Davies, Essayli, Mathis, Joe Patterson, and Ta

This bill would provide that Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records pertaining to an inmate’s release date and their early release credits are public records and are subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act. The bill would state that the provisions relative to the California Public Records Act are declaratory of existing law.

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Alanis and Essayli

Existing law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes to receive a written advisory of the danger of manufacturing or distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the manufacturer or distributor can be charged with voluntary manslaughter or murder. The bill would require that the fact the advisory was given be on the record and recorded on the abstract of the conviction.

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This bill would amend Proposition 47 by reducing the threshold amount for petty theft and shoplifting from $950 to $400. The bill would provide that it shall become effective only when submitted to, and approved by, the voters of California.

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Existing law generally authorizes a court to dismiss an action or to strike or dismiss an enhancement in the furtherance of justice. Existing law requires a court to dismiss an enhancement if it is in the furtherance of justice to do so, except if dismissal of that enhancement is prohibited by any initiative statute. This bill would also prohibit a court from dismissing a firearms-related enhancement, as defined.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB27

Firearms: gun violence protection tax. Firearms and ammunition: excise tax.

Berman, McCarty, Santiago, and Wicks; Coauthor Senator Wiener

Existing law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would enact a tax to fund measures to protect against gun violence on firearms and ammunition.

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Berman, Gipson, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, and Wicks

This bill would require the Department of Justice to develop and launch a secure Internet-based platform to allow a person who resides in California to voluntarily add their own name to the California Do Not Sell List. The bill would require the department to ensure that information on the list is uploaded and reflected in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The bill would make it a crime, punishable as misdemeanor or a felony, to transfer a firearm to a person who is validly registered on the California Do Not Sell List. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Existing law classifies certain felonies as violent felonies for purposes of various provisions of the Penal Code. Existing law imposes an additional one-year term for a sexually violent felony and a 3-year term for a violent felony for each prior separate prison term served for a violent felony. This bill would additionally define felony hate crimes as a violent felony, as specified. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB32

Berman, Gipson, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, and Wicks

Existing law prohibits a person subject to a protective order, as defined, from owning, possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm while that protective order is in effect and makes a willful and knowing violation of a protective order a crime. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to extend that prohibition for an additional 3 years after the expiration of a protective order, unless the court finds the person to not be a threat to public safety.

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Coauthor: Assembly Member Gallagher

Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes, including emotional injuries where the crime was a violation of specified provisions. This bill would expand eligibility for compensation to include emotional injuries from felony violations of, among other things, attempted murder, rape and sexual assault, mayhem, and stalking.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB56

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish a right for a victim to be informed of and participate in county-approved restorative justice programs, as provided.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB60

This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure all arrested people have their first appearance in court no more than 48 hours after arrest, without exception, and to codify the requirement of a prompt judicial review of probable cause for warrantless arrests of adults and juveniles, as specified.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB61

Davies; Coauthor Mathis

This bill would reinstate a provision of law that was repealed by Proposition 47 that provides that a person who has been convicted 3 or more times of petty theft, grand theft, or other specified crimes and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in a county jail for 18 months or 2 or 3 years. The bill would also make this provision and the provision relating to a person with serious, violent, or sexual prior offenses applicable to a person whose prior or current conviction is for shoplifting.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB75

Law enforcement agency policies: remotely operated force options.Weapons: robotic devices and unmanned aircrafts.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to regulate, limit, and require the reporting of the use of deadly force by a law enforcement agency by means of remotely operated equipment.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB79

This bill would require a victim of the crime who wishes to be heard regarding the resentencing to notify the prosecution of their request for a hearing within 15 days of being notified that resentencing is being sought, and would require the court to provide an opportunity for the victim to be heard.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB88

This bill would require the district attorney’s office or the Attorney General’s office that prosecuted the case to provide reasonable notice to the board and to the crime victim, victim’s next of kin, or members of the victim’s family if they will not be sending a representative to a parole hearing, thereby creating a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB89

Existing law makes it a felony for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to purchase, own, or possess body armor. Existing law authorizes a person subject to that prohibition, whose employment, livelihood, or safety is dependent on the ability to legally possess and use body armor, to file a petition for an exception to the prohibition with the chief of police or county sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the person seeks to possess and use the body armor, as provided. This bill would repeal those provisions and instead make it a felony for a person to commit any violent felony while possessing a firearm and in the course of and in furtherance of that crime they wear body armor. The bill would make it a misdemeanor for any person to purchase or take possession of body armor, unless they are employed in specified professions.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB92

Existing law describes search warrants and enumerates the grounds upon which a search warrant may be issued, including, among other grounds, when the property or things to be seized constitute evidence showing that a felony has been committed. Existing law authorizes a peace officer to conduct a search without a warrant if they have the voluntary consent of the person. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to prohibit officers from requesting consent to conduct a search if the officer does not suspect criminal activity.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB93

This bill would make the possession of an unserialized firearm or possession of a firearm with an altered, removed, or obliterated serial number punishable as a felony. By increasing the punishment for these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB97

Existing law defines the term “violent felony” for various purposes, including, among others, enhancing the punishment for felonies pursuant to existing sentencing provisions commonly known as the Three Strikes Law. This bill would expand the crimes that are within the definition of a violent felony for all purposes, including for purposes of the Three Strikes Law, to include additional forms of sexual crimes, as defined, human trafficking, as defined, and felony domestic violence, as defined. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB229

Principal coauthor: Senator Atkins;Coauthors: Assembly Members Alvarez, Boerner Horvath, Maienschein, and Ward; Coauthor: Senator Blakespear

This bill would, commencing July 1, 2024, add 2 additional members to the board, a licensed health care provider and a licensed mental health care provider, each appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The bill would also, commencing July 1, 2024, require the board to develop and adopt regulations pertaining to standards of care for incarcerated persons with mental health issues by local correctional facilities, including requirements for training of correctional staff, requirements for mental health screening, and requirements for safety checks of incarcerated persons.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB268

This bill would allow a search warrant for stolen or embezzled property to include an order for such property to be returned to a lawful owner identified in the warrant pursuant to specified procedures including a hearing, if requested, to determine that the property was stolen or embezzled, before it is returned to its owner.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB272

Principal coauthor: Senator Durazo; Coauthors: Assembly Members Bryan, Wendy Carrillo, Gipson, Kalra, and Weber

