Criminal Justice and Judiciary

Death Penalty
Identity Theft
Domestic Violence
Child Abuse
Sex Offenders
Controlled Substances
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
Other Crimes and Sentencing
Procedural
Juries
Juvenile Justice
Corrections
Victims of Crime
Weapons
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
Law Enforcement
Family Law
Civil Law

Death Penalty

SB 294 (Morrow-R) Automatic appeals: waiver of right

Allows a defendant who is sentenced to death to waive the existing automatic appeal in writing.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 378 (Morrow-R) Death penalty appeals: appointment of counsel

Creates a new type of post conviction review in capital cases.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 817 (Ashburn-R) Murder: special circumstances

Makes the intentional murder of a child under the age of 14 to adult, a death penalty offense.

(Failed passage in the Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1121 (Koretz-D) Sentencing

Places a moratorium on the carrying out of any death penalty executions until certain criteria are met or failing that, until January 1, 2009, as specified.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1672 (Nation-D) Death row expansion study

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to select and award a contract for an independent analyses of the cost to expand death row at San Quentin as well as possible alternatives, such as a rural and urban facility for death row prisoners.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1715 (Nation-D) Housing Condemned Inmates

Authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections to house condemned inmates at any Level IV Maximum Security, prison, as specified, rather than at San Quentin a now generally required by law.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

Identity Theft

SB 346 (Battin-R) Child identity theft

Provides that a child whose parent or legal guardian has misused the personal identifying information of the child may be adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 444 (Ackerman-R) Gangs

Adds identity theft and related crimes to the list of predicate offenses under the Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act.

Chapter 482, Statutes of 2005

A similar bill was SB 128 (Ackerman), which failed passage in the Senate Public Safety Committee

SB 460 (Margett-R) Offender access to personal information

Expands existing statutory limitations on the ability of inmates to do work that provides access to personal information of private individuals by making these provisions, which currently are limited to fraud-based and sex offenses, applicable regardless of offense.

Chapter 259, Statutes of 2005

SB 504 (Alquist-D) Vehicles: dealerships: identity theft

Prohibits a motor vehicle dealer licensed under the Vehicle Code from selling or leasing a vehicle through the purchaser's or lessee's use of a credit card or long term financing without having first obtained the right thumbprint of the purchaser or lessee, except as provided, and a photocopy of his or her valid form of identification. Authorizes a peace officer to inspect and seize a thumbprint or a fingerprint card obtained by a dealer under these provisions if the officer is acting within the scope of his or her authority in response to a search.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 768 (Simitian-D) Identity Information Protection Act of 2005

Enacts the Identity Information Act of 2005 which requires certain security measures be implemented into government-issued identification that incorporate radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, with certain specified exceptions, and prohibits the use of RFID in four classes of widely-issued government documents.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 839 (Poochigian-R) Identity theft: penalties

Increase penalties for persons who possess, use or traffic in the personal identifying information of others.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 852 (Bowen-D) Identity theft

Expands existing requirements regarding consumer notification of data security breaches to include data in a non-computerized form, such as paper or back-up tapes, so that any personal information acquired by an unauthorized person shall be covered.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 421 (Spitzer-R) Crime: distribution of personal information

Defines "personal information" as the name, address, telephone number, email address, age, physical description, picture, school address, parent's or guardian's hours of employment, and any other information relevant to the location of the person at a particular time of day that allows the holder of the information to identify and contact the person. Provides that distributing personal information about a minor with the intent that it be used to commit a crime is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and/or up to one year in jail providing that if the distribution of personal information results in the infliction of great bodily injury on someone under the age of 18 it would constitute a felony punishable in state prison for 16 months, two or three years. Provides that if the distribution of information results in the death of a person under the age of 18 would be a felony punishable by three, five or seven years in state prison.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 424 (Calderon-D) Identity theft: definition

Provides that person, as used in the Penal Code identity theft provisions, includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company, limited liability company, or public entity. Expands the definition of "personal identifying information" under the Penal Code to include "an equivalent (to those already provided) form of identification."

Double joints with AB 1566 (Calderon), a bill that sets higher fines in identity theft cases where the victim is an active duty member of the military.

(On Senate Third Reading)

AB 484 (Benoit-R) Elder and dependent adults: identity theft

Makes a second or subsequent violation of elder financial abuse, regardless of the amount of the crime, an alternate misdemeanor which is punishable by imprisonment, a fine, or both. Specifies that the crimes to which this increase penalty applies include theft, identity theft, fraud, embezzlement, or forgery.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 618 (Cogdill-R) Identity theft: penalties

Increases the penalties for identity theft.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 786 (Ruskin-D) Identity theft: California State University

Provides California State University employees with paid leave to deal with the implication of a possible security breach of employee personal information data.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 916 (Canciamilla-D) Elder abuse: identity theft

Provides for the following sentence enhancements in felony cases involving fraud or identity theft involving elders: loss exceeds $50,000 (one-year enhancement), loss exceeds $150,000 (two-year enhancement), loss exceeds $500,000 (three-year enhancement), loss exceeds $1 million (four-year enhancement) and loss exceeds $2.5 million (five-year enhancement).

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 946 (Wyland-R) Identity theft: fines

Increases the fines for identity theft from a maximum of $1,000 to $2,000 for a misdemeanor and from a maximum of $10,000 to $20,000 for a felony.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 988 (Bogh-R) Criminal profiteering

Adds identity theft (Section 530.5 of the Penal Code) to the list of crimes subject to criminal asset forfeiture, a forfeiture scheme under which the proceeds of organized crime are forfeited to the state.

Chapter 53, Statutes of 2005

AB 1036 (Koretz-D) Identity theft

Expands existing law relative to the unauthorized use of personal information to include unauthorized retention and transfer of personal identifying information. Adds the county in which the victim resided at the time the offense was committed to the jurisdictions in which a criminal action may be brought for commission of these crimes.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1069 (Montanez-D) Deceptive identification documents

Creates a new misdemeanor for possessing a document-making device with the intent that it will be used to manufacture, alter, or authenticate a deceptive identification document.

Chapter 326, Statutes of 2005

AB 1566 (Calderon-D) Identity theft

Provides that the maximum fine for the misdemeanor of possession of identifying information with intent to defraud shall be $1,500 where the victim is a deployed member of the military services, while the maximum fine is otherwise $1,000 for that offense.

Double-jointed with AB 424 (Calderon), a bill that expands the definition of the term "victim" of identity theft to include a firm, partnership, organization, et cetera.

Chapter 432, Statutes of 2005

AB 1581 (Garcia-R) Identity theft

Creates a new alternate felony/misdemeanor, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in state prison or up to one year in county jail, and/or a fine of up to $1,000, for any person who, with the intent to defraud, acquires, retains or transfers the personal identifying information of 100 or more persons.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Domestic Violence

SB 720 (Kuehl-D) Domestic Violence: protective orders

Authorizes the district attorney or city attorney to initiate and pursue a court action for contempt against a person for failing to comply with a domestic violence protective order issued by a court. Requires, with respect to domestic violence protective orders, the court or the court's designee to transmit all data filed with the court to law enforcement personnel, in the same manner that criminal court protective orders are transmitted. Clarifies that an order protecting victims of violent crime applies to all contact by the defendant, thereby ensuring the court's authority to issue stay-away orders in addition to criminal protective orders.

Double-joints with AB 112 (Cohn), AB 118 (Cohn), and AB 1288 (Chu).

Chapter 631, Statutes of 2005

SB 842 (Machado-D) Domestic violence: study

Requires the Attorney General to conduct a study by June 30, 2008 regarding attendance, enrollment, and re-offense rates for persons assigned to batterers' treatment programs. Provides that study would review data from five representative counties and compare the data to similar counties that do not operate batterers' programs.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1062 (Bowen-D) Domestic violence

Makes technical changes to the statute that governs the domestic violence programs within the Maternal Child Health Branch of the Department of Health Services and the Comprehensive Statewide Domestic Violence Program within the Office of Emergency Services.

(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 1107 (Senate Public Safety Committee) Omnibus Public Safety Bill

Makes clarifying changes to the provisions of law related to domestic violence.

Chapter 279, Statutes of 2005

AB 59 (Cohn-D) Domestic violence: presence of minors

Requires a one-year sentence enhancement for any person convicted of felony domestic violence, as defined, "in the presence of a child" under the age of 18. Requires a minimum of 90 days in county jail for any person convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence in the presence of a child under 18. Specifies that if a mandatory jail term is already required for the underlying offense, that mandatory time shall be increased by 90 days.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 100 (Cohn-D) Domestic Violence: Dept. of Health Services Advisory Council

Extends the January 1, 2006 sunset for an advisory council under the Department of Health Services relating to battered women's shelters to 2010, as specified.

Chapter 462, Statutes of 2005

AB 106 (Cohn-D) Spousal battery: fines: amnesty

Creates a one-time amnesty program for penalties and assessments imposed for spousal battery or domestic violence that have been delinquent for not less than six months as of January 1, 2006. Requires that persons eligible for the amnesty must pay 70 percent of the total penalty.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 120 (Cohn-D) Domestic violence: children

Authorizes, subject to adequate, discretionary funding from a city or county, the superior court in Santa Clara County to develop a pilot program, and any other county able and willing to participate in that program, to collect data with regard to domestic violence cases and children, as specified. Requires superior courts participating in this program to report their findings and recommendations to the Judicial Council on or before December 1, 2006.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 220 (Assembly Public Safety Committee) Domestic violence

Amends various statutes that reference "battered woman syndrome" to instead refer to "intimate partner battering and its effects."

Double-jointed with SB 594 (Torlakson-D).

Chapter 215, Statute of 2005

AB 506 (Montanez-D) Teen dating violence

Requires each school district to establish a policy and protocol, as specified, for dealing with incidents of teen dating violence involving middle school and high school students.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1288 (Chu-D) Court orders: firearms

Requires courts in domestic violence prosecutions to consider issuing a protective order prohibiting a defendant from having a firearm upon a good cause belief that harm to, or intimidation or dissuasion of, a victim or witness has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur where the court has not issued a stay-away order. Authorizes specified officers to inform persons who are protected by a domestic violence protective order, or the victim of alleged domestic violence.

Double jointed with AB 112 (Cohn), AB 118 (Cohn), AB 1060 (Liu), and SB 720 (Kuehl).

Chapter 702, Statutes of 2005

AB 1712 (Hancock-D) Domestic violence

Adds, until January 1, 2010, the City of Berkeley to Alameda County's pilot program regarding the oversight and coordination of domestic violence programs. Authorizes the City of Berkeley to increase its fees for certified copies of birth certificates, fetal death records and death records by up to two dollars, and authorizes an annual increase in those fees by an amount equal to the increase in the Consumer Price Index for the San Francisco metropolitan area.

Chapter 545, Statutes of 2005

ACR 2 (Cohn-D) Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of October 2005, as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2005

Child Abuse

SB 33 (Battin-R) Lewd conduct with children

Eliminates, in cases involving sexual conduct with a child under 14, distinctions in probation eligibility between defendants who are family members of the victim and other defendants, eliminates probation eligibility (in specified treatment programs) for persons convicted of intra-family lewd conduct or continuous sexual abuse that involved multiple victims, pornography or substantial sexual conduct, eliminates an exception to life terms under the one-strike law for persons convicted of intra-family lewd conduct and continuous sexual abuse who are granted probation, requires specific pleading and proof of allegations that make defendants ineligible for probation in lewd conduct and continuous sexual abuse convictions, allows prosecutors to negotiate plea agreements that leave defendants eligible for probation in lewd conduct cases, defines incest (a straight felony) as sexual intercourse between specified blood relatives over the age of 14, and eliminates deferred entry of judgment programs in physical and sexual abuse cases.

Chapter 477, Statutes of 2005

SB 138 (Maldonado-R) Criminal procedure: closed-circuit testimony

Expands the use of testimony by closed-circuit television of child victims of sex offenses and violent felonies to also provide for its use in child abuse cases and change the standards for the use of closed-circuit television.

Chapter 480, Statutes of 2005

SB 359 (Ortiz-D) Child custody

Requires a court to impose supervised visitation, notwithstanding a stipulation to the contrary by the parties or recommendations by the mediator, when the court has granted visitation to a parent, and has been made aware of evidence of risk to the child indicating that it is necessary to protect the child from risk of harm due to physical or sexual abuse, neglect, substance abuse by a parent or a member of the parent's household, or domestic violence perpetrated by that parent or the risk of abduction by a parent. Prohibits a court from granting unsupervised visitation to a parent who has a felony conviction of any specified offense or any conviction of a lewd or lascivious act on a child under 14 years of age, except as specified. Requires a court to find by a preponderance of the evidence that a biological or adoptive parent, to whom the child is attached and who plays an important developmental role in the child's life, poses a risk to the child, as specified, before denying visitation or imposing supervised visitation on that parent.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 613 (Denham-R) Offenses against minors

Provides that a person who contacts or attempts to contact a minor for purposes of engaging in child abuse, sex crimes against children or possession of child pornography shall be treated as if the person were convicted of an attempt to commit the specified crime.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 720 (Kuehl-D) Domestic violence: protective orders: contempt

Double-joints with AB 112 (Cohn), AB 118 (Cohn), and AB 1288 (Chu).

Chapter 631, Statutes of 2005

SB 1107 (Senate Public Safety Committee) Public safety: omnibus bill

Clarifies, among other things, that a victim's name must only be included in a report on child abuse if the victim's name is known by a mandated reporter.

Chapter 279, Statutes of 2005

SCR 13 (Battin-R) Child Abuse Prevention Month

Acknowledges the month of April 2005 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 16, Statutes of 2005

A similar resolution is ACR 39 (Tran-R) which is in Senate Rules Committee.

AB 114 (Cohn-D) Child abuse

Allows evidence of a defendant's prior acts of child abuse, as defined, in criminal cases involving physical child abuse, subject to an evidentiary hearing.

Chapter 464, Statutes of 2005

AB 253 (Aghazarian-R) Child abuse

Provides that any parent, guardian, or caregiver of a minor child who knowingly and unlawfully consumes, smokes, inhales, ingests, or otherwise uses a specified controlled substance, if the act occurs in the presence of, or is witnessed by, a minor child under his or her care, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or two or three years.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 299 (Maze-R) Mandatory child abuse reporting

Authorizes the use of fax and electronic transmission for making mandated written reports of child abuse or neglect.

Chapter 42, Statutes of 2005

AB 776 (Chu-D) Mandatory child abuse and neglect reporting

Creates a bypass mechanism allowing initial mandated child abuse or neglect reports to be made by fax or electronically when a reporter's "reasonable efforts" to make an initial report by telephone have failed, as specified.

Double-joints with AB 299 (Maze-R).

