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Death Penalty

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SB 490 (Hancock-D) Death penalty

Substitutes, upon approval of the voters in the November 2012 general election, life-without-possibility-of-parole (LWOP) for the death penalty as punishment for persons convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances. States that in any case where a defendant was sentenced to death prior to or following enactment of this measure, upon voter approval, the sentence of each defendant shall convert to LWOP.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Privacy/Identity Theft

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SB 24 (Simitian-D) Privacy: security breach notification

Amends California's security breach notification law to provide that any agency, person, or business required to issue a notification under existing law must meet additional requirements regarding that notification. Requires that, any agency, person, or business that must provide a security breach notification under existing law to more than 500 California residents as a result of a single breach would be required to submit the notification electronically to the Attorney General.
Chapter 197, Statutes of 2011

SB 102 (Correa-D) Telecommunications: customer privacy

Requires a commercial seller of mobile telephony service communications devices (commonly known as "cell phones") that incorporate geotagging, as defined, capability to disclose this capability to a potential purchaser prior to completing a sale of the device. Prohibits the commercial seller from selling a mobile telephony service communications device to a purchaser with the geotagging capability activated or operational without first obtaining the purchaser's consent, in writing, acknowledging that the purchaser has been informed of the existence of the geotagging capability and consents to this capability being activated or operational.
(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 208* (Alquist-D) Identity theft and restitution

Provides that restitution in an identity theft case shall include, for a reasonable period of time, the costs of repairing the victim's credit and monitoring the victim's credit report.
Chapter 45, Statutes of 2011

SB 242 (Corbett-D) Privacy: social networking Internet Web sites: minors

Requires social networking Internet Web sites to (1) establish a default privacy setting for registered users that prohibits the display of any information about the user without the agreement of the user, as specified, (2) establish a process for new users to set their privacy settings as part of the registration process that explains privacy options in plain language, and (3) remove personal identifying information in a timely manner upon request. Provides that a social networking Internet Web site that willfully and knowingly violates the bill's provisions shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each violation.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

SB 602 (Yee-D) Reader Privacy Act

Enacts the Reader Privacy Act, placing restrictions relative to user information on commercial businesses that offer "book services," the rental, purchase, borrowing, browsing, or viewing of books, to the public.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 2011

SB 636 (Corbett-D) Personal information: Internet disclosure

Makes specified changes in law relating to the disclosure of protected personal information about domestic violence and stalking victims, including changes to the "Safe at Home" program.
Chapter 200, Statutes of 2011

SB 761 (Lowenthal-D) Online privacy

Requires the Attorney General, by 7/1/12, to adopt regulations that require online businesses to provide California consumers with a method for the consumer to opt out of the collection or use of his/her information by the business.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 850 (Leno-D) Confidential information: medical records

Requires electronic health record systems or electronic medical record systems to automatically record and preserve any change or deletion of any electronically stored medical information and enacts related requirements. Clarifies that existing law relating to the destruction of medical records applies to medical information, thus including information kept in both physical and electronic form.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2011

AB 3 (Miller-R) Confidential home addresses: vehicles

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide notice of outstanding toll evasion violations to individuals who have requested a confidential home address.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 143 (Fuentes-D) Privacy rights: pupil records

Adds to the list of people who may obtain a pupils' school records, for specified purposes, a minor's counsel of record and requires those in receipt of such records to certify that the information shall not be disclosed to another person.
Chapter 434, Statutes of 2011

AB 439 (Skinner-D) Confidentiality of Medical Information Act

Provides an affirmative defense for a violation of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act so that the plaintiff may not be awarded nominal damages if the defendant establishes that defense, as specified. Applies to actions brought on or after 1/1/12.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 452 (Ma-D) Privacy: electronic tracking devices

Expands the misdemeanor offense of using an electronic tracking device on a non-consenting party to include use of a third party to employ the device. Provides for numerous exemptions, including law enforcement, legal guardians, and authorized and commercial service providers. Makes it a misdemeanor to require or compel another person to undergo subcutaneous implantation of an electronic tracking device.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 665 (Torres-D) Invasion of privacy: disorderly conduct

Doubles the misdemeanor penalties - to a maximum jail term of one year and a maximum fine of $2,000 - for a second or subsequent conviction of violating another person's reasonable expectation of privacy, or the first conviction where the victim is a minor, by doing any of the following: (1) looking into a bedroom, bathroom, changing room or similar place through a hole or by means of any instrumentality, (2) using a concealed video recording device, camera, camcorder, mobile phone, or other electronic device to record or film the body or underclothing of another person while the person is in or using a bedroom, bathroom, fitting room or similar place, and (3) using a concealed video recording device, camera or other electronic device to record or film the body or underclothing of another person for sexual gratification.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2011

AB 733 (Ma-D) Privacy rights: access to pupil records

Makes numerous technical changes to conform state law with the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act regarding access to pupil records without parental consent or judicial order, as well as makes more substantive changes that are permitted by federal law.
(Held at Senate Desk)

AB 846 (Bonilla-D) Identity theft: foster youth

Adds the Department of Social Services (DSS) to the list of entities authorized to request credit reports on behalf of specified foster youth and clarifies the procedures for DSS and the county welfare departments to use when handling suspected identity theft that may be discovered during this process. Requires the Office of Privacy Protection, in consultation with the DSS and other stakeholders, to develop a list of nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies that assist consumers with identity theft issues.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1219* (Perea-D) Private information: credit cards

Provides clarification for those instances when an entity that accepts credit cards may not request certain types of personal identification information to complete the transaction. Creates an express exemption from the prohibition against the collection and retention of zip code information when the zip code is used solely for prevention of fraud, theft, or identify theft in a sales transaction at a retail motor fuel dispenser or retail motor fuel payment island automated cashier.
Chapter 690, Statutes of 2011

Domestic Violence

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SB 154 (Wolk-D) Domestic violence: vital records

Deletes a 1/1/12 sunset date relative to Solano County increasing fees for certified copies of vital records, thereby extending existing law indefinitely.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2011

SB 430 (Kehoe-D) Domestic violence: strangulation and suffocation

States in statute that a traumatic condition, as that term is used in the "felony" domestic violence statute, can result from strangulation or suffocation.
Chapter 129, Statutes of 2011

SB 480 (Vargas-D) Domestic violence: public social services

Provides that in determining whether a county has failed to meet the federal work requirements relative to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the number of cases subject to the federal work participation requirements is not to include specified cases granted a federally recognized good cause domestic violence waiver.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 557 (Kehoe-D) Domestic violence: family justice centers

Authorizes, until 1/1/14, the City of San Diego, the City of Anaheim, the County of Alameda and the County of Sonoma to create a two-year pilot project for the establishment of a family justice centers (FJCs) to assist victims of domestic violence and allows for the FJCs to be staffed by, among others, law enforcement, medical, social service, and child welfare personnel.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2011

SB 636 (Corbett-D) Personal information: Internet disclosure

Makes specified changes in law relating to the disclosure of protected personal information about domestic violence and stalking victims, including changes to the Safe at Home program.
Chapter 200, Statutes of 2011

SB 723 (Pavley-D) Restraining orders

Authorizes the court to issue, and requires the court to consider at the time of sentencing in any domestic violence case, an order valid for up to 10 years restraining the defendant from any contact with the victim, regardless of the disposition of the sentence.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 2011

AB 545 (John A. Pérez-D) Domestic violence

Expands felony domestic violence to include acts against former fiancés and fiancées, as well as current and former dating relationships.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 588 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Domestic violence: victims: tenancy

Amends existing law so that a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence has more time to provide notice of intent to terminate a lease early. Provides that upon informing the landlord of intent to terminate a tenancy because he/she is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, the tenant must also provide the landlord with a substantiating court order or police report, as specified, that was issued or written within the last 180 days. (Existing law requires the order or report to have been issued or written within the last 60 days.)
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2011

AB 593 (Ma-D) Domestic violence: writ of habeas corpus

Deletes the 1/1/11 repeal date on provisions of law that allow a writ of habeas corpus to be prosecuted on grounds that evidence relating to intimate partner battering and its effects was not introduced at the trial, thereby affecting the outcome of the trial.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1165 (Achadjian-R) Domestic violence: probation: terms

Provides immunity from liability relative to good faith conduct in decisions made in cases involving formal probation decisions for individuals convicted of domestic violence.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACR 82 (Mitchell-D) Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Recognizes October 2011 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and urges Californians to take a stand against domestic violence by raising awareness about this issue and the resources available to victims seeking to escape abuse.
Resolution Chapter 119, Statutes of 2011

Child Abuse/Sex Offenders

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SB 54 (Runner-R) Sex offenders: residency restrictions

Makes the following two changes to the residency restrictions now applicable to registered sex offenders: (1) provides that the residency restriction of 2,000 feet of any public or private school or park where children regularly gather shall be measured by the shortest practical pedestrian or vehicle path, and (2) provides a judicial process whereby registered sex offenders could be relieved of this restriction, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 57 (Runner-R) Sex offenders: registration

Requires persons required to register as sex offenders to provide the registering law enforcement agency with the persons online names and addresses, e-mail addresses and instant messaging user names for all his/her social networking Internet Website accounts. Requires that changes in this information be updated within 30 days. Authorizes the law enforcement agency to share this information with other law enforcement entities. Defines a social networking Website as one that allows persons, including juveniles, to communicate with acquaintances and strangers, construct a public or semi-public profile, set a list of users or members with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections with others within the system.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 123 (Liu-D) California Runaway, Homeless, and Exploited Youth Act

Requires the California Emergency Management Agency, subject to the availability of adequate resources, to develop a statewide plan for runaway, homeless, and exploited youth in collaboration with the Senate Office of Research and various stakeholders.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 179 (Pavley-D) Tolling of parole: sexually violent predators

Tolls the parole period of any person subject to commitment as a sexually violent predator from the initial finding of probable cause through release from dismissal of proceeding or release from confinement. Provides that for an individual committed to the Department of Health as a sexually violent predator, the toll is from the date the prisoner is released until a court order is entered. Double-jointed with AB 117 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 39, Statutes of 2011.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2011

SB 271 (Wyland-R) Rape kits: evidence

Provides that a county's remaining share of funds attributable to the increase in penalties as required by the DNA Fingerprint, Unresolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act may be used by a local sheriff, police department, district attorney, or other law enforcement agency for expenditures and administrative costs made or incurred for utilizing a laboratory, other than the Department of Justice Laboratory, as specified, to expedite the analysis and processing of rape kits and uploading rape kit information to the CAL-DNA Databank and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Combined DNA Index System.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 492 (Correa-D) Sexually violent predators: civil commitment

Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to refer to the Department of Mental Health (DMH) for assessment any person in the custody of the CDCR, including the Division of Juvenile Facilities and persons on parole or for whom a warrant of arrest is outstanding, who has committed a sexually violent offense, as defined. Requires the Director of DMH to identify and evaluate individuals who are in custody under the jurisdiction of the DMH and who have convictions for sexually violent offenses at least six months prior to their release.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 531 (Rubio-D) Sex offense cases: search warrants: HIV testing

Requires, if a victim requests an HIV test of a defendant against whom an information or indictment has been presented for a crime in which, by force or threat of force, the defendant is alleged to have compelled the victim to engage in sexual activity, the HIV test to be administered not later than 48 hours after the date on which the search warrant is issued. Requires the local health officer to disclose the HIV test results as soon as practicable.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 534 (Corbett-D) Sexual assault victims: medical exams

Makes changes to sexual assault forensic protocol to conform California to federal requirements for Violence Against Women Act funding.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2011

SB 557 (Kehoe-D) Child abuse: family justice centers

Authorizes the City of San Diego, the City of Anaheim, the County of Alameda, and the County of Sonoma to create a two-year pilot project for the establishment of family justice centers to assist victims of sexual assault and allows for the centers to be staffed by, among others, law enforcement, medical, social service, and child welfare personnel. Sunsets on 1/1/14.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2011

SB 622 (Corbett-D) Sex offenders: registration: out-of-state

Clarifies that sex offender registration in California for an out-of-state conviction is based on the elements of the convicted offense or proven or stipulated facts in the record of conviction. Requires sex offender registration in California if a person committed an offense that requires registration in the state of conviction.
Chapter 362, Statutes of 2011

SB 756 (Price-D) Registered sex offenders

Clarifies jurisdiction for prosecuting a sex offender registrant for failing to register. Authorizes a district attorney in a jurisdiction where a sex offender was supposed to register to issue an arrest warrant.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2011

SCR 15 (Evans-D) Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Denim Day California

Designates the month of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, recognizes 4/27/11 as Denim Day California, and encourages everyone to wear jeans on that day to help communicate the message that there is no excuse for, and never an invitation to, rape or sexual assault.
Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2011

AB 12 (Swanson-D) Prostitution involving minors

Requires the court to impose a special fine of up to $25,000 in a case where a defendant is convicted of prostitution involving a minor. Provides that the proceeds of such funds be available, upon legislative appropriation, to fund programs and services for sexually exploited minors in the county of conviction.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2011

AB 90 (Swanson-D) Human trafficking: minors

Provides that any crime in which the defendant persuaded or induced a minor to engage in a commercial sex act can be the basis of criminal profiteering asset forfeiture. Provides that any crime in which the defendant coerced or forced a minor to engage in a commercial sex act can be the basis of criminal profiteering asset forfeiture. Defines a commercial sex act as sexual conduct for which anything of value is given or received by any person. Provides that the proceeds of criminal asset forfeiture in such cases be used for programs to assist minors who are sexually exploited or the victims of human trafficking.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2011

AB 322 (Portantino-D) Rape kits: forensic evidence

Creates a pilot project, commencing 7/1/12, in 10 counties to have the Department of Justice test all rape kits collected after the start date of the pilot project in those counties to determine if such testing increases their arrest rates in rape cases. Sunsets on 1/1/16.
Vetoed

AB 421 (Smyth-R) Sexually violent predators: mental health

Changes procedures in sexually violent predator commitment proceedings. Specifies each party receives 10 peremptory challenges in selecting the jury. Allows the prosecuting attorney access to all records concerning the defendant without obtaining a court order. Expresses findings regarding the necessity for indeterminate terms for sexually violent predator commitment proceedings.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 543 (Torres-D) Sex offenders: social networking prohibition

Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000, for a registered sex offender on parole or probation, whose victim was under the age of 18, or who used the Internet in the commission of the crime, to access an Internet social networking site. Requires the informational statement registered sex offenders must sign to include a notice regarding the social networking site prohibition, if applicable.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 625 (Ammiano-D) Sex offender registration

Establishes a three-tiered registration system for sex offenders for periods of 10 years, 20 years, or life.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 653 (Galgiani-D) Sex offenders: registration of Internet accounts

Requires a person required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act to register his/her Internet accounts and Internet identifiers, defined to include e-mail addresses and designations used for the purposes of chatting, instant messaging, social networking, or other similar Internet communication. Requires the person to update this information within five days of establishing an Internet account or creating or using an Internet identifier not previously disclosed, and requires that information to be forwarded by local law enforcement agencies to the Department of Justice.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 717 (Ammiano-D) Child Abuse Central Index

Makes several changes to the laws concerning the Child Abuse Central Index maintained by the Department of Justice.
Chapter 468, Statutes of 2011

AB 755 (Galgiani-D) Sex offenders: CAL E-STOP

Requires every registered sex offender to inform the law enforcement agency with which he/she last registered of all Internet identifiers or service providers and must sign a statement acknowledging this responsibility.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 757 (Blumenfield-D) Sex offenders: public information

Provides that with respect to those person whose application for exclusion from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Internet Web site was granted by DOJ pursuant to existing law, if at any time after exclusion, any law enforcement agency notifies DOJ that, based on facts known to the agency about the offender, the agency believes that public safety may be compromised by the continued exclusion of the offender from public posting on the Internet Web site, DOJ shall, 30 days after notifying the offender, make information about the offender available to the public on the Internet Web site.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 764 (Swanson-D) Child abuse victims: income tax checkoffs

Allows the addition of the Child Victims of Human Trafficking Fund check-off to the personal income tax form upon the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the form.
Chapter 465, Statutes of 2011

AB 765 (Achadjian-R) Rape by fraud

Provides that rape occurs where the victim submits to sexual intercourse because she believes that the person committing the act is the victim's cohabitant and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense or concealment by the perpetrator, with the intent to induce the victim's belief.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 799 (Swanson-D) Sexually exploited minors pilot project: Alameda County

Extends the sunset of the existing Alameda County pilot project relating to sexually exploited minors an additional five years, and requires the Alameda County district attorney to provide a report to the Legislature on the pilot contingent upon local funding and operation of the pilot.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2011

AB 813 (Fletcher-R) Sex offenders: punishment

Provides good faith immunity for members of the Sex Offender Management Board, and immunity from civil liability for certified sex offender management professionals for any criminal acts committed by a person who receives supervision or treatment. Creates an exception to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act to allow the Sex Offender Management Board to discuss matters pertaining to the application of a sex offender treatment provider in a closed session. Makes other clarifying changes related to sex offenders.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2011

AB 883 (Cook-R) Sex offenders: registration

Requires registration as a sex offender for any person who has been convicted in any other court, including any state, federal, or military court, of any offense that, based on the elements of the conviction offense or proven or stipulated facts in the record of conviction would have been punishable as one or more of specified sex crimes included in the Sex Offender Registration Act.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 884 (Cook-R) Sexually violent offenders: notification

Requires law enforcement agencies to notify enumerated individuals and entities within five days if a person required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act for specified crimes registers in the jurisdiction.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 885 (Cook-R) Registered sex offenders: driver's licenses

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include identifying information on the driver's licenses of sex offenders.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 996 (Donnelly-R) Human trafficking

Adds human trafficking committed with the purpose of sexual slavery to the list of offenses requiring registration as a sex offender.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1022 (Fletcher-R) Sex offenders: registration

Authorizes state and local law enforcement to provide information available on the Department of Justice's Web site of registered sex offenders, upon request, by e-mail or other electronic notification.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1188 (Pan-D) Crimes: serious and violent felonies

Adds four new offenses relating to child abuse to the list of "violent" felonies, adds five new offenses related to human trafficking and the abuse of a child to the "serious" felony list.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1226* (Cook-R) Child abuse crimes

Makes it a felony for a parent, guardian, or caregiver having the care, custody, and control of a child under 18 years of age to knowingly fail to report the child's death and the location of the child's remains to law enforcement, emergency medical personnel, or the coroner within two hours of the discovery of the child's death or as soon as possible thereafter if reasonable and expedient means to notify were not previously available. Provides that the reporting requirement described above is fulfilled if the child dies in a hospital or other medical care facility or under the care of a licensed medical professional.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1243* (Fletcher-R) Sex crimes