Resubmission of CA Mandela Act on Solitary Confinemnet (AB-2632) (2022) which was vetoed by Governor Newsom 9/29/2022. This bill would require every jail, prison, public or privately operated detention facility, and a facility in which individuals are subject to confinement or involuntary detention to develop and follow written procedures governing the management of segregated confinement, as specified. The bill would require those facilities to document the use of segregated confinement by, among other things, providing written orders of that confinement to the individual confined, as specified. The bill would prohibit those facilities from involuntarily placing an individual in segregated confinement if the individual belongs to a designated population, including, among others, that the individual has a mental or physical disability or that the individual is under 26 years of age or over 59 years of age. The bill would require the facility to periodically check on the individual and have a medical or mental health professional periodically assess the individual. This bill would require a facility to offer out-of-cell programming to individuals in segregated confinement for at least 4 hours per day, not including time spent on housekeeping or in paid employment. The bill would require a facility to maximize the amount of time that an incarcerated person held in segregated confinement spends outside of their cell by providing outdoor and indoor recreation, education, clinically appropriate treatment therapies, and skill-building activities, as specified, and would require facilities to develop and provide appropriate programming to individuals that pose a significant safety risk to themselves or others, as specified. The bill would also authorize a facility to use segregated confinement to help treat and protect against the spread of communicable disease, under certain circumstances. This bill would prohibit a facility from holding an individual in segregated confinement for more than 15 consecutive days and no more than 45 days in a 180-day period, as specified. This bill would also prohibit a facility from imposing limitations on services, treatment, or basic needs; conducting out-of-cell programming opportunities in a smaller cage or therapy module; placing an individual in segregated confinement on the basis of confidential information, as specified; using specified restraints when an individual is in segregated confinement; and using segregated confinement as a means of protecting an individual. This bill would require a facility administrator or chief physician to conduct a secondary review of a person in segregated confinement’s dispute regarding qualification in the designated populations category. This bill would require facilities to create and publish monthly, semiannual, and annual reports, as specified. The bill would require the Office of the Inspector General and the Board of State and Community Corrections to assess each facility’s compliance with the act, as specified. This bill would require local and state authorities to promulgate regulations or directives to implement the act, where applicable. The bill would declare these provisions to be severable. By imposing additional duties on county jails, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB280

Body armor: prohibition.Gun violence restraining orders: body armor.

Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Berman, Connolly, and Mike Fong

Existing law makes it a felony for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to purchase, own, or possess body armor. Existing law authorizes a person subject to that prohibition, whose employment, livelihood, or safety is dependent on the ability to legally possess and use body armor, to file a petition for an exception to the prohibition with the chief of police or county sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the person seeks to possess and use the body armor, as provided. This bill would repeal those provisions and instead make it a misdemeanor for any person to purchase or take possession of body armor, and a felony for any person who has been convicted of a violent felony to do so, unless they are employed in specified professions. The bill would additionally make it a misdemeanor for a person, firm, or corporation to sell or deliver body armor to any person not engaged in one of those professions. The bill would require a seller to verify that a transferee is from an eligible profession, as specified. The bill would authorize the Department of Justice to expand the list of eligible professions if the duties of the profession may expose an individual engaged in the profession to serious physical injury that may be prevented or mitigated by the wearing of body armor, or if the duties of the profession are necessary to facilitate the lawful purchase, sale, or use of body armor.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB301

This bill would require that investigative assistance to include all investigative notes, reports, and related materials on individuals listed in the Prohibited Armed Persons File.

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The bill would require program providers, as defined, to publicly post, including on an internet website, a comprehensive description of their sliding fee scales. The bill would require the court to inform the defendant of the availability of a program fee waiver, if they do not have the ability to pay for the program, and to provide each defendant with a selection of available program providers and those providers’ standard fees and sliding fee scales before the defendant agrees to the conditions of probation. ...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB304

Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to supply a form to designated agencies in order to enable persons to request and receive notification from the department of the release, escape, scheduled execution, or death of the violent offender. Existing law requires the agency to give the form to the victim, witness, or next of kin of the victim for completion, explain to that person or persons the right to be notified, and forward the completed form to the department. This bill would require the designated agencies to also give the form to the immediate or extended family members of the victim, and to inform them of their right to request and receive a notification from the department. The bill would also require the department or the Board of Parole Hearings to notify the immediate or extended family members of the victim of a violent offender’s release or scheduled execution. By requiring a higher level of service from local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB313

Coauthor: Senator Durazo

Provides that applicants for status or relief under the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS), T or U nonimmigrant status, or for asylum are eligible for certain public social services and health care services, and that those services shall not be terminated upon receiving a final administrative denial if the applicant is still eligible through different means.

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Existing law requires the Department of Justice to supply to the federal government with criminal statistics data, as specified. Existing law requires local law enforcement agencies, as specified, to provide the Department of Justice with criminal statistics, as requested. Existing law required the Department of Justice to report to the Legislature on the progress on reporting of crime statistics data to the federal government in compliance with the federal National Incident-Based Reporting System. This bill would require the Department of Justice to complete the transition of all reporting of crime data to the National Incident-Based Reporting System and would require local law enforcement agencies to provide the necessary data to complete this transition.

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Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Chen, Megan Dahle, Davies, Flora, Gallagher, Lackey, Mathis, Joe Patterson, and Waldron; Coauthors: Senators Dahle, Ochoa Bogh, and Seyarto

Existing law generally authorizes a court to dismiss an action or to strike or dismiss an enhancement in the furtherance of justice. Existing law requires a court to dismiss an enhancement if it is in the furtherance of justice to do so, except if dismissal of that enhancement is prohibited by any initiative statute. This bill would also prohibit a court from dismissing specified firearms-related enhancements. Existing law requires a person who personally uses a firearm to commit certain specified felonies to be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for 10 years, or for 20 years if the person discharged the firearm, or for 25 years to life if the person discharged the firearm and proximately caused great bodily injury or death. Existing law authorizes a court, in the interest of justice and at the time of sentencing or resentencing, to strike or dismiss an enhancement otherwise required to be imposed by that law. This bill would prohibit a court from striking an allegation or a finding that would make a crime punishable pursuant to those enhancement provisions, except that a court could strike or dismiss an enhancement when the person did not personally use or discharge the firearm or when the firearm was unloaded.