Chapter 713, Statutes of 2005

AB 1022 (Walters-R) Murder: assault on a child

Increases the age of the potential victim from under eight years of age to under 14 years of age for the crime of assault on a child by means of reasonable force that to a reasonable person would be likely to produce great bodily injury that results in the death of the child in the defendant's care or custody.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1153 (La Suer-R) Offenses against minors: impersonating a minor

Creates a new misdemeanor that is committed where a person 21 years of age or older does the following: the adult contacts or communicates with a minor who is 12 years of age or younger for the purpose of luring the child away from home without the consent of the child's parent, and the adult pretends to be a minor with the intent to have sexual contact, or to commit lewd and lascivious acts upon the minor.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1188 (Wolk-D) Mandatory reporting: penalties

Increases the penalty for a supervisor or administrator to impede or inhibit child abuse or neglect reporting duties, from an infraction (up to $5000 fine) to a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail, a $1000 fine, or both. Increases the penalty for a supervisor or administrator to willfully impede or inhibit child abuse or neglect reporting duties where the abuse results in death or great bodily injury, from an infraction (up to $5000 fine) to a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail, a $5000 fine, or both. Increases the penalty for a mandated reporter who willfully fails to report child abuse or neglect where that abuse results in death or great bodily injury, from a six-month/$1000 misdemeanor to a one-year/$5000 misdemeanor.

Chapter 163, Statutes of 2005

AB 1257 (Umberg-D) Child pornography crimes

Provides that any person who uses a minor to assist in distribution or exhibition of obscene material, or uses a minor in the distribution to adults of depictions of minor engaged in actual or simulated sexual conduct without commercial considerations, or uses a minor in the distribution to minors of depictions of minors engaged in actually or simulated sexual conduct, is guilty of an alternate felony-misdemeanor, and that any person who distributes or exchanges with an adult any material that depicts a minor personally engaging in actual or simulated sexual conduct, as defined, is guilty of an alternate felony-misdemeanor.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

ACR 39 (Tran-R) Child Abuse Prevention Month

Recognizes the month of April 2005 as Child Abuse Prevention Month.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

Sex Offenders

SB 16* (Alquist-D) Sex offenders: tolling

Implements technical corrections to the Penal Code section regarding the tolling and revival of expired statutes of limitations due to chaptering problems and also states that the existing law, effective until March 1, 2005, which deletes the unconstitutional provisions regarding the statute of limitations for specified sex offenses, remains in effect.

Chapter 2, Statutes of 2005

SB 34* (Florez-D) Sex offenders

Removes provisions from existing law that allow persons who have been convicted of sexual battery, or annoying or molesting a child under the age of 18 years, or who have successfully completed probation after having been convicted of certain sex offenses from applying for exclusion from the Internet web site listing registered sex offenders.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 43 (Battin-R) Megan's Law

Expands the Megan's Law Internet web site maintained by the Department of Justice and available to the public to include specified felony child pornography offenses.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 111 (Alquist-D) Statute of limitations: sex crimes

Authorizes the commencement of a prosecution for a felony sex crime against a child under age 18 at any time prior to the victim's 28th birthday.

Chapter 479, Statutes of 2005

A similar bill is SB 261 (Speier-D) which is in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 129 (Margett-R) Biological evidence: storage

Provides that the biological material that must be stored from a criminal case for the length of the person's incarceration shall be limited to evidence in any felony case and misdemeanor sex offense cases.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety; reconsideration granted)

SB 277 (Battin-R) Sex offenders

Prohibits the placement of any parolee who upon release must register as a sex offender, within one and one-half miles of any public park, day care, preschool, or public or private school, including kindergarten and grades 1 through 12, inclusive.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 383 (Maldonado-R) Sexually violent predators

Allows the Department of Mental Health to enter into an interagency agreement or contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and local law enforcement agencies for services related to the supervision and monitoring of sexually violent predators who have been conditionally released into the community.

Chapter 137, Statutes of 2005

SB 448 (Poochigian-R) Sex crimes on a child

Increases the punishment to a life term in cases where a defendant commits aggravated kidnapping of a child for the purpose of forced lewd conduct. Makes it an alternate felony-misdemeanor, depending on the age of the child, for a defendant to solicit a minor to engage in a lewd act.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 449 (Denham-R) Crimes

Adds to the list of offenses punishable by life in prison without the possibility of parole, certain sex offenses committed against specified minors. Establishes the offenses of soliciting a person under the age of 14 years, or soliciting a person 14 or 15 years of age who is at least 10 years younger than the person, to join in the commission of that crime. Provides that soliciting for that crime, as specified, a person under 14 years of age will be punishable by a term of imprisonment in the state prison, as specified. Provides that soliciting for that crime, as specified, a person who is 14 or 15 years of age and who is at least 10 years younger than the person will be punishable by a term of imprisonment in a county jail, or in the state prison, as specified.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 544 (Battin-R) Sex offenders: custody and visitation

Prohibits a parent who has been convicted of a sex crime against a minor from being granted custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child under the age of 14. Prohibits a parent who has been convicted of a sex crime against a minor from being granted custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child between the ages of 14 and 18 unless the court finds that the parent presents no risk to the child.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 588* (Runner-R) The Sexual Predator Punishment & Control Act: Jessica's Law

Enacts the Sexual Predatory Punishment and Control Act: Jessica's Law. Adds rape committed in concert and committing lewd and lascivious acts to the list of crimes punishable by life in prison. Makes numerous substantive changes to existing law pertaining to sexual predators and sex crimes in general.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 594 (Torlakson-D) Custody and visitation: sex offenders

Expands the prohibition against allowing custody or visitation to a registered sex offender to include individuals who reside with registered sex offenders.

Chapter 483, Statutes of 2005

SB 613 (Denham-R) Offenses against minors.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 629 (Dutton-R) Driver's license: registered sex offenders

Requires registered sex offenders to renew their driver's licenses every two years until 2011.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 722* (Denham-R) Sexually violent predators

Requires a person convicted of lewd conduct with a child under the age of 12 to remain on parole for life and requires any such person be electronically monitored in the community.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 723 (Denham-R) Sexually violent predators: conditional release program

Provides that a conditionally released sexually violent predator patient cannot reside within one-quarter mile of a school for kindergarteners or students in any of grades 1 through 12.

Double-joints with AB 893 (S. Horton-R).

Chapter 486, Statutes of 2005

SB 807 (Simitian-D) Evidence: penitential communications

Exempts from the privilege in existing law allowing a member of the clergy to refuse to disclose penitential communications, any writings regarding or relating to sexual abuse, misconduct or molestation.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 864 (Poochigian-R) Sexually violent predators

Lengthens the period of civil commitment for those found to be sexually violent predators from two years to four years.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 865 (Poochigian-R) Sexually violent predators

Includes continuous sexual abuse of a child (Section 288.5 of the Penal Code) three acts of specified sexual misconduct with a child committed over at least three months' time, be a qualifying conviction under the Sexually Violent Predators (SVP) Act. Includes assault with intent to commit a sex crime as a qualifying prior conviction under the SVP Act. Defines a sexually violent offense for which a minor was tried as an adult but committed to the Department of the Youth Authority, pursuant to Section 1731.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, as a qualifying prior SVP offense. Eliminates references to specific subdivisions concerning force in the commission of rape and sexual penetration in the provision of the SVP Act describing qualifying prior convictions. Allows proof of the details of prior convictions through police reports.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 1044 (Hollingsworth-R) Sex offenders

Expands the list of crimes that constitute certain sex offenses, those crimes committed in concert, lewd and lascivious acts and acts of sexual penetration. Expands punishments for specified sex crimes and adds enhancements for others.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1045 (Hollingsworth-R) Sex offender registration

Authorizes local law enforcement agencies to pool their resources to establish regional registration centers for purposes of sex offender registration, provided that if the regional registration center is not centrally located in the county, there shall be a secondary registration site established in that part of the county not adequately served by the main registration site.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 1046 (Hollingsworth-R) Parolees: placement

Prohibits any person convicted of any felony from owning, operating, managing or being employed within a residential facility under contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for parolees if there is one or more registered sex offenders placed or residing in the facility.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1051 (Hollingsworth-R) Juvenile and adult sex offenders

Prohibits the placement of juvenile wards of the court who have been adjudicated for a "sexually related" offense in licensed community care facilities located within one-half mile of any public or private school (K-8). Increases the current one-quarter mile of a public or private school (K-8) limitation on the placement of parolees, who have been convicted of specified child sex crimes, to one-half mile.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 1098 (Hollingsworth-R) Sexually violent predators

Allows the commitment of a person as a sexually violent predator if he/she was previously convicted of a sex crime against a single victim under the age of 14, if the crime involved "substantial sexual conduct" or was accomplished by force or duress, although if the victims of prior crimes were adults, it does not change the requirement in existing law that prior sex crimes must have been committed against at least two victims by force or duress.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SCR 39 (Alquist-D) Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Resolves that the month of April be designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Resolution Chapter 41, Statutes of 2005

SR 12 (Romero-D) Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Denim Day

Designates April 27, 2005, as Denim Day California and everyone is encouraged to wear jeans on that day to help communicate the message that there is no excuse for, and never an invitation to, rape and sexual assault.

Adopted by the Senate

A similar bill is HR 10 (La Malfa-R) which was adopted by the Assembly.

AB 35 (Spitzer-R) Megan's Law

Increases the number of specific home addresses of sex offenders available on the Internet by eliminating the tiered classification of sex offenders based upon the severity of the offense, and adds the name and address of the offender's employer and the make, model and license plate number of the offender's vehicle. Limits the crimes for which sex registrants may apply for exclusion from the Internet web site.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 96 (Cohn-D) High- risk sex offenders: enhancements

Establishes a five-year sentence enhancement, in addition to any other penalty imposed, for any high-risk sex offender, as defined by statute, who commits any felony.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 102 (Cohn-D) Parole: high-risk sex offenders

Repeals the July 1, 2006 sunset in Section 3005 of the Penal Code, concerning intensive parole supervision for specified high risk parolees, and removes language in this statute requiring reports to the Legislature, as specified.

Chapter 55, Statutes of 2005

AB 113 (Cohn-D) Child sex offender parole placement: proximity to schools

Prohibits certain sex offender parolees, determined by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to pose a high-risk to the public, from being placed or residing for the duration of his/her parole within one-half mile of any public or private school including any or all of kindergarten and grades 1 to 12 inclusive, instead of one-quarter mile now applicable to these parolees.

Double-joints with AB 240 (Bermudez-D).

Chapter 463, Statutes of 2005

AB 190 (Negrete McLeod-D) California Sexual Violence Victim Service Fund

Establishes the California Sexual Violence Victim Services Fund (CSVVSF) and allows taxpayers to designate their own funds on their personal income tax returns to that fund. Provides that the CSVVSF checkoff becomes operative following the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the tax form.

Chapter 160, Statutes of 2005

AB 210 (Vargas-D) Sex offenses

Changes the term of imprisonment for any person who willfully and lewdly commits a lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body of a child who is under 14 years of age, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the sexual desires of that person or the child, for three, six, or eight years, and any person who commits an act listed above by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, by imprisonment for three, six, or eight years, or a person who continuously sexually abuses a child under the age of 14 years by imprisonment for six, 12, or 16 years to instead be imprisoned for 25 years to life.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 217 (Vargas-D) Registered sex offenders: long-term care facilities

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Mental Health, or any other official in charge of the place of confinement, to notify a long-term health care facility before a sex offender registrant is released to the facility.

Chapter 466, Statutes of 2005

AB 221 (Bogh-R) Sexually violent predators: early release credits

Provides that every person convicted of a sexually violent felony shall be ineligible to earn credits on his/her term of imprisonment.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 233 (Haynes-R) CalWORKs: eligibility disqualification

Denies assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program to persons convicted of felony crimes involving abuse or sexual molestation of children, with certain exceptions.

(Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 240* (Bermudez-D) Child sex offender: parole placement

Expands the current limitation on the placement of certain sex offender parolees away form schools to include grades 9-12.

Double-joints with AB 113 (Cohn-D).

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 335 (Walters-R) Crime: bail

Requires judges, in considering the seriousness of the offense alleged when setting or denying bail, to include consideration of an alleged lewd and lascivious act involving a child victim. Also creates a three-year pilot program in San Diego County requiring any person charged with child molestation, as specified, who is released on bail to wear an electronic global positioning system (GPS) monitoring device. Requires the Judicial Council of California to adopt guidelines for the implementation of the GPS monitoring program.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 437 (Parra-D) Megan's Law

Includes conviction and release from incarceration dates on the Megan's Law Internet web site if sufficient funding is available and the Department of Justice has access to complete and accurate information in this regard.

Chapter 721, Statutes of 2005

AB 438 (Parra-D) Sex offenders

Allows a lessor of residential real property to refuse to provide housing to, or to evict, registered sex offenders whose address must be made public pursuant to the Megan's Law Internet web site.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 439 (Parra-D) Registered sex offenders

Makes substantive changes to the sex offender registration laws pertaining to how registrants must inform law enforcement about changes in their address or location, including imposing additional requirements on transient registrants, as specified. Makes technical changes to the law concerning the effect of expungements on the obligation to register as a sex offender.

Double-joints with AB 1323 (Vargas-D).

Chapter 704, Statutes of 2005

AB 440 (Matthews-D) Sexually violent predators

Authorizes the Department of Mental Health to contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for supervision of sexually violent predators who have been conditionally released into the community under the forensic conditional release program.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 603 (Spitzer-R) Sexually violent predators: parole

Tolls the period of parole of an inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who has been committed to the Department of Mental Health as a sexually violent predator until the person has been discharged from the commitment.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 632 (Chu-D) Sex Offender Management Board

Creates a Sex Offender Management Board to address any issues, concerns, and problems related to the community management of adult sex offenders.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 743 (Strickland-R) Minors: rape

Expands the list of offenses which, when alleged against a minor age 16 or older, allows the prosecutor to charge the case directly in adult court and, when alleged against a minor age 14 or order, creates a presumption that the minor should be tried as an adult by adding rape of an unconscious person to that list.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 807 (La Suer-R) Sex offenses: minors

Adds forcible spousal rape, incest, and specified child pornography offenses to the Megan's Law Internet web site.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 808 (La Suer-R) Sex offenders: group homes

Prohibits a convicted felon from owning, operating, managing, or being employed within a residential facility under contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for placement of persons on parole, if those persons placed or residing in the facility include one or more convicted sex offenders.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 893 (Shirley Horton-R) Sex offenders: community placement

Requires that when the Department of Mental Health (DMH) or its designee proposes a placement location for a person conditionally released from the sexually violent predator program, DMH or its designee shall consider "age and profile" of the victim.