Includes the infliction of great bodily injury on the victim or another person among the list of circumstances listed in Proposition 83 (Jessica's Law), approved by the voters at the 11/7/06 statewide general election, that if committed by any person in the commission by the defendant of rape, sodomy, or oral copulation would subject the defendant to imprisonment in the state prison for 15 years to life.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1384 (Bradford-D) Expungement standards

Allows a court, in its discretion and in the interest of justice, to determine that a defendant, who has been convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation or an infraction, should be granted expungement relief after the lapse of one year from the date of pronouncement of the judgment. Establishes that these expungement provisions shall not apply to a person who is convicted of a misdemeanor lewd and lascivious act on a child 14 or 15 years old when the perpetrator was 10 or more years older than the victim.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2011

ACR 24 (Hall-D) Child Abuse Prevention Month

Acknowledges the month of April 2011 as Child Abuse Prevention Month, and encourages the people of the State of California to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011

ACR 32 (Harkey-R) Child sexual abuse

Declares 4/29/11 as the day of the annual Talk About Abuse to Liberate Kids (TAALK)-a-Thon sponsored by TAALK, and encourages all adults in California to be knowledgeable and outspoken about the prevention of child sexual abuse.
Resolution Chapter 64, Statutes of 2011

Controlled Substances

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SB 129 (Leno-D) Medical marijuana

Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of a person's status as a qualified patient (medical marijuana user) or on the basis of the person's positive drug test for marijuana, provided the person is a qualified patient and the medical use of marijuana does not occur at the place of employment or during hours of employment. Contains an exception to the prohibition when an employer hires a person in a safety-sensitive position, as specified. Creates, for a person who has suffered discrimination as described above, a civil action for damages, injunctive relief, attorney's fees and costs, and any other appropriate equitable relief to protect the peaceable exercise of the right or rights secured.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 260 (Cannella-R) Pseudoephedrine and other controlled chemicals

Provides that any person or entity that possesses one-half pound or more of pseudoephedrine, or a specified related chemical, or one-half pound of a substance containing pseudoephedrine or a related chemical, as specified, is guilty of a felony, punishable by a prison term of two, four, or six years and a fine of up to $10,000, unless enhancements apply based on the weight or volume of the substance.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 315 (Wright-D) Pseudoephedrine: sale or distribution by prescription only

Allows sale or distribution of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine by prescription only and provides that a person who obtains one of these drugs without a prescription is guilty of an alternate misdemeanor-infraction.
(In Senate Health Committee)

SB 360 (DeSaulnier-D) Controlled Substance

Makes changes to the law regarding security printers for prescription forms for controlled substance prescriptions, as specified. Establishes the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System and revises the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to allow controlled substance subscribers and pharmacists to have Internet access to the controlled substance prescription history of persons under their care.
Chapter 418, Statutes of 2011

SB 420 (Hernandez-D) Synthetic cannabinoid compounds

Provides that every person who sells, dispenses, distributes, furnishes, administers, or gives, or offers to sell, dispense, distribute, furnish, administer, or give, or possesses for sale any synthetic cannabinoid compound, or any synthetic cannabinoid derivative, to any person, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
Chapter 420, Statutes of 2011

SB 626 (Calderon-D) Cannabis products

Requires the Board of Equalization to establish a voluntary task force to conduct a study, and submit the results of that study to the Legislature by a specified date, to determine, among other things, the most efficient means to obtain compliance under the Sales and Use Tax Law by sellers of cannabis and cannabis products engaged in business in this state, as provided. Provides that all costs of the study be contingent upon the availability of outside, nonstate resources.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 676 (Leno-D) Industrial hemp

Creates an eight-year, four-county pilot project with respect to the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp. Defines "industrial hemp", as specified. Redefines marijuana to exclude industrial hemp. Allows the closely-regulated cultivation and processing of industrial hemp during the pilot period to conclude on 1/1/20. Imposes a testing regimen to ensure program hemp has no psychoactive properties. Implements the pilot project in Imperial, Kern, Kings, and San Joaquin Counties, except as specified. Requires the Attorney General and the Hemp Industries Association to submit reports to the Legislature by 1/1/18, regarding the economic and law enforcement impacts of industrial hemp cultivation.
Vetoed

SB 847 (Correa-D) Medical Marijuana Program: zoning restrictions

Prohibits a medical marijuana cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment or provider that operates through a storefront or mobile retail outlet from being located within a 600-feet radius of a school unless the local governing entity (city council or board of supervisors) enacts an ordinance regulating the residential location of such medical marijuana entities.
Vetoed

AB 67 (Huber-D) Sentencing: methamphetamine

Provides that any person granted probation for the sale of methamphetamine shall serve at least 180 days in the county jail.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 223 (Ammiano-D) Marijuana: Compassionate Use Act of 1996

Makes findings and declarations regarding medical marijuana, and provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to improve the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and the state's medical marijuana program by establishing a comprehensive and multidisciplinary commission that is empowered to address issues regarding the legality and implementation of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and the state's medical marijuana law.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 486* (Hueso-D) Controlled substances

Provides that any person who sells, gives, dispenses, or distributes naphthylpyrovalerone and specified variations, and cathinone and specified variations, or who offers to do such acts, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Chapter 656, Statutes of 2011

AB 507 (Hayashi-D) Controlled substances: pain management

Makes technical and conforming changes to existing law related to severe chronic intractable pain and to the California Intractable Pain Treatment Act. Repeals provisions in existing law which permits the Department of Justice to employ a physician to interview and examine any patient in connection with the prescription possession or use of a controlled substance, requires the patient to submit to the interview and examination, and permits the physician to testify in prescribed administrative proceedings.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2011

AB 639 (Norby-R) Controlled substances: asset forfeiture

Prohibits a California law enforcement agency from transferring seized drug assets to federal authorities for forfeiture unless a California court finds that the federal forfeiture is necessary or appropriate, as specified. States that drug assets are "seized" when the agency takes control of the property. Requires payment of a fine of up to 24% of the value of the forfeited assets if the property is transferred to federal authorities in violation of this bill. Requires the Attorney General to post its annual forfeiture report on-line for public access and to require that the report include data on federal forfeitures, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1017 (Ammiano-D) Marijuana cultivation: reduced penalty

Makes the cultivation of marijuana alternatively punishable as a misdemeanor with a penalty of imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than one year.
(On Assembly Floor Inactive File)

AB 1280 (Hill-D) Controlled substances: ephedrine: retail sale

Repeals existing statutory provisions for over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine and related products and replaces them with new purchase limits consistent with federal law and requires the electronic tracking of purchases.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1300 (Blumenfield-D) Medical marijuana: cooperatives/collectives

Provides that a local government entity may enact an ordinance regulating the location, operation or establishment of a medical marijuana cooperative or collective. Authorizes a local government entity to enforce such ordinances through civil or criminal remedies and actions. Authorizes a local government entity to enact any ordinance that is consistent with the Medical Marijuana Program, which is intended to implement the Compassionate Use Act (medical marijuana initiative).
Chapter 196, Statutes of 2011

ACR 69 (Hueso-D) Synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants

Urges law enforcement, first responders, schools, local elected official, and parents to educate youth and raise awareness about the risks associated with synthetic drugs.
Resolution Chapter 84, Statutes of 2011

ACR 84 (Butler-D) Red Ribbon Week

Proclaims 10/22/11 - 10/30/11, as Red Ribbon Week and encourages all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses

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SB 28 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: electronic wireless communications devices

Increases the penalties related to using a wireless communications device while operating a vehicle, prohibits bicyclists from using a handheld communications device while riding a bicycle, establishes an education program regarding the dangers of talking or texting using a wireless communications device while driving, and adds dangers of talking or texting while driving to the list of items that the Department of Motor Vehicles must include in an examination for a driver's license.
Vetoed

SB 29 (Simitian-D) Automated traffic enforcement systems

Makes several changes to the laws regarding automated traffic enforcement systems to ensure that red light camera programs are designed to maximize traffic safety and are implemented in a lawful and transparent manner.
Vetoed

SB 247 (Wyland-R) Vehicular crimes: juvenile justice

Enacts Pamela and Izaiah's Law to give prosecutors the discretion to prosecute otherwise eligible minors directly in adult criminal court instead of juvenile court for the crimes of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and causing great bodily injury while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, as specified. Makes minors alleged to have committed one of these offenses eligible for commitment to the Division of Juvenile Justice.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 333 (La Malfa-R) Vehicles: speed limits

Allows, until 1/1/16, a person to drive a large truck or a vehicle pulling a trailer at up to 65 miles per hour on a specified section of Interstate 5 in northern California, contained within the counties of Tehama, Glenn, Colusa and Yolo.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)

SB 565 (DeSaulnier-D) Vehicles

Makes technical changes to various Vehicle Code and Public Utilities Code provisions.
Chapter 341, Statutes of 2011

SB 627 (Walters-R) Driving and traffic violator schools

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to approve or disapprove a license renewal application for an owner, operator, or instructor of a driving school or traffic violator school within 30 days of receiving a complete application.
Vetoed

SB 691 (Lieu-D) Vehicles: engineering and traffic survey

Revises the definition of "engineering and traffic survey" to specify conditions that are considered to be conditions not readily apparent to the driver.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 780 (Emmerson-R) Driving offenses: punishment

Eliminates the 10 year "wash-out" for driving-under-the-influence and to provide for an enhancement of five years if a person flees an accident where a death occurred and that person is charged with murder.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 190 (Wieckowski-D) Vehicle Code violation: spinal cord injury

Authorizes, pending an affirmative decision by the board of supervisors, each county to assess an additional penalty assessment of $3 on all Vehicle Code violations, other than parking fines, to provide additional support to the spinal cord injury research program at the University of California.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 353 (Cedillo-D) Vehicles: checkpoints

Requires the driver of a motor vehicle to stop and submit to a sobriety checkpoint inspection conducted by a law enforcement agency when signs and displays are posted requiring that stop. Requires that a peace officer or any other authorized person not cause the impoundment of a vehicle at a sobriety checkpoint, established pursuant to these provisions or any other law, if the driver's only offense is, among other offenses, the failure to hold a valid driver's license.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2011

AB 432 (Hall-D) Traffic violations: notice to appear

Provides that only a peace officer or qualified employee of a law enforcement agency may issue a notice to appear for specified traffic offenses, including those recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 476 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Tow trucks: illegal operation

Authorizes a law enforcement agency, an impounding agency, or the person in possession of the tow truck, or any person acting on behalf of that agency or person to release a tow-truck, before the expiration of that 30-day period to the registered or legal owner or his/her agent only if certain conditions are met, including, but not limited to, the requirement that the legal owner or the legal owner's agent pay all towing and storage fees related to the impoundment of the tow truck.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 520 (Ammiano-D) DUI: ignition interlock devices

Allows a person who is convicted of a wet reckless the ability to apply for a restricted license early if he/she complies with specified requirements including installing an ignition interlock device.
Chapter 657, Statutes of 2011

AB 529 (Gatto-D) Speed limits: downward speed zoning

Requires the Department of Transportation to revise its regulations so that state and local authorities have greater flexibility in setting speed limits on roads under their jurisdictions. Double-jointed with AB 345 (Atkins-D) , 2011-12 Session, which is on the Senate Inactive File.
Chapter 528, Statutes of 2011

AB 539 (Williams-D) Speeding: school zones

Doubles fines for speed limit violations in school zones under specified conditions.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 877 (Skinner-D) Nonprosecution of pending nonfelony vehicle violations

Prohibits prosecution of certain nonfelony Vehicle Code violations that occurred prior to the defendant serving 90 days or longer in a consecutive12-month period in a county correctional facility, court or county rehabilitation facility, or in involuntary home detention. Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from suspending, revoking, or refusing to issue or renew a driver's license as a result of DMV having received a notice that a person failed to appear regarding a pending nonfelony Vehicle Code violation occurring prior to the defendant having served 90 days or longer in a consecutive 12-month period in a county correctional facility, court or county rehabilitation facility, or in involuntary home detention, if the offense that gave rise to the notice occurred prior to incarceration. Exempts from these provisions nonfelony offenses wherein the DMV is required by law to immediately suspend or revoke a person's driver's license upon notice of conviction of the offense. Exempts from these provisions nonfelony offenses for driving under the influence or reckless driving.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1008 (Cook-R) Automated traffic enforcement systems

Prohibits, starting 1/1/12, a local agency from installing an automated traffic enforcement system, and requires a traffic safety study for those local government agencies already operating an automated traffic enforcement system.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1041 (Ma-D) San Francisco: video enforcement of transit lane violation

Extends the authority of the City and County of San Francisco to use automated parking control devices (i.e., video cameras) on public transit vehicles to enforce transit lane parking violations until 1/1/16, and expands the program to any transit lane within the city, and removes the prohibition on wireless transmission of video images.
Chapter 325, Statutes of 2011

AB 1104 (Pan-D) Driving under the influence

Requires, rather than allows, driver's license revocations for specified driving under the-influence to be delayed until offenders are released from prison or county jail. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles 30 days prior to the release of an inmate whose license has been suspended.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1311 (Miller-R) Automated speed enforcement systems

Authorizes a local authority to participate in a local traffic safety program that studies the feasibility of using an automated speed enforcement system for speed enforcement only in areas designated as school zones.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1323 (Gatto-D) Vehicle theft crimes: costs

Directs the proceeds from the sale of property forfeited by persons convicted of auto theft to county-based programs that deter, investigate, and prosecute vehicle theft crimes.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1358 (Fuentes-D) Vehicles misdemeanor: violations: amnesty

Authorizes a county to extend the existing amnesty program for Vehicle Code infractions to misdemeanor Vehicle Code violations and failure to appear, allowing a person who owes an outstanding fine to pay 50% of the fine, except as specified.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 2011

AB 1389 (Allen-D) Vehicles: sobriety checkpoints: impoundment

Codifies the case of Ingersoll v. Palmer to separate sobriety checkpoints from vehicle inspection checkpoints.
Vetoed

Other Crimes and Sentencing

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SB 9 (Yee-D) Sentencing

Authorizes a prisoner who was under 18 years of age at the time of committing an offense for which the prisoner was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole to submit a petition for recall and resentencing to the sentencing court.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 285 (Correa-D) Massage therapy instruction: fraud

Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in county jail and/or a fine of up to $2,500, to provide a certificate, diploma or other document, or otherwise affirm a person has received instruction in massage therapy, knowing the person has not received training "consistent with that document or affirmation." Provides that when a person is prosecuted for a crime in connection with massage therapy, including crimes relating to prostitution, the arresting law enforcement agency may provide to the California Massage Therapy Council information concerning the person's massage therapy training, including the name of any school attended by the person.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2011

SB 291 (Vargas-D) Bail: extradited defendants

Provides (1) where a defendant has been extradited back to California to face charges, bail shall be set at $100,000, (2) in these circumstances a 48-hour noticed hearing is required before the court can set bail in any other amount, and (3) the provisions of this bill are not intended to preclude the ex-parte process for raising bail through an affidavit of a law enforcement officer in a felony or specified misdemeanor domestic violence matter, as specified.
Chapter 67, Statutes of 2011

SB 296 (Wright-D) Petition for exemption or release from gang injunctions

Establishes a process whereby a person subject to a gang injunction can petition for a hearing for exemption or relief from the injunction in whole or in part, and requires that the person seeking relief establish that he/she is not a gang member, has not supported acts prohibited by the injunction, and has not within three years obtained gang tattoos, been arrested or been documented to have associated with gang members.
Vetoed

SB 308 (Cannella-R) Crime

Provides that prosecution of an accessory to murder may be commenced within 10 years after commission of the offense.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 387 (La Malfa-R) Statute of limitations: felony hit and run

Enacts the Joshua Lacy Law. Extends the statute of limitations for fleeing an accident where a death or injury occurred from three to six years.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 390 (La Malfa-R) Assault and battery: search and rescue teams

Includes search and rescue personnel in existing misdemeanor assault and battery crimes applicable where the victim is a firefighter, peace officer, emergency medical technician or other similarly-situated professional. Double-jointed to AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011 and SB 406 (Liu-D) , Chapter 250, Statutes of 2011.
Chapter 249, Statutes of 2011

SB 406 (Liu-D) Battery: security and custodial officers

Includes custody assistants and security officers, as defined, in a special misdemeanor battery section under which defendants who commit a simple battery against specified public officials and private professionals are punished by a jail term of up to one year and an enhanced fine of up to $2,000. Double-jointed with AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011 and SB 390 (La Malfa-R) , Chapter 249, Statutes of 2011.
Chapter 250, Statutes of 2011

SB 425 (Calderon-D) Cruelty to animals

Provides for minimum fines for specified dog fighting and cockfighting violations and allows for forfeiture of property acquired through cockfighting.
Chapter 562, Statutes of 2011

SB 428 (Strickland-R) Lester's Law of 2011

Enacts Lester's Law which makes technical and corrective changes to various code sections relating generally to criminal justice laws, as specified.
Chapter 304, Statutes of 2011

SB 576* (Calderon-D) Sentencing: choice of terms

Extends the sunset date on specified sentencing provisions from 1/1/12 to 1/1/14, allowing courts to select a lower, middle, or upper term for both base term sentences and enhancements by exercise of the court's discretion.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2011

SB 586 (Pavley-D) Elder abuse

Imposes a series of restrictions on the issuance of signature stamps by state-chartered banks and credit unions. Increases the fines for various financial crimes against dependent adults. Double-jointed with AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011 and AB 332 (Butler-D) , Chapter 366, Statutes of 2011.
Vetoed

SB 717 (Walters-R) Elder or dependent abuse

Provides that specified crimes against the elderly or dependent individuals shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not to exceed $6,000, or by both fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years, without regard to whether or not the violation occurred under circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm or death.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 718 (Vargas-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting

Allows mandated reporters to report known or suspected elder abuse over the Internet, and requires an Internet report to contain the same information elements as a telephone report. Allows a written abuse report that is currently required as a follow-up to the telephone report to be submitted through a confidential Internet reporting tool, if the county or long-term care ombudsman program chooses to implement such a system. Requires that county ombudsmen who implement the Internet reporting option report to the relevant legislative policy committees on the effectiveness of this reporting tool.
Chapter 373, Statutes of 2011