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Existing law, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors in the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, makes the theft of property that does not exceed $950 in value petty theft and makes that crime punishable as a misdemeanor, with certain exceptions. The initiative statute defines shoplifting as entering a commercial establishment with the intent to commit larceny while that establishment is open during regular hours, where the value of the property that is taken or intended to be taken does not exceed $950. The initiative statute requires that shoplifting be punished as a misdemeanor. This bill would amend the initiative to make petty theft or shoplifting by a person who is not a resident of this state, did not reside in this state in the six months prior to entering this state, and entered this state within 30 days prior to committing the offense, an offense punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. The bill would define resident as a person that has occupied a dwelling in this state, or has been domiciled in this state, for at least 6 months. This bill would require the Secretary of State to place the provisions of the bill that amend the initiative statute on the ballot for the November 5, 2024, statewide general election.

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Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Lackey; Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Chen, Megan Dahle, Davies, Essayli, Gallagher, and Ta

This bill would add the issuance of Victims of Domestic Violence cards as a topic in the course of instruction for the training of law enforcement officers. This bill would additionally require the Victims of Domestic Violence card to be a different color than other cards issued by officers, to include a disclaimer, to be available in languages other than English, and to include various information such as the definition of domestic violence and the statute of limitations for domestic violence. This bill would make these changes operative on January 1, 2025. Because this bill would expand an existing local program, it would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill, commencing January 1, 2025, would require the office to develop a model Victims of Domestic Violence card that can be modified by cities and counties. The bill would also require the office to publish on an internet website maintained by the office specified information and resources to assist victims of domestic violence, including, among other things, a summary of state mandatory arrest policies for domestic violence crimes.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB330

Coauthor: Senator Alvarado-Gil

The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, made various changes relating to theft and the possession of controlled substances, including by, among other things, generally reducing the penalty for those crimes, including reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis, establishing a procedure by which individuals convicted of those crimes prior to the passage of the act may petition for resentencing under the act, and creating the crime of shoplifting. The act also requires the Director of Finance to calculate the savings accruing to the state as a result of the implementation of the act and requires the Controller to transfer that sum from the General Fund to the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund, which was created by the act. The act specifies the manner of distribution of those funds and the purposes for which they may be used. This bill would repeal the changes and additions made by Proposition 47, except those related to reducing the penalty for possession of concentrated cannabis. This bill would provide that it would become effective only upon approval of the voters, and would provide for the submission of this measure to the voters for approval at the next statewide general election.

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Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons. Existing law requires each incarcerated person to be provided with a bed, garments, and sufficient plain and wholesome food, as specified. This bill would require incarcerated persons to be permitted to shower at least every other day. The bill would require, whenever a request for a shower is denied, the facility manager, or their designee, to approve the decision to prohibit an incarcerated person from showering, and would require the reasons for prohibiting the incarcerated person to shower to be documented.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB353

Existing law prohibits the sale, transfer, or possession of an assault weapon, as specified. Existing law exempts from this prohibition the sale or transfer of an assault weapon to, or the possession of an assault weapon by, a peace officer, as specified. This bill would also exempt from this prohibition the loaning of an assault weapon to, or the possession of an assault weapon by, a person enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, while engaged in firearms training.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB355

Existing law imposes an additional and consecutive 3- or 5-year term in the state prison on a person who personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person in the commission of a felony, as specified. This bill would state that, for purposes of the enhancement, a person inflicts great bodily injury when they sell, furnish, administer, or give away a controlled substance and the person to whom the substance was sold, furnished, administered, or given suffers a significant or substantial physical injury from using the substance. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB367

Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, establishes procedures for the reporting and investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect. The act requires certain professionals, including specified health practitioners and social workers, known as mandated reporters, to report known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. The act authorizes any other person, known as a nonmandated reporter, to report a known or suspected instance of child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. Existing law authorizes a nonmandated reporter to make a report anonymously. This bill would require nonmandated reporters to provide specified information, including their name, telephone number, and the information that gave rise to the suspicion of child abuse or neglect. The bill would prohibit a report from a nonmandated reporter to be transmitted to a local child protective service for investigation unless the reporter’s name and contact information are provided. By requiring local agencies to gather additional information from nonmandated reporters, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Vehicles: police pursuit data reporting.Water Ratepayers Protections Act of 2023: County Water Authority Act: exclusion of territory: procedure.

Existing law requires every state and local law enforcement agency to report all vehicle pursuit data, as specified, to the Department of the California Highway Patrol no later than 30 days after a pursuit. This bill would instead require every state and local law enforcement agency to report vehicle pursuit data to the department no later than 45 days after a pursuit.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB399

Board of State and Community Corrections.California Department of Reentry.

This bill would establish the California Department of Reentry, independent from the CDCR, to provide statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts to ensure successful reentry services are provided to incarcerated individuals. The bill would require the department to focus on programming through the period of incarceration that supports successful reentry to society, facilitate the smooth transition of individuals from prison to release by developing individualized reentry plans for each individual, and would recommend and design facilities within existing state prisons to create a better environment for overall mental and physical health, and oversee continuity of care for incarcerated individuals with health and substance use disorders during community supervision and parole, among other things.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB428

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and other prescribed entities, if needed in the course of their duties, including public defenders or attorneys of record when representing a person in criminal appeals and postconviction motions. Existing law makes it a crime for a person authorized by law to receive state summary criminal history information to knowingly furnish that information to a person who is not authorized to receive it. This bill would additionally authorize the department to provide a state summary criminal history information to a public defender or attorney, in the course of consultation or representation, on behalf of a prospective client or client, who is the subject of state summary criminal history information. The bill would also update a cross-reference to these provisions. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB442

Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to set minimum standards for the recruitment and training of peace officers, to establish a certification for peace officers, and to develop training courses and curriculum for the training of peace officers. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2023, authorizes POST to suspend or revoke the certification of a peace officer if the person has been terminated for cause from employment as a peace officer, or has, while employed as a peace officer, otherwise engaged in serious misconduct, which includes demonstrating bias on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender identity or expression, housing status, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, or other protected status. Existing law requires each law enforcement agency to be responsible for completing investigations of allegations of serious misconduct of a peace officer. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, require POST to establish a definition of “biased conduct,” as specified, and would require law enforcement agencies to use that definition in any investigation into a bias-related complaint or an incident that involves possible indications of officer bias, and to determine if any racial profiling occurred, as defined. The bill would also require POST to develop guidance for local law enforcement departments on performing effective Internet and social media screenings of officer applicants.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB443