Double-jointed with SB 723 (Denham-R).

Chapter 162, Statutes of 2005

AB 998 (Chu-D) Sexual assault: medical exams

Requires specified health practitioners to make a report to law enforcement upon providing medical services to a person in the custody of law enforcement when sought in the course of a sexual assault investigation.

Chapter 133, Statutes of 2005

AB 1080 (Sharon Runner-R) Department of the Youth Authority: sex offenders

Prohibits the Department of the Youth Authority from placing any offender released on parole and convicted of a sex offense, as specified, from residing in a location within one-half mile of any school, grades K-8. (Does not apply to those released in parole into the custody of their legal parent or guardian.)

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1106 (Strickland-R) Crimes

Adds continuous sexual abuse of a child to the list of "one-strike" sex offenses that result in life in prison with the possibility of parole. Expands the felony of soliciting another person to commit specified sex offenses, punishable by two, three, or four years in state prison, to include soliciting another person to join in the commission of the crime. Adds lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14 to the list of crimes that subject the offender to life in prison with the possibility of parole when the purpose of the crime was kidnapping.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1109 (Shirley Horton-R) Sexually violent predators

Requires the Department of Mental Health, no later than 65 days prior to a hearing on the proposed placement of a sexually violent predator, to notify specified entities of the placement, who in turn shall notify the public.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1120* (Benoit-R) Sexually Violent Predator Act

Creates a Law Enforcement Consortium to develop policy and foster cooperation and coordination in the release and supervision of parolees. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contact specified law enforcement entities when releasing a sexually violent predator to a county.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee awaiting concurrence in Senate amendments)

AB 1152 (La Suer-R) Parole: global positioning system device

Requires parolees defined as high-risk sex offenders to be monitored by a global positioning system (GPS) device for their parole term and requires the GPS device to compare the movement of the offenders with crime incidents reported to local law enforcement agencies.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1153 (La Suer-R) Offenses against minors: impersonating a minor

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1323* (Vargas-D) Registered sex offenders

Eliminates the ability of specified registered sex offenders to be exempted from inclusion on the Megan's Law Internet web site. Authorizes local law enforcement to post specified information about registered sex offenders on their own web sites. Broadens and clarifies the authority of law enforcement to release information to the public about registered sex offenders. Eliminates the "900" telephone number public inquiry system about sex offender registrants and replaces it with an inquiry service operated by the Department of Justice. Eliminates the "CD ROM" Megan's Law requirements, previously operated through local law enforcement offices and eclipsed by the Department of Justice's Megan's Law web site. Adds specified enhancements. Makes substantive changes to existing law concerning the notice now required in real estate contracts about obtaining information regarding registered sex offenders. Makes additional technical conforming amendments to various statutory sections.

Double-joints with AB 439 (Parra-D).

Chapter 722, Statutes of 2005

AB 1422 (Bogh-R) Long-term health care facilities: sexual offenders

Creates a special notification procedure, above and beyond Megan's Law requirements, for registered sex offenders who apply to, or live in, long-term care facilities.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1427 (Mountjoy-R) Sexual cases: abortion

Requires a physician or surgeon performing an abortion on a minor to retain sufficient tissue of the aborted fetus to permit DNA testing for the purposes of determining paternity and providing potential evidence in sex crimes cases.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1484 (Wyland-R) Sexually violent predators: definition

Expands the definition of a "sexually violent predator" to include a person who commits a single sexually violent offense against a minor under the age of 14, which allows that person to be committed to the Department of Mental Health with one qualifying offense instead of the two currently required.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1504 (La Suer-R) Driver's licenses: registered sex offenders

Establishes more restricted driver's license requirements applicable to registered sex offenders.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1551 (Sharon Runner-R) Sexual predators

Provides that kidnapping for lewd conduct can be prosecuted as "aggravated kidnapping," which is subject to a life prison term. Provides that kidnapping for purposes of rape in concert or sexual penetration in concert can be prosecuted as "aggravated kidnapping," which is subject to a life prison term. Adds continuous sexual abuse of a child to the list of qualifying offenses in the "one strike" sex crime law, under which life terms of 15 or 25 years are imposed if specified aggravated factors are established.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1683 (Shirley Horton-R) Sex offenders

Requires the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to provide the court and law enforcement officials with the terms and conditions of community outpatient treatment arrangements for sexually violent predators scheduled to be released into the community. Prohibits DMH or its designee from altering any of the terms and conditions of outpatient treatment without court approval.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

Controlled Substances

SB 152 (Speier-D) Pseudoephedrine

Requires, as of June 1, 2006, a pharmacist and retail distributor, as defined, to store pseudoephedrine in a locked area. Requires the purchaser to provide valid identification prior to the purchase and requires staff of the retail distributor to be trained in identification of pseudoephedrine products and in the usage of pseudoephedrine to make methamphetamine. Requires, as of January 1, 2008, that an electronic system be set up by a pharmacy and retail distributor to track the sale of pseudoephedrine and assure that no more than three packages or no more than nine grams are sold within a 30-day period to a single purchaser.

(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 536 (Bowen-D) Illegal Drug Lab Cleanup Account: methamphetamine

Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to develop a health-based target remediation standard for methamphetamine (meth) and other meth precursors and byproducts.

Chapter 587, Statutes of 2005

Similar legislation is SB 566 (Bowen).

SB 541 (Margett-R) Uniform Controlled Substances Act

Extends statutes providing for enhancements for commerce in large quantities of methamphetamine and other controlled substances of MDA (3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine) and to similarly expand probation limitations and prohibitions.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 556* (Migden-D) Drug treatment

Allows the Department of Alcohol Programs to waive the requirement that no more than 25 percent of the money expended by a county for the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA) implementation be for "criminal justice activities". Allows a court to retain a probationer in SACPA upon a third or subsequent drug-related probation violation. Allows the parole authority to retain a parolee in SACPA upon a second drug-related parole violation. Insures that no person is denied SACPA treatment because of a co-occurring psychiatric disorder. Extends the maximum length of treatment and aftercare in SACPA from 18 to 24 months. Provides that the court shall deem a person to have successfully completed SACPA treatment in a narcotics replacement program if he or she has participated in treatment for at least three months and the treating physician or pogrom reports adequate compliance with the program. Allows funding for narcotics replacement treatment for up to 18 months, regardless of whether the charges have been dismissed.

(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 797 (Romero-D) Marijuana: possession

Makes a first-time conviction of possession of less than an ounce of marijuana as either an infraction punishable by a fine not to exceed $100 or a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $250, but no jail time, regardless of whether or not the conviction is a misdemeanor or an infraction. Provides that a second-time conviction for possession of marijuana is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $250, but no jail time.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 803* (Ducheny-D) Ongoing Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2005

Makes numerous substantive changes to the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, also known by its ballot initiative designation, Proposition 36.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 46 (Walters-R) Ecstasy (MDMA, XTC)

Makes 3, 4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, XCT, Ecstasy) a Schedule I controlled substance unless it is contained in a drug product that is Federal Drug Administration approved; in which case, it will be a Schedule III controlled substance.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 125 (Dymally-D) Cocaine penalties

Provides identical punishments for violations of laws related to cocaine powder and cocaine base "crack cocaine."

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 275 (Baca-D) Drug Dealer Liability Act: civil liability: manufacture

Clarifies that a civil suit may be brought under the Drug Dealer Liability Act against a person who manufactures a specified illegal controlled substance that caused harm to the user, and revises the definition of the act of the terms "to participate in the marketing of illegal controlled substances" or "marketing of illegal controlled substances" to include its manufacture.

Chapter 88, Statutes of 2005

AB 283 (Koretz-D) Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine: retail sale

Requires a retailer to store any compound, mixture, preparation, or product that contains any detectable quantity of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or any derivative of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, or any detectable quantity of salt, optical isomer, or salt of an optical isomer of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or any derivative of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine in a locked cabinet, or in such a manner that the product is accessible only with the assistance of the retailer or an employee of the retailer.

(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

Similar to SB 152 (Speier).

AB 336 (Huff-R) Controlled substances

Expands two existing crimes, one an existing alternate felony-misdemeanor against the use of false compartments to transport controlled substances to include their use to store, smuggle or transport a firearm, explosive device or at least $5,000 in proceeds from the sale of controlled substances; and two, an existing felony against the building or design of false compartments for the transport of controlled substances to include their building or design for use to transport firearms, explosive devices or at least $5,000 in proceeds from the sale of controlled substances. Requires vehicles with these compartments to be impounded and indicates they may not be returned to their owners until the false compartments are disabled by law enforcement personnel, a state mandated local program. Allows a community property interest owner of such a vehicle to get it back under specified conditions.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 465 (Cogdill-R) Controlled substances: iodine

Deletes the provision in existing law prohibiting the sale or purchase of eight ounces of iodine in any 30-day period. Adds iodine, tincture of iodine, and phosphorous acid and its salts to the list of substances with respect to which transactions must be reported and for which a permit to conduct business must be obtained, except in specified circumstances.

Chapter 468, Statutes of 2005

AB 631 (Leno-D) Narcotic treatment programs

Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to provide for mobile narcotic treatment programs.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 684 (Sharon Runner-R) Drug paraphernalia

Expands the list of paraphernalia unlawful to possess to include paraphernalia related to ingesting or otherwise consuming specified controlled substances.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1034 (Spitzer-R) Methamphetamine manufacturing: increased prison penalties

Increases the prison term for manufacturing methamphetamine from three, five or seven years to five, seven or nine years.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1063 (Cogdill-R) Unlawful manufacture and possession

Increases the penalties for methamphetamine-related crimes.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1078 (Keene-R) Contaminated property

Enacts the Methamphetamine Contaminated Property Cleanup Act of 2005, including the declaration of legislative findings justifying the need for this law, in addition to various substantive provisions.

Chapter 570, Statutes of 2005

AB 1349* (Goldberg-D) Narcotic treatment programs

States legislative intent that a provider adopting a graduated-payment schedule for certain patients be not subject to reduced Medi-Cal reimbursement rates. Allows narcotic treatment providers to extend services to "indigent" patients at a reduced rate without being subject to reduced reimbursement for their Medi-Cal patients.

Chapter 616, Statutes of 2005

Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses

SB 3 (Torlakson-D) Double fine zones

Authorizes, until January 1, 2010, a double fine zone on a designated portion of Vasco Road in Alameda County and Contra Costa County. Standardizes the general criteria and terms affecting all double fine zones and recasts the specific designation for Vasco Road in Alameda County in a stand alone section following the new standardized general statute. Increases the base fines for specified moving violations.

(Returned by the Governor at the request of the Senate. Held at Senate Desk.)

SB 95 (Murray-D) Vehicles: ignition interlock device

Makes it a misdemeanor or felony for a person who is subject to operating a motor vehicle that is equipped with a functioning ignition interlock device as a condition for being convicted of repeat driving under the influence offenses to operate a motor vehicle in violation of that condition.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 176 (Denham-R) Traffic collision: fatality: blood alcohol testing

Extends existing implied consent for blood alcohol testing to drivers who cause fatal automobile accidents. Provides that if the driver refuses to take the test, his or her driver's license will be suspended or revoked.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 207 (Scott-D) Driving-under-the-influence

Allows for the impound of vehicles upon arrest for a second or subsequent DUI, as specified, rather than upon conviction as currently required.

Chapter 656, Statutes of 2005

SB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Lapses of consciousness

Requires physicians to immediately report to the Department of Motor Vehicles specified information if a patient has a conditional license, whom the physician has diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia disorder.

Provides other occasion when a physician is allowed not to report if a diagnosed disorder can be controlled and stabilized within 30 days of the initial diagnosis.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 238 (Migden-D) Double-Fine Zone: Golden Gate Bridge

Authorizes, until January 1, 2010, a double fine zone on the Golden Gate Bridge. Standardizes the general criteria and terms affecting all double fine zones and recasts the specific designation for the Golden Gate Bridge in a stand alone section following the new standardized general statute. Increases the base fines for specified moving violations.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 283 (Maldonado-R) Double fine zones and tractor-trailer lengths

Authorizes a double fine zone on a designated portion of State Highway Route 101 and on a designated portion of County Road 16 in Monterey County and extends the sunset date for an exemption from restrictions on legal tractor-trailer lengths for agricultural tractor-trailer combinations until January 1, 2007.

(On Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 317 (Margett-R) Evading a peace officer

Increases penalties for evading a peace officer while operating a motor vehicle.

(Held under submission in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 466 (Kuehl-D) Mobile photo radar enforcement system

Authorizes, until 2010, a mobile photo radar enforcement system to be used by a county or city in cooperation with a local law enforcement agency, if its operation includes specific activities and the system is used only for purposes of enforcing certain speed laws in a residential district or a school zone, as those terms are defined by other provisions of law.

(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 508 (McClintock-R) Vehicles: driver's license: forgery: manufacture: sale

Makes the selling of fake drivers' licenses a felony.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 547 (Cox-R) Vehicle impoundment: pilot program

Establishes a Sacramento County pilot program authorizing vehicle impoundment for up to 30 days and alcohol-related intervention for individuals suspected of driving under the influence (DUI) when the driver has suffered a prior DUI-related conviction.

Chapter 159, Statutes of 2005

SB 591 (Cedillo-D) Impounding vehicles

Exempts from the 30-day impound the vehicle of a person who did not have a license because he or she could not meet the requirement that his or her presence in the United States was authorized by law.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 597 (Torlakson-D) Auto insurance

Denies a Good Driver Discount to those convicted of drunk driving or vehicular manslaughter during either the prior 10 years (current law is seven) or from 1999 to the present, whichever is later, and ending on the date of the application for issuance or renewal of the Good Driver Discount policy.

Chapter 109, Statutes of 2005

SB 598 (Torlakson-D) Leaving the scene of an accident

Increases penalties for leaving the scene of an accident when the defendant has a prior driving under the influence related offense within 10 years.

(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 675 (Cedillo-D) Vehicle forfeiture: safe transportation

Declares that it is the intent of the Legislature that law enforcement provide safe transportation for persons whose vehicles are seized in specified situations.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 681 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: wireless telephones

Prohibits a driver from using a wireless phone while operating a vehicle, unless the phone is specifically designed and configured to allow hands-free operation and is used in that manner.

(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 718 (Aanestad-R) High-speed pursuits: statewide policy

Limits the ability of law enforcement to pursue a fleeing vehicle to those situations when there is reasonable suspicion the person committed a violent felony.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 719 (Romero-D) Police pursuits

Increases penalties for fleeing in a motor vehicle from police and conditions immunity for law enforcement agencies from liability for injuries from police vehicle pursuits on adoption and promulgation of pursuit policy and regular and periodic training. Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that each agency adopt periodic training relative to pursuit policies rather than requiring them to do so. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include at least one question in any of the noncommercial driver's license examinations relative to police pursuit. Becomes operative on July 1, 2007.