SB 794 (Blakeslee-R) Battery: "gassing": state hospitals

Provides that a person confined in a state hospital who commits battery by "gassing" upon a peace officer or hospital employee is guilty of an alternate felony-misdemeanor, punishable by a jail term of up to six months or a prison term of two, three, or four years. Defines gassing as intentionally throwing or placing human excrement, bodily fluids or bodily substances on another person so as to contact the person's skin or membranes. Requires a Department of Mental Health (DMH) hospital director to immediately investigate any reported gassing, and refer documented cases to the district attorney. Authorizes the director to order testing the perpetrator for hepatitis and tuberculosis. Requires DMH to report to the Legislature by 1/1/16, on DMH gassing incidents and implementation of this bill.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 796 (Blakeslee-R) Crimes: prohibited items in state hospitals

Provides, (1) except as specified, a person who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to a patient in a state hospital a wireless communication device, tobacco products or currency, except as authorized, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 for each item, (2) notwithstanding the above provisions, if a person visiting a patient in a state hospital, upon being searched or subjected to a metal detector, is found to be in possession of any of these items, the item shall be subject to confiscation but shall be returned on the same day the person visits the patient, unless the item is held as evidence in a case where the person is cited for smuggling contraband, as specified, and (3) notice of this provision shall be posted in all areas where visitors are searched prior to visitation with a patient.
Chapter 201, Statutes of 2011

SB 853 (Runner-R) Penalty enhancements: alcohol and drugs

Requires that any person convicted of any serious felony, as specified, receive a one-year sentence enhancement if at the time of the offense that person was under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, as specified. Requires that the enhancement imposed be served consecutive to the punishment imposed for the underlying felony.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 894 (Runner-R) Crimes: firearms

Provides that carrying a loaded firearm is punishable by three years imprisonment in the state prison, if the offender was previously convicted of a felony.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 917 (Lieu-D) Animal abuse

Conforms the misdemeanor penalty for overloading, torturing, tormenting, et cetera, an animal to other subdivisions within the same section thus allowing for up to one year in jail for the misdemeanor portion of the existing wobbler, and makes it unlawful for any person to sell an animal as part of a commercial transaction on any street, parking lot, carnival, et cetera. Double-jointed with AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011.
Chapter 131, Statutes of 2011

AB 12 (Swanson-D) Prostitution involving minors

Requires the court to impose a special fine of up to $25,000 in a case where a defendant is convicted of prostitution involving a minor. Provides that the proceeds of such funds be available, upon legislative appropriation, to fund programs and services for sexually exploited minors in the county of conviction.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2011

AB 26 (Donnelly-R) Immigration

Provides that California adopt a series of measures to regulate immigration patterned after legislation in Arizona. Prohibits public officials and agencies from adopting a policy that limits or restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws or that restricts the sharing of a person's immigration status, as specified. Prohibits an employer from either knowingly or intentionally employing an unauthorized alien.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 60 (Jeffries-R) Sentencing

Makes felony battery against a peace officer, or felony battery with injury against a firefighter, custodial officer, emergency medical technician, lifeguard, process server, or animal control officer engaged in the performance of his/her duties, as specified, a "strike" for the purpose of enhancing a defendant's sentence under the "Three Strikes Law" for as much as 25-years-to-life in the state prison.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

Similar bills are SB 390 (La Malfa-R) , Chapter 249, Statutes of 2011 and SB 406 (Liu-D) , Chapter 250, Statutes of 2011.

AB 90 (Swanson-D) Human trafficking: minors

Provides that any crime in which the defendant persuaded or induced a minor to engage in a commercial sex act can be the basis of criminal profiteering asset forfeiture. Provides that any crime in which the defendant coerced or forced a minor to engage in a commercial sex act can be the basis of criminal profiteering asset forfeiture. Defines a commercial sex act as sexual conduct for which anything of value is given or received by any person. Provides that the proceeds of criminal asset forfeiture in such cases be used for programs to assist minors who are sexually exploited or the victims of human trafficking.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2011

AB 161 (Eng-D) Trespass: private property

Subjects a juvenile who has a sustained petition in a juvenile adjudication to specified prohibitions from entering, or refusing to leave, property where an underlying prior offense occurred when the owner notifies the juvenile through law enforcement.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 179 (Gorell-R) Contempt: criminal street gangs

Specifies the penalties for the disobedience of an injunction that restrains the activities of a street gang includes imprisonment in a county jail for not more than six months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Provide, for a second violation occurring within seven years of the first violation, for imprisonment in a county jail for not more than nine months, or by a fine not exceeding $2,500, or by both the fine and imprisonment. For a third and subsequent violation occurring within seven years of a prior violation, provides for imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 316 (Carter-D) Crimes: copper theft

Creates a separate section for grand theft of copper materials and adds a fine of up to $2,500 on to the existing penalties, as specified. Double-jointed with AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011.
Chapter 317, Statutes of 2011

AB 326 (Cedillo-D) Counterfeit marks

Provides immunity for any person, including, but not limited to, law enforcement, from liability to any person for costs, damages, or other claims or expenses as a result of actions taken or omitted in good faith in the course of donating counterfeit marked goods pursuant to this provision. Provides that no person who is granted immunity by this provision shall be criminally prosecuted or be subjected to any criminal penalty for or because of any action taken or omitted in good faith in the course of donating goods pursuant to this provision.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 332 (Butler-D) Elder abuse

Increases the fines for fraud, embezzlement, theft, et cetera, against an elder or dependent adult when the amount taken is more than $950. Double-jointed with SB 586 (Pavley-D) , which was vetoed.
Chapter 366, Statutes of 2011

AB 364 (Bonilla-D) Asset preservation in large-scale theft cases

Allows the seizing and preservation of assets of a criminal defendant charged with a single large-scale financial crime. Repeals a stand-alone restitution provision in the white collar crime law and to thereby ensure that constitutional and statutory mandatory restitution apply in such cases.
Chapter 182, Statutes of 2011

AB 366 (Allen-D) Persons found incompetent to stand trial

Revises the procedures governing the involuntary administration of antipsychotic medication to state hospital patients.
Chapter 654, Statutes of 2011

AB 376 (Fong-D) Shark fins

Makes it unlawful for any person to possess, sell or trade a shark fin.
Chapter 524, Statutes of 2011

AB 379 (Hagman-R) Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act

Provides for the regulation of bail fugitive recovery persons, defined as a person given written authorization by the bail or depositor of bail and contracted to investigate, surveil, locate, and arrest a bail fugitive and any person employed to assist the bail or depositor of bail to investigate, surveil, locate, and arrest a bail fugitive. Requires that bail fugitive recovery persons be at least 18 years of age and complete one power of arrest course.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 426 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Transit crime violations: fare evasion

Adds the North County Transit District and the Southern California Regional Rail Authority to the list of districts with the authority to adopt a civil administrative adjudication process for specified transit violations.
Chapter 100, Statutes of 2011

AB 469 (Swanson-D) Misdemeanor: wage order violation

Provides that, in addition to being subject to a civil penalty, any employer who pays or causes to be paid to any employee a wage less than the minimum fixed by an order of the Industrial Welfare Commission shall be subject to paying restitution of wages to the employee. Makes it a misdemeanor if an employer willfully violates specified wage statutes or orders, or willfully fails to pay a final court judgment or final order of the Labor Commissioner for wages due. Extends the period within which the Division of Labor Standards may commence a collection action, as defined, from one year to three years. Extends the time required for a subsequently convicted employer to maintain a bond from six months to two years and requires that a subsequently convicted employer provide an accounting of assets, as specified, to the Labor Commissioner. Requires an employer to provide each employee, at the time of hiring, with a notice that specifies the rate and the basis, whether hourly, salary, commission, or otherwise, of the employee's wages and to notify each employee in writing of any changes to the information set forth in the notice within seven calendar days of the changes unless such changes are reflected on a timely wage statement or another writing, as specified. No notice is required for an employee who is employed by the state or any subdivision thereof, exempt from the payment of overtime, or covered by a collective bargaining agreement containing specified information.
Chapter 655, Statutes of 2011

AB 518 (Wagner-R) Elder abuse: mandated reporters

Deletes the 1/1/13 repeal date of the Financial Elder Abuse Reporting Act of 2005, which extends mandated reporting requirements to officers and employees of financial institutions. Makes other technical and conforming changes.
(In Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee)

AB 665 (Torres-D) Disorderly conduct

Doubles the misdemeanor penalties - to a maximum jail term of one year and a maximum fine of $2,000 - for a second or subsequent conviction of violating another person's reasonable expectation of privacy, or the first conviction where the victim is a minor, by doing any of the following: (1) looking into a bedroom, bathroom, changing room or similar place through a hole or by means of any instrumentality, (2) using a concealed video recording device, camera, camcorder, mobile phone, or other electronic device to record or film the body or underclothing of another person while the person is in or using a bedroom, bathroom, fitting room or similar place, and (3) using a concealed video recording device, camera or other electronic device to record or film the body or underclothing of another person for sexual gratification.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2011

AB 702 (Swanson-D) Prostitution: human trafficking: expungement

Provides that a person who was adjudicated a ward of the court for the commission of a violation of specified provisions prohibiting prostitution may petition a court to have his/her records sealed as pertains to the prostitution offenses without showing that he/she has not been subsequently convicted of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, or that rehabilitation has been attained.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 708 (Knight-R) Crimes involving hidden recordings

Provides that a criminal complaint in specified offenses relating to concealed cameras be filed within one year of the camera being found. Double-jointed with AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011.
Chapter 211, Statutes of 2011

AB 716 (Dickinson-D) Crimes: transit districts

Eliminates the sunset date on the law that allows Sacramento Regional Transit and Fresno Area Express to issue prohibition orders banning persons from entering district property for determined periods of time for specified offenses, and adds the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, until 1/1/15, to the prohibition order program.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2011

AB 891 (Garrick-R) Theft: motor vehicle

Applies existing penalties for automobile theft to a person who has previously been convicted of one or more misdemeanor violations. Prohibits a person subject to punishment for previously having been convicted of two or more specified offenses from being granted probation, except in unusual cases in which the court finds that the interests of justice would best be served by probation.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 918 (Block-D) Crimes: felonies

Adds pimping, pandering, and human trafficking to the list of offenses used to establish a pattern of criminal activity for the purpose of enhancing the sentence of a person who commits a crime for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1026 (Knight-R) Assault crimes

Places the crimes of assault with a deadly weapon and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury in separate paragraphs of subdivision (a) of Penal Code Section 245.
Chapter 183, Statutes of 2011

AB 1060 (Roger Hernández-D) Crimes at sea

Creates a special maritime criminal jurisdiction to extend the power of the state to prosecute crimes committed on ships sailing outside California's territorial waters.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1111 (Fletcher-R) Collection of fines and fees from homeless youth

Provides that where the court, in the course of routine efforts to collect fines, obtains information that a person under the age of 25 who has not paid a citation for truancy, loitering, curfew violations or illegal lodging is homeless, the court shall not garnish the person's wages or levy against his/her bank accounts. Allows garnishment and bank account levies to go forward when the person reaches the age of 25 or is no longer homeless.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2011

AB 1117 (Smyth-R) Crimes: animal abuse

Prohibits a person who has been convicted of specified animal abuse crimes from owning or caring for an animal for a specified period of time. Double-jointed to AB 1279 (Fletcher-R) which is at the Senate Desk.
Chapter 553, Statutes of 2011

AB 1264 (Hagman-R) Statewide Bail Commission

Repeals the uniform countywide schedule of bail and instead establishes the Statewide Bail Commission. Requires the Commission to prepare, adopt, and annually revise a statewide bail schedule for all bailable felony offenses and for all misdemeanor and infraction offenses except Vehicle Code infractions.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1293 (Blumenfield-D) Elder abuse: theft or embezzlement

Allows the seizing and preservation of assets of a criminal defendant charged with felony elder or dependent adult financial abuse.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2011

AB 1369* (Gatto-D) Illegal acts: tax deduction disallowance by businesses

Disallows deductions for income derived by a taxpayer from specified illegal activities. Expands existing law by additionally denying deductions for expenses, including deductions for costs of goods sold, attributable to the taxpayer's gross income directly derived from certain criminal profiteering activities.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2011

AB 1432* (Mitchell-D) Crimes

Provides that a parent or guardian of a child under 14 years of age who knowingly fails to report to law enforcement within 24 hours that the child has died when the death occurred under circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that the death occurred as a result of a crime, or that the child has disappeared under circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe the child is in danger of physical harm, is guilty of a felony.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACR 6 (Donnelly-R) Human trafficking

Recognizes the month of January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and also recognizes 2/1/11 as California's Free From Slavery Day.
Resolution Chapter 5, Statutes of 2011

HR 13 (Yamada-D) Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Awareness Month

Proclaims and acknowledges the month of May 2011, and every year thereafter, as the Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Awareness Month.
Adopted by the Assembly

Procedural

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SB 687 (Leno-D) Criminal procedure: informants

Provides that a defendant cannot be convicted based on the uncorroborated testimony of an in-custody informant.
Chapter 153, Statutes of 2011

SB 795 (Blakeslee-R) Use of antipsychotic medication on defendants

Provides that if informed consent is not obtained from the defendant, and the treating psychiatrist is of the opinion that the defendant lacks capacity to make decisions regarding antipsychotic medication, or that the defendant is a danger to others, as specified, then the treating psychiatrist shall file a petition with the committing court for issuance of an emergency order within 24 hours after determining that antipsychotic medication has become medically necessary and appropriate.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 142 (Fuentes-D) Criminal procedure: pleas

Provides for an additional advisement when a non-citizen pleads guilty so that the person is aware that if he/she is deported and returns to the United States, he/she could be charged with a separate federal offense.
Vetoed

AB 271 (Nestande-R) Civil appeals: class actions

Requires an appellate court to permit an appeal from an order granting or denying class action certification to join a defendant pursuant to those provisions if the petition to appeal is filed within 14 days of entry of the order.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 281 (Gorell-R) Gang injunctions

Increases misdemeanor penalties for contempt of court violations related to civil gang injunctions. Increases the related fines.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 934 (Feuer-D) Privileged communications

Amends the state's "litigation privilege" statute to exempt certain actions arising in the context of landlord-tenant law.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 1067 (Huber-D) Civil procedure: orders

Provides that an order denying a motion for reconsideration made, as specified, is not itself separately appealable. Provides that if the order that was the subject of a motion for reconsideration is appealable, then the denial of the motion for reconsideration is reviewable as part of an appeal from that order.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2011

Juries

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AB 141 (Fuentes-D) Jurors: electronic communications

Adds to existing jury admonishments the duty not to conduct research or disseminate information and also requires the court to clearly explain, as part of that admonishment, that the prohibition on research, dissemination of information, and conversation applies to all forms of electronic or wireless communication. Clarifies that existing prohibitions of communications between the officer having the jury under his charge and members of that jury includes electronic or wireless communications. Makes the willful disobedience by a juror of a court admonishment related to the prohibition of any form of communication or research about the case, including all forms of electronic or wireless communication or research, a contempt of court and a misdemeanor.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 2011

AB 622 (Dickinson-D) Civil grand juries

Permits, until 1/1/17, any witness called to testify before a civil grand jury to have counsel present on his/her behalf while giving sworn testimony, except as provided.
Chapter 679, Statutes of 2011

AB 1133 (Silva-R) Grand jurors: conflict of interest

Requires a grand juror who is an employee of, or who was employed within the prior three years by, an agency within the civil grand jury's investigative jurisdiction to inform the foreperson and court of that fact and require the grand juror to recuse himself/herself from participating in any grand jury civil investigation of that agency. Specifies that this bill shall not be interpreted to preempt any local policies, in addition to any local rules.
Chapter 184, Statutes of 2011

Juvenile Justice

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SB 123 (Liu-D) California Runaway, Homeless, and Exploited Youth Act

Requires the California Emergency Management Agency, subject to the availability of adequate resources, to develop a statewide plan for runaway, homeless, and exploited youth in collaboration with the Senate Office of Research and various stakeholders.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 240 (Rubio-D) Truancy: collective action

Provides that a pupil's absence due to a collective action, as defined and specified, is an excused absence, prohibits any absence due to a collective action from being counted in determining whether a pupil is a truant.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 247 (Wyland-R) Minors: fitness hearing

Gives prosecutors the discretion to prosecute otherwise eligible minors directly in adult criminal court instead of juvenile court for the crimes of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and causing great bodily injury while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, as specified. Makes minors alleged to have committed one of these offenses eligible for commitment to the Division of Juvenile Justice.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 248 (Wyland-R) Juvenile offenders: forensic specimens

Requires individuals, including juveniles, convicted or adjudicated of specified misdemeanors to give a DNA sample.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 695 (Hancock-D) County juvenile detention facilities: Medi-Cal

Authorizes, until 1/1/14, Medi-Cal benefits to be provided to a Medi-Cal eligible individual awaiting adjudication in a county juvenile detention facility if the county agrees to pay the state's share of Medi-Cal expenditures and administrative costs.
Chapter 647, Statutes of 2011

SB 913 (Pavley-D) Juvenile offenders: medical care

Provides that probation officers with the statutory authority to order a medical exam for an arrested minor, as specified, and order medical, surgical, dental or other remedial care recommended by an attending health care professional for an arrested minor where the officer has made reasonable efforts to notify and obtain the consent of a parent or guardian, and the parent or guardian does not object, as specified.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2011

SB 926 (Runner-R) Dependent children: relative placements: disclosure

Authorizes counsel for the child or counsel's agent to disclose to a relative who is being assessed for the possibility of placement of the child the fact that the child is in custody and other related information, as specified.
Chapter 132, Statutes of 2011

SB 927 (Runner-R) Juvenile case files

Authorizes an attorney for a sibling of the minor in a juvenile dependency proceeding in which the sibling is the subject to inspect the minor's dependency case file under certain circumstances. Excludes mental health records, counseling reports, and mental health evaluations from being accessed under these provisions.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 8* (Huber-D) Division of Juvenile Justice: facilities: closures

Prohibits the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from closing any youth correctional facility within six months of the effective date of this bill.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 73 (Feuer-D) Dependency proceedings: public access

Creates a four-year pilot in three counties, to test whether California should consider moving from presumptively closed juvenile dependency hearings to presumptively open juvenile dependency hearings.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 161 (Eng-D) Juveniles: trespass: private property

Subjects a juvenile who has a sustained petition in a juvenile adjudication to specified prohibitions from entering, or refusing to leave, property where an underlying prior offense occurred when the owner notifies the juvenile through law enforcement.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 177 (Mendoza-D) Juveniles: parenting classes

Expands the existing statute authorizing courts to order a parent or guardian of a child who is a first-time status or criminal offender, and is committed to their custody to attend anti-gang violence parenting classes when specified factors exist.
Chapter 258, Statutes of 2011