This bill would make adoption of a hate crimes policy by a local law enforcement agency mandatory. The bill would require those policies to include the supplemental hate crime report in the model policy framework developed by the commission and a schedule of hate crime or related trainings the agency conducts. By imposing requirements on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the Department of Justice to select a sample of submitted materials from those that law enforcement agencies submit and instruct agencies that did not submit materials or submitted noncompliant materials to submit compliant materials. The bill would require the Department of Justice to post the names of agencies that submitted compliant materials on its internet website. This bill would require the commission to consult with specified subject matter experts if the commission updates the guidelines, and would state that the guidelines and course of instruction are not regulations for purposes of the Administrative Procedures Act.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB449

This bill would eliminate time limits for the commencement of actions for the recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual assault, as specified. The bill would eliminate the prohibition on certain actions proceeding on or after the plaintiff’s 40th birthday unless specified conditions are met.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB452

Introduced by Assembly Members Quirk-Silva and Papan

This bill would prohibit any person who has completed mental health diversion for specified offenses from thereafter possessing or receiving a firearm, as specified.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB455

Behavioral health.California Behavioral Health Outcomes and Accountability Review.

Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services for persons with mental disorders in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. Existing law further provides that, to the extent resources are available, community mental health services should be organized to provide an array of treatment options in specified areas, including, among others, precrisis and crisis services and case management. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB459

Coauthor: Assembly Member Berman

Existing law allows the court to issue a protective order restraining a defendant from any contact with the victim if the defendant has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence, human trafficking, a crime in furtherance of a criminal street gang, or a registerable sex offense. Under existing law, the protective order may be valid for up to 10 years, as determined by the court. This bill would clarify that the order may be modified by the sentencing court in the county in which it was issued throughout the duration of the order if the court is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the modification is in the best interest of the victim

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB467

Existing law requires that the terms of probation granted to a person who has been convicted of domestic violence include, among other things, successful completion of a batterer’s program or, if a batterer’s program is not available, another appropriate counseling program. Existing law requires a batterer’s program to be approved by the probation department and specifies the standards for approving batterer’s programs. Existing law, until July 1, 2023, authorizes the Counties of Napa, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Yolo to offer an alternative program for individuals convicted of domestic violence. This bill would delete the sunset date on existing law and make the above provision operative indefinitely.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB479

Coauthor: Assembly Member Berman

State law, repealed as of January 1, 2018, required a court to impose an additional term of imprisonment, as specified, on any person who takes, damages, or destroys any property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as specified. This bill would, until January 1, 2028, authorize the court, if a person takes, damages, or destroys property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, with the intent to cause that taking, damage, or destruction, to impose an additional term of imprisonment of up to 2 years if the property loss exceeds $235,000, an additional term of imprisonment of up to 3 years if the property loss exceeds $1,500,000, or an additional term of imprisonment of up to 4 years if the property loss exceeds $3,700,000. Existing law provides for enhanced penalties against a person who commits 2 or more related felonies, a material element of which is fraud or embezzlement, that involve a pattern of related felony conduct, and the pattern of related felony conduct involves the taking or loss of more than $100,000. Existing law makes the additional punishment, if it involves the taking or loss of more than $500,000, a term of 2, 3, or 5 years in the state prison. Existing law, until January 1, 2018, due to an obsolete cross-reference to the repealed provisions described above, made the additional punishment, if it involves a taking or loss of more than $100,000 but less than $500,000, punishable by 2 years in the state prison if the loss was more than $200,000, and one year if the loss was less than that. This bill would remove that obsolete cross-reference and make that additional punishment equal to 2 years in the state prison.

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Existing law creates the Office of Youth and Community Restoration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to promote trauma-responsive, culturally informed services for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, as specified. Existing law grants the office the responsibility and authority to report on youth outcomes, identify policy recommendations, identify and disseminate best practices, and provide technical assistance to develop and expand local youth diversion opportunities. Existing law requires the office to have an ombudsperson, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Davies; Principal coauthors: Senators Min and Newman; Coauthor: Assembly Member Chen

Existing law authorizes courts generally to suspend a criminal sentence and make and enforce terms of probation for a period not to exceed 2 years. Existing law authorizes courts in misdemeanor cases to suspend a sentence and make and enforce terms of probation for a period not to exceed one year. This bill would instead authorize a court to impose a period of probation for a maximum period of 5 years in specified crimes relating to, among other things, fish and game, pesticides, oil dumping and spills, waste management, and animal cruelty. By expanding the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Mental health and substance use disorders: database of facilities.

Existing law establishes a system of mental health programs, largely administered through the counties, to provide mental health and substance use disorder services in the state. Existing law regulates the facilities that provide these services, including acute psychiatric hospitals, residential substance abuse treatment facilities, and outpatient programs. This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, either on its own or through the Behavioral Health Task Force established by the Governor, to create an ad hoc committee to study how to develop a real-time, internet-based system, usable by hospitals, clinics, law enforcement, paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and other health care providers as deemed appropriate, to display information about available beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential alcoholism or substance abuse treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of available facilities for the transfer to, and temporary treatment of, individuals in mental health or substance use disorder crisis.

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Existing law makes a person guilty of organized retail theft if, among other things, the person acts in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplace with the intent to sell, exchange, or return the merchandise for value. Under existing law, these crimes are punishable as either misdemeanors or felonies, as specified. This bill would expand that crime to include merchandise stolen from a merchant’s cargo. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

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Under existing law, the Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state and has specified powers and duties related to the conduct of elections. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to make reasonable efforts to promote voter registration, as further specified, and specifically requires the Secretary of State to promote civic learning and engagement to prepare students and new citizens to register to vote and to vote. This bill would refine that specific provision, instead requiring the Secretary of State to make reasonable efforts to promote civic learning and engagement to prepare newly eligible voters, including students and new citizens, to register to vote and to vote.