Chapter 485, Statutes of 2005

SB 800 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: approaching emergency vehicles

Prescribes how a vehicle should proceed when approaching an emergency vehicle or two truck that is stopped on the roadway with its lights flashing. Requires, beginning January 1, 2010, two trucks servicing disabled vehicles to be equipped with flashing amber warning lights and specifies their use, and requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2008, regarding the effect of the changes made by this bill on the safety of emergency responders and the motoring public.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 806 (Speier-D) Provisional licensing program

Increases restrictions on teenage drivers operating a motor vehicle under a provisional driver's license (PDL) and increases punitive measures taken against those drivers (and their parents) who violate PDL restrictions.

(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 823 (Margett-R) Provisional licensing program: speed contest

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to inform an applicant for a license under the provisional licensing program, prior to issuing a license, of the hazards and penalties associated with violating a statute prohibiting a person from engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway.

(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 1021 (Bowen-D) Infractions: bodily injury or great bodily injury

Specifies that if a driver violates the rules of the road and this violation results in bodily injury to another person, the driver is guilty of the public offense of unsafe operation of a motor vehicle with bodily injury or great bodily injury.

(On Assembly Third Reading File)

AB 4 (Bogh-R) Permanent revocation of a license: DUI

Revokes the drivers' license of a person convicted of a third or subsequent violation of specified driving under the influence provisions.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 107 (Benoit-R) Traffic violator schools: lesson plans

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop, on or before January 1, 2007, curriculum criteria designed to reduce subsequent traffic violations and traffic collisions by those persons completing traffic violator school. Prohibits a court from ordering or permitting a person to attend a traffic violator school or court-approved program of driving instruction pursuant to existing law unless specified prerequisites have been met.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 305 (Mountjoy-R) Police vehicle pursuit

Increases penalties for fleeing in a motor vehicle from a peace officer in a motor vehicle while leaving penalties for fleeing from a peace officer on a bicycle the same and increases numerous vehicle-related infractions, as specified, to misdemeanors, punishable by up to six months in county jail.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 452 (Yee-D) Safety enhancement: double fine zone

Authorizes, until January 1, 2010, a double fine zone on State Highway Route 1 in the City and County of San Francisco and establishes standards for double fine zones.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 570 (Villines-R) Vehicles: fleeing a peace officer

Separates the section dealing with a person fleeing a peace officer with a willful and wanton disregard of persons from the section that addresses the disregard of property.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 571 (Levine-D) Vehicles: DUI: blood-alcohol concentration

Reduces the blood-alcohol content considered excessive by the court for purposes of enhanced probation or sentencing from 0.20 percent to 0.15 percent.

Chapter 89, Statutes of 2005

AB 753 (Gordon-D) Driving under the influence

Requires the suspension of a driver's license for persons over 21 years of age and who are convicted of specified violations regarding under age drinking.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 857 (Bass-D) Vehicles: registration fees: crime prevention programs

Extends, until January 1, 2012, the sunset date on law that allows counties to impose a one dollar surcharge on vehicle registration fees to fund crime prevention programs.

Chapter 470, Statutes of 2005

AB 877 (Huff-R) Vehicles: impound

Allows, until January 1, 2009, a peace officer to impound a vehicle upon issuance of a notice of reexamination to the driver.

(Failed passage in Senate Transportation Committee)

AB 963 (Garcia-R) Provisional driver's license: cell phone restriction

Prohibits a person issued a provisional driver's license from using a cellular telephone and other similar devices while operating a motor vehicle for the first six months of the license period.

(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 979 (Sharon Runner-R) Driving under the influence: restricted driver's license

Allows a repeat offender to get a restricted driver's license earlier with the installation of an ignition interlock device and allows for the impoundment of the vehicle of a person required to have an ignition interlock device installed caught driving a care without one.

Double-jointed with AB 1132 (Torrico-D).

Chapter 646, Statutes of 2005

AB 1025 (Walters-R) Driving in excess of 100 mph

Raises the charge for driving in excess of 100 mph to a misdemeanor, rather than an infraction.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1127 (Garcia-R) Two-way teleconferencing testing

Creates a pilot project to allow video teleconferenced testimony by law enforcement in trials for Vehicle Code infractions.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1132 (Torrico-D) Impounding vehicles

Allows for a vehicle to be returned to the registered owner in less than 30 days if the vehicle is seized because the driver has never been issued a driver's license.

Double-jointed with AB 979 (Runner-R).

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1148 (Nakanishi-R) Ice cream trucks: parking

Prohibits a person from vending from an ice cream truck on a public street, alley, or highway unless the truck is lawfully parked and adjacent to the curb, as required under existing law for other vendor's vehicles.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1325 (Vargas-D) Speed contests

Increases the penalties for violations of the prohibition against speed contests when there is injury.

Chapter 475, Statutes of 2005

AB 1353 (Liu-D) DUI offenders: education and counsel

Increases the length of the treatment program for a first time offender with a high blood alcohol level.

Chapter 164, Statutes of 2005

AB 1384 (Laird-D) Double fine zones

Authorizes double fine zones on specified highways. Extends the double fine zone for the five mile segment of State Highway Route 101, between Eureka Slough Bridge No. 4-22 and the Gannon Slough Bridge No. 4-24 in Arcata to January 1, 2010.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1413 (DeVore-R) Traffic accident notification

Eliminates the requirement that a motorist involved in a traffic accident resulting only in property damage notify the appropriate law enforcement agency of the accident.

(Failed passage in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 1447 (Garcia-R) Provisional driver's licenses: restrictions

Increases the penalties that a court may impose for a violation of restrictions set on a driver who is at least 16 years of age, but under 18 years of age, to a fine of not more than $100 for a first offense, and permanent revocation of the provisional driver's license for a second offense.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

Other Crimes and Sentencing

SB 92 (Murray-D) Computer spyware

Allows a person harmed by spyware, the Attorney General, or a district attorney, to file a civil suit for damages with a cap of $1 million on multiple violations.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 96* (Murray-D) Peer-to-peer networks: file sharing software

Provides that any person or entity that sells, advertises, or distributes peer-to-peer file sharing software, as defined, that enables the user to electronically disseminate recordings or audiovisual works over the Internet who fails to incorporate available filtering technology into that software to prevent use of the software to commit an unlawful act with respect to a commercial recording or audiovisual work, or a violation of provisions related to production, possession, distribution, or advertisement of obscene matter depicting a minor under 18 years of age, or tampering with, interference with, damage to, or unauthorized access to computer data or systems, is punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,500, imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 97 (Murray-D) Commercial electronic mail: penalties

Provides that a person who sends unsolicited commercial electronic mail advertising is to be subject to misdemeanor criminal penalties

Chapter 247, Statutes of 2005

SB 116 (Dutton-R) Child abandonment: safe surrender of newborns

Deletes the sunset date of January 1, 2006, on the child abandonment, safe surrender of newborns, making the law effective indefinitely.

Chapter 625, Statutes of 2005

SB 151 (Soto-D) Intimidating or improperly influencing judges

Includes judges in the list of persons and entities (jurors, arbitrators, referees) in the law that forbids a person to attempt to influence such entities through threats, intimidations, promises of advantage outside the regular course of the proceeding.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 156 (Soto-D) Animal fighting

Increases the penalty for causing any animal to fight with another animal, permitting the same to be done on any property under his or her control, or aiding or abetting the fighting of any animal.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 180 (Kuehl-D) Human trafficking

Establishes the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force and sets forth its course of action and physical make-up.

Chapter 239, Statues of 2005

SB 222 (Runner-R) Privacy: social security numbers

Imposes misdemeanor penalties where a person or entity violates state law protecting the privacy of social security numbers.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 235 (Denham-R) HIV exposure through unprotected sexual activity

Enacts a new alternate misdemeanor/felony for the act of engaging in unprotected sex, with willful or wanton disregard for the health of the other person when a person knows he or she is HIV positive and fails to disclose that fact to the other person.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 307 (Simitian-D) Dextromethorphan: sale to minors

Makes it an infraction for any person in an over-the-counter sale to, without a prescription, willfully and knowingly deliver to a person under 18 years of age a nonprescription drug containing dextromethorphan. Provides that a retail clerk who fails to require and obtain proof of age from the purchaser shall not be guilty of an infraction, subject to any civil penalties, or subject to any disciplinary action or discharge by his or her employer, unless the retail clerk is a willful participant in an ongoing criminal conspiracy to violate the provisions prohibiting the sale of dextromethorphan to minors.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 337 (Maldonado-R) Public postsecondary students: dismissal

Requires the local governing board of a community college district and the Trustees of the California State University (CSU), and requests the University of California Regents, to immediately dismiss any student convicted, pleading guilty to, or being adjudicated a delinquent minor with respect to specified rioting provisions of the Penal Code. Prohibits campuses of the community college districts or the CSU from admitting these students for one year, declares legislative intent that the Regents adopt the same or a more stringent admissions policy, and restricts these students' Cal Grant eligibility.

(Held without recommendation in Senate Education Committee)

SB 391 (Poochigian-R) Gang crime enhancements

Provides that a defendant convicted of a gang-related murder or other life-term offense shall receive a sentence enhancement of 10 years, as is imposed in every other gang-related violent felony conviction, unless imposition of the term of 15-years-to-life for a gang-related life term crime would result in greater punishment.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 434 (Simitian-D) False reporting

Makes it a felony to plant or conceal evidence or make a false statement with the intent that an innocent person be arrested and incarcerated for a serious or violent crime. This felony would be punishable by three, five, or nine years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 478 (Alquist-D) Obscene matter: definition

Adds various forms of pictorial reproductions, such as photocopy, videotape, computer generated images, and CD-ROMs, to the definition of "matter," to be used throughout the chapter on obscene material, and removes the separate definition from each individual code section. Defines other terms and exceptions, to be used throughout the chapter on obscene matter, and removes the separate terms and exceptions from each individual code section. Further removes defenses, as specified from individual code sections and place them in one provision. Repeals the provision that spells out punishment for certain violations, and places the punishment for each offense in the appropriate code section itself. Provides that possession of matter depicting a person under 14 years of age engaging in or simulating sexual conduct, a misdemeanor or a felony.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 488 (Soto-D) Contractors

Enhances penalties for third and subsequent convictions for contracting without a license and provides that it is a misdemeanor for the qualifying person of a contractor's license to violate worker's compensation insurance requirements.

Chapter 205, Statutes of 2005

SB 584 (Soto-D) Trespass: courthouse or county building

Expands existing misdemeanor trespass laws to specifically prohibit intentionally avoiding the screening and inspection procedures applicable to courthouses or a city, county, city and county or state building.

Double-joints with SB 735 (Torlakson-D) and AB 280 (Oropeza-D).

Chapter 378, Statutes of 2005

SB 735 (Torlakson-D) Trespass

Clarifies labor activities on any tenant property as it related to trespass laws.

Double-joints with SB 584 (Soto-D).

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 751 (Morrow-R) Human trafficking

Provides for sentence enhancements of nine, 12 and 15 years in existing crimes in which the defendant was engaged in human trafficking involving victims of any age, minors, and minors under the age of 14, respectively.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 914 (Kehoe-D) Animal cruelty

Makes the selling of a dog under the age of eight weeks, except as specified, an infraction or a misdemeanor, punishable as specified. In addition, the bill specifies that with respect to the sale of two or more dogs in violation of the bill's provisions, each dog unlawfully sold shall represent a separate offense.

Chapter 669, Statutes of 2005

SB 934 (Vincent-D) Dogs and cats: spay or neuter agreement: penalties

Provides that an entity selling or giving away an unspayed or unneutered dog or cat shall require the adopter or purchaser to execute a written agreement acknowledging that the dog or car is not spayed or neutered and agreeing that the adopter or purchaser shall be responsible for ensuring that the dog or car will be spayed or neutered. Subjects a purchaser or adopter who violates the agreement to spay or neuter to specified civil fines and penalties.

(In Senate Business and Professions Committee)

SB 936 (Maldonado-R) Homicide

Includes within definition, a homicide when committed to prevent an act of radiological sabotage or theft of special nuclear material at a nuclear power plan or nuclear spent fuel storage facility licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 971 (Poochigian-R) Assault: school employees

Provides that concurrent with existing penalties for assaulting a school employee, the offense is also punishable as a felony.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1018 (Simitian-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse

Enacts the Financial Elder Abuse Reporting Act of 2005. Provides that from January 1, 2007 until January 1, 2013, all officers and employees of banks, federal and state credit unions and their affiliates who suspect financial elder or dependent adult abuse, as specified, mandated reporters of suspected financial abuse of elders and dependent adults. Makes a failure by a mandated reporter to report suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult subject to civil penalties currently imposed on other mandated reporters of elder or dependent adult abuse, and makes such penalties payable by the employer financial institution.

Chapter 140, Statutes of 2005

AB 22 (Lieber-D) Human trafficking

Creates the new crime of trafficking of a person for forced labor or services or for effecting other felonies and the crime of trafficking of a minor for those purposes, punishable by imprisonment for three, four, or five years, or four, six, or eight years, respectively, as well as restitution. Creates a new civil cause of action for a victim of human trafficking to seek actual, compensatory and punitive damages, injunctive relief or any combination of these remedies, and provides an award of attorney's fees and costs to a prevailing plaintiff. Provides that a victim will have five years from the date on which he/she was freed from the trafficking situation to file the action, or eight years after the victim attains the age of majority if the victim was a minor when the act(s) occurred. Provides that a victim could seek compensation from the Victims of Crime Compensation Fund under specified conditions. Creates a "human trafficking victim-caseworker" privilege that is similar to the current sexual assault-caseworker privilege. Creates, as does SB 180 (Kuehl), the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force that will assist the Legislature in guiding and coordinating antitrafficking efforts.

Chapter 240, Statutes of 2005

A similar bill is AB 41 (Yee-D) which is in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

AB 33 (Sharon Runner-R) Contact with minors

Raises that minimum age of a child-victim of illegal communication with a child from 12 and under to under 14 years. Allows forfeiture of a computer used in the commission of such an offense.

Chapter 461, Statutes of 2005

AB 50 (Leno-D) Crimes: third strike

Prevents a defendant with two prior qualifying serious or violent felony convictions whose current offense is neither a serious or violent felony from receiving a Third Strike sentence of 25 years to life unless the current offense is a specified controlled substance offense, a felony sex offense, as specified, or possession of a firearm or deadly weapon.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 64 (Cohn-D) Recording crimes

Lowers the threshold for an alternate felony-misdemeanor conviction for record piracy from 1,000 copies to 100 copies.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 246 (Walters-R) Statutes of limitation: accessory to felony

Lengthens the statute of limitations for the crime of being an accessory to a felony from three years to be same as for the underlying felony to which the person is charged with being an accessory or five years, whichever is less.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 280 (Oropeza-D) Trespass: harbor and port passenger terminals

Applies the same misdemeanor weapons prohibitions and access limitations that currently exist for airport restricted areas to restricted areas of passenger vessel terminals in harbors and ports.