AB 220 (Solorio-D) Interstate Compact for Juveniles

Extends the 1/1/12 sunset on the Interstate Compact for Juveniles to 1/1/14.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2011

AB 321 (Roger Hernández-D) Juvenile offenders: obscene material

Requires community service and counseling, and authorizes new educational efforts for minors adjudicated for "sexting."
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 396 (Mitchell-D) Juvenile inmates: Medi-Cal

Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop a process to allow counties and the Division of Juvenile Facilities within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to receive any available federal financial participation for health care services provided to juvenile detainees who are admitted as inpatients in a medical institution and who are eligible for Medi-Cal.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2011

AB 446 (Carter-D) Juveniles: restorative justice program

Authorizes counties to adopt a restorative justice program for juvenile offenders.
Vetoed

AB 526 (Dickinson-D) Gang and youth violence: evidence-based practices

Requires the Secretary of the Emergency Management Agency to identify and implement evidence-based practices to address gang and youth violence. Requires the California Emergency Management Agency to make recommendations on the most effective role of the agency in developing a plan to shift state-funded crime prevention and juvenile justice programs toward evidence-based practices over a three year period.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 694 (Gorell-R) Juvenile offenders

Expands the class of juvenile offenders who may be committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities to include those who previously suffered a sustained petition for a specified serious or violent offense as listed in the Welfare and Institutions Code, effective 1/1/12.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 791 (Ammiano-D) Dependent children: birth certificates

Requires the court, when denying or terminating reunification services with a parent or guardian, to order that a dependent child's caregiver be provided with the child's birth certificate, or, when appropriate, if the child is 16 years of age or older, that the child receive his/her birth certificate.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2011

AB 1043 (Torres-D) Juveniles: sexting

Extends the juvenile court's jurisdiction to include minors who engaged in sexting, as defined, images of themselves or other minors. Requires a court to order a minor who engaged in sexting to perform 24 or 40 hours of community service, as provided.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1110 (Lara-D) Juveniles: dependent children

Requires additional reporting and court oversight concerning the receipt of Supplemental Security Income for foster youth.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1122 (John A. Pérez-D) Juvenile offenders: tattoo removal

Enacts, until 1/1/17, the California Voluntary Tattoo Removal Program in California Emergency Management Agency, as specified, and provides that it be funded with federal and private monies.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 2011

AB 1147 (Yamada-D) Dependent children: status reports

Requires social workers to document the services provided to allow a minor parent in foster care to provide a safe home for his/her child and provides for reimbursement by the state, if appropriate.
Vetoed

AB 1294 (Furutani-D) Juvenile reentry programs

Requires county juvenile probation departments, subject to an appropriation for this purpose, to identify community reentry programs and eligible youthful offenders, and coordinate enrollment.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Corrections

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SB 26* (Padilla-D) Prisons: wireless communication devices

Provides that any inmate found to be in possession of a wireless communication device shall be subject to time credit denial or loss of up to 90 days. Facilitates the deployment of managed access technology that will prevent smuggled cell phones from sending or receiving communications within the secure perimeter of a prison. Provides that any person, employee or nonemployee who possesses cell phones with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to an inmate is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by six months in jail for each device and a fine of up to $5,000 per device. Deletes the provision relative to an extension of discharge pertaining to a ward. Prohibits California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from accessing data from a captured wireless device unless a search warrant has been obtained. Provides for a fine when a contractor discloses or uses information.
Chapter 500, Statutes of 2011

SB 55 (Runner-R) Parole: placement at release: registration.

Provides that any parolee who presents a low-risk of re-offense, as specified, and cannot be returned to prison for a parole violation, shall register with the sheriff of the county of the person's residence within 10 days of establishing or changing his/her residence. Makes failure to register a misdemeanor.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 59 (Runner-R) Parole: release

Exempts specified persons placed on parole from the provision that requires inmates released on parole, to be returned to the county of last legal residence.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 92 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee)Budget Act of 2011: public safety

Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the Public Safety portions of the 2011-12 Budget. (See California State Legislative Web site for detailed information.)
Chapter 36, Statutes of 2011

SB 139 (Alquist-D) Corrections: state prisons: searches

Requires, until 1/1/04, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to oversee and conduct periodic and random searches of employees and venders entering the secure perimeter of a state prison under the jurisdiction of CDCR for contraband. Requires CDCR to provide a written report to the Legislature at least quarterly regarding these searches.
Vetoed

SB 151* (Correa-D) State employees: memoranda of understanding

Provides legislative ratification for the memoranda of understanding (MOU) between the State and Bargaining Units (BUs) 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 13. Approves addenda to MOUs entered into by the State and BUs 12, 16, 18, and 19 which provides members with two Professional Development Days. Approves addenda to BUs 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 which will exempt employees in these bargaining units who work at the State Compensation Insurance Fund from the Personal Leave Program.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2011

SB 210 (Hancock-D) Prisoners: alternative incarceration

States findings and declarations of the Legislature relative to alternative incarceration for nonviolent inmates. Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into contracts with Alternative Incarceration Facilities, as defined, for housing certain nonviolent inmates who meet certain criteria.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 391* (Gaines-R) Inmates: parole hearings

Requires the Board of Parole Hearings to deny parole for specified crimes committed by an inmate unless the inmate proves that the gravity of the current convicted offense or offenses, or that the timing and gravity of current or past convicted offense or offenses, is such that consideration of the public safety does not require a more lengthy period of incarceration, and that a parole date can be fixed at the meeting.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 407 (Cannella-R) Jail inmates: workers' compensation

Creates certain limitations for inmates of a county, city, or city and county entitled to workers' compensation benefits for any injury arising during the course of assigned employment subject.
(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 434 (Anderson-R) Undocumented criminal immigrants

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to bill the federal government for the incarceration of all undocumented inmates in California prisons. Requires the Attorney General to use all legal means to obtain compliance with the request for reimbursement. Requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to collect data on the number of incarcerated undocumented aliens in California and publish that data on the Web site of the DOJ.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 484 (Rubio-D) Dept. of Corrections & Rehabilitation: health care rates

Provides the Legislative Analyst's Office with the same level of access to confidential Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation health care services contracts, including rates, as the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and the Bureau of State Audits.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2011

SB 542 (Price-D) Inmates: tattoos

Creates rules and regulations for the tattooing of inmates in state prison.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 601 (Hancock-D) Corrections: prisons: accountability report

Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop and make public a Corrections Accountability Report.
Vetoed

SB 608 (DeSaulnier-D) Prison Industry Authority: nonprofit organizations

Authorizes the Prison Industry Authority to offer their goods and services for sale to nonprofit organizations who meet specified requirements.
Chapter 307, Statutes of 2011

SB 678 (Negrete McLeod-D) Probation

Authorizes counties to form community corrections multi-disciplinary teams for the purpose of providing evidence-based rehabilitation programs, and allows the members of those teams to share privileged information of probationers.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 680 (Wright-D) Corrections: Internal Affairs

Provides that the Bureau of Independent Review shall provide public review and monitoring, rather than public oversight, of specified investigations conducted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and deletes specified required elements from the reporting mandate.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 700 (La Malfa-R) Corrections: Prison Industry Authority

Creates an exception to the requirements imposed on state agencies to purchase Prison Industry Authority (PIA) products to allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into contracts with private entities or other public agencies for locally produced perishable goods provided at a lower price than the price available from PIA, provided that the contract is to provide these goods to a facility that is located in a county with a population of 50,000 or less.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 852* (Harman-R) Corrections: victim notification

Amends several statutes as well as Proposition 8, which was approved by the voters in June 1982, to give crime victims the right to receive notification of an offender's custody status by e-mail.
Chapter 364, Statutes of 2011

SB 858 (Gaines-R) Chief Probation Officer of Nevada County

Provides that the Chief Probation Officer of Nevada County over adult and juvenile probation shall be appointed and removed by the Board of Supervisors of Nevada County instead of the court.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 906 (DeSaulnier-D) Defendants: incarceration

Prohibits the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, when notified by a prosecuting attorney or court that two defendants are either co-defendants or co-conspirators, in the commission of a violent felony, from housing those two inmates within sight or sound of each other, and requires to the extent possible, those inmates be housed in separates facilities.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 5X1 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee)Public Safety Realignment of 2011

Makes various technical, clarifying, and conforming changes to implement the 2011 Public Safety Realignment proposal as contained in AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011, and AB 116 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 136, Statutes of 2011, pertaining to the Public Safety Realignment of 2011. (See California State Legislature Web site for detailed information)
(Died on Assembly Third Reading)

SCA 1X1 (Steinberg-D) Corrections

Enacts the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2011 which transfers responsibility for various state correctional programs to counties.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

A similar bill is ACA 2X1 (Blumenfield-D) which died in Assembly Budget Committee.

AB 44 (Logue-R) Inmates: release: notification

Extends from 45 days to 60 days the period of time in which the Board of Parole Hearings or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation must notify local law enforcement of the scheduled release of an inmate convicted of a violent felony.
Chapter 355, Statutes of 2011

AB 94 (Assembly Budget Committee)AB 900 bond funding for jail construction

Makes technical changes to AB 111 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 16, Statutes of 2011, pertaining to public safety realignment. These changes are intended to make it easier for locals to access and utilize jail construction funding authorized by AB 900 (Solorio), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007, which establishes a two-phase construction plan for local jail facilities supported by $1.22 billion in bond authority.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2011

AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee)Criminal Justice Realignment Budget Trailer Bill

Makes statutory changes that are necessary to implement provisions of the Budget Bill related to realignment of certain low level offenders, adult parolees, and juvenile offenders from state to local jurisdiction. (See California State Legislative Web site for specific information.)
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011

AB 111 (Assembly Budget Committee)Criminal Justice Realignment Budget Trailer Bill

Makes statutory changes that are necessary to implement provisions of the Budget Bill related to realignment of low level offenders.
Chapter 16, Statutes of 2011

AB 116 (Assembly Budget Committee)Criminal Justice Realignment Budget Trailer Bill

Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the public safety portions of the 2011-12 Budget.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2011

AB 117 (Assembly Budget Committee)Criminal Justice Realignment Budget Trailer Bill

Makes specified corrections to AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011, concerning public safety realignment of certain felons, adult parolees, and juvenile offender from state to local jurisdictions.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2011

AB 118 (Assembly Budget Committee)Public Safety Realignment Budget Trailer Bill

Provides the statutory framework, allocation methodology, and the majority of the dedicated revenue to implement the Governor's Public Safety Realignment. Provides funding of $5.6 billion to support local public safety responsibilities being realigned from the state to local governments. By 2014-15, this dedicated revenue is expected to grow to $6.8 billion, allowing for over $1 billion in potential funding to support these programs and commensurate county costs. (See California State Legislative Web site for specific information.)
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2011

AB 175* (Donnelly-R) Inmates: transfers

Removes the sunset date from the provision allowing the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to transfer an inmate to an out-of-state facility without the consent of that inmate, except in specified instances.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 178 (Gorell-R) Pretrial releases

Requires any person released from county jail before sentencing due to a court order or policy to relieve overcrowding to sign a release agreement, as specified. Applies the same penalties to a person released under court order or policy to relieve overcrowding and who fails to appear as would apply to a person released on their "own recognizance." Applies the same penalty enhancement to a person released due to a court order or policy to relieve overcrowding who commits a new felony offense while on release, as would apply to a person who commits such an offense while on an "own recognizance" release.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 216 (Swanson-D) Inmate education programs

Waives the open course requirement for California community college courses offered in state correctional facilities and allows attendance hours generated by credit courses to be funded at the credit rate, instead of the noncredit funding rate.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 219 (Portantino-D) California Recidivism Goals Development and Achievement Act

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the recidivism rate of 2010 by 20% by 2015, and 40% by 2020.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 235 (Halderman-R) Clemency records: public records

Prohibits the Governor from imposing any restriction whatsoever on public access to writings relating to applications for clemency. Requires the Governor, prior to making any materials relating to an application for clemency public, to redact the home address, telephone number, and e-mail address of a victim of crime, or a family member of a victim of crime, from the materials.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 257 (Galgiani-D) Inmate release: notification

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a statewide e-mail victim notification system for crime victims who request notification of parole hearings and/or release dates.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 355 (Solorio-D) Corrections: parole: crisis care

Repeals explicit statutory authorization for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract for crisis care services for parolees with mental health problems.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 386 (Galgiani-D) Prisons: telehealth systems

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a telehealth program at all state prisons by 1/1/16.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 420 (Davis-D) Inmate residency: redistricting

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to furnish to the Citizens Redistricting Commission, not sooner than 4/1/20, and not later than 7/1/20, specified information regarding the "last known place of residence," as defined, of each inmate incarcerated in a state adult correctional facility, except an inmate whose "last known place of residence is outside of California."
Chapter 548, Statutes of 2011

A similar bill was ACR 21 (Davis-D) which was unassigned to a committee.

AB 489 (Cook-R) Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training

Re-establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (CPOST) to reclaim responsibility for developing and monitoring training for correctional peace officers from the Corrections Standards Authority (CSA), which assumed this responsibility following the reorganization of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2005. Does not change current law related to training, other than reconstituting CPOST and substituting CPOST for CSA in sections of law related to correctional officer training. Adds a member to CPOST's executive board and specifies how this member will be selected.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 568 (Skinner-D) Pregnant inmates: restraints

Provides that pregnant inmates or wards may not be shackled by the wrists, ankles, around the abdomen, or to another person, unless deemed necessary for the safety and security of the inmate, the staff, or the public. Provides that in cases where restraints are deemed necessary, the least restrictive means shall be used.
Vetoed

AB 648 (Block-D) Clemency

Requires an application for commutation of sentence be served on the district attorney (DA) 10 days before the Governor can act. Authorizes the DA to submit a written recommendation to the Governor regarding the commutation. Requires the DA to make reasonable efforts to notify the victim(s) of the crime or related crimes, as well as the victims' families, who may also submit a recommendation to the Governor regarding the commutation. Recasts existing law that requires the Governor to report to the Legislature at the beginning of each session, information on each case of reprieve, pardon, and commutation, and requires the report to be made available to the public.
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2011

AB 826 (Atkins-D) Mentally ill parolees

Enacts detailed statutory authority for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to create an Integrated Services for Mentally Ill Parolees Program.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 828 (Swanson-D) Drug felonies: food stamps

Provides that a conviction for a drug felony does not make an individual ineligible to receive CalFresh benefits, if otherwise eligible.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1016 (Achadjian-R) Mentally disordered offenders

Clarifies that commencing 1/1/12, a county is to be reimbursed for specified nontreatment costs incurred that are associated with a trial of a mentally disordered offender. Requires the specified costs to be paid by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2011

AB 1114 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Mentally ill inmates

Defines a new procedure under which the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may obtain an order from an administrative law judge to authorize involuntary administration of psychotropic medication to a mentally ill inmate.
Chapter 665, Statutes of 2011

AB 1197 (Hill-D) Jail facility construction funding

Modifies the manner in which the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Corrections Standards Authority awards project funds.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1281 (Garrick-R) Parole hearings: audioconferencing

Allows prosecutors, victims, family members of victims, and designated victim representatives to appear at "lifer" parole hearings through audioconferencing, if audioconferencing is available.
Vetoed

AB 1284 (Hagman-R) Probation bonds

Provides that in lieu of revoking probation, the court, as a condition for continuing a defendant's probation, may order the defendant to post a bond from a licensed surety not to exceed $10,000 if the defendant was convicted of a misdemeanor and not to exceed $25,000 if the defendant was convicted of a felony, to secure compliance with any or all of the terms and conditions of probation. Requires the court, within 10 days of noncompliance with the terms of probation after a bond has been posted, to notify the defendant, the surety, and the bail agent of the probation revocation hearing. Requires the court to declare the bond forfeited if the defendant does not appear at the hearing.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 10X1* (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Prison health care: overpayments

Requires that monies recovered prior to 1/1/11 from an overpayment of a medical contract expenditure under the authority of the federal health care receiver, that would otherwise be credited to the fiscal year in which the expenditure was drawn, be augmented to the appropriation for the 2010-11 fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

AB 16X1 (Blumenfield-D) Public Safety Realignment of 2011

Makes various changes to the Public Safety Realignment of 2011 state budget bill. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Web site for details of provisions.)
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session

AB 17X1 (Blumenfield-D) Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011

Makes various changes to the Public Safety Realignment of 2011 state budget trailer bill. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Web site for details of provisions.)
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session

AB 42X1 (Jeffries-R) State prison inmate fire crews

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), upon appropriation by the Legislature, annually allocated funds available to the CDCR, to reimburse the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (DFFP) for its costs associated with the administration of the state prison inmate fire crew program. Requires that the Department of Finance work with both the CDCR and the DFFP to resolve any disputed reimbursement amounts.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

ACA 14 (Silva-R) Governor: pardons and commutations

Prohibits the Governor from granting a pardon or commutation during the 30-day period immediately preceding the end of his/her term of office. Provides that any pardon or commutation issued in violation of these provisions is void.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACA 15 (Mansoor-R) Governor: pardons and commutations

Requires the Governor, at least 30-days prior to granting a pardon or commutation, to provide written notice of the pardon or commutating to the agency that prosecuted the case in which the person was convicted, and to each victim of the crime or crimes for which that person was convicted. Provides that any pardon or commutation issued in violation of these provisions is void.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACA 2X1 (Blumenfield-D) Corrections

Enacts the School and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2011 which transfers responsibility for various state correctional programs to counties.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

A similar bill is SCA 1X1 (Steinberg-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

AJR 1 (Donnelly-R) Undocumented criminals

Urges Congress and the President of the United States to restore full funding for the federal State Criminal Alien Assistance Program and to fully reimburse states for the cost of incarcerating undocumented criminals.
(Refused adoption on Assembly Floor)

Victims of Crime

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SB 208* (Alquist-D) Identity theft: restitution

Provides that restitution in an identity theft case shall include, for a reasonable period of time, the costs of repairing the victim's credit and monitoring the victim's credit report.
Chapter 45, Statutes of 2011

SB 534 (Corbett-D) Sexual assault victims: medical exams

Makes changes to sexual assault forensic protocol to conform California to federal requirements for Violence Against Women Act funding.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2011

SB 557 (Kehoe-D) Family justice centers

Authorizes the City of San Diego, the City of Anaheim, the County of Alameda and the County of Sonoma to create a two-year pilot project for the establishment of a family justice centers (FJCs) to assist victims of specified abuse and allows for the FJCs to be staffed by, among others, law enforcement, medical, social service, and child welfare personnel. Provisions of this bill sunset on 1/1/14.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2011