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Existing law, subject to an appropriation, requires the Department of Justice, on a monthly basis, to review the records in the statewide criminal justice databases and identify persons who are eligible for automatic conviction record relief. Under existing law, a person is eligible for automatic conviction record relief if, on or after January 1, 1973, they were sentenced to probation, and completed it without revocation, or if they were convicted of an infraction or a misdemeanor, and other criteria are met, as specified. Existing law, commencing July 1, 2023, and subject to an appropriation, generally makes this arrest record relief available to a person who has been arrested for a felony, including a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, as specified. This bill would remove the limitation that these provisions be effective upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.

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Firearms: concealed carry licenses.Firearms: dealer records of sale.

Existing law authorizes the sheriff of a county or the chief or other head of a municipal police department of any city or city and county to issue a license to carry a concealed firearm to an applicant for that license if the applicant is of good moral character, good cause exists for issuance of the license, the applicant meets specified residency requirements, and the applicant has completed a specified course of training, acceptable to the licensing authority. Existing law requires the course of training to include instruction on firearm handling and shooting technique and to also include a demonstration by the applicant of shooting proficiency and safe handling of each firearm the applicant will be licensed to carry and to include live-fire exercises conducted on a firing range. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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Existing law authorizes each of the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare to develop within its respective jurisdiction a Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program, to be administered by the county district attorney’s office or sheriff’s department of each respective county under a joint powers agreement, as provided. Existing law requires each county, in order to receive funds, to agree to participate in a regional task force, to be known as the Central Valley Rural Crime Task Force, to focus on rural and agricultural crimes.This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

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This bill would establish various clearance levels for program providers in state prisons, including a short-term clearance, an annual program provider clearance, a program provider identification card, or a statewide program provider identification card, as defined. The bill would create a procedure for a program provider to receive one of these clearances to gain entry into the state prison and would require the department to provide state prisons with forms for program providers to obtain the clearances. The bill would require the department to notify all program provider applicants for clearance of their decision to approve or disapprove within a specified timeframe. This bill would require the department to designate a standardized approval process for people who were formerly incarcerated and who are applying for these clearances. The bill would also require the department to notify all applicants of their right to appeal a clearance decision and of the process for filing an appeal. The bill would require the department to notify all applicants of their final disposition of appeal within 90 days.

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Allows a court to recall a sentence at any time if applicable sentencing laws are subsequently changed due to new statutes or case law, and makes changes to the procedural requirements to be followed when requests for recall are made.

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Existing law requires that a correctional industry safety committee be established in accordance with Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation administrative procedures at each facility maintaining a correctional industry, as defined, and requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to promulgate, and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement, regulations concerning the duties and functions that govern the operation of each committee. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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Existing law, generally, regulates state and local law enforcement agencies regarding subject matter that includes the selection and training of peace officers, the maintenance and release of records, the use of force, and the use of certain equipment. Previous law, until January 1, 2023, prohibited the use of real-time facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies in connection with body-worn cameras. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies.

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Existing law allows a court to issue a gun violence restraining order prohibiting and enjoining a named person from having custody or control of any firearms or ammunition if the person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or another by having custody or control of a firearm or ammunition. Existing law authorizes a court to issue a gun violence restraining order to prohibit a person from purchasing or possessing a firearm or ammunition for a period of one to 5 years, subject to renewal for additional one- to 5-year periods, if the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of self-harm or harm to another in the near future by having a firearm and the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to the subject of the petition or another. Existing law makes it a crime to own or possess a firearm in violation of a gun violence restraining order. This bill would increase the renewal period to a maximum of 10 years, instead of 5, if the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of self-harm or harm to another in the near future by having a firearm and the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to the subject of the petition or another. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Narcotic treatment programs. Changed to: Controlled substances.

Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, under the direction of the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, which includes, among other departments, the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law provides for various programs to reduce the use of, and harm caused by, controlled substances, including opioids. Existing law requires the agency to establish a grant program to reduce fentanyl overdoses and use throughout the state by giving out 6 one-time grants to increase local efforts in education, testing, recovery, and support services, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.

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Existing law requires the court, if a person is convicted of a felony and is eligible for probation, as defined, to immediately refer the matter to a probation officer to investigate and report to the court upon the circumstances surrounding the crime and the prior history and record of the person, which may be considered either in aggravation or mitigation of the punishment. Existing law requires the probation officer, among other things, to immediately investigate and make a written report to the court of their findings and recommendations, including their recommendation as to the granting or denying of probation and the conditions of probation, if granted. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

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This bill would create the Juvenile Detention Facilities Improvement Grant Program, to be administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, to provide grants to a county of the first class to address the critical infrastructure needs of the state’s detained and supervised youth in the county. The bill would require, as a condition for receiving a grant, a county of the first class to prepare a juvenile detention facilities improvement plan for the expenditure of funds for capital improvements that are necessary to preserve and protect the county’s juvenile detention facilities to enhance each facility’s rehabilitation function. The bill would require the board, by January 1, 2025, to submit a report to the Legislature detailing the grants awarded and the projects funded through the program. The bill would appropriate an unspecified sum of money from the General Fund to the board to provide grants in accordance with the provisions of the program.

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Existing law classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and places the greatest restrictions and penalties on the use of those substances placed in Schedule I. Existing law classifies the drug fentanyl in Schedule II. Existing law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale specified controlled substances, including fentanyl, and provides for imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years for a violation of this provision. Existing law also imposes an additional term, and authorizes a trial court to impose a specified fine, upon a person who is convicted of a violation of, or of a conspiracy to violate, specified provisions of law with respect to a substance containing heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine, if the substance exceeds a specified weight. This bill would impose that additional term upon, and authorize a fine against, a defendant who violates those laws with respect to a substance containing fentanyl. By increasing the penalty for a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Under existing law, there is established in each county treasury a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA) to receive all amounts allocated to a county for specified purposes. In any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for implementation, existing law requires the county auditor to allocate the moneys in the county’s SLESA within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund. Existing law requires the moneys to be allocated in specified amounts, including, but not limited to, 50% to a county or city and county to implement a comprehensive multiagency juvenile justice plan, as specified. Existing law requires the juvenile justice plan to be developed by the local juvenile justice coordinating council in each county and city and county. Existing law requires the plan to be annually reviewed and updated by the council and submitted to the Board of State and Community Corrections. Existing law requires the multiagency juvenile justice plan to include certain components, including, but not limited to, a local juvenile justice action strategy that provides for a continuum of responses to juvenile crime and delinquency. Existing law also requires each council to annually report to their board of supervisors and the board information on the effectiveness of the programs and strategies funded under these provisions, and requires the board to annually report this information to the Governor and the Legislature and post it on its internet website.