Double-joints with SB 735 (Torlakson-D) and SB 584 (Soto-D).

Chapter 289, Statutes of 2005

AB 281 (Liu-D) Child pornography

Defines the possession of more than 100 "items" depicting minors engaged in actual or simulated sexual conduct as an alternate felony-misdemeanor, while possession of such material under existing law is a misdemeanor, and a felony if the defendant has suffered specified prior child pornography related offenses. Provides that in a prosecution for possession of over 100 items of child pornography, the issue of whether an image is of a real child, not a computer generated image or other simulated representation of a child, need not be established by expert testimony

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 282 (Benoit-R) Sexually explicit material

Expands current law on "harmful matter" and "public nuisance" to regulate matter in motor vehicles on public streets.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 308 (Jerome Horton-D) Hate crimes

Provides that every person convicted of a hate crime, as defined, shall be ineligible to earn any credit on his or her term of imprisonment.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 376 (Mountjoy-R) Amber alerts

Enacts a new misdemeanor for the intentional reporting of a false report to activate the "Amber Alert" Emergency Alert System, as specified, punishable by up to six months in the county jail, a fine of up to $5,000, or both fine and imprisonment.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 404 (Leno-D) Bail licenses

Allows bail agents licensed by the Department of Insurance (DOI) to satisfy their annual continuing education requirement through Internet or correspondence courses. Requires a written test with a minimum passing grade, makes changes to the DOI approval process for bail licensure education providers. Allows the DOI to impose a fee for that approval process.

Chapter 389, Statutes of 2005

AB 418 (Koretz-D) Dogs: animal cruelty: ear cropping

Makes is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $10,000, for any person to perform, procure or arrange an cropping procedure on any dog within California, except as performed by a licensed veterinarian solely for a therapeutic purpose. Specifies that nothing in this bill prohibits showing a dog with cropped ears in a competition, owning a dog with cropped ears, or buying or selling a dog with cropped ears.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 456 (Torrico-D) Public employees' retirement: fraud

Enacts new criminal fraud provisions in the statutes pertaining to the State Public Employees Retirement Law, the State Teachers Retirement Law, and the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937.

(In Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 646 (Sharon Runner-R) Body piercing

Provides that it is an infraction for any person to perform or offer to perform body piercing upon a person under 18 years of age, punishable by a fine up to $250.

Chapter 307, Statutes of 2005

AB 734 (Dymally-D) Endangered species: crimes

Exempts from Penal Code Section 653o the importation in California of products made from those species of kangaroo that are not designated as threatened or endangered under the federal endangered species act or the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

(In Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)

AB 787 (DeVore-R) Crime: impersonating a veteran

Makes it a misdemeanor for a person to falsely claim to be, or present himself or herself to be a veteran member of the armed forces of the Unites States, with the intent to defraud. Would not apply to face-to-face solicitations involving less than $10.

Chapter 457, Statutes of 2005

AB 806 (La Suer-R) High technology crimes

Authorizes a court to require a defendant convicted of any crime committed with the aid of a computer, computer network, electronic mail, or the Internet to pay a new laboratory analysis fee, collected only after other restitution, fines and fees are collected, if "an analysis was done in the case, for the reasonable costs incurred for computer forensic analysis..."

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 878 (Chavez-D) Felonies: profits

Amends California's law referred to as the "Son of Sam" law, which imposes an involuntary trust upon the profits and proceeds gained by a convicted felon, or by other, from selling the story of, or materials relating to, the felon's crime, in order to address concerns raised by the Supreme Court in a decision that held the existing "Son of Sam" statute unconstitutional.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 999 (La Malfa-R) Attempted murder: custodial officers

Makes the penalty for the attempted murder of a custodial officer the same as the penalty for the attempted murder of a peace officer.

Chapter 52, Statutes of 2005

AB 1023 (Walters-R) Child exploitation

States legislative intent to eliminate misdemeanor or alternative misdemeanor or felony treatment of all child pornography or child exploitation offenses involving a person who is 14 years of age or younger. Provides that any person who commits a violation of these provisions that involves a person who is 14 years of age or younger is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or two or three years, unless a greater felony punishment is specified in that provision, in which case that punishment shall apply.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1035 (Spitzer-R) Public officials: Internet posting of home information

Prohibits any person from knowingly hosting or providing service to an Internet web site that posts an official's home address or telephone number, and prohibits any person from knowingly disclosing an official's home address or telephone numbers.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1112 (Cohn-D) Loitering: transit facilities

States that any person, who is at, in, or on a public transit facility or building not present to use the transit system is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1160 (Lieber-D) Manslaughter

Prohibits a finding of "sudden quarrel" or "heat of passion" in a case involving manslaughter if the defendant's actions resulted from the discover, knowledge, or potential disclosure of a particular characteristic or association, as specified, which belongs to either the victim or defendant.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1169 (Torrico-D) Assault and battery: transit employee

Creates new misdemeanor assaults and batteries on operators of transit district vehicles with fines of $5,000 where an assault is committed against the operator who is performing his or her duties, $10,000 where an assault is committed while the vehicle is in motion, and $15,000 where a battery is committed while the vehicle is in motion.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1183 (Vargas-D) Insurance: anti-fraud

Extends, until January 1, 2010, a sunset on two existing fees levied on auto insurance polices for the support of anti-fraud and consumer services programs, and makes other technical code changes to update reference to the Bureau of Fraudulent Claims by replacing it with Fraud Division.

Chapter 717, Statutes of 2005

AB 1188 (Wolk-D) Elder abuse reporting

Expands the existing criminal penalties applicable to failure to report elder abuse to include impeding or inhibiting an elder abuse report.

Chapter 163, Statutes of 2005

AB 1333 (Frommer-D) Grease waste haulers

Prohibits grease haulers from reinserting any new materials into a grease waste trap or discharge same into any water of the state and requires disposal of grease waste at an appropriate location and provides criminal and civil penalties for violations.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1389 (Oropeza-D) Littering: cigarette butts

Increases the fine for throwing or otherwise discarding cigarettes to not less than $750 nor more than $1,500, for a first offense, not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,000, for a second offense, and not less than $2,000 nor more than $3,000 upon a third or subsequent conviction.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1426 (Liu-D) Animal euthanasia

Prohibits the use of intracardiac injections of a euthanasia agent to kill any animal, except as specified.

Chapter 352, Statutes of 2005

AB 1449 (Bermudez-D) Graffiti abatement

Requires, in regard to any publicly or privately owned real property near a state-maintained highway, a city or county officials to notify the Department of Transportation upon discovery of graffiti on the property, and requires the department to serve an order for graffiti removal on the property owner, as specified. Requires the department, or city and county in cooperation with the department, to take certain abatement action if the property owner does not respond, or refuses to permit the Department of Transportation access to the property in order to take abatement action, and authorizes the billing of the owner for certain associated expenses. Provides for creation of a lien on the property if the property owner fails to pay, and possible foreclosure and sale of the property.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1542 (Parra-D) Sentencing: combat veterans

Authorizes a sentencing court to place a defendant who suffers from substance abuse, post traumatic stress disorder or other psychological disorders as a result of military combat service in a probation and treatment program, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1587 (Saldana-D) Farmed Animal Reform Act

Creates a new crime for anyone to kill or attempt to kill any cow, bull, calf, horse, mule, sheep, swine, goat, fallow deer, or poultry by specified methods. Provides new definition for methods of slaughter.

(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 1605 (Wolk-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse

Extends mandated reporting requirements for financial elder or dependent adult abuse to all officers and employees of certain financial institutions.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

ACR 8 (Dymally-D) Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Awareness Month

Proclaims the month of May this year and every year thereafter as Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Awareness Month.

Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2005

ACR 33 (Lieber-D) Joint Committee on Human Trafficking in California

Establishes the Joint Committee on Human Trafficking in California, which consists of five Assembly Members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and five Senators appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, to study and investigate issues relating to hum trafficking. Prescribes the duties of the committee and authorizes the committee to act until November 30, 2006.

Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2005

Procedural

SB 16* (Alquist-D) Statute of limitations

Makes technical corrections to Section 803 of the Penal Code pertaining to statutes of limitations which are required because of a chaptering problem from the previous session.

Chapter 2, Statutes of 2005

SB 129 (Margett-R) Biological evidence: storage

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 138 (Maldonado-R) Closed-circuit testimony

Expands the use of testimony by closed-circuit television of child victims of sex offenses and violent felonies to also provide for its use in child abuse cases and to change the standards for the use of closed-circuit television. Expands the discretion of the court to include specified threats to the minor.

Chapter 480, Statutes of 2005

SB 171 (Alquist-D) Interrogation: recording

Enacts the Truth in Prosecution Act of 2005, which provides that any custodial interrogation conducted at a place of detention of an individual suspected of committing or accused of a homicide or a violent felony, as defined, shall be electronically recorded. Provides that the state shall not destroy or alter the electronic recording of a custodial interrogation, except as specified. Provides that if a court finds that a defendant was subjected to an unlawful custodial interrogation, the court shall, at the request of the defendant, provide the jury with a cautionary instruction, as specified.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 330 (Cedillo-D) Mental competency

Allows a misdemeanor trial to be reset within 30 days following reinstatement of criminal proceedings after a determination that the defendant is competent to stand trial.

Chapter 36, Statutes of 2005

SB 450 (Poochigian-R) Appeals: fugitive defendants

Provides that no appeal may be taken by a fugitive defendant, or a defendant who has otherwise removed himself/herself from the jurisdiction of the appellate court. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no appeal may be reinstated, if the reinstatement is necessary because the defendant was not within the jurisdiction of the appellate court because the defendant was a fugitive or otherwise removed himself/herself from the jurisdiction of the appellate court during the pendency of the appeal. Expresses that it is the intent of the Legislature that no criminal defendant who, following conviction becomes or remains a fugitive, or who is convicted in absentia and remains a fugitive, may commence or reinstate an appeal if the untimely commencement or necessity for reinstatement is due to the defendant removing himself/herself from the jurisdiction of the appellate court by being a fugitive.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 807 (Simitian-D) Evidence: penitential communications

Exempts from existing privilege to refuse to disclose a penitential communication by a member of the clergy writings regarding or relating to sexual abuse, misconduct or molestation.

(Retained in Senate Public Safety Committee with subject matter referred to Rules Committee for study)

AB 312 (Ruskin-D) Records: subpoena authority

Requires the party issuing a subpoena for specified documents to state in the subpoena that the documents shall be submitted directly to the court in a sealed wrapper, per Section 1560 of the Evidence Code. Provides that a violation of this provision is punishable as contempt of court (a misdemeanor), in addition to existing civil remedies.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 557 (Karnette-D) Criminal procedure: testimony

Allows an honorably retired law enforcement officer to testify to hearsay statements at a preliminary hearing.

Chapter 18, Statutes of 2005

AB 620 (Negrete McLeod-D) Examination of witnesses

Allows for a conditional examination when a material witness is 65 years of age or older instead of 70 years of age or older and allows the defense as well as the prosecution to request a conditional examination when the life of a witness is in danger.

Chapter 305, Statutes of 2005

AB 760 (Nava-D) Children of incarcerated parents

Requires that if, during the booking process, an arrested person is identified as a custodial parent with responsibility for a minor child, the arrested person shall be entitled to make two additional phone calls, as specified, for the purpose of arranging for the care of the minor child(ren) in the parent's absence.

Chapter 635, Statutes of 2005

AB 851 (Koretz-D) Criminal records: expungement

Deletes the requirement, in existing law, that a person found innocent of a crime has to petition the court to have DNA samples destroyed, and requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to destroy the sample or specimen, and expunge the records relating thereto. Provides that if a person is found to be factually innocent, whether subsequent to arrest or conviction, as a result of DNA testing or decree, the court of record shall order the records of the person expunged, and shall transmit that order to DOJ. Provides that upon receipt of that order, DOJ is required to ensure that any records in its possession related to the crime for which the person is found factually innocent are expunged, including sending notice to local law enforcement agencies that may have received those records from DOJ.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1133 (Harman-R) Evidentiary privileges

Limits the waiver of certain evidentiary privileges based on the unintentional disclosure of confidential information.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1288 (Chu-D) Domestic violence: firearms

Requires courts in domestic violence prosecutions to consider issuing a protective order prohibiting a defendant from having a firearm upon a good cause belief that harm to, or intimidation or dissuasion of, a victim or witness has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur where the court has not issued a stay-away order, and authorizes specified officers to inform persons who are protected by a domestic violence protective order, or the victim of alleged domestic violence when the Department of Justice records indicate the other person has a firearm, as specified.

Double-joints with AB 112 (Cohn-D), AB 118 (Cohn-D), and AB 1060 (Liu-D), and SB 720 (Kuehl-D).

Chapter 702, Statutes of 2005

AB 1293 (Oropeza-D) Depositions

Permits electronic transmissions, with respect to deposition transcripts with specified protection including the transcript, be encrypted and given a protected password.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1540 (Bass-D) Criminal procedure: habeas corpus

Authorizes a district attorney, in the interest of justice, to petition for a writ of habeas corpus to recall the sentence and commitment of any inmate incarcerated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

(On Senate Inactive File)

Juries

SB 252 (Ackerman-R) Jurors: payment

Makes it a misdemeanor for any party to give, or any juror to receive, a payment of money for anything of value following the verdict in a civil or criminal case.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 416 (Ackerman-R) Grand juries

Permits a judge appointed by the presiding judge of the superior court to supervise a grand jury, upon the request of the Attorney General, or district attorney, or his/her own motion, to impanel an additional grand jury.

Chapter 25, Statutes of 2005

SB 874 (Romero-D) Public contracts

Prevents a state agency from contracting for goods or services with a contractor that does not have and adheres to a written policy of providing its employees with at least five days of regular pay, on an annual basis, for actual jury service. Exempts small businesses, defined as contractors with 100 or more full-time employees, from the provisions of the bill.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1626 (Nava-D) Jury tampering

Spot bill dealing with tampering with a jury.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Juvenile Justice

SB 78 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) 2004 Budget: California Youth Authority supplemental funding

Allocates $40.382 million to the Department of the California Youth Authority (CYA) in order to continue existing programs for the ward population in CYA institutions. The deficiency is the result of a decrease in the level of county reimbursements, adjustments to the reimbursement base in other areas to reflect actual collections, errors identified in the way CYA budgeted prior year institution closures, and lack of fiscal control and budgetary expertise within the CYA.