SB 723 (Pavley-D) Restraining orders

Authorizes the court to issue, and requires the court to consider at the time of sentencing in any domestic violence case, an order valid for up to 10 years restraining the defendant from any contact with the victim, regardless of the disposition of the sentence.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 2011

SB 852* (Harman-R) Victim notification: release of prisoners

Amends several statutes as well as Proposition 8 which was approved by the voters in June 1982, to give crime victims the right to receive notification of an offender's custody status by e-mail.
Chapter 364, Statutes of 2011

AB 764 (Swanson-D) Child victims of crimes

Allows the addition of the Child Victims of Human Trafficking Fund check-off to the personal income tax form upon the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the form.
Chapter 465, Statutes of 2011

AB 886 (Cook-R) Victim impact statement

Prohibits a court from releasing statements from a crime victim to the public prior to the statement being heard in court.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2011

AB 898 (Alejo-D) Crime victims: restitution fines

Raises the minimum restitution fine for a felony conviction and for a misdemeanor conviction. Increases are to be phased-in over a three-year period of time beginning on 1/1/12.
Chapter 358, Statutes of 2011

AB 906 (Galgiani-D) Protection of murder victims and witnesses

Expands eligibility to participate in the Safe at Home Program to include a witness who has testified or subpoenaed to testify in a murder trial, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

ACR 45 (Perea-D) Crime Victims' Rights Week

Recognizes the week of 4/10/11 through 4/16/11, inclusive, as Crime Victims' Rights Week in California.
Resolution Chapter 34, Statutes of 2011

Weapons

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SB 124 (De León-D) Ammunition: definition

Defines handgun ammunition as "ammunition capable of being used in pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed upon the person, notwithstanding that the ammunition may also be used in some rifles," with specified exemptions. Amends the definition of "armor-piercing ammunition" to read: "handgun ammunition designed to penetrate metal or armor means any ammunition, except a shotgun shell, that is designed to penetrate a body vest or body shield when discharged from a handgun," with additional specified characteristics. Conforms several statutes that refer to "handgun ammunition designed primarily to penetrate metal or armor" by deleting the word "primarily" from each of these statutes.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 269 (La Malfa-R) Firearms: Dealers' Record of Sale Special Account

Requires the Department of Justice, on or before July 1, to annually issue a report to the Legislature regarding the status of the revenues generated by the Dealers' Record of Sale fees pursuant to this article of law. Requires the report to contain information regarding the balance of the Dealer's Record of Sale Special Account and expenditures and loans from the Account.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 313 (Correa-D) Firearms

Exempts from those existing provisions of law that subjects individuals to possess an unsafe handgun, those handguns for which production ceased prior to 1/1/00, and for which production has not resumed, and handguns that are commemorative or custom-made, and for which production was or is limited to 1,000 or fewer firearms.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 404 (Anderson-R) Handgun safety certificates exemptions

Expands the exemption from the handgun safety certificate requirement that currently applies to any active or honorably retired member of the military, as specified, to include any honorably discharged member of the military, as specified. Requires licensed firearms dealers, at the time a firearm is delivered to the purchaser, to provide to every handgun purchaser who is exempted from possessing a handgun safety certificate, a copy of the instruction manual on handgun safety, published by the Department of Justice. Deletes the requirement that firearms dealers post all charges required by government agencies and all fees charged by the dealer in connection with firearms safety certificates, and that they may not misstate those amounts.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 427 (De León-D) Ammunition and firearms

Clarifies that ammunition records could not be provided to a non-authorized person or third-party, unless there is written consent of the purchaser. Provides that ammunition vendors must provide local law enforcement written notice of intent to conduct business. Requires a court issuing an injunction against gang activity to state whether any or all the defendants are enjoined from possession of a firearm.
Vetoed

SB 465 (Wright-D) Concealed firearm license

Provides that the good cause requirement needed to apply for a concealed weapon permit is deemed met for any applicant who is a member of Congress of the United States, a statewide elected official, or a Member of the Legislature, for purposes of protection or self-defense, and that those persons are required to comply with all other requirements for obtaining or renewing the license.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 610 (Wright-D) Concealed weapons permit

Provides with respect to applications for a license to carry a concealed handgun that (1) the licensing authority shall make the determination of good cause, as specified, and upon making that determination of good cause, the licensing authority shall give written notice to the applicant of the licensing authority's determination. If the licensing authority determines that good cause exists, the notice shall inform the applicants to proceed with the specified training requirements; (2) the applicant shall not be required to pay for any training courses prior to the determination of good cause being made, as specified; (3) if the license is denied, the notice shall provide which requirement was not satisfied; and (4) no applicant shall be required to obtain liability insurance as a condition to obtain a license.
Chapter 741, Statutes of 2011

SB 661 (Lieu-D) Gun-free school zones

Revises provisions of existing law making it an offense to possess a firearm in a school zone, to instead, except from that prohibition of a handgun that is lawfully possessed, either unloaded and in a locked container inside a motor vehicle or unloaded and inside a locked trunk of a motor vehicle. Increases the size of the zone to include an area up to 1,500 feet from the grounds of the public or private school. Creates an exception to the school zone firearms possession prohibitions, for firearms that are otherwise lawfully possessed or transported in a vehicle on a driveway parking lot of a school.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 798 (De León-D) Imitation firearms

Provides the intent of the Legislature to occupy the entire field of regulation of spot marker guns which expel a projectile larger than 16mm, and that no city, county, city and county, or other local government entity may enact any ordinance or resolution prohibiting or regulating the manufacture, sale, possession, or use of any spot marker gun which expels a projectile larger than 16mm.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 819 (Leno-D) Firearms

Provides that the Department of Justice may use dealer record of sale funds for costs associated with its firearms-related regulatory and enforcement activities regarding the possession, as well as the sale, purchase, loan, or transfer, of firearms, as specified.
Chapter 743, Statutes of 2011

SB 894 (Runner-R) Firearms: felonies

Provides that the offense of an ex-felon carrying a concealed weapon is punishable by three years imprisonment in the state prison, if the offender was previously convicted of a felony.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SJR 7 (Padilla-D) Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act

Adopts findings and declarations expressing the support of the California Legislature for H.R. 308 and S. 32, which ban large capacity magazines.
Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2011

SJR 10 (De León-D) Firearms trafficking

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to pursue a comprehensive approach to stem the trafficking of illicit United States firearms into Mexico.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 144 (Portantino-D) Open carrying of unloaded handguns

Makes it a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine to openly carry an unloaded handgun on one's person or in a vehicle. Makes it a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in county jail and a $1,000 fine to openly carry an unlawfully possessed unloaded handgun and ammunition in public in an incorporated city. Establishes specified exceptions to this prohibition. Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 for the driver of a vehicle to knowingly allow a person to bring an openly carried, unloaded handgun into the vehicle. Makes conforming and nonsubstantive technical changes to affected statutes.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2011

AB 613 (Hagman-R) Ammunition

Repeals specified provisions of AB 962 (de Leon-D) , Chapter 628, Statutes of 2009, relating to the sale and delivery of handgun ammunition.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 809 (Feuer-D) Firearms

Commencing 1/1/14, (1) conforms requirements for reporting and record retention involving the transfer of long guns with those of handguns; (2) repeals the prohibition on peace officers, Department of Justice employees, and the Attorney General from retaining or compiling records of long gun transfers; (3) expands the requirement for a personal handgun importer to report certain information relative to bringing a handgun into the state, as specified; (4) expands the reporting requirements to apply to the importation of long guns; and (5) expands requirements for firearms dealers to keep a register or record of information pertaining to firearms transactions to include information pertaining to transactions involving all guns.
Chapter 745, Statutes of 2011

AB 811 (Hall-D) Private Patrol Operators: firearms

Establishes procedures allowing Private Patrol Operators to own firearms and to assign those firearms to employees of the Private Patrol Operator who are licensed security guards. States findings and declarations of the Legislature, and the intent of the Legislature in connection with these procedures.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 829 (Knight-R) Firearms: peace officers

Expands the authority of law enforcement agencies to issue identification and concealed weapons permits to honorably retired peace officers, and makes conforming changes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1331 (Davis-D) Deadly weapons

Delays from1/1/11 until 1/1/17 the implementation of SB 1080 (Senate Public Safety Committee), Chapter 711, Statutes of 2010, and SB 1115 (Senate Public Safety Committee), Chapter 178, Statutes of 2010, which reorganizes without substantive change Penal Code provisions relating to deadly weapons and makes numerous cross-referencing changes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1402 (Assembly Public Safety Committee)Non-substantive deadly weapons reorganization

Makes minor non-substantive changes to the various deadly weapons provisions that have been reorganized and renumbers by the enactment of SB 1080 (Senate Public Safety Committee), Chapter 711, Statutes of 2010.
Chapter 285, Statutes of 2011

Courts/Judges/Legal Profession

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SB 78 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee)Budget Act of 2011: Public Safety

Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the administration of justice portion of the 2011 Budget Act. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Web site for details of provisions.)
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2011

SB 151* (Correa-D) State employees: memoranda of understanding

Provides legislative ratification for the memoranda of understanding (MOU) between the State and Bargaining Units (BUs) 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 13. Approves addenda to MOUs entered into by the State and BUs 12, 16, 18, and 19 which provides members with two Professional Development Days. Approves addenda to BUs 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 which will exempt employees in these BUs who work at the State Compensation Insurance Fund from the Personal Leave Program.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2011

SB 163 (Evans-D) State Bar Act

Implements major changes to the governance structure of the State Bar to maximize the Bar's prioritization of public protection in all of its activities and makes other reforms to the Bar's governance structure.
Chapter 417, Statutes of 2011

SB 182 (Corbett-D) Judiciary: demographic data

Adds gender identity and sexual orientation to the list of demographic data provided by judicial applicants, nominees, appointees, justices, and judges required to be collected and released by the Governor, the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation of the State Bar, and the Administrative Office of the Courts.
Chapter 720, Statutes of 2011

SB 221 (Simitian-D) Small claims court: jurisdiction

Increases the small claims court jurisdictional limit from $7,500 to $10,000 in an action brought by a natural person. Delays, until 1/1/15, operation of this section with respect to bodily injury claims resulting from vehicle accidents.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2011

SB 326 (Yee-D) Court records: public access

Requires the Judicial Council to adopt a rule of court regarding access to court records.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 405 (Corbett-D) Judgeships

Ratifies the Judicial Council's conversion authority for the 2011-12 fiscal year relative to subordinate judicial officer positions.
Chapter 705, Statutes of 2011

SB 503 (Vargas-D) Judges' retirement

Allows a judge to make a one-time written election at the time of retirement to purchase service credit in the Judge's Retirement System II for any number of whole years a judge served as a full-time subordinate judicial officer.
Vetoed

SB 671 (Price-D) Shorthand reporters: requirements

Requires the Court Reporters Board of California to establish continuing education requirements for renewal of a shorthand report certificate.
Vetoed

SB 848 (Emmerson-R) Court of appeal districts

Removes the Counties of Inyo, San Bernardino, and Riverside (Division Two) from the Fourth Appellate District and creates the new Seventh Appellate District consisting of those counties.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SCR 38 (Price-D) Courts: 50th anniversary: African American justices

Acknowledges the 50th anniversary of service by African American justices in the California Courts, and encourages all Californians to share in statewide and local celebrations throughout the year to recognize the contributions and diversity of these and other judicial trailblazers.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 20 (Halderman-R) Construction defect actions

Regulates attorney-client communications regarding certain construction defects.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 110 (Blumenfield-D) Budget Trailer Bill: Judiciary

Enacts statutory changes intended to mitigate reductions to the state Judiciary's budget.
Chapter 193, Statutes of 2011

AB 126 (Davis-D) Courts: judicial appointments

Requires members of the State Bar's Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation to complete a specified minimum amount of time of training annually in the areas of fairness and bias in the judicial appointments process. Requires the State Bar, in collecting and releasing statewide demographic data on all judicial applicants, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, in collecting and releasing demographic data on justices and judges, to use specified ethnic and racial categories.
Chapter 667, Statutes of 2011

AB 201 (Butler-D) Veterans courts

Authorizes superior courts to develop and implement veterans' courts. Establishes standards and procedures for veterans' courts and specifies that county participation in the veterans' courts program is voluntary.
Vetoed

AB 259 (Smyth-R) County public defender

Allows the appointment of a judge or elected official to the office of the public defender in any county.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 295 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Courts: California Case Management System

Requires the Judicial Council to provide an annual status report relative to the California Case Management System, on or before December 1 of each year until project completion and full implementation. The report additionally would be required to include all costs of the trial courts in support of these projects, total estimated costs to complete these projects, a general description of the nature of costs that justice partners, as defined, will incur from making changes as necessary to access the California Case Management System, and an explanation for deviation from any recommendation of the California Technology Agency pursuant to specified provisions. Requires the Administrative Office of the Courts, on or before December 1 of each year until project completion and full implementation, to annually provide to those chairpersons an independent project oversight report for the California Case Management System.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 314 (Gorell-R) Court facilities

Requires that contracts pertaining to the acquisition and construction of court facilities to be subject to the provisions of the Public Contract Code.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 572 (Wieckowski-D) Attorneys: annual membership fee

Requires the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California to charge an annual membership fee for active members for 2012.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 618 (Furutani-D) Court interpreters

Provides that a person charged with a crime who is unable to understand English has the right to a competent interpreter that is not shared with another person, which includes a witness or co-defendant during any trial proceeding.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 803 (Wagner-R) Electronic court reporting

Requires the Judicial Council to "implement" electronic court reporting in all trial courts, and ends the prohibition on use of electronic recording.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 810 (Wagner-R) Courts: translators

Revises and recasts provisions relating to court interpreters and translators, as well as deletes obsolete language as a result of trial court restructuring.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 973 (Campos-D) Trial courts: budget process: public notice

Requires trial courts, prior to adopting a baseline budget plan for the fiscal year, to allow public input and comment on the prosed plan and to hold a public hearing on the plan.
Chapter 687, Statutes of 2011

AB 990 (Allen-D) Court transcripts

Prohibits a court, party, or person that does not purchase a transcript, but, pursuant to a specified rule of court, requests another party to lend it that party's copy of the transcript or is temporarily in possession of the transcript, from distributing, publishing, emailing, selling, or reproducing a copy or portion thereof without paying a fee to the reporter.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1089 (Alejo-D) Court proceedings

Permits bilingual judges, at the beginning of a court calendar, to help non-English speaking litigants by providing an unofficial interpretation of typical remarks the judge makes regarding court decorum and scheduling when a court interpreter is not immediately available.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1208 (Charles Calderon-D) Trial courts: administration

Addresses governance and funding within California's judicial branch.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1316 (Smyth-R) Lawyer-client privilege

Provides an exception to the lawyer-client privilege if the lawyer reasonably believes that disclosure of any confidential communication relating to representation of a client is necessary to prevent the client from committing a crime or fraud that is reasonably certain to result in substantial injury to the financial interests or property of another person and in furtherance of which the client has used or is using the lawyer's services.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1404 (Assembly Judiciary Committee)Trust accounts

Corrects a technical error in AB 940 (Assembly Judiciary Committee), Chapter 129, Statutes of 2009, in order to avoid potential confusion.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1405 (Assembly Judiciary Committee)Judgeships

Authorizes 50 additional judges, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, to be allocated to the various county superior courts, pursuant to uniform criteria approved by the Judicial Council.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 47 (Davis-D) African American justices

Acknowledges the 50th anniversary of service by African American justices in the California courts.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

HR 10 (Hayashi-D) Chief Justice Earl Warren Day

Designates 3/19/11, and each March 19th thereafter, as Chief Justice Earl Warren Day.
Adopted by the Assembly

Law Enforcement

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SB 33 (Simitian-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: reporting

Deletes the 1/1/13 sunset date on the Elder and Dependent Adult Financial Abuse Reporting Act, originally enacted in 2005. Double-jointed with SB 718 (Vargas-D) , Chapter 373, Statutes of 2011.
Chapter 372, Statutes of 2011

SB 61 (Pavley-D) Wiretapping: authorization

Extends the sunset provision on the law that authorizes wiretaps by law enforcement, under specified circumstances, from1/1/12 to 1/1/15.
Chapter 663, Statutes of 2011

SB 78 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee)Budget Act of 2011: Public Safety

Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the Public Safety portion of the 2011-12 Budget Bill. (Refer to the California legislative Web site for specifics of the bill.)
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2011

SB 151* (Correa-D) State employees: memoranda of understanding

Provides legislative ratification for the memoranda of understanding (MOU) between the State and Bargaining Units (BUs) 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 13. Approves addenda to MOUs entered into by the State and BUs 12, 16, 18, and 19 which provides members with two Professional Development Days. Approves addenda to BUs 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, and 21 which will exempt employees in these bargaining units who work at the State Compensation Insurance Fund from the Personal Leave Program.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2011

SB 248 (Wyland-R) Forensic specimens: offenders

Requires people convicted or adjudicated of specified misdemeanors to give a DNA sample.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 271 (Wyland-R) Evidence: rape kits: expedited processing

Provides that a county's remaining share of funds attributable to the increase in penalties as required by DNA Fingerprint, Unresolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, may be used by a local sheriff, police department, district attorney, or other law enforcement agency for expenditures and administrative costs made or incurred for utilizing a laboratory, other than the Department of Justice Laboratory, as specified, to expedite the analysis and processing of rape kits and uploading rape kit information to the CAL-DNA Databank and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Combined DNA Index System.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 329 (Correa-D) County penalties: forensic laboratories

Requires, for the purposes of providing supplemental funding for the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, as specified, an additional penalty to be levied in an unspecified amount in each county for the late payment of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed by the courts for any violation of the Vehicle Code, or a local ordinance adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code, that is committed by the driver of a vehicle while it is in motion.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 406 (Liu-D) Battery: security officers and custodial officers

Includes custody assistants and security officers, as defined, in a special misdemeanor battery section under which defendants who commit a simple battery against specified public officials and private professionals are punished by a jail term of up to one year and an enhanced fine of up to $2,000. Double-jointed with SB 390 (La Malfa-R) , Chapter 249, Statutes of 2011, and AB 109 (Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2011.
Chapter 250, Statutes of 2011

SB 573 (Hernandez-D) Police personnel files

Provides that a District Attorney's office, the Attorney General's Office or a Grand Jury that is seeking access to police personnel files is required to obtain a court order for these records through the specified statutory discovery process except in criminal investigations or proceedings concerning the conduct of peace officers or custodial officers, or an agency or department that employs them.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 638 (De León-D) Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act