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Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to oversee the state prison system. Existing law requires the department to develop guidance policies relative to the release of veterans who are inmates. Existing law authorizes a veterans service organization to volunteer to serve as a veterans service advocate at a facility that is under the jurisdiction of the department. For each inmate who is a veteran, existing law authorizes an advocate to develop a veterans economic recidivism plan during the 180-day period preceding the inmate’s release date. Existing law requires the veterans economic recidivism prevention plan to include specified information, including a plan for how the inmate will access earned veterans’ benefits that the inmate may be eligible for upon the inmate’s release. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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Transcripts: criminal proceedings: exculpatory evidence. Changed to: Criminal history information.

Existing law generally establishes the fees a court reporter may charge for the transcription of court proceedings and the printed original and copies of the transcription. Existing law permits any court, party, or person who has purchased a transcript to reproduce a copy or portion thereof as an exhibit, as specified, without paying an additional fee. Existing law requires the prosecuting attorney to disclose to the defendant or their attorney certain materials and information, including statements of all defendants and any exculpatory evidence, as specified. This bill would permit a prosecutor with actual possession of a transcript that contains potentially exculpatory or impeaching material involving a peace officer-witness to provide an unofficial copy of the transcript or relevant portion thereof to defense counsel or a defendant appearing in propia persona during informal discovery. The bill would allow defense counsel to reproduce a copy or portion of the transcript received pursuant to these provisions as an exhibit pursuant to a court order or rule, or for internal use, but would prohibit counsel from otherwise providing or selling a copy or copies to any other party or person.

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Existing law requires a person who purchases or receives a firearm to possess a valid and unexpired firearm safety certificate or handgun safety certificate, as applicable. Existing law prohibits the sale, delivery, or transfer of a firearm to a person who does not possess a valid and unexpired firearm safety certificate or handgun safety certificate, as applicable. Existing law requires an applicant for a firearm safety certificate to pass an objective test, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide instructional and testing materials in English and Spanish. This bill would also require these instructional and testing materials to be available in Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, and Armenian.

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Existing law requires a person to report any lost or stolen firearm to a law enforcement agency, as specified. A violation of this provision is punishable as an infraction or misdemeanor. Existing law also requires the sheriff or chief of the law enforcement agency receiving such a report to enter a description of the lost or stolen firearm into the Department of Justice Automated Firearms System. Existing law defines a firearm for purposes of these provisions. This bill would amend how a firearm is defined for purposes of these provisions to include the frame or receiver of the weapon, including both a completed frame or receiver, or a firearm precursor part. By expanding the definition of firearm, this bill would expand the applicability of a crime and impose a state-mandated local program. Also, by imposing new duties on local law enforcement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB725

Crimes: punishment for misdemeanors. Changed to: Crimes: relinquishment of firearms.

Under existing law, any offense declared to be a misdemeanor for which no punishment is specified is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.

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This bill would prohibit the use of an unleashed police canine by law enforcement to apprehend a person, and any use of a police canine for crowd control. The bill would prohibit law enforcement agencies from authorizing any use or training of a police canine that is inconsistent with this bill.

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This bill would add an additional sentencing enhancement for persons who use or possess a firearm without a valid serial number or mark of identification during the commission of certain criminal offenses. This bill would impose a sentencing enhancement for this offense if the firearm possessed does not have a valid serial number or mark of identification.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB758

Factual innocence. Changed to: California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program.

Existing law requires the court to order records sealed if a person is found to be factually innocent, including records of arrest and detention, upon written or oral motion of any party. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

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Sexually violent predators: conditional release: placement location.

Existing law provides for the civil commitment of a person who is determined to be a sexually violent predator. Existing law establishes a procedure by which a person committed as a sexually violent predator may petition for conditional release and requires the court, if it makes a specified determination, to place the person on conditional release. Existing law generally requires that a person released on conditional release pursuant to these provisions be placed in the person’s county of domicile prior to their incarceration and prohibits the placement of a person released on conditional release within 1/4 mile of any public or private school, as specified. This bill would prohibit the placement of a person released on conditional release within 1/4 mile of a home school.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB763

Crimes: bribery. Changed to: Crimes: assault by administering substance.

Existing law prohibits a person from offering a bribe, as specified, to certain persons, with the intent to influence their decision on specified matters. A violation of this provision is punishable as a felony. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to publish personal account information, as specified, with the intent to avoid payment of a lawful charge, or with intent to defraud or aid another in defrauding, on specified means of communication, including by writing, telephone, television, or a computer network. This bill would expand that crime to include publication on a social media platform or a public or semipublic internet-based service or application. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Existing law requires a defendant out on bail, if a verdict is rendered against them, to be committed to the custody of the county to await judgment of the court upon the verdict, unless the court concludes that various factors, including the protection of the public and the probability of the defendant failing to appear, support a decision to allow the defendant to remain out on bail. Existing law gives a defendant convicted of an offense who has made an application for probation or who has appealed a right to be admitted to bail in misdemeanor or infraction cases. Existing law authorizes the court to admit a defendant convicted of an offense not punishable with death to bail in all other cases. This bill would require the judicial officer to remand a person who is found guilty of any felony or any offense that requires registration as a sex offender unless the judicial officer finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person is not likely to flee and will not pose a danger to the safety of any other person or the community. The bill would require the judicial officer to remand a person convicted of specified felonies, including serious felonies, unless the judicial officer finds that there is a substantial likelihood that a motion for acquittal or new trial will be granted or the prosecuting attorney has recommended that no sentence of imprisonment be imposed on the person. The bill would prohibit a person convicted of an offense punishable by life without the possibility of parole from being released on bail. By requiring county jails to hold additional defendants, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Under existing law, if more than one violation of specified crimes, including unlawful intercourse with a minor and child abuse, occurs in more than one jurisdictional territory and the defendant and the victim are the same for all offenses, the jurisdiction of any of those offenses, and for any other offenses properly joinable with that offense, is in any jurisdiction where at least one of the offenses occurred. This bill would also make this provision applicable to any crime of domestic violence, as defined.