Chapter 246, Statutes of 2005

SB 218 (Scott-D) Termination of parental rights

Provides that after termination of parental rights and before a petition for adoption is granted by the court, a child may be removed from the home of a caretaker who has been designated as a prospective adoptive parent only after notice is provided and, if a noticed person objects, a noticed hearing is held. The child may be removed from that caretaker's home if the court finds that removal is in the best interest of the child.

Double-joints with AB 519 (Leno-D), AB 1338 (Nation-D), and AB 1412 (Leno-D).

Chapter 636, Statutes of 2005

SB 346 (Battin-R) Use of a child's identity information by a parent

Provides that a child whose parent or legal guardian has used the personal identifying information of the child in violation of Section 530.5 of the Penal Code may be adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 447* (Poochigian-R) Youth authority

Clarifies current law, which allows the court to impose a civil commitment on a juvenile about to be released from the Department of the Youth Authority if that person presents a physical danger to the public because of a mental or physical deficiency, disorder, or abnormality, to require the court to find that the condition "causes the offender to have serious difficulty controlling his or her behavior," as specified by recent case law.

Chapter 110, Statutes of 2005

SB 500 (Kuehl-D) Pregnant and parenting foster youth

Allows a child whose parent is adjudged to be a dependent of the court to also be considered a ward of the court for purposes of federal financial participation. Specifies that both the foster youth who is the teen parent and the foster youth who is the child may be placed in the same licensed or approved foster care facility if the teen foster parent is receiving reunification services with respect to that child.

Chapter 630, Statutes of 2005

SB 520 (Ashburn-R) Juvenile justice

Excludes, statutorily, minors alleged to have committed specified sex offenses from eligibility for deferred entry of judgment, as enacted by Proposition 21 in 2000. Changes a provision of Proposition 21, concerning the eligibility of minors to be tried directly in adult court, by lowering a cited age from 16 to 14, as specified.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 570 (Migden-D) Mentally incompetent minors

Creates a procedure for minors who are within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court for delinquent conduct to be evaluated for mental disorders, emotional disturbances or developmental disabilities.

Chapter 265, Statutes of 2005

SB 609 (Romero-D) Juvenile justice reform

Sets forth various findings and declarations and expresses the intent of the Legislature to provide for the transfer of the Department of the Youth Authority parole supervision and services from state to local government.

(Held at Assembly Desk)

SB 678* (Ducheny-D) Indian children

Revises and recasts the portions of the Family, Probate, and Welfare and Institutions Codes that address Indian child custody proceedings by codifying into state law various provisions of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Guidelines for State Courts, and state Rules of Court.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 726 (Florez-D) Dependent children

Enacts Adams Law to emphasize to foster parents the importance of providing courts with information to determine whether a noncustodial parent is an appropriate placement for a foster child.

Chapter 632, Statutes of 2005

SB 737* (Romero-D) Corrections

Amends the Governor's Reorganization Plan 1 to respond to concerns regarding such things as juvenile justice, warden appointment and agency management.

Chapter 10, Statutes of 2005

SB 795 (Romero-D) Youth Authority: parole

Enacts a statutory process of release planning, for wards committed to the Department of the Youth Authority to include a 120 days notice to county probation departments.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 1034 (Hollingsworth-R) Community care facilities: wards of the juvenile court

Requires at least two-thirds of residents housed by a state-funded or state-reimbursed facility that serves wards of the juvenile court to be wards of the court of the county in which the facility is located. Authorizes up to one-third of a facility's residents to be wards of a court of a county other than the county in which the facility is located.

(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 139* (Assembly Budget Committee) Juvenile probation funding: budget trailer bill

Enacts the General Government trail bill which, among other provisions, specifies the allocation of funding to county probation departments to provide services for children who are runaways, habitual truants, at risk of being wards of the juvenile court, or are under juvenile court supervision or supervision of the probation department, consistent with current practice.

Chapter 74, Statutes of 2005

AB 314 (Parra-D) Department of the Youth Authority

Requires the Department of the Youth Authority to conduct a comprehensive study of all newly committed wards so as to appropriately handle the physical, mental, and educational needs of the ward as well as any problems with substance abuse.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 519 (Leno-D) Parental rights: reinstatement after termination

Permits, under limited circumstances, a child whose parents have had their rights terminated to petition the court to have the rights reinstated. Authorizes the juvenile court to issue an ex parte order protecting parents, guardians, and caregivers even if an order protecting the child is not being issued simultaneously.

Double-joints with SB 218 (Bowen-D), AB 1338 (Nation-D), and AB 1412 (Leno-D).

Chapter 634, Statutes of 2005

AB 743 (Strickland-R) Minors: rape

Expands the list of offenses which, when alleged against a minor age 16 or older, allows the prosecutor to charge the case directly in adult court and, when alleged against a minor age 14 or older, creates a presumption that the minor should be tried as an adult by adding rape of an unconscious person to that list.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 763 (Tran-R) Juvenile justice coordinating councils

Clarifies a conflict of interest provision relating to county juvenile justice coordinating councils.

(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 863 (Bass-D) Child Welfare Council

Establishes the Child Welfare Council, which advises on the management of the multiple agencies that provide services to children and youth in contact with courts, and the child welfare and foster care systems.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 880 (Cohn-D) Dependent children

Requires the Department of Social Services, in conjunction with stakeholders, to draft guidelines outlining best practices in the use of advanced technology to assist counties in identifying all relative and nonrelative extended family members at the earliest possible moment for the foster child, and develop funding estimates.

Double-joints with AB 1412 (Leno-D).

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1198 (Mullin-D) Juvenile court records: County of San Mateo

Authorizes the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to establish, by resolution, a demonstration project permitting the exchange of information concerning a juvenile, as specified. Provides that the project include an evaluation of the impact of the demonstration project, and not exceed three years.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1267 (Leslie-R) Corrections Standards Authority

Requires the Corrections Standard Authority, rather than the California Council on Criminal Justice, to act as the supervisory board of the state planning agency pursuant to the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, and review the state plan for delinquency prevention, as specified.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1338 (Nation-D) Immigrant children: appointment of attorney

Requires the court, after it has determined it is in the child's best interest, to appoint an immigration attorney for the following children: a dependent child who is not a citizen of the United States or a lawful permanent resident for whom the court has determined parental reunification is no longer an option, and a child who is adjudged a ward of the court who is not a citizen of the United States or a lawful permanent resident and who is in foster care or deemed unlikely to reunify with his/her parents.

Double-joints with SB 218 (Scott-D), AB 518 (Leno-D), and AB 1412 (Leno-D).

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1412 (Leno-D) Dependent children: out-of-home placements

Expands, subject to phase-in and appropriation through the Budget Act, the responsibilities of county child welfare workers by directing them to ask all foster children 10 years old or older who have been in placement longer than six months about developing and maintaining supportive relationships with adults who can serve in important roles in the foster youth's life.

Chapter 640, Statutes of 2005

AB 1448 (Saldana-D) Conflicts of interest

Specifies a contract or grant by a county multiagency juvenile justice coordinating council does not violate the conflict of interest prohibition unless the following conditions are met: (1) The contract or grant directly relates to services provided by a council member or the entity that the member represents, or financially benefits the member or the member's entity. (2) The members fails to recuse himself/herself from the decision on the grant or contract.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1501 (Yee-D) Juvenile prostitution

Establishes a pilot project, to remain in effect until January 1, 2009, requiring the counties of Alameda and Contra Costa, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a streamlined and coordinated set of protocols for addressing the needs of minors who have been arrested for prostitution. Requires those counties to develop and implement memoranda of understanding between the counties to coordinate services to be provided to minors who are transferred from one county to another.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1638 (Nava-D) Adoption of dependent children

Expedites adoptions of foster children in certain circumstances.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 63 (Negrete McLeod-D) CYA Counselor Ineasie M. Baker Memorial Freeway

Designates a segment of Highway 60 in San Bernardino County as the CYA Counselor Ineasie N. Baker Memorial Freeway, who on August 9, 1996, was slain at the Herman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility, an institution for young adult criminals, where she worked.

Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2005

Corrections

SB 91 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) 2004 Budget deficiency: Corrections

Allocations $227.813 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) for increased inmate population at state correctional institutions, $5.335 million to DCR to reimburse local governments' costs for prosecuting crimes committed by inmates, and $964,000 from the Inmate Welfare Fund for increased canteen costs driven by prison population increases.

Chapter 79, Statutes of 2005

SB 159 (Runner-R) Inmates: health care services

Enacts, until January 1, 2009, a new section in law for sheriffs and police chiefs, similar to that in Section 5023.5 of the Penal Code concerning the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of the Youth Authority, setting statutory limits on payments for emergency health care services to non-contract emergency providers for persons in custody, victims of crimes, and jail inmates. Authorizes, specifically, sheriffs and police chiefs to contract for emergency services.

Chapter 481, Statutes of 2005

SB 239 (Romero-D) Media access to inmates

Provides media access to specific inmates at state prisons. Allows a prisoner to give confidential information to the media, and requires materials used in interviews to be searched. Provides that the warden of a prison ensures that a victim is notified of a media interview, as specified, and makes other changes to the bill.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 366 (Kuehl-D) Offenders' families: female offenders

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to adopt and implement, by January 1, 2011, a correctional strategy for female inmates.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 378 (Morrow-R) Death penalty appeals: appointment of counsel

Creates a new type of postconviction review in capital cases instead of habeas corpus, to change the standards for counsel in capital cases, adds personnel to the State Public Defender and the Attorney General and makes changes to the board of directors of the Habeas Corpus Resource Center.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 460 (Margett-R) Offender access to personal information

Chapter 259, Statutes of 2005

SB 480 (Denham-R) Central Coast Veterans Cemetery

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to make available inmate work crews from Salinas Valley State Prison to perform ongoing maintenance at the Central Coast Veterans Cemetery which is on the former site of Fort Ord in Monterey.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 616 (Speier-D) Inmate health care

Enacts the Inmate Health Care Efficiency Act of 2005.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 617 (Speier-D) Women prisoners

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house pregnant female prison inmates separately from other female inmates and be given appropriate health care and nutrition. Establishes the six-member Gender Specific Standards for Women in Prison Task Force, specifies its membership and tasks it with evaluating current prison conditions for women and making recommendations to the Secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, who in turn is required to report these findings and recommendations to the Legislature and Governor.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 618 (Speier-D) Inmates: individualized assessments and plans

Allows counties to develop a multiagency plan to prepare and enhance nonviolent felony offenders' successful reentry into the community. Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into an agreement with a county or counties to implement the plan and provide funding for the purpose of the probation department carrying out the assessment.

Chapter 603, Statutes of 2005

SB 619* (Speier-D) Electronic monitoring

Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county probation department may use "continuous electronic monitoring" (CEM) which may include global position system technology to supervise persons on county probation, as specified. Enacts legislative findings and intent regarding CEM. Enacts numerous other details about the use of CEM by county probation departments and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Chapter 484, Statutes of 2005

SB 620 (Speier-D) Youth and adult facilities: random searches

Requires the Secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency to require that every person who enters the property of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of the Youth Authority or a privately operated correctional facility be subject to random searches for weapons and contraband. Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a uniform protocol for implementing this policy.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 622 (Speier-D) Correctional facilities: educational programs

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement a continuous education program that includes both an intake assessment as well as "appropriate education services" for inmates at each state and privately operated facility within 180 days of the effective date of the bill. Further requires the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency to report annually its findings, outcomes and statistics pertaining to the program to the Legislature.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 647* (Margett-R) Parole revocation

Requires criminal history information to be provided to a parolee or his/her attorney in a parole revocation or revocation extension hearing, consistent with the 2003 settlement in Valdivia v. Schwarzenegger regarding the state's parole revocation process.

Chapter 99, Statutes of 2005

SB 672 (Cox-R) Inmate education programs: apportionment

Authorizes a community college that generates units of full-time equivalent students (FTES) in classes for inmates to add and count credit attendance hours for state apportionment purposes and expands the existing authority of a community college to receive FTES for inmate education programs to include state correctional facilities.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 737* (Romero-D) Corrections

Amends the Governor's Reorganization Plan 1 to respond to concerns regarding such things as juvenile justice, warden appointment and agency management.

Chapter 10, Statutes of 2005

SB 814 (Romero-D) Prisons: segregation

Enacts legislative findings and declarations relative to not using racial classifications pertaining to inmates. Enacts in law the following: "Race and ethnicity shall not be the sole or primary basis for cell or housing placement."

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 901* (Denham-R) Prisons

Establishes requirements for the decommissioning and redevelopment of San Quentin State Prison. Requires the decommissioning be completed no later than December 31, 2010. Authorizes the Governor to designate which state prison will house condemned inmates.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 946 (Florez-D) Community correctional facilities

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to renew contracts with community correctional facilities unless a breach of contract exists or the cost of housing inmates exceeds the cost in DCR facilities. Requires a new annual reimbursement rate be established that takes into account specified new contract requirements, uses 1998 as a base year for contract rate adjustments and requires adjustments from that year.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 963* (Ashburn-R) Home detention: electronic monitoring

Explicitly includes in the existing law pertaining to local home detention programs using "electronic monitoring or supervising devices" the use of "global positioning system devices and other" supervising devices.

Chapter 488, Statutes of 2005

SB 1074 (Hollingsworth-R) Parole: Global Positioning System

Requires that every "high-risk sex offender" shall be monitored by a Global Positioning System device for the term of his/her parole.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 47 (Cohn-D) Public contracts: medical care services

Prohibits, until January 1, 2009, the Department of General services from authorizing a contract medical care services to be entered into by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation unless the contract was competitively bid pursuant to provisions of existing law, and creates specified exceptions to this prohibition.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 161 (Vargas-D) Prisoners: clergy

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to employ one clergy member for each 500 inmates and requires DCR to employ a variety of clergy from the Catholic Jewish, Muslim, Native American, and Protestant faiths, plus at least one general chaplain to minister to inmates of underrepresented faiths.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 183* (Cogdill-R) Conservation camps: Madera County

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to house up to 120 inmates trained as conservation camp inmates at the Central California Women's Facility, or the Valley State Prison for Women. Authorizes DCR and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to use these inmates in the same manner as inmate crews housed at conservation camps.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 212 (DeVore-R) Prisons: family visits

Prohibits a state prison inmate incarcerated for a violent felony, as defined, from having an overnight family visit, and requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to revise its regulations to comport with this prohibition by March 1, 2006.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 231 (Sharon Runner-R) Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act: Jessica's Law

Enacts the Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act: Jessica's Law, and adds rape committed in concert and committing lewd and lascivious acts to those crimes punishable by life in prison with the possibility of parole.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 296 (Negrete McLeod-D) Hepatitis C

Adds additional requirements to the hepatitis C voluntary testing program that the Director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall implement.