Prohibits a public agency from taking punitive action against a public safety officer, or denying promotion on grounds other than merit, because that officer is placed on a Brady list, as defined.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 914 (Leno-D) Search warrants

Requires a search warrant to search the contents of a portable electronic device that is found during a search incident to an arrest.
Vetoed

SB 930 (Evans-D) Law enforcement: in-home supportive services: fingerprinting

Repeals requirements that In-Home Supportive Services recipients provide fingerprint images and that provider timesheets include spaces for provider and recipient fingerprints.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2011

SB 4X1 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee)Local Revenue Fund: 2011

Rescinds a provision that has created a maintenance of effort requirement for cities for the receipt of funds from the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011.
Chapter 14, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session

SCR 21 (DeSaulnier-D) Martinez Police Sergeant Paul Starzyk Memorial Overcrossing

Designates the Pine Street Overcrossing of State Highway Route 4, in the City of Martinez, as the "Martinez Police Sergeant Paul Starzyk Memorial Overcrossing."
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2011

SCR 22 (Correa-D) California Peace Officers' Memorial Day

Designates 5/2/11 as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and urges all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SCR 25 (Negrete McLeod-D) CHP Officer Thomas P. Coleman Memorial Highway

Designates a segment of State Highway Route 10, in San Bernardino County, as the "CHP Officer Thomas P. Coleman Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 89, Statutes of 2011

SCR 28 (Strickland-R) Federal Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of State Highway Route 1, in Santa Barbara County, as the "Federal Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2011

SCR 30 (Anderson-R) CHP Officer Dan N. Benavides Memorial Highway

Designates a section of State Highway Route 15, in San Diego County, as the "CHP Officer Dan N. Benavides Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 2011

SCR 34 (Evans-D) Deputy Frank Trejo Memorial Interchange

Designates the State Route 101 interchange at State Highway Route 12, in Sonoma County, as the "Deputy Frank Trejo Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2011

SCR 37 (Anderson-R) Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas Memorial Highway

Designates a section of State Highway Route 8, in San Diego County, as the "Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2011

SCR 50 (Fuller-R) Deputy Daniel Lee Archuleta Memorial Interchange

Designates the interchange of State Highway Route 99 and State Highway Route 119 as the "Deputy Daniel Lee Archuleta Memorial Highway."
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 53 (Evans-D) CHP Officer Paul C. Jarske Memorial Highway

Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 101, in the County of Mendocino, as the "CHP Officer Paul C. Jarske Memorial Highway."
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 40 (Yamada-D) Elder abuse: reporting

Requires mandated reporters of elder or dependent adult abuse to report suspected or known instances of elder or dependent adult abuse, which is believed to have occurred in a long-term care facility, to both the Long-Term Care Ombudsman and local law enforcement.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 74 (Ma-D) Public event: threat assessment

Requires any state agency holding an event with expected attendance over 10,000 to conduct a threat assessment, as specified.
Chapter 666, Statutes of 2011

AB 163 (Jeffries-R) Background check: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

Subjects an applicant for employment with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection or the Board of Forestry to criminal background checks, including convictions and arrests, to determine whether the applicant is eligible for employment.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 168 (Gorell-R) Local Safety and Protection Account: appropriation

Appropriates $506.4 million from the General Fund to be deposited in the Local Safety and Protection Account.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 192* (Logue-R) Law enforcement

Provides for an annual transfer of $500 million from the General Fund to the Local Safety and Protection Account.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 239 (Ammiano-D) Crime laboratories: oversight

Reconvenes the Crime Laboratory Review Task Force to make recommendations regarding a statewide oversight body and to perform specified tasks relating to crime laboratories in California.
Vetoed

AB 308 (Ammiano-D) Criminal investigations

Requires, by 1/1/13, the Department of Justice in consultation with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and other specified entities, to develop guidelines for policies and procedures, with respect to the collection and handling of eyewitness evidence in criminal investigations by all law enforcement agencies.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 322 (Portantino-D) Forensic evidence: rape kits

Creates a pilot project, commencing 7/1/12, in 10 counties to have the Department of Justice test all rape kits collected after the start date of the pilot project in those counties to determine if such testing increases their arrest rates in rape cases. Sunsets on 1/1/16.
Vetoed

AB 353 (Cedillo-D) Vehicles: checkpoints

Requires the driver of a motor vehicle to stop and submit to a sobriety checkpoint inspection conducted by a law enforcement agency when signs and displays are posted requiring that stop. Requires that a peace officer or any other authorized person not cause the impoundment of a vehicle at a sobriety checkpoint, established pursuant to these provisions or any other law, if the driver's only offense is, among other offenses, the failure to hold a valid driver's license.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2011

AB 367 (Smyth-R) Elder and dependent adult abuse: reporting

Allows mandated and non-mandated reporters of elder and dependent adult abuse to report suspected elder and dependent adult abuse occurring within a community, to any adult protective services agency or law enforcement agency, regardless of whether the agency lacks geographical or subject matter jurisdiction or obligation to receive the report.
(In Assembly Aging and Long Term Care Committee)

AB 388 (Roger Hernández-D) Criminal procedure: search warrants

Establishes rules regarding tracking device search warrants.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 434 (Logue-R) Forensic laboratories: county penalties

Allows funds remaining in a county's DNA Identification Fund to be expended to reimburse a regional state crime laboratory for costs associated with the analysis and comparison of crime scene DNA with forensic identification samples.
Chapter 195, Statutes of 2011

AB 489 (Cook-R) Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training

Re-establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to reclaim responsibility for developing and monitoring training for correctional peace officers from the Corrections Standards Authority, which assumed this responsibility following the reorganization of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2005.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 526 (Dickinson-D) Gang and youth violence

Requires the Secretary of Emergency Management Agency to identify and implement evidence-based practices to address gang and youth violence.
(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 701 (Wagner-R) Missing persons: mobile telephone location

Authorizes a peace officer to require a mobile telephony service carrier to provide the location of a mobile communication device, with a global positioning system, where the subscriber for the mobile telephony service has authorized the carrier to provide the requested information to a peace officer, where a missing person report has been filed for an at-risk child or elder.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 801 (Swanson-D) Code enforcement officers: training

Establishes minimum training standards and a continuing education requirement for code enforcement officers.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 811 (Hall-D) Firearms: Private Patrol Operators

Establishes procedures allowing Private Patrol Operators to own firearms and to assign those firearms to employees of the Private Patrol Operators who are licensed security guards.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 829 (Knight-R) Peace officers: firearms

Expands the authority of law enforcement agencies to issue identification and concealed weapons permits to honorably retired peace officers.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 855 (Ma-D) Forensic laboratories: county penalties

Allows funds remaining in a local DNA Identification Fund to be expended by a local law enforcement agency for the costs of using an authorized, independent laboratory, other than the Department of Justice, to analyze and expedite the testing of DNA samples.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 911 (Ma-D) Police protection districts

Allows police protection districts to treat violations of rules, regulation, or ordinances as either misdemeanors or infractions.
(In Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 1010 (Furutani-D) Law enforcement: communications

Gives city attorneys prosecuting misdemeanors the ability to record conversations.
Chapter 659, Statutes of 2011

AB 1377 (Butler-D) Peace officers: airport law enforcement

Places an airport law enforcement officer regularly employed by the Los Angeles World Airports, within a different category of peace officers, whose authority extends to any place within California without restrictions on arrest powers, and authority to carry specified firearms.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 41X1* (Solorio-D) Law enforcement: vehicle license fees

Imposes, for all initial and renewal vehicle registrations due on and after 1/1/12, an additional vehicle license fee equal to 0.15% of the market value. Requires all revenues from the additional license fee to be deposited in the General Fund. During the 2011-12 fiscal year, an amount as specified, would be transferred to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011. Requires transfer of revenues, during the 2012-13 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to be allocated according the following order: first to be transferred to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, and second, a total of $35,000,000 to be transferred to the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence Fund.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

ACR 6 (Donnelly-R) Human trafficking

Recognizes the month of January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and recognizes 2/1/11 as California's Free From Slavery Day.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2011

ACR 15 (Conway-R) Detective Monty L. Conley & Detective Joe R. Landin Highway

Designates a portion of State Highway Route 198, in Tulare County, as the "Detective Monty L. Conley and Detective Joe R. Landin Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 51, Statues of 2011

ACR 29 (Bonilla-D) Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month

Designates the month of February 2011 as "Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month."
Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 2011

ACR 31 (Olsen-R) CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of State Highway Route 219 in Stanislaus County as the "CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 47, Statutes of 2011

ACR 33 (Harkey-R) Officer Richard T. Steed Memorial Highway

Designates a segment of State Highway Route 5 in Orange County as the "Officer Richard T. Steed Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2011

ACR 37 (Conway-R) CHP Officer Justin W. McGrory Memorial Highway

Designates a four-mile segment of Interstate 15 as the "CHP Officer Justin W. McGrory Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2011

ACR 39 (Nielsen-R) Deputy Dennis "Skip" Sullivan Memorial Bridge

Designates the Bear Creek Bridge on State Highway Route 44, in Shasta County, as the "Deputy Dennis 'Skip' Sullivan Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2011

ACR 41 (Mitchell-D) CHP Officer Philip Dennis Ortiz Memorial Highway

Designates a segment of Interstate 405, in Los Angeles County, as the "CHP Officer Philip Dennis Ortiz Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 52, Statutes of 2011

ACR 58 (Knight-R) Captain Ted Hall and Engineer Arnie Quinones Memorial

Designates an interchange on State Highway Route 14 as the "Captain Ted Hall and Engineer Arnie Quinones Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2011

ACR 66 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Deputy Probation Officer Irene Rios Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of State Highway Route 8, in Imperial County, as the "Deputy Probation Officer Irene B. Rios Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 99, Statues of 2011

ACR 70 (Smyth-R) CHP Officers Gayle W. Wood, Jr. and James E. McCabe Memorial

Designates a segment of State Highway Route 5 as the "CHP Officers Gayle W. Wood, Jr. and James E. McCabe Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2011

ACR 75 (Nielsen-R) CHP Officer Charles T. Smith Memorial Highway

Designates a segment of State Highway Route 5 as the "CHP Officer Charles T. Smith Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2011

ACR 76 (Chesbro-D) CHP Officer Thomas R. Adams and CHP Officer Paul C. Jarske

Designates a segment of State Highway Route 101 as the "CHP Officer Thomas R. Adams Memorial Highway" and another segment of State Highway Route 101 as the "CHP Officer Paul C. Jarske Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 114, Statutes of 2011

AJR 9 (Cook-R) Public alert and warning system

Urges the Congress of the United States to expedite a solution to provide a public alert and warning system to alert and warn the American people in situations of war, terrorists attack, natural disaster, or other hazards to the public safety, health, and well-being of the American people.
Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2011

AJR 17 (Solorio-D) Law enforcement: federal funding

Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to increase funding for various law enforcement and crime prevention programs and to fully reimburse states for the cost of incarcerating undocumented criminals.
Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2011

Family Law

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SB 154 (Wolk-D) Marriage records: fees: Solano County

Deletes a 1/1/12 sunset date relative to Solano County increasing fees for certified copies of marriage records, thereby extending existing law indefinitely.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2011

SB 254 (Harman-R) Marriage: putative spouses

Prohibits the court from making specified declarations or orders, relative to a marriage, unless the party or parties that believed in good faith, that the marriage was valid, requests the court to do so.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 261 (Harman-R) Child custody: deceased parent

Specifies that a court, in the event of the death of a parent, retains jurisdiction to make any orders required to affect the right of a parent to custody and prescribes notice requirements in this regard.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 375 (Wright-D) Paternity

Authorizes a presumed father to file a motion for genetic tests within two years after he becomes aware of facts that lead him to reasonably believe that he may not be the biological father of the child.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 377 (Wright-D) Paternity

Invalidates a voluntary declaration of paternity that is signed by a minor parent, if it is not also signed by the parent or guardian of a minor parent. Requires the Department of Child Support Services to provide the oral and written information relating to the voluntary declaration of paternity to the parent or guardian of a minor parent.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 481 (Wright-D) Spousal support

Requires the court to consider the extent to which income for support was already capitalized and paid to the other spouse in the division of community property, in order to avoid double-counting the income, when the result is inequitable.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 651 (Leno-D) Domestic partnerships

Eliminates the requirement that domestic partners have a common residence in order to establish a registered domestic partnership.
Chapter 721, Statutes of 2011

AB 198 (Beall-D) Adoption: fingerprinting of adoptive parents

Requires the Department of Social Services, the county social services department, or a licensed adoption agency or foster family agency, to require each foster-to-adoption applicant, as defined, to submit fingerprint images and related information to the Department of Justice for purposes of conducting a criminal records check that shall apply to both an approval for adoption and licensure as a foster family home or certified family home of a licensed foster family agency.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 225 (Nielsen-R) Child custody: ex parte orders

Requires that a party seeking an ex parte order in a child custody case to notify all parties at least one court day before the matter is to be heard.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 454 (Silva-R) Protective orders: early termination

Requires that a party protected by a protective order receive notice when an action is filed by another party to terminate or modify that order in advance of the expiration date specified by the order, prior to the court making any judgment on that action.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2011

AB 499 (Atkins-D) Minors: medical care: consent

Authorizes a minor, who is 12 years of age or older, to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.
Chapter 652, Statutes of 2011

AB 687 (Fletcher-R) Adoption

Makes several changes to the adoption process.
Chapter 462, Statutes of 2011

AB 993 (Wagner-R) Mediation and counseling services

Specifies that a mediator and a licensed mental health professional are not liable for damages for an act or omission, constituting ordinary negligence that occurs on or after 1/1/12, during the performance of child custody mediation and counseling services.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1217 (Fuentes-D) Family law: assisted reproduction

Clarifies parentage rights of parties using assisted reproduction technology.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1349 (Hill-D) Paternity: conflicting presumptions

Authorizes a presumed father to bring a motion within two years of execution of a voluntary declaration of paternity to set aside that declaration.
Chapter 185, Statutes of 2011

AB 1406 (Assembly Judiciary Committee)Dissolution of marriage: disclosure

Provides a specified timeframe for serving mandatory disclosure declarations in a dissolution proceeding.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

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SB 5 (Harman-R) Intervention: initiatives

Provides that the official proponent of a state initiative statute or constitutional amendment that has been approved by the voters has the right to intervene and participate in any court action challenging the constitutionality of the initiative statue or constitutional amendment.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 111 (Yee-D) Civil rights: language restrictions

Makes it a violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act to adopt or enforce a policy that limits or prohibits the use of any language in a business establishment, unless the language is justified by a business necessity and notification has been provided of the circumstances and the time when the language restriction is required to be observed, and of the consequences for its violation.
Vetoed

SB 190 (Lowenthal-D) Mechanics liens

Updates several cross-references and makes technical corrections to various new mechanics liens provisions enacted in last year's SB 189 (Lowenthal-D) , Chapter 697, Statutes of 2010, which overhauled the mechanics lien law. Clarifies circumstances under which a mechanic's lien is invalidated, and contains a delayed operative date of 7/1/12, consistent with the provisions of SB 189.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2011

SB 264 (Correa-D) Liability: recreational activities: skateboard parks

Removes the sunset date on existing law relative to skateboarding at a local public facility. Requires copies of the records of claims and lawsuits be filed annually by local public agencies with the Legislature.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2011

SB 273 (Harman-R) Multiple-party accounts

Bases a party's ownership interest in a multiple-party account on the proportion of the party's net contributions to the account.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 284 (Harman-R) Real property: marketable title

Provides a 1/1/13 sunset date on existing law relative to an option to purchase real property, as specified, and after 1/1/13, provides that an option to purchase real property expires of record six months after the date the instrument that creates or gives constructive notice of the option is recorded.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2011

SB 328 (Kehoe-D) Eminent Domain Law: conservation easement

States that a person authorized to acquire property for public use by eminent domain shall exercise that power to acquire property that is subject to a conservation easement only as provided in this bill.
Chapter 589, Statutes of 2011

SB 384 (Evans-D) Civil actions

Allows, until 1/1/15, a motion for summary adjudication of a legal issue or claim for damages (other than punitive damages) that does not completely dispose of a cause of action, affirmative defense, or an issue of duty, upon the stipulation of the parties and a prior determination by the court that the motion will further the interests of judicial economy by reducing the time required for trial or significantly increasing the ability of the parties to settle.
Chapter 419, Statutes of 2011

SB 424 (Rubio-D) Mechanics liens: design professionals

Gives, beginning 7/1/12, design professionals providing services for private works of improvement the ability to convert a design professional's lien into a mechanics lien.
Chapter 127, Statutes of 2011

SB 426 (Calderon-D) Tenancy: eviction: notices

Classifies any building or property used to willfully conduct unlawful dogfighting or cockfighting as a public nuisance, and allows for the eviction of any person who commits or maintains such a nuisance.
Chapter 128, Statues of 2011

SB 474 (Evans-D) Commercial construction contracts

Regulates indemnification agreements in specified private commercial and public works construction contracts.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2011

SB 491 (Evans-D) Civil procedure: probate of wills

Clarifies that the provisions that authorize a court clerk to issue a summons are applicable when a person files an objection to the probate of a will in contested will cases.
(Held at Assembly Desk)

SB 558 (Simitian-D) Elder and dependent adults: damages

Changes the evidentiary standard of proof for elder and dependent abuse or neglect cases from clear and convincing to preponderance of the evidence. Clarifies that punitive damages may not be imposed against an employer unless the requirements for other civil case exemplary damages against employers are satisfied; this requirement would not apply to the recovery of compensatory damages or attorney's fees and costs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 559 (Padilla-D) Discrimination: genetic information

Expands the prohibited bases of discrimination under the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act to include genetic information.
Chapter 261, Statutes of 2011

SB 603 (Berryhill-R) Vexatious litigants: represented plaintiffs

Expands the applicability of California's vexatious litigant statute to include plaintiffs represented by counsel.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 647 (Senate Judiciary Committee)Civil law: omnibus bill

Enacts the annual omnibus bill of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2011

SB 652* (Steinberg-D) Professional sports teams: relocation agreements

Provides that a professional sports team that has previously entered into a financial agreement with a "home public entity" shall not enter into a relocation agreement unless it first gives the home public entity a bond, undertaking, or deposit in an amount adequate to ensure that all of its obligations under the financial agreement will be satisfied.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 731 (Senate Judiciary Committee)Civil actions

Clarifies that existing law relating to vexatious litigation applies to matters in the Courts of Appeal.
Chapter 49, Statues of 2011