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Existing law requires law enforcement agencies to report to the Department of Justice, as specified, any incident in which a police officer is involved in a shooting or use of force that results in death or serious bodily injury. Existing law requires the state prosecutor to investigate incidents involving a shooting by a peace officer resulting in the death of an unarmed civilian. Existing law authorizes the state prosecutor to criminally prosecute any officer that, pursuant to such an investigation, is found to have violated state law. Existing law provides that the Attorney General is the state prosecutor unless otherwise specified or named. This bill would require the state prosecutor to investigate incidents in which the use of force by a peace officer results in the death of a civilian without regard to whether the civilian was unarmed.

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Existing law prohibits an act of sexual intercourse accomplished against a person’s will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another. Existing law provides a greater punishment for this offense if the victim is a minor, as specified. Existing law also prohibits an act of sexual intercourse with a person who is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, and this is known or reasonably should be known to the person committing the act. This bill would also impose a greater punishment for this offense if the victim is a minor, as specified.

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Firearms: Prohibited Armed Persons File. Changed to: Protective orders.

Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain an online database, known as the Prohibited Arms Persons File, to cross-reference individuals who own or possess firearms after a specified date with individuals who may fall within a class of persons who are prohibited to do so. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

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Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as an infraction and subsequently as a misdemeanor, for an adult to evade payment of a fare of a public transportation system, the misuse of a transfer, pass, ticket, or token with the intent to evade the payment of a fare, or the unauthorized use of a discount ticket, as specified. Under existing law, a 3rd or subsequent violation of fare evasion or other listed associated violations is a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of up to $400 or by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than 90 days, or both. This bill would no longer categorize as a misdemeanor a 3rd or subsequent violation, by an adult, of evading the payment of a fare of a public transportation system, the misuse of a transfer, pass, ticket, or token with the intent to evade the payment of a fare, or the unauthorized use of a discount ticket, and would make a 3rd or subsequent violation punishable only by a fine of up to $400.

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Existing law establishes the Department of Justice, and establishes that the department is under the direction and control of the Attorney General. Existing law requires the Attorney General to appoint agents and other employees to carry out the responsibilities of the department. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.

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Firearms. Changed to: Firearms: Urban gun free zone pilot program.

Existing law prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm or carrying a loaded firearm in public. Existing law authorizes a licensing authority, as specified, if good cause exists for the issuance, and subject to certain other criteria including, among other things, the applicant is of good moral character and has completed a specified course of training, to issue a license to carry a concealed handgun or to carry a loaded and exposed handgun, as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

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Under existing law, a conviction or sentence is unlawfully imposed on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin if the defendant proves, among other things, that the defendant was charged or convicted of a more serious offense than defendants of other races, ethnicities, or national origins, or received a longer or more severe sentence, and the evidence establishes that the prosecution more frequently sought or obtained convictions for more serious offenses against people who share the defendant’s race, ethnicity, or national origin, as specified, or if a longer or more severe sentence was more frequently imposed on defendants of a particular race, ethnicity, or national origin, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to rectify racial bias, as specified. The bill would require courts, whenever they have discretion to determine a sentence, to consider the disparate impact on historically disenfranchised and system-impacted populations.

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The California Constitution entitles the victim of a crime to restitution. Existing law requires the court in each criminal case to order a convicted defendant to pay restitution, as specified. Existing law requires the order of restitution to include interest at the annual rate of 10%. Under existing law, certain delinquent payments, including payments for fines, fees, and restitution, may be referred to the Franchise Tax Board for collection. Existing law imposes interest on these delinquent payments. This bill would change the annual interest rate on restitution orders and the annual interest rate charged by the Franchise Tax Board on certain delinquent payments, including fines, fees, and restitution, to no more than 1%.

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Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections, which, among other things, is responsible for providing statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California’s adult and juvenile criminal justice system. Existing law provides for the confinement of persons in county jails sentenced to imprisonment therein. Existing law authorizes a sheriff or other official in charge of a county correctional facility to provide for the vocational training and rehabilitation of inmates, as specified. This bill would, on or before January 1, 2025, require the sheriff in each county to compile and submit specified data to the Board of State and Community Corrections on their educational opportunities, rehabilitative opportunities, exercise opportunities, the number of participants and the cost of administering those programs, and success rates in reducing recidivism, as defined. The bill would require the board to compile a report based upon those findings and submit the report to the Legislature by a specified date. By imposing new duties on local entities, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

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Drug overdose and substance use hotline. Changed to: Substance use disorder: telephone system.

Existing federal law, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, designates the 3-digit telephone number “988” as the universal number within the United States for the purpose of the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system. Existing law, the Miles Hall Lifeline and Suicide Prevention Act, requires the Office of Emergency Services to appoint a 988 system director and, among other things, verify interoperability between and across 911 and 988. Existing law also requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to create, no later than December 31, 2023, a set of recommendations to support a 5-year implementation plan for a comprehensive 988 system. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to create a 3-digit, statewide telephone number to connect directly to a state-managed crisis center that gives public health information on the prevention of drug overdoses, advice for family members and people experiencing drug addiction, and referrals to substance use disorder treatment.

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Existing law, the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, requires the appointment of legal counsel to represent low-income parties in civil matters involving critical issues affecting basic human needs in courts selected by the Judicial Council. The act requires the Judicial Council to develop one or more programs to provide competitive grants to provide legal counsel to low-income persons who require legal services in civil matters involving specific types of civil matters, including, among others, housing-related matters, probate conservatorships, guardianships, and domestic violence and civil harassment restraining orders. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to consider various factors, including, among others, the unmet need for legal services in the geographic area to be served, in selecting and renewing participating programs. Existing law requires program applicants, among other things, to describe how the program would be administered and the means by which the program would serve the particular needs of the community, such as by providing representation to limited-English-speaking clients. This bill would require courts to report specified information to the Judicial Council regarding unlawful detainer cases, aggregated by ZIP Code. The bill also would require courts to report to the Judicial Council case summary data on COVID-19 Rental Debt in Small Claims Court, aggregated by ZIP Code. The bill would require the Judicial Council to post all information received about unlawful detainer cases in a publicly available electronic spreadsheet that may be downloaded from its internet website.