Chapter 524, Statutes of 2005

AB 308 (Jerome Horton-D) Hate crimes: early release

Provides that every person convicted of a hate crime shall be ineligible to earn any credit on is/her term of imprisonment.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 313 (Ruskin-D) Parole offices

Provides for a more specified notice process for Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Department of the California Youth Authority building proposals.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 324 (Mountjoy-R) Correctional facilities: faith- and morals-based programs

Enacts uncodified legislative findings and declarations that inmates in jails and other local detention facilities and prisoners benefit from participation in faith-based programs and morals-based programs, as well as education and rehabilitation programs and other secular programs.

Chapter 292, Statutes of 2005

AB 427 (La Malfa-R) Workers' compensation: local inmates

Restricts temporary disability benefits for inmates of county jails, industrial farms, road camps, and city jails, or inmates on work release who become injured while working while incarcerated.

(Failed passage in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 478 (Lieber-D) Medical care of pregnant inmates and wards

Provides pregnant state incarcerated inmates and wards with prenatal care. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to transport pregnant inmates in the least restrictive way possible. Prohibits DCR from shackling pregnant inmates who are temporarily being transported to a hospital, are in labor or in recovery, unless deemed necessary for the safety and security of the inmate, the staff, and the public.

Chapter 608, Statutes of 2005

AB 505 (Leno-D) Prisoners

Requires that any person who has never been convicted of a "violent" or "serious" felony, or is not required to register as a convicted sex offender, and has been released on parole from the state prison continuously for one year since release from confinement, shall, within 30 days, be discharged from parole.

(Refused passage on Assembly Floor; reconsideration granted)

AB 543 (Houston-R) Contra Costa County prisoner education program

Establishes a pilot program in Contra Costa County whereby inmates in the county jail shall have their sentences reduced for successfully participating in basic education and vocational training programs, and makes findings and declarations, as specified.

(Returned by Governor; on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 545 (Garcia-R) Correctional peace officers

Requires all allegations or complaints regarding Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) or Department of the California Youth Authority (CYA) employee misconduct to be investigated by internal affairs (or the successor to internal affairs, which is the Office of Investigative Services) and the results of the investigation reduced to writing. Requires DCR and CYA to develop a plan to increase the use of surveillance cameras within the institutions they administer and issue a report containing the plan to the Legislature.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 550 (Goldberg-D) Correctional institutions: sexual abuse

Establishes the Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination Act, the purpose of which is to protect all inmates and wards from sexual abuse while held in institutions operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR). Requires DCR to review the handbooks regarding sexual abuse. Requires DCR to develop specified policies, practices, and protocols when placing inmates. Creates the Office of the Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination Ombudsperson. Requires DCR to develop guidelines for allowing outside organizations and service agencies to provide resources and counseling to inmates and wards.

Chapter 303, Statutes of 2005

AB 561 (Montanez-D) Inmate education programs

Requires the Department of corrections and Rehabilitation to perform an initial educational assessment and annual reviews on an inmates education needs until they are released on parole. Requires educational programs to be offered at each institution, as specified. Authorizes the Superintendent of Correctional Education to oversee the education budget and the hiring of correctional education personnel.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 627 (Leslie-R) Parole: religious counseling

Authorizes a department or volunteer chaplain who counseled an inmate while incarcerated to continue counseling them while he/she is on parole, as specified.

Chapter 306, Statutes of 2005

AB 629 (Chan-D) Alameda County reentry services pilot program

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract for a reentry services pilot program in Alameda County to provide necessary services and support in an effort to reduce the rate of recidivism.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 658 (Liu-D) Women inmates

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop an unspecified pilot program to expand incarceration options for non-violent women offenders. Options specified include housing women closer to family, reentry facilities for transitioning from prison to community, and less restrictive sanctions for parole violators. Requires appointment of a deputy director for women's programs.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 663 (La Suer-R) Offenses relating to prisons and prisoners

Authorizes cities and counties to receive state reimbursement for any costs incurred for providing training in the investigation or prosecution associated with crimes committed by a state prisoner.

Chapter 54, Statutes of 2005

AB 698 (Haynes-R) Media access to inmates

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to allow the news media to interview prisoners.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 821 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Prisoners: voting

Requires county elections officials to provide voter registration forms and copies of the "Guide to Inmate Voting" to local detention facilities, and requires those facilities to make the registration forms and guides available to the specified inmates.

(Failed passage in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 855 (Bass-D) CalWORKs

Allows certain drug felons to receive CalWORKS cash grant assistance when amenability to treatment is documented.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 862 (Bass-D) Inmates: parental rights and responsibilities

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide inmates with the following information: (1) a Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) Child Support Handbook, (2) a pamphlet entitled "Child Support Information for the Parent in Jail or Prison," and (3) any other material developed by DCSS that will provide the necessary information regarding child support processes and procedures.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 971 (Jerome Horton-D) Corrections: superintendents

Adds superintendents of youth facilities to Section 6126.6 of the Penal Code so that those persons are subject to the same pre-appointment review process as wardens of adult facilities.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 999 (La Malfa-R) Attempted murder: custodial officers

Makes the penalty for the attempted murder of a custodial officer the same as the penalty for the attempted murder of a peace officer.

Chapter 52, Statutes of 2005

AB 1267 (Leslie-R) Corrections Standards Authority

Requires the Corrections Standards Authority, rather than the California Council on Criminal Justice, to (1) act as the supervisory board of the state planning agency pursuant to the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, and (2) review the state plan for delinquency prevention, as specified.

(On Assembly Inactive File; awaiting concurrence)

AB 1446 (Karnette-D) Foreign prisoners

Makes specified revisions in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Board of Prison Terms obligations under the foreign prisoner transfer program regarding notification and process.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1465 (Mountjoy-R) Prisoners: medical treatment

Bars Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) or the Department of the California Youth Authority facility staff other than a physician from interfering with the delivery of a treatment prescribed by a physician unless imminent risk of bodily harm to the physician, staff, or inmate requires alternate or modified procedures. Provides that a person violating this provision will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action by the DCR, and will be guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine of up to $1,000. A second or subsequent conviction for this offense will punishable by a fine of up to $2,000.

(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1672 (Nation-D) Prisons: death row expansion study

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to solicit bids and award a contract for an independent analysis of the cost to expand death row at San Quentin State Prison, as well as possible alternatives, such as a rural and urban facility for death row inmates.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1677 (Koretz-D) Corrections: condom distribution

Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to allow a nonprofit or public health care agency to distribute sexual barrier protection devices, such as condoms and dental dams, to inmates. Requires that these provisions be implemented in a manner that protects the health and safety of correctional officers.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1715 (Nation-D) Housing condemned prisoners

Authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house condemned inmates at any Level IV (Maximum Security) prison, as specified (rather than at San Quentin as now generally required by law).

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

GRP 1 (Other Governor Committee) Youth and Adult Correctional Agency

Abolishes the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, the Board of Prison Terms, the Board of Corrections, the Youth Authority Board and the Narcotics Addict Evaluation Authority and, instead creates the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which consists of the Division of Adult Operations, the Division of Youth Operations, the Corrections Standards Authority, and the Board of Parole Hearings.

Plan takes effect with the approval of the Legislature of SB 737 (Romero-D)

SB 737 (Romero-D), Chapter 10, Statutes of 2005, is the follow-up to GRP 1 which makes changes to reflect compromises and cleanup.

Victims of Crime

SB 972 (Poochigian-R) Victims of Crimes Program: restitution: collection

Makes various changes to facilitate the recovery of restitution for the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (Board). Specifically, allows restitution hearings for inmates to be conducted via video teleconferencing, allows judges to apply funds confiscated at arrest to restitution debt, and requires Board notification when an inmate inherits money.

Chapter 238, Statutes of 2005

SCR 38 (Alquist-D) Crime Victims' Rights Week

Recognizes the week of April 10 to April 16, 2005, as Crime Victims' Rights Week.

Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2005

AB 70 (Maze-R) Reissuance of vehicle license plates: rape victims

Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to immediately issue replacement license plates when requested by a victim of rape or sexual battery and certain requirements are met.

Chapter 60, Statutes of 2005

AB 190 (Negrete McLeod-D) California Sexual Violence Victim Services Fund

Establishes the California Sexual Violence Victim Services Fund (Fund) and allows taxpayers to designate their own funds on their personal income tax returns to that Fund. Provides that this checkoff becomes operative following the removal of another voluntary contribution fund from the tax form.

Chapter 10, Statutes of 2005

AB 789 (Lieber-D) Crimes against individuals with disabilities

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 809 (La Suer-R) Victim notification

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to establish an automated victim notification system that automatically notifies a registered crime victim when an inmate is transferred to another facility, when an inmate's security classification is changed, and when the inmate is released or escapes. Requires DCR to establish a toll-free phone number to provide crime victims the most recent status report for an offender in DCR custody.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1015 (Chu-D) Hate crimes

Requires local law enforcement agencies, and in turn, the Department of Justice to report the actual characteristics of hate crime victims to the Legislature.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1505 (La Suer-R) Victim restitution

Makes specified changes in the process for the collection of funds from inmates to pay restitution. States legislative intent that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation consider utilizing a collection service such as the Franchise Tax Board court-ordered debt collection program for the collection of restitution fines and restitution orders from parolees.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1657 (Evans-D) Child victims: multidisciplinary centers

Creates a funding source to support local child victim forensic interviews conducted by local child advocacy centers, by redistributing proceeds of the State Penalty Fund (SPF) and redirecting funds from the Driver Training Penalty Assessment Fund (which is funded by the SPF) to the Child Advocacy Center Fund, as created by this bill.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1768* (Assembly Public Safety Committee) Victim compensation trauma services

Enacts legislative findings about the effectiveness of the services provided by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) previously established as a four-year pilot project which sunsetted on January 1, 2005. "Reauthorizes" the TRC interagency agreement for the purpose of actually providing these services not just in a demonstration capacity. Requires that the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (Board) enter into an interagency agreement for the purpose of continued funding for the UCSF TRC, effective upon the University of California Regents adopting an appropriate resolution. Appropriates $1.3 million from the Restitution Fund to the Board for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2005, for the TRC program.

Vetoed by the Governor

Weapons

SB 48 (Scott-D) Ammunition

Deletes "knowing" from the statute relating to the sale of ammunition to persons under the age of majority and instead inserts a requirement of "reasonable" as a modifier to the existing defense for prohibited sales based on "reliance" on "bona fide evidence of majority and identity."

Chapter 681, Statutes of 2005

SB 59 (Lowenthal-D) Mandatory reporting of theft of handguns

Requires, commencing January 1, 2006, that any person whose handgun is stolen or irretrievably lost on or after that date shall, within five working days of his/her discovery or knowledge of, or within five working days after the date he/she should reasonably have known of, the theft or loss, report the theft or loss to a local law enforcement agency of the city, county, or city and county where the loss or theft occurred, or where the person resides, as specified, with violations punishable as an infraction.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 269 (Dutton-R) Unsafe handguns

Exempts from the unsafe handgun testing requirements a single-shot pistol with a barrel length of not less than six inches and that has an overall length of at least ten and one-half inches when the handle, frame or receiver, and barrel are assembled.

Chapter 683, Statutes of 2005

SB 305 (Morrow-R) Firearms

Exempts any person who has a valid license to carry a concealed weapon or who has a certificate of eligibility issued by the Department of Justice from the current 10-day waiting period required in law before a firearm may be delivered, sold, or transferred to that person.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 357 (Dunn-D) Serialized handgun ammunition

Requires that, commencing January 1, 2009, except as provided, all handgun ammunition manufactured, imported into California for sale or personal use, kept for sale, offered or exposed for sale, sold, given, lent, or possessed shall be serialized.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 388 (Poochigian-R) Gun violence public education program

Establishes a three-county competitive grant pilot program for the dissemination of information about prison penalties for personal and gang-related firearm crime. Participating counties must provide at least 25 percent matching funds and, upon its completion, report to the Attorney General on the impact of the program. The program sunsets January 1, 2009.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 532 (Torlakson-D) BB devices

Expands existing prohibitions against willful discharges of a firearm that could result in an injury or death to include discharges of BB devices. Provides that violations of these provisions are punishable as a misdemeanor.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 585 (Kehoe-D) Domestic violence: firearms

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 898 (Poochigian-R) Weapons in state buildings

Includes the State Capitol, and other buildings housing constitutional officers, on the list of buildings that prohibits bringing in specified weapons.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 939 (Runner-R) Retired reserve peace officers: concealed firearms

Authorizes police agencies to allow specified Level I and II reserve peace officers, as defined, to carry concealed firearms during retirement through an endorsement of an identification certificate.

(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 1038 (Hollingsworth-R) Firearms

Provides for an award of attorney's fees if a civil action is required to recover a firearm that was not returned within five days to the lawful owner by a law enforcement agency.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 86 (Levine-D) Firearms

Requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to maintain automated records of a lost or stolen firearm until the firearm has been found, recovered, is no longer under observation, or the record is determined to have been entered in error. Requires entry of lost or stolen non-serialized property "uniquely inscribed" directly into the appropriate DOJ automated system. Deletes the obsolete reference in existing law to DOJ "Special Services Section" which no longer exists.

Chapter 167, Statutes of 2005

AB 88 (Koretz-D) Illegal assault weapons

Provides that a defendant can be separately convicted and punished for possession of an illegal assault weapon for each weapon possessed. Includes an exception for a first violation involving no more than two weapons.

Chapter 690, Statutes of 2005

AB 98 (Cohn-D) Firearms

Expands existing gun law by prohibiting the carrying of an unloaded, unconcealed handgun and by making numerous technical amendments.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 101 (Cohn-D) Remote stun guns

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 157 (Levine-D) Tasers

Defines the term "taser" so as to include it in the existing description of an assault on a person, a peace officer or a firefighter during the performance of their duties.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 211 (Cohn-D) Remote stun guns

Revises the crimes of assault with a taser upon a person or a peace officer or firefighter, as specified, by changing the penalty therefor to authorize imposition of a fine not to exceed $1,000 in the case of assault upon a person or a fine of $1,000 in the case of assault upon a peace officer or firefighter, or in either case by both the fine and imprisonment. Recharacterizes "taser" as "remote stun gun," as defined. Prohibits persons with certain criminal histories from possessing remote stun guns. Provides enhanced prison sentences for persons committing certain crimes while armed with a remote stun gun. Imposes a background check requirement upon purchasers of remote stun guns. Requires registration and training of purchasers of remote stun guns by the manufacturer, as specified. Requires contingent upon available funding, the Attorney General (AG) to include the use of a remote stun gun in the annual report to the Legislature detailing the use of firearms in crimes, as specified. Requires, contingent upon funding, that the AG select an independent panel to report upon in-custody sudden deaths involving the use of specified restraining techniques, including remote stun guns, as specified.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

A similar bill is AB 101 (Cohn-D) which is the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 280 (Oropeza-D) Trespass and sterile areas

Applies the same misdemeanor weapons prohibitions and access limitations that currently exist for airport-restricted areas to restricted areas of passenger vessel terminals in harbors and ports, as specified.