SB 783* (Dutton-R) Civil rights: special access: liability

Imposes pre-litigation procedural requirements upon the filing of any claim under the state's civil rights and equal access to public or housing accommodation laws, including claims of violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act in state-owned facilities.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 857 (Lieu-D) Unlawful strike damages: public employment

Specifies that the Public Employment Relations Board has no authority to award damages for strike-preparation expenses or for costs, expenses, or revenue losses incurred during an unlawful strike.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2011

AB 78 (Mendoza-D) Immigrants' rights

Provides that a person without legal authority to reside in the United States but who has continuously resided in California since 1/1/07, shall have the same rights and responsibilities that are afforded to any other legal permanent resident.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 158 (Halderman-R) Civil actions: damages

Creates a defense for manufacturers, distributors and sellers that exempts them from punitive damages liabilities, with a narrow exception, so long as they comply with federal or state agency regulations.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 173* (Gatto-D) Civil claims: Armenian Genocide victims

Extends a 12/31/10 statutory deadline in order to authorize any victims of the Armenian Genocide, or their heirs or beneficiaries, who reside in California, and have a claim arising out of an insurance policy purchased or in effect in Europe or Asia from 1875-1923, to bring suit in California seeking benefits under those insurance policies from insurers. Provides that such actions shall not be dismissed for failure to comply with the otherwise applicable statute of limitation provided that the action is filed on or before 12/31/16.
Chapter 70, Statutes of 2011

AB 265 (Ammiano-D) Tenancies: unlawful detainer

Gives a tenant who has received a three-day notice to quit or pay rent the right to redeem the tenancy after the three-day period has expired by tendering rent due and other fees and costs, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 271 (Nestande-R) Appeals: class action certification

Requires an appellate court to permit an appeal from an order granting or denying class action certification to join a defendant pursuant to those provisions, if the petition to appeal is filed within 14 days of entry of the order.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 312 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Civil rights: homeless persons

Adds homeless person to the list of individuals protected from violence and intimidation under the Ralph Civil Rights Act, thereby providing civil remedies to homeless persons who are injured as result of such violence.
Vetoed

AB 328 (Smyth-R) Inverse condemnation

Applies the doctrine of comparative fault and existing rules governing a plaintiff's ability to recover post-offer costs to inverse condemnation actions.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 354 (Silva-R) Estates and trusts: property: wrongful taking

Provides that when a person has taken, concealed, or disposed of the real or personal property of a conservatee, minor, estate of a decedent, or trust by the use of undue influence in bad faith or through the commission of elder or dependent adult financial abuse, the person is liable for twice the value of the property recovered in a conservatorship, guardianship, estate, or trust proceeding.
Chapter 55, Statutes of 2011

AB 433 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Birth certificates: change of gender

Provides that an individual who has undergone a clinically appropriate treatment for the purpose of gender transition may file a petition with the superior court in any county in California to seek a judgment recognizing the change of gender, and if requested, the judgment must include an order for a new birth certificate.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2011

AB 456 (Wagner-R) Mechanics liens

Amends sections of existing law relating to mechanics liens to provide that a proof of service affidavit shall show the name and address of the owner or reputed owner upon whom the copy of the claim of mechanics lien was served, and, if appropriate, the title or capacity in which the owner or reputed owner was served.
Chapter 673, Statute of 2011

AB 458 (Atkins-D) Guardianship

Establishes venue rules for guardianship cases when a guardianship proceeding is filed in one county and a custody or visitation proceeding has already been filed in one or more other counties. Creates a presumption that venue is proper in the county where the guardianship petition is filed if the proposed guardian and child have resided in that county for at least six months prior to the commencement of the guardianship proceeding.
Chapter 102, Statutes of 2011

AB 513 (Hall-D) Enforcement of obligations: gambling debt

Allows a tribal gaming operation or a gambling enterprise to enforce a gambling debt in state court.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 534 (Swanson-D) Civil rights: homeless persons

Specifies that homeless persons are entitled to the rights set forth under existing law, and provides that a homeless person has the right to be free from violence or intimidation by threat of violence directed against that person in the basis of that person's status as a homeless person.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 556 (Wagner-R) Punitive damages

Limits punitive damage awards in California by having the judge, instead of the jury, decide what punitive damages will be.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 559 (Swanson-D) Civil actions: costs

Exempts civil actions brought pursuant to the Fair Employment and Housing Act from the statute that provides discretion to judges to determine costs, in a case other than a limited civil case, if the prevailing party recovers a judgment that could have been rendered in a limited civil case.
Vetoed

AB 588 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Victims of violence: tenancy

Amends existing law so that a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence has more time to provide notice of intent to terminate a lease early.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2011

AB 699 (Wagner-R) Nonprobate transfers

Creates a new nonprobate property transfer instrument, the "Simple Revocable Transfer on Death Deed," which is effective upon death of the transferor.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 887 (Atkins-D) Gender discrimination

Clarifies the definition of gender under the Fair Employment and Housing Act and the Unruh Civil Rights Act as well as other anti-discrimination laws.
Chapter 719, Statutes of 2011

AB 929 (Wieckowski-D) Debtor exemptions: bankruptcy

Revises and expands the set of specific asset exemptions available to bankruptcy debtors (the "703 exemptions") to generally conform to the exemptions under existing law available to all debtors in California seeking to exempt specified property from enforcement of a monetary judgment (the "704 exemptions").
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 992 (Nielsen-R) Civil liability: wildfires

Provides that damage caused by an escaping fire, other than an arson fire, shall not be deemed a trespass for purposes of damages for wrongful injuries to timber, trees, or underwood upon the land of another person.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1023 (Wagner-R) Maintenance of the codes

Makes numerous technical changes in the California codes that have been recommended by the Legislative Counsel's Office. The changes do not make any substantive change in the law.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2011

AB 1062 (Dickinson-D) Arbitration: appeals

Provides that an aggrieved party may immediately appeal from an order dismissing or denying a petition to compel arbitration unless the party who opposed the petition to arbitrate the civil action in court is 65-years of age or older or a dependent adult, as defined in Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.23.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1067 (Huber-D) Civil procedure: orders

Provides that an order denying a motion for reconsideration made, as specified, is not itself separately appealable. Provides that if the order that was the subject of a motion for reconsideration is appealable, then the denial of the motion for reconsideration is reviewable as part of an appeal from that order.
Chapter 78, Statues of 2011

AB 1074* (Fuentes-D) Personal liability immunity: telecommunications

Provides that a retail or wholesale service provider of telecommunications service, or other service, involved in providing 9-1-1 service, as specified, shall not be liable for any civil claim, damage, or loss caused by an act or omission in the design, development, installation, maintenance, or provision of 9-1-1 service.
Chapter 297, Statues of 2011

AB 1082 (Gatto-D) Powers of attorney

Provides the same protections that are granted to non-statutory form powers of attorney to powers of attorney created using the statutory form provided in the Probate Code.
Chapter 113, Statute of 2011

AB 1108 (Nielsen-R) Consumer remedies: litigation costs

Requires the court to award court costs and attorney's fees to a prevailing party, whether the plaintiff or the defendant, in litigation filed pursuant to the Consumer Legal Remedies Act.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1207 (Furutani-D) Civil actions: limitations: real property development

Provides that limitation in existing law does not apply to an action in tort to recover damages for damage to real or personal property, or for personal injury or wrongful death from exposure to hazardous or toxic materials, pollution, hazardous waste, or associated environmental remediation activities.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1288 (Gordon-D) Public guardians and conservators

Authorizes a public guardian or conservator of a person, to restrain any person from transferring, encumbering, or disposing of any real or personal property of the person held in a trust, as specified.
Chapter 370, Statutes of 2011

AB 1305 (Huber-D) Decedents' estates

Increases the monetary value of small estates consisting of real and personal property that may be summarily disposed of using simplified non-probate procedures such as the filing of an affidavit and a petition for a court order of succession to real property.
Chapter 117, Statues of 2011

AB 1318 (Davis-D) Civil damages

Prohibits a person, in any action to recover damages due to an unlawful strike, from recovering damages resulting from revenue losses caused by the strike or damages resulting from expenses incurred by the employer in anticipation of, or in preparation for, the strike. Defines "unlawful strike" as any strike that has been determined unlawful by a court or the Public Employment Relations Board.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1354 (Huber-D) Public works: progress payments

Prohibits a public entity from retaining more than 5% of a contract price until final completion and acceptance of a project.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)

AB 1388 (Wieckowski-D) Earnings withholding orders

Strikes the "for common necessaries of life" in an earnings withholding order exception, thus providing that wages cannot be levied for debt incurred for the common necessaries of life if those wages are necessary for the support of the debtor or his/her family, and also codifies an exception for debt incurred pursuant to an order or award for the payment of attorney's fees under specified Family Code sections, and makes a related clarifying change.
Chapter 694, Statutes of 2011

AB 1403 (Assembly Judiciary Committee)Civil actions

Provides that the deadline for acceptance or rejection of the addition or reduction of damages is 30 days from the date the conditional order is served by the clerk of the court, if a deadline is not set forth in the conditional order.
Chapter 409, Statutes of 2011

AB 1407 (Assembly Judiciary Committee)Liability: social hosts: alcoholic beverages

Clarifies California's social host liability statute which provides that a claim may be brought against an adult who knowingly furnishes alcohol at his/her residence to a person under 21 years of age. Provides that the adult know, or should have known, that the person served alcohol was under age 21. Specifies that a claim under the statute will be brought by, or on behalf of, a minor or a person who was harmed by that minor.
Chapter 410, Statutes of 2011

 
 

Index (in Bill Order)

