karnette, Betty (D) |
Antiterrorism: training courses and activities. |
Amends existing law that requires specified percent of revenue derived from issuance, renewal, transfer, and substitution of California memorial license plates to be deposited in the Antiterrorism Fund. Requires a percentage of the money to be allocated to the Office of Emergency Services to be used for such activities. Requires the office, in conjunction with the Office of Homeland Security and other state agencies to annually report to the Legislature how the office complies with that requirement. |
Support |
| AB 679 |
Benoit, John (R) |
Illegal dumping: assessments. |
Requires the court to impose a civil assessment on violators equal to the fine imposed on the offenders for committing certain littering or illegal dumping offenses. Requires that the assessments be deposited in the city's or county's general fund for use for illegal dumping enforcement. |
Support |
| AB 687 |
La Malfa, Doug (R) |
State property: Crystal Creek Regional Boys' Camp. |
Requires the Director of General Services to convey in fee to the County of Shasta, the Crystal Creek Regional Boys Camp located in Shasta County. |
Neutral |
| AB 805 |
Galgiani, Cathleen (D) |
Firearms. |
Deletes the requirement that a peace officer's address appear on the certificate evidencing the officer's license to carry concealed handguns. Requires that a requested hearing by a retired peace officer who has been denied a certificate to carry a concealed and loaded firearm occur within 60 days following the agency's receipt of the retired officer's request for such hearing. |
Support As Amended |
| AB 886 |
Runner, Sharon (R) |
Notaries. |
Existing law requires a notary public to keep one active sequential journal of all official acts and requires that the journal include copies of notarized documents and, in connection with the signing of a deed, quitclaim deed, or deed of trust affecting real property, a thumbprint of the signing party. This bill would apply the thumbprint requirement in connection with specified notarized documents. Existing law requires a notary public, when executing various documents, to determine from personal knowledge or satisfactory evidence, the existence of certain facts or identities, as specified. This bill would instead require that this determination be from satisfactory evidence and would make conforming changes. |
Support |
| AB 920 |
Brownley, Julia (D) |
Crime information: disclosure: consideration. |
Makes any peace officer who exchanges information obtained by the peace officer in the course of the peace officer's duties for compensation or consideration guilty of a misdemeanor. Makes any person who solicits a peace officer to exchange information guilty of a misdemeanor. |
Support In Concept |
| AB 1079 |
Richardson, Laura (D) |
Crime laboratories. |
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish a task force to conduct a review of California's crime laboratory system. Makes recommendations as to how best to configure, fund, and improve the delivery of state and local crime laboratory services in the future. |
Support |
| AB 1172 |
Runner, Sharon (R) |
Inmate release. |
Relates to the release of inmates who have been convicted of certain sexually violent crimes. Increases release notice requirements from 45 days to 60 days and 90 days. Relates to conditional release hearings for sexually violent predators. Increases hearing notice requirements to 60 days. Increases the time limit for the Department of Mental Health to provide notice to local officials prior to recommending to the court that a predator be conditionally released for community treatment. |
Support |
| AB 1448 |
Niello, Roger (R) |
Peace officers: impersonation: uniforms. |
Requires law enforcement uniform vendors to verify that a person buying a uniform is an employee of the law enforcement agency identified on the uniform. Makes it a crime for the vendor to fail to verify that the person buying the uniform is an employee of the law enforcement agency identified on the uniform, unless the uniform is sold as a prop. |
Support |
| AB 1509 |
Spitzer, Todd (R) |
Sex offenders: community placement. |
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in cases in which as a result of this request the inmate will be released to a place other than the county of last legal residence, to place another parolee in that county, subject to specified notice requirements and opportunity for community input. |
Support |
| AB 1539 |
Krekorian, Paul (D) |
Sentencing. |
Makes prisoners who are diagnosed with a disease that would produce death within 6 months, and whose release is deemed not to threaten public safety, eligible to have their sentences recalled and to be resentenced and expands the grounds under which the court exercises discretion to find eligibility for resentencing or recall. |
Oppose |
| AB 1658 |
Runner, Sharon (R) |
Alcoholic beverages: underage drinking. |
Establishes more severe penalties for a person under the age of 21 who purchases or consumes any alcoholic beverage in any on-sale premises or a person who knowingly permits such activity. Relates to penalties for the use of falsified identification cards or drivers licenses. |
Support |
| SB 230 |
Yee, Leland (D) |
Police protection districts. |
Provides that a police protection district's police department, its chief of police, and its employees, shall have all the rights, duties, privileges, immunities, obligations, and powers of a municipal police department. Authorizes the district board to delegate to the chief of police the authority to appoint and dismiss district employees. |
Support |
| SB 629 |
Correa, Lou (D) |
Automobile insurance: peace officers. |
Repeals existing law which requires any peace officer or firefighter who has been involved in an accident to submit to his or her private automobile insurer a written declaration stating whether or not at the time of the accident he or she was operating an emergency vehicle in the performance of his or her duty during the hours of his or her employment. |
Support |
| SB 644 |
Correa, Lou (D) |
Court records: social security numbers. |
Relates to existing law that requires an abstract of judgment or decree requiring the payment of money to contain the social security number and driver's license number of the judgment debtor if they are known to the judgment creditor and authorizes liens on unsecured property for delinquent taxes on unsecured property for delinquent taxes which filing may constant the social security number. Deletes the requirement these abstracts and filings contain the debtor's or assessee's social security number. |
Support |
| SB 718 |
Scott, Jack (D) |
Jails: inmate welfare fund. |
Authorizes a sheriff to expend money from the inmate welfare fund for the purpose of assisting indigent inmate, after release, with the reentry process. |
Co-Sponsor |
| SB 959 |
Romero, Gloria (D) |
Involuntary home detention. |
Establishes an involuntary home detention program, where participants would be electronically monitored. |
Co-Sponsor |