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Existing law, the Trial Jury Selection and Management Act, requires all persons be selected for jury service at random, from a source or sources inclusive of a representative cross section of the population of the area served by the court. The act further requires a juror in a civil or criminal superior court case to be paid a fee of $15 a day for each day’s attendance as a juror after the first day, except as specified, plus reimbursement for mileage. Existing law also establishes the Trial Court Trust Fund for the purpose of funding trial court operations. For purposes of those provisions, court operations are defined to include, among other things, juror expenses such as per diem fees and mileage. Existing law authorizes the Superior Court of San Francisco to conduct a pilot program to analyze and determine whether paying certain low-income trial jurors $100 per day for each day they are required to report for service as a trial juror in a criminal case promotes a more economically and racially diverse trial jury panel that more accurately reflects the demographics of the community. This bill would require a juror in a civil or criminal case to be paid a fee of not less than $15 a day for each day’s attendance as a juror after the first day, except as specified, but would increase the daily fee to $100 a day for qualifying low-income trial jurors for criminal cases in the superior court in all counties.

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Existing law prohibits the possession, sale, and transport, as specified, of certain controlled substances. This bill would require a defendant granted probation for a violation of those laws involving any amount of fentanyl, carfentanil, benzimidazole opiate, or an analog thereof, to also complete a fentanyl and synthetic opiate education program, as specified. The bill would require the program to include, among other things, information regarding the nature and addictive elements of fentanyl and other synthetic opiates and their danger to a person’s life and health. The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop guidelines for the development of the content of the classes, and would require probation departments to design and implement an approval and renewal process for fentanyl and synthetic opiate education programs, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local probation departments, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

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Existing law provides for the placement of juveniles under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court into a county juvenile hall. Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections to provide statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California’s adult and juvenile criminal justice system, as specified. Existing law requires the board to inspect each local detention facility in the state at least biennially, including juvenile halls and similar facilities used for the confinement of any minor, as specified. This bill would require every juvenile probation department to annually report injuries to juvenile hall staff resulting from an interaction with a resident to the Board of State and Community Corrections, as specified. By imposing new duties on juvenile probation departments to complete this reporting requirement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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Youth reinvestment. Changed to: Strategic Anti-Violence Funding Efforts Act.

Press Release (1) Existing law establishes the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program within the Board of State and Community Corrections to grant funds, upon appropriation, to local jurisdictions and Indian tribes for the purpose of implementing trauma-informed diversion programs for minors, as specified. This bill would instead place the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program within the Office of Youth and Community Restoration and would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to reflect the change in administering agency. The bill would make an appropriation of $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Office of Youth and Community Restoration for awarding grants pursuant to the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program. ...

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Pupil instruction: drug education. Changed to: Pupil health: drug education: opioid overdose certification and training program.

Introduced by Assembly Members Arambula and Ramos

Existing law requires instruction to be given in the elementary and secondary schools by appropriately trained instructors on drug education and the effects of the use of tobacco, alcohol, narcotics, dangerous drugs, as defined, and other dangerous substances. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to direct middle and high schools to provide drug education curriculum on efforts to help someone who experiences an overdose.

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Civil actions: mediators, arbitrations, and settlements. Changed to: Alternative dispute resolution: complaints.

Existing law requires specified parties to engage in mediation or arbitration prior to filing an action in specified civil proceedings. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to mediators, arbitrations, and settlements in civil suits.

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Controlled substances: emergency use. Changed to: Controlled substances: psychedelic-assisted therapy for combat veterans.

Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, regulates the distribution and use of controlled substances, as defined. The act authorizes a hospital that does not employ a resident pharmacist to purchase controlled substances as specified to provide a supply of controlled substances necessary to handle emergency cases. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

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Existing law establishes the state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide operation and fiscal information to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, including, among other things, data regarding the total expenditures and average daily population for each adult institution. This bill would require the department, when preparing monthly demographic data, to prepare and publish the data disaggregated by race and ethnicity, including, but not limited to, by 28 ethnicity types. The bill would require the department use separate collection categories and tabulations for American Indian, Alaska Native, and each major Asian and Pacific Islander group, as specified, when collecting voluntary self-identification information pertaining to the race or ethnic origin of people admitted, in custody, and released and paroled.

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Punishment: restorative justice. Changed to: Criminal procedure: expungement of records.

Existing law declares the commitment of the Legislature to reducing recidivism among criminal offenders by, among other things, investment of criminal justice resources in community-based corrections programs that use community-based punishment for offender populations. Existing law defines community-based punishment as including, among other things, restorative justice programs such as mandatory victim restitution and victim-offender reconciliation. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

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Introduced by Assembly Members Santiago and Bonta; Principal coauthor: Senator Durazo; Coauthors: Assembly Members Bryan, Ortega, Wicks, and Wilson

Fact Sheet (1) Under existing law, a person sentenced to imprisonment in a state prison or in a county jail for a felony offense, as specified, may, during that period of confinement, be deprived of only those rights as is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. Existing law enumerates certain civil rights of these prisoners, including the right to purchase, receive, and read newspapers, periodicals, and books accepted for distribution by the United States Post Office. This bill would include the right to personal visits by an intimate partner or a family member, as defined, as a civil right, as specified. The bill would provide that these civil rights may not be infringed upon, except as necessary and only if narrowly tailored to further the legitimate security interests of the government, and would provide that any governmental action related to these civil rights may be reviewed in court for legal error under a substantial evidence standard of review. (2) Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons and requires regulations, which are adopted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and may impact the visitation of inmates. Existing law requires these regulations to recognize and consider the value of inmate visitation as a means of increasing safety in prisons, maintaining family and community connections, and preparing inmates for successful release and rehabilitation. Existing regulations create the framework for establishing a visitation process in prisons that is conducted in as accommodating a manner as possible, subject to the need to maintain order, the safety of persons, the security of institutions and facilities, and required prison activities and operations. This bill would additionally require those regulations pertaining to inmate visits to recognize and consider the right to personal visits as a civil right. The bill would prohibit the department from denying in-person contact visits, as specified, including as a disciplinary sanction against the incarcerated person, except as specified. The bill would require the department to inform an applicant of the specific reason for any denial of a visit. The bill would require the department to provide at least 3 days of in-person visiting per week, with a minimum of 8 visiting hours per day, plus access to video calls for at least an additional 8 hours per week.

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