Bills	Author and Bill Title	Reference
SB 5	Harman-R Intervention: initiatives	Civil Law
SB 9	Yee-D Sentencing	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 24	Simitian-D Privacy: security breach notification	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 26*	Padilla-D Prisons: wireless communication devices	Corrections
SB 28	Simitian-D Vehicles: electronic wireless communications devices	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 29	Simitian-D Automated traffic enforcement systems	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 33	Simitian-D Elder and dependent adult abuse: reporting	Law Enforcement
SB 54	Runner-R Sex offenders: residency restrictions	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
SB 55	Runner-R Parole: placement at release: registration.	Corrections
SB 57	Runner-R Sex offenders: registration	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
SB 59	Runner-R Parole: release	Corrections
SB 61	Pavley-D Wiretapping: authorization	Law Enforcement
SB 78	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget Act of 2011: Public Safety	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Law Enforcement
SB 92	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget Act of 2011: public safety	Corrections
SB 102	Correa-D Telecommunications: customer privacy	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 111	Yee-D Civil rights: language restrictions	Civil Law
SB 123	Liu-D California Runaway, Homeless, and Exploited Youth Act	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders Juvenile Justice
SB 124	De León-D Ammunition: definition	Weapons
SB 129	Leno-D Medical marijuana	Controlled Substances
SB 139	Alquist-D Corrections: state prisons: searches	Corrections
SB 151*	Correa-D State employees: memoranda of understanding	Corrections Courts/Judges/Legal Profession Law Enforcement
SB 154	Wolk-D Domestic violence: vital records	Domestic Violence Family Law
SB 163	Evans-D State Bar Act	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 179	Pavley-D Tolling of parole: sexually violent predators	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
SB 182	Corbett-D Judiciary: demographic data	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 190	Lowenthal-D Mechanics liens	Civil Law
SB 208*	Alquist-D Identity theft and restitution	Privacy/Identity Theft Victims of Crime
SB 210	Hancock-D Prisoners: alternative incarceration	Corrections
SB 221	Simitian-D Small claims court: jurisdiction	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 240	Rubio-D Truancy: collective action	Juvenile Justice
SB 242	Corbett-D Privacy: social networking Internet Web sites: minors	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 247	Wyland-R Vehicular crimes: juvenile justice	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Juvenile Justice
SB 248	Wyland-R Juvenile offenders: forensic specimens	Juvenile Justice Law Enforcement
SB 254	Harman-R Marriage: putative spouses	Family Law
SB 260	Cannella-R Pseudoephedrine and other controlled chemicals	Controlled Substances
SB 261	Harman-R Child custody: deceased parent	Family Law
SB 264	Correa-D Liability: recreational activities: skateboard parks	Civil Law
SB 269	La Malfa-R Firearms: Dealers' Record of Sale Special Account	Weapons
SB 271	Wyland-R Rape kits: evidence	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders Law Enforcement
SB 273	Harman-R Multiple-party accounts	Civil Law
SB 284	Harman-R Real property: marketable title	Civil Law
SB 285	Correa-D Massage therapy instruction: fraud	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 291	Vargas-D Bail: extradited defendants	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 296	Wright-D Petition for exemption or release from gang injunctions	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 308	Cannella-R Crime	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 313	Correa-D Firearms	Weapons
SB 315	Wright-D Pseudoephedrine: sale or distribution by prescription only	Controlled Substances
SB 326	Yee-D Court records: public access	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 328	Kehoe-D Eminent Domain Law: conservation easement	Civil Law
SB 329	Correa-D County penalties: forensic laboratories	Law Enforcement
SB 333	La Malfa-R Vehicles: speed limits	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 360	DeSaulnier-D Controlled Substance	Controlled Substances
SB 375	Wright-D Paternity	Family Law
SB 377	Wright-D Paternity	Family Law
SB 384	Evans-D Civil actions	Civil Law
SB 387	La Malfa-R Statute of limitations: felony hit and run	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 390	La Malfa-R Assault and battery: search and rescue teams	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 391*	Gaines-R Inmates: parole hearings	Corrections
SB 404	Anderson-R Handgun safety certificates exemptions	Weapons
SB 405	Corbett-D Judgeships	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 406	Liu-D Battery: security and custodial officers	Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement
SB 407	Cannella-R Jail inmates: workers' compensation	Corrections
SB 420	Hernandez-D Synthetic cannabinoid compounds	Controlled Substances
SB 424	Rubio-D Mechanics liens: design professionals	Civil Law
SB 425	Calderon-D Cruelty to animals	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 426	Calderon-D Tenancy: eviction: notices	Civil Law
SB 427	De León-D Ammunition and firearms	Weapons
SB 428	Strickland-R Lester's Law of 2011	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 430	Kehoe-D Domestic violence: strangulation and suffocation	Domestic Violence
SB 434	Anderson-R Undocumented criminal immigrants	Corrections
SB 465	Wright-D Concealed firearm license	Weapons
SB 474	Evans-D Commercial construction contracts	Civil Law
SB 480	Vargas-D Domestic violence: public social services	Domestic Violence
SB 481	Wright-D Spousal support	Family Law
SB 484	Rubio-D Dept. of Corrections & Rehabilitation: health care rates	Corrections
SB 490	Hancock-D Death penalty	Death Penalty
SB 491	Evans-D Civil procedure: probate of wills	Civil Law
SB 492	Correa-D Sexually violent predators: civil commitment	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
SB 503	Vargas-D Judges' retirement	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 531	Rubio-D Sex offense cases: search warrants: HIV testing	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
SB 534	Corbett-D Sexual assault victims: medical exams	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders Victims of Crime
SB 542	Price-D Inmates: tattoos	Corrections
SB 557	Kehoe-D Domestic violence: family justice centers	Domestic Violence Child Abuse/Sex Offenders Victims of Crime
SB 558	Simitian-D Elder and dependent adults: damages	Civil Law
SB 559	Padilla-D Discrimination: genetic information	Civil Law
SB 565	DeSaulnier-D Vehicles	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 573	Hernandez-D Police personnel files	Law Enforcement
SB 576*	Calderon-D Sentencing: choice of terms	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 586	Pavley-D Elder abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 601	Hancock-D Corrections: prisons: accountability report	Corrections
SB 602	Yee-D Reader Privacy Act	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 603	Berryhill-R Vexatious litigants: represented plaintiffs	Civil Law
SB 608	DeSaulnier-D Prison Industry Authority: nonprofit organizations	Corrections
SB 610	Wright-D Concealed weapons permit	Weapons
SB 622	Corbett-D Sex offenders: registration: out-of-state	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
SB 626	Calderon-D Cannabis products	Controlled Substances
SB 627	Walters-R Driving and traffic violator schools	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 636	Corbett-D Personal information: Internet disclosure	Privacy/Identity Theft Domestic Violence
SB 638	De León-D Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act	Law Enforcement
SB 647	Senate Judiciary Committee Civil law: omnibus bill	Civil Law
SB 651	Leno-D Domestic partnerships	Family Law
SB 652*	Steinberg-D Professional sports teams: relocation agreements	Civil Law
SB 661	Lieu-D Gun-free school zones	Weapons
SB 671	Price-D Shorthand reporters: requirements	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 676	Leno-D Industrial hemp	Controlled Substances
SB 678	Negrete McLeod-D Probation	Corrections
SB 680	Wright-D Corrections: Internal Affairs	Corrections
SB 687	Leno-D Criminal procedure: informants	Procedural
SB 691	Lieu-D Vehicles: engineering and traffic survey	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 695	Hancock-D County juvenile detention facilities: Medi-Cal	Juvenile Justice
SB 700	La Malfa-R Corrections: Prison Industry Authority	Corrections
SB 717	Walters-R Elder or dependent abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 718	Vargas-D Elder and dependent adult abuse: mandated reporting	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 723	Pavley-D Restraining orders	Domestic Violence Victims of Crime
SB 731	Senate Judiciary Committee Civil actions	Civil Law
SB 756	Price-D Registered sex offenders	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
SB 761	Lowenthal-D Online privacy	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 780	Emmerson-R Driving offenses: punishment	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 783*	Dutton-R Civil rights: special access: liability	Civil Law
SB 794	Blakeslee-R Battery: "gassing": state hospitals	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 795	Blakeslee-R Use of antipsychotic medication on defendants	Procedural
SB 796	Blakeslee-R Crimes: prohibited items in state hospitals	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 798	De León-D Imitation firearms	Weapons
SB 819	Leno-D Firearms	Weapons
SB 847	Correa-D Medical Marijuana Program: zoning restrictions	Controlled Substances
SB 848	Emmerson-R Court of appeal districts	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SB 850	Leno-D Confidential information: medical records	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 852*	Harman-R Corrections: victim notification	Corrections Victims of Crime
SB 853	Runner-R Penalty enhancements: alcohol and drugs	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 857	Lieu-D Unlawful strike damages: public employment	Civil Law
SB 858	Gaines-R Chief Probation Officer of Nevada County	Corrections
SB 894	Runner-R Crimes: firearms	Other Crimes and Sentencing Weapons
SB 906	DeSaulnier-D Defendants: incarceration	Corrections
SB 913	Pavley-D Juvenile offenders: medical care	Juvenile Justice
SB 914	Leno-D Search warrants	Law Enforcement
SB 917	Lieu-D Animal abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 926	Runner-R Dependent children: relative placements: disclosure	Juvenile Justice
SB 927	Runner-R Juvenile case files	Juvenile Justice
SB 930	Evans-D Law enforcement: in-home supportive services: fingerprinting	Law Enforcement
SCR 15	Evans-D Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Denim Day California	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
SCR 21	DeSaulnier-D Martinez Police Sergeant Paul Starzyk Memorial Overcrossing	Law Enforcement
SCR 22	Correa-D California Peace Officers' Memorial Day	Law Enforcement
SCR 25	Negrete McLeod-D CHP Officer Thomas P. Coleman Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 28	Strickland-R Federal Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 30	Anderson-R CHP Officer Dan N. Benavides Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 34	Evans-D Deputy Frank Trejo Memorial Interchange	Law Enforcement
SCR 37	Anderson-R Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 38	Price-D Courts: 50th anniversary: African American justices	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
SCR 50	Fuller-R Deputy Daniel Lee Archuleta Memorial Interchange	Law Enforcement
SCR 53	Evans-D CHP Officer Paul C. Jarske Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SJR 7	Padilla-D Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act	Weapons
SJR 10	De León-D Firearms trafficking	Weapons
SB 4X1	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Local Revenue Fund: 2011	Law Enforcement
SB 5X1	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Public Safety Realignment of 2011	Corrections
SCA 1X1	Steinberg-D Corrections	Corrections
AB 3	Miller-R Confidential home addresses: vehicles	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 8*	Huber-D Division of Juvenile Justice: facilities: closures	Juvenile Justice
AB 12	Swanson-D Prostitution involving minors	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 20	Halderman-R Construction defect actions	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 26	Donnelly-R Immigration	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 40	Yamada-D Elder abuse: reporting	Law Enforcement
AB 44	Logue-R Inmates: release: notification	Corrections
AB 60	Jeffries-R Sentencing	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 67	Huber-D Sentencing: methamphetamine	Controlled Substances
AB 73	Feuer-D Dependency proceedings: public access	Juvenile Justice
AB 74	Ma-D Public event: threat assessment	Law Enforcement
AB 78	Mendoza-D Immigrants' rights	Civil Law
AB 90	Swanson-D Human trafficking: minors	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 94	Assembly Budget Committee AB 900 bond funding for jail construction	Corrections
AB 109	Assembly Budget Committee Criminal Justice Realignment Budget Trailer Bill	Corrections
AB 110	Blumenfield-D Budget Trailer Bill: Judiciary	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 111	Assembly Budget Committee Criminal Justice Realignment Budget Trailer Bill	Corrections
AB 116	Assembly Budget Committee Criminal Justice Realignment Budget Trailer Bill	Corrections
AB 117	Assembly Budget Committee Criminal Justice Realignment Budget Trailer Bill	Corrections
AB 118	Assembly Budget Committee Public Safety Realignment Budget Trailer Bill	Corrections
AB 126	Davis-D Courts: judicial appointments	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 141	Fuentes-D Jurors: electronic communications	Juries
AB 142	Fuentes-D Criminal procedure: pleas	Procedural
AB 143	Fuentes-D Privacy rights: pupil records	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 144	Portantino-D Open carrying of unloaded handguns	Weapons
AB 158	Halderman-R Civil actions: damages	Civil Law
AB 161	Eng-D Trespass: private property	Other Crimes and Sentencing Juvenile Justice
AB 163	Jeffries-R Background check: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection	Law Enforcement
AB 168	Gorell-R Local Safety and Protection Account: appropriation	Law Enforcement
AB 173*	Gatto-D Civil claims: Armenian Genocide victims	Civil Law
AB 175*	Donnelly-R Inmates: transfers	Corrections
AB 177	Mendoza-D Juveniles: parenting classes	Juvenile Justice
AB 178	Gorell-R Pretrial releases	Corrections
AB 179	Gorell-R Contempt: criminal street gangs	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 190	Wieckowski-D Vehicle Code violation: spinal cord injury	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 192*	Logue-R Law enforcement	Law Enforcement
AB 198	Beall-D Adoption: fingerprinting of adoptive parents	Family Law
AB 201	Butler-D Veterans courts	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 216	Swanson-D Inmate education programs	Corrections
AB 219	Portantino-D California Recidivism Goals Development and Achievement Act	Corrections
AB 220	Solorio-D Interstate Compact for Juveniles	Juvenile Justice
AB 223	Ammiano-D Marijuana: Compassionate Use Act of 1996	Controlled Substances
AB 225	Nielsen-R Child custody: ex parte orders	Family Law
AB 235	Halderman-R Clemency records: public records	Corrections
AB 239	Ammiano-D Crime laboratories: oversight	Law Enforcement
AB 257	Galgiani-D Inmate release: notification	Corrections
AB 259	Smyth-R County public defender	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 265	Ammiano-D Tenancies: unlawful detainer	Civil Law
AB 271	Nestande-R Civil appeals: class actions	Procedural Civil Law
AB 281	Gorell-R Gang injunctions	Procedural
AB 295	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Courts: California Case Management System	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 308	Ammiano-D Criminal investigations	Law Enforcement
AB 312	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Civil rights: homeless persons	Civil Law
AB 314	Gorell-R Court facilities	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 316	Carter-D Crimes: copper theft	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 321	Roger Hernández-D Juvenile offenders: obscene material	Juvenile Justice
AB 322	Portantino-D Rape kits: forensic evidence	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders Law Enforcement
AB 326	Cedillo-D Counterfeit marks	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 328	Smyth-R Inverse condemnation	Civil Law
AB 332	Butler-D Elder abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 353	Cedillo-D Vehicles: checkpoints	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement
AB 354	Silva-R Estates and trusts: property: wrongful taking	Civil Law
AB 355	Solorio-D Corrections: parole: crisis care	Corrections
AB 364	Bonilla-D Asset preservation in large-scale theft cases	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 366	Allen-D Persons found incompetent to stand trial	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 367	Smyth-R Elder and dependent adult abuse: reporting	Law Enforcement
AB 376	Fong-D Shark fins	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 379	Hagman-R Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 386	Galgiani-D Prisons: telehealth systems	Corrections
AB 388	Roger Hernández-D Criminal procedure: search warrants	Law Enforcement
AB 396	Mitchell-D Juvenile inmates: Medi-Cal	Juvenile Justice
AB 420	Davis-D Inmate residency: redistricting	Corrections
AB 421	Smyth-R Sexually violent predators: mental health	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 426	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Transit crime violations: fare evasion	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 432	Hall-D Traffic violations: notice to appear	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 433	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Birth certificates: change of gender	Civil Law
AB 434	Logue-R Forensic laboratories: county penalties	Law Enforcement
AB 439	Skinner-D Confidentiality of Medical Information Act	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 446	Carter-D Juveniles: restorative justice program	Juvenile Justice
AB 452	Ma-D Privacy: electronic tracking devices	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 454	Silva-R Protective orders: early termination	Family Law
AB 456	Wagner-R Mechanics liens	Civil Law
AB 458	Atkins-D Guardianship	Civil Law
AB 469	Swanson-D Misdemeanor: wage order violation	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 476	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Tow trucks: illegal operation	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 486*	Hueso-D Controlled substances	Controlled Substances
AB 489	Cook-R Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training	Corrections Law Enforcement
AB 499	Atkins-D Minors: medical care: consent	Family Law
AB 507	Hayashi-D Controlled substances: pain management	Controlled Substances
AB 513	Hall-D Enforcement of obligations: gambling debt	Civil Law
AB 518	Wagner-R Elder abuse: mandated reporters	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 520	Ammiano-D DUI: ignition interlock devices	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 526	Dickinson-D Gang and youth violence: evidence-based practices	Juvenile Justice Law Enforcement
AB 529	Gatto-D Speed limits: downward speed zoning	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 534	Swanson-D Civil rights: homeless persons	Civil Law
AB 539	Williams-D Speeding: school zones	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 543	Torres-D Sex offenders: social networking prohibition	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 545	John A. Pérez-D Domestic violence	Domestic Violence
AB 556	Wagner-R Punitive damages	Civil Law
AB 559	Swanson-D Civil actions: costs	Civil Law
AB 568	Skinner-D Pregnant inmates: restraints	Corrections
AB 572	Wieckowski-D Attorneys: annual membership fee	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 588	V. Manuel Pérez-D Domestic violence: victims: tenancy	Domestic Violence Civil Law
AB 593	Ma-D Domestic violence: writ of habeas corpus	Domestic Violence
AB 613	Hagman-R Ammunition	Weapons
AB 618	Furutani-D Court interpreters	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 622	Dickinson-D Civil grand juries	Juries
AB 625	Ammiano-D Sex offender registration	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 639	Norby-R Controlled substances: asset forfeiture	Controlled Substances
AB 648	Block-D Clemency	Corrections
AB 653	Galgiani-D Sex offenders: registration of Internet accounts	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 665	Torres-D Invasion of privacy: disorderly conduct	Privacy/Identity Theft Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 687	Fletcher-R Adoption	Family Law
AB 694	Gorell-R Juvenile offenders	Juvenile Justice
AB 699	Wagner-R Nonprobate transfers	Civil Law
AB 701	Wagner-R Missing persons: mobile telephone location	Law Enforcement
AB 702	Swanson-D Prostitution: human trafficking: expungement	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 708	Knight-R Crimes involving hidden recordings	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 716	Dickinson-D Crimes: transit districts	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 717	Ammiano-D Child Abuse Central Index	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 733	Ma-D Privacy rights: access to pupil records	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 755	Galgiani-D Sex offenders: CAL E-STOP	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 757	Blumenfield-D Sex offenders: public information	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 764	Swanson-D Child abuse victims: income tax checkoffs	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders Victims of Crime
AB 765	Achadjian-R Rape by fraud	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 791	Ammiano-D Dependent children: birth certificates	Juvenile Justice
AB 799	Swanson-D Sexually exploited minors pilot project: Alameda County	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 801	Swanson-D Code enforcement officers: training	Law Enforcement
AB 803	Wagner-R Electronic court reporting	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 809	Feuer-D Firearms	Weapons
AB 810	Wagner-R Courts: translators	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 811	Hall-D Private Patrol Operators: firearms	Weapons Law Enforcement
AB 813	Fletcher-R Sex offenders: punishment	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 826	Atkins-D Mentally ill parolees	Corrections
AB 828	Swanson-D Drug felonies: food stamps	Corrections
AB 829	Knight-R Firearms: peace officers	Weapons Law Enforcement
AB 846	Bonilla-D Identity theft: foster youth	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 855	Ma-D Forensic laboratories: county penalties	Law Enforcement
AB 877	Skinner-D Nonprosecution of pending nonfelony vehicle violations	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 883	Cook-R Sex offenders: registration	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 884	Cook-R Sexually violent offenders: notification	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 885	Cook-R Registered sex offenders: driver's licenses	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 886	Cook-R Victim impact statement	Victims of Crime
AB 887	Atkins-D Gender discrimination	Civil Law
AB 891	Garrick-R Theft: motor vehicle	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 898	Alejo-D Crime victims: restitution fines	Victims of Crime
AB 906	Galgiani-D Protection of murder victims and witnesses	Victims of Crime
AB 911	Ma-D Police protection districts	Law Enforcement
AB 918	Block-D Crimes: felonies	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 929	Wieckowski-D Debtor exemptions: bankruptcy	Civil Law
AB 934	Feuer-D Privileged communications	Procedural
AB 973	Campos-D Trial courts: budget process: public notice	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 990	Allen-D Court transcripts	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 992	Nielsen-R Civil liability: wildfires	Civil Law
AB 993	Wagner-R Mediation and counseling services	Family Law
AB 996	Donnelly-R Human trafficking	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 1008	Cook-R Automated traffic enforcement systems	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1010	Furutani-D Law enforcement: communications	Law Enforcement
AB 1016	Achadjian-R Mentally disordered offenders	Corrections
AB 1017	Ammiano-D Marijuana cultivation: reduced penalty	Controlled Substances
AB 1022	Fletcher-R Sex offenders: registration	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 1023	Wagner-R Maintenance of the codes	Civil Law
AB 1026	Knight-R Assault crimes	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1041	Ma-D San Francisco: video enforcement of transit lane violation	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1043	Torres-D Juveniles: sexting	Juvenile Justice
AB 1060	Roger Hernández-D Crimes at sea	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1062	Dickinson-D Arbitration: appeals	Civil Law
AB 1067	Huber-D Civil procedure: orders	Procedural Civil Law
AB 1074*	Fuentes-D Personal liability immunity: telecommunications	Civil Law
AB 1082	Gatto-D Powers of attorney	Civil Law
AB 1089	Alejo-D Court proceedings	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 1104	Pan-D Driving under the influence	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1108	Nielsen-R Consumer remedies: litigation costs	Civil Law
AB 1110	Lara-D Juveniles: dependent children	Juvenile Justice
AB 1111	Fletcher-R Collection of fines and fees from homeless youth	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1114	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Mentally ill inmates	Corrections
AB 1117	Smyth-R Crimes: animal abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1122	John A. Pérez-D Juvenile offenders: tattoo removal	Juvenile Justice
AB 1133	Silva-R Grand jurors: conflict of interest	Juries
AB 1147	Yamada-D Dependent children: status reports	Juvenile Justice
AB 1165	Achadjian-R Domestic violence: probation: terms	Domestic Violence
AB 1188	Pan-D Crimes: serious and violent felonies	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 1197	Hill-D Jail facility construction funding	Corrections
AB 1207	Furutani-D Civil actions: limitations: real property development	Civil Law
AB 1208	Charles Calderon-D Trial courts: administration	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 1217	Fuentes-D Family law: assisted reproduction	Family Law
AB 1219*	Perea-D Private information: credit cards	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 1226*	Cook-R Child abuse crimes	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 1243*	Fletcher-R Sex crimes	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 1264	Hagman-R Statewide Bail Commission	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1280	Hill-D Controlled substances: ephedrine: retail sale	Controlled Substances
AB 1281	Garrick-R Parole hearings: audioconferencing	Corrections
AB 1284	Hagman-R Probation bonds	Corrections
AB 1288	Gordon-D Public guardians and conservators	Civil Law
AB 1293	Blumenfield-D Elder abuse: theft or embezzlement	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1294	Furutani-D Juvenile reentry programs	Juvenile Justice
AB 1300	Blumenfield-D Medical marijuana: cooperatives/collectives	Controlled Substances
AB 1305	Huber-D Decedents' estates	Civil Law
AB 1311	Miller-R Automated speed enforcement systems	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1316	Smyth-R Lawyer-client privilege	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 1318	Davis-D Civil damages	Civil Law
AB 1323	Gatto-D Vehicle theft crimes: costs	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1331	Davis-D Deadly weapons	Weapons
AB 1349	Hill-D Paternity: conflicting presumptions	Family Law
AB 1354	Huber-D Public works: progress payments	Civil Law
AB 1358	Fuentes-D Vehicles misdemeanor: violations: amnesty	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1369*	Gatto-D Illegal acts: tax deduction disallowance by businesses	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1377	Butler-D Peace officers: airport law enforcement	Law Enforcement
AB 1384	Bradford-D Expungement standards	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
AB 1388	Wieckowski-D Earnings withholding orders	Civil Law
AB 1389	Allen-D Vehicles: sobriety checkpoints: impoundment	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1402	Assembly Public Safety Committee Non-substantive deadly weapons reorganization	Weapons
AB 1403	Assembly Judiciary Committee Civil actions	Civil Law
AB 1404	Assembly Judiciary Committee Trust accounts	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 1405	Assembly Judiciary Committee Judgeships	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
AB 1406	Assembly Judiciary Committee Dissolution of marriage: disclosure	Family Law
AB 1407	Assembly Judiciary Committee Liability: social hosts: alcoholic beverages	Civil Law
AB 1432*	Mitchell-D Crimes	Other Crimes and Sentencing
ACA 14	Silva-R Governor: pardons and commutations	Corrections
ACA 15	Mansoor-R Governor: pardons and commutations	Corrections
ACR 6	Donnelly-R Human trafficking	Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement
ACR 15	Conway-R Detective Monty L. Conley & Detective Joe R. Landin Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 24	Hall-D Child Abuse Prevention Month	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
ACR 29	Bonilla-D Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month	Law Enforcement
ACR 31	Olsen-R CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 32	Harkey-R Child sexual abuse	Child Abuse/Sex Offenders
ACR 33	Harkey-R Officer Richard T. Steed Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 37	Conway-R CHP Officer Justin W. McGrory Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 39	Nielsen-R Deputy Dennis "Skip" Sullivan Memorial Bridge	Law Enforcement
ACR 41	Mitchell-D CHP Officer Philip Dennis Ortiz Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 45	Perea-D Crime Victims' Rights Week	Victims of Crime
ACR 47	Davis-D African American justices	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
ACR 58	Knight-R Captain Ted Hall and Engineer Arnie Quinones Memorial	Law Enforcement
ACR 66	V. Manuel Pérez-D Deputy Probation Officer Irene Rios Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 69	Hueso-D Synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants	Controlled Substances
ACR 70	Smyth-R CHP Officers Gayle W. Wood, Jr. and James E. McCabe Memorial	Law Enforcement
ACR 75	Nielsen-R CHP Officer Charles T. Smith Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 76	Chesbro-D CHP Officer Thomas R. Adams and CHP Officer Paul C. Jarske	Law Enforcement
ACR 82	Mitchell-D Domestic Violence Awareness Month	Domestic Violence
ACR 84	Butler-D Red Ribbon Week	Controlled Substances
AJR 1	Donnelly-R Undocumented criminals	Corrections
AJR 9	Cook-R Public alert and warning system	Law Enforcement
AJR 17	Solorio-D Law enforcement: federal funding	Law Enforcement
HR 10	Hayashi-D Chief Justice Earl Warren Day	Courts/Judges/Legal Profession
HR 13	Yamada-D Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Awareness Month	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 10X1*	Bonnie Lowenthal-D Prison health care: overpayments	Corrections
AB 16X1	Blumenfield-D Public Safety Realignment of 2011	Corrections
AB 17X1	Blumenfield-D Criminal Justice Realignment of 2011	Corrections
AB 41X1*	Solorio-D Law enforcement: vehicle license fees	Law Enforcement
AB 42X1	Jeffries-R State prison inmate fire crews	Corrections
ACA 2X1	Blumenfield-D Corrections	Corrections