Chapter 289, Statutes of 2005

AB 352 (Koretz-D) Semiautomatic firearms: unsafe handgun requirements

Provides, commencing January 1, 2009, adding to the existing unsafe handgun law requirements for semiautomatic pistols that they be equipped with a microscopic array of characters that identify the make, model, and serial number of the pistol, etched into the interior surface or internal working parts of the pistol, and which are transferred by imprinting on each cartridge case when the firearm is fired.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 448 (La Suer-R) Assault weapons

Repeals California's Assault Weapons Ban which regulates the sale, transportation, possession and registration of assault weapons.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 690 (Saldana-D) Weapons of mass destruction civil support team

Authorizes an annual state retention bonus for members of the California National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction and Civil Support Teams.

Chapter 155, Statutes of 2005

AB 754 (Jones-D) Firearms

Makes changes in firearms laws pertaining to licensed dealers and out-of-state shipments from holders of federal firearms licenses persons in California with such licenses.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 944 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Firearms: warning

Requires that a specified "warning" about the dangers of firearms in the home is posted at firearms dealers and, "conspicuously" printed on all firearms sales contracts and on the first page of the Department of Justice instructional manual for the Handgun Safety Certificate program, as specified.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 996 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Handgun ammunition: retail display

Provides that no retail seller of ammunition shall sell, offer for sale, or display for sale, any handgun ammunition in a manner that allows the ammunition to be accessible to a purchaser without the assistance of the retailer or employee thereof.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1060 (Liu-D) Firearms

Repeals existing law allowing the transfer of a firearm in rural smaller counties through the Sheriff's Department. Makes changes in reporting requirements from law enforcement agencies to the Department of Justice.

Chapter 715, Statutes of 2005

AB 1237 (Leno-D) Tasers

Requires law enforcement agencies that use tasers to report the use of tasers to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for one year and for DOJ to report this data to the Legislature. Authorizes the Department of Health Services to contract with a private entity, funded by private sources, to conduct an independent medical review of the effects of taser use on humans and to report any policy recommendations to the Legislature no later than July 1, 2007.

(Refused passage on Assembly Floor; reconsideration granted)

AB 1288 (Chu-D) Domestic violence: firearms

Requires courts in domestic violence prosecutions to consider issuing a protective order prohibiting a defendant from having a firearm upon a good cause belief that harm to, or intimidation or dissuasion of, a victim or witness has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur" where the court has not issued a stay-away order. Authorizes specified officers to inform persons who are protected by a domestic violence protective order, or the victim of alleged domestic violence when Department of Justice records indicate the other person has a firearm, as specified.

Double-joints with AB 112 (Cohn-D), AB 118 (Cohn-D), AB 1060 (Liu-D), and SB 720 (Kuehl-D).

Chapter 702, Statutes of 2005

AB 1647 (Negrete McLeod-D) Peace officers

Removes prohibitions against carrying firearms for specified categories of state peace officers. Requires additional specialized training for these officers and requires them to requalify in the use of firearms every six months or less.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1710 (Wyland-R) Tasers

Requires any seller of a taser, as defined, to register the identity of the buyer with the taser manufacturer.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

ACR 73 (McCarthy-R) Firearms statutes

States the intent of the Legislature to simplify and reorganize Penal Code gun statutes, and requests the California Law Revision Commission to study, report on, and prepare recommended legislation by July 1, 2008, to redraft gun statutes to reduce length and complexity and to avoid unnecessary use of cross-references. Specifies that redrafting should not expand or contract the scope of criminal liability.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

Courts and Judges/Legal Professions

SB 9* (Denham-R) Reimbursement for homicide prosecution and trials

Specifies that funds appropriated to the homicide trial reimbursement fund by the Budget Act of 2004 are available for reimbursing 100 percent of Stanislaus County's costs for the homicide investigation and prosecution of Scott Peterson.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 56 (Dunn-D) Trial courts: judgeships

Authorizes an unspecified number of additional superior court judgeships over three years, subject to appropriation by the Legislature.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 67* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Act of 2005: court fees

Provides clarification relative to the disposition of $31 million in fees earmarked as part of the Trial Court Funding Act of 1997.

Chapter 705, Statutes of 2005

SB 78 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) 2004 Budget Act: Trial Court Trust Fund

Allocates $14.611 million to the Trial Court Trust Fund for increased costs for various county administrative services and functions provided and court security which was the result of mandatory salary, benefit, and retirement increases provided to sheriff personnel which have been passed onto the courts through the security contracts they have with their county sheriffs.

Chapter 246, Statutes of 2005

SB 93 (Florez-D) Local government finance: Tulare County

Reduces the amount of interest owed by Tulare County on the amount of fees, fines, forfeitures, and penalties it failed to remit to the Trial Court Improvement Fund for fiscal years 1996-97 to 1999-2000.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 151 (Soto-D) Judicial officers: bribery

Creates a new alternate felony-misdemeanor for a party to a case before any judicial officer to try to influence that officer by making a threat of serious bodily injury, harm or death to the officer, the officer's family, the officer's staff or the family of the officer's staff.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 395 (Escutia-D) California Court Facilities Bond Act of 2006

Enacts the California Court Facilities Bond Act of 2006. Authorizes the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of a yet unspecified amount in bonds.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 422 (Simitian-D) Small claims court: jurisdiction

Increases the small claims court jurisdictional limit to $7,500 in an action brought by a natural person. Does not change existing law that limits a person to no more than two small claims filings that exceed $2,500 in any calendar year. Requires, on and after July 1, 2006, temporary judges, prior to serving in small claims court, and every three years thereafter, to take a course of study, offered by the courts on ethics and substantive law under rules adopted by the Judicial Council.

Chapter 600, Statutes of 2005

SB 506 (Poochigian-R) Voter registration information

Provides confidentiality of voter registration information to state and federal judges and court commissioners.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 685 (Kehoe-D) Homicide trial reimbursements

Requires that the State Controller continue to reimburse qualified counties for homicide trial costs incurred between July 10, 2000, and December 31, 2004, according to the formulas that were in effect on December 31, 2004. Defines a qualified county as a county that met the repayment threshold prior to January 1, 2005.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 827 (Maldonado-R) County trial costs: state reimbursement

Permits counties to apply to the State Controller for reimbursement of costs incurred for trials of high profile sex offense cases.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 894 (Dunn-D) Practice of law

Provides the courts and the State Bar with the authority to exercise civil remedies in order to prevent the unauthorized practice of law by non-attorneys. Also seeks to credit attorneys, who have been placed on inactive status with the State Bar while they successfully complete required activities through the Lawyer Assistance Program, for the time on inactive status towards any period of actual suspension imposed by the court.

Chapter 273, Statutes of 2005

SB 1014* (Alquist-D) State reimbursement of local investigation costs

Allows local agencies to apply to the State Controller, using the county homicide trial reimbursement authorization, for reimbursement of extraordinary costs incurred in the investigation and prosecution of People v. Scott Peterson homicide case.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SCA 16 (Runner-R) Judicial districts

Provides that the Superior Court of Los Angeles County is to be divided into judicial districts established by three special masters appointed by the Supreme Court.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 27 (Mullin-D) Homicide trial costs

Recasts and restructures existing law in change of venue cases regarding the reimbursement of costs by the originating court or county to the receiving court or county. Requires the Judicial Council to adopt financial policies and procedures to ensure timely reimbursement of courts costs in change of venue cases.

Chapter 282, Statutes of 2005

AB 108 (Houston-R) Attorney advertising: residential construction defects

Requires an advertisement by an attorney or law firm that urges a person or entity to take an action that may lead to the filing or a claim for residential construction deficiencies to disclose specified information.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 139* (Assembly Budget Committee) Court/trials: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions: (1) Extends the court security surcharge fee of $20 on court filing fees that sunset on June 30, 2005 for an additional year expiring on June 30, 2006, or until the enactment of legislation establishing a uniform civil filing fee, whichever occurs first. (2) Reshapes the distribution of undesignated court fees between the courts and the counties. (3) Increases the maximum civil assessment that a court could impose against a criminal defendant from $250 to $300. Revenue from the increase, in combination with improved enforcement of the fee collection process, is expected to offset the decrease in the undesignated fees going to the courts. (4) Specifies that Stanislaus County be eligible for 100 percent of any extraordinary costs incurred by the People V. Peterson homicide trial.

Chapter 74, Statutes of 2005

AB 145* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget trailer bill: uniform civil fees

Implements the necessary statutory changes regarding the uniform civil fees in order to enact the Budget Act of 2005.

Chapter 75, Statutes of 2005

AB 153 (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Trailer Bill: Code of Civil Procedure

Repeals and reenacts Section 1021.8 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides that whenever the Attorney General prevails in a civil action to enforce specified public rights actions, the court shall award to the Attorney General all costs of investigating and prosecuting the action.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 176 (Bermudez-D) Trial courts: limited-term employees

Provides that, in Los Angeles County Superior Court only, any limited-term clerk, whether hired through an agency or not, will not be allowed to be employed in the trial court for a period exceeding 180 calendar days, and any such limited-term law clerk employed for more than 180 calendar days will become a regular employee.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 250 (Matthews-D) Merced County: homicide trial costs

Requires the state to reimburse 100 percent of the costs incurred by the County of Merced for the homicide investigation and prosecution of People v. Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 262 (Berg-D) Courts: transfer of county facilities

Prohibits the Judicial Council from requiring that a court facility proposed to be transferred from a county to the state, pursuant to the Trial Court Facilities Act of 2002, meet a building standard stricter than a standard adopted by the county for county buildings.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 415* (Harman-R) Arbitration: out-of-state attorneys

Extends the sunset date by one year, from January 1, 2006, to January 1, 2007, for a provision that allows an out-of-state attorney to represent a party in an arbitration proceeding in this state or to render legal services in this state in connection with an out-of-state arbitration proceeding, provided the attorney submits an application containing information similar to that required for pro hac vice admissions to practice in the state and provided the attorney submits to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the State Bar of California.

Chapter 607, Statutes of 2005

AB 496 (Aghazarian-R) Service of process

Provides that attorneys and their employees are only exempt from the statutory requirement for registration as a process server when they serve process "related to cases where the attorney is providing legal service," and requires a court clerk to retain the original copy of a summons for court records, and clarifies that a person who is seeking a copy of his/her own personal or employment records through a subpoena duces tecum is not required to serve the subpoena and related privacy notices on himself/herself.

Chapter 300, Statutes of 2005

AB 664 (Jones-D) Administration of the State Bar

Permits a court to notify a defendant in an unlawful detainer action of the name and telephone number of a "qualified legal services organization" that is receiving state funding to provide free legal services in civil matters to indigent people. (Current law only permits a court to notify a defendant of the name and telephone number of a legal services organization that is funded by the federal Legal Services Corporation.)

Chapter 610, Statutes of 2005

AB 750 (Mullin-D) Trial court funding: San Mateo County

Authorizes for one year, commencing on July 1, 2005, San Mateo County to reduce the amount it is required to remit to the state for funding court operations by 15 percent.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 928 (Jerome Horton-D) Attorney's fees

Provides that for an action on a contract subject to this provision, if a court has established a schedule of attorney's fees, the prevailing party in a collection action shall be awarded attorney's fees in an amount that shall be equal to 25 percent of the first $4,000 of the principal obligation owing under the contract, when the debtor is a business entity.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1322* (Evans-D) Judges: disqualification standards

Supplements the disqualification rules for any judge who has a current arrangement for prospective employment or other compensated service as a dispute resolution neutral, or who is having or has had within the previous two years, a discussion regarding that prospective employment or service, to include disqualification under specified situations.

Chapter 332, Statutes of 2005

AB 1435 (Evans-D) Courthouse Construction Fund

Makes several technical amendments to the Trial Court Facilities Act of 2002.

Chapter 410, Statutes of 2005

AB 1453 (Daucher-R) Adjudication of rights to produce groundwater

Establishes water divisions in the superior courts of specified counties. Requires the presiding judge of the superior court of each specified county to assign a water judge to the water division to preside over actions that involve the adjudication of rights to produce groundwater, as specified, and provides for the transfer of groundwater actions to those courts.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1459 (Canciamilla-D) Small claims courts

Increases the small claims court jurisdiction from $5,000 to $7,500 and requires temporary judges to complete ethics and/or substantive law courses offered by the courts (to be managed by the Judicial Council and the Department of Consumer Affairs).

Chapter 618, Statutes of 2005

AB 1529 (Jones-D) State Bar of California: dues

Authorizes the State Bar of California to collect up to $395 as total State Bar active membership dues for 2006 (a $5 increase from the present $390 maximum), and up to $400 (a $10 increase from the present) in total active membership dues for 2007.

Chapter 341, Statutes of 2005

AB 1599 (La Malfa-R) Homicide trial costs

Requires the state to reimburse the County of Tehama for 100 percent of its costs incurred in the case of People v. Andrew Hampton McCrae a.k.a. Andrew Hampton Mickel. Requires the state to reimburse the County of Siskiyou for 100 percent of its costs incurred in the cases of People v. Cooper, et al, People v. Pippin, People v. Galvan, and People v. Roy.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1739 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) California Commission on Access to Justice: report

Requires, on or before January 1, 2007, the California Commission on Access to Justice to issue a written report to the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees regarding its recommendations for specific actions that will assist the State Bar of California, the Judicial Council of California, the California Supreme Court, and the State Legislature in ensuring equal access to justice for poor and disadvantaged California residents.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1742 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Courts: civil fees: procedure: court operations

Makes a number of changes to statutes that govern civil procedure and court operations.

Chapter 706, Statutes of 2005

Law Enforcement

SB 22* (Migden-D) Proposition 69 funding

Provides for a $7 million loan and makes a $4 million appropriation to implement the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act to ensure sufficient resources are available to collect DNA samples and palm prints from qualifying felons and specified arrestees are required by Proposition 69 which was approved by California voters on November 2, 2004.

(The above provisions are added to Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2004.)

Chapter 3, Statutes of 2005

SB 91 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) 2004 Budget: corrections deficiency

Allocates $227.813 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) for increased inmate population at state correctional institutions, $5.335 million to DCR to reimburse local governments' costs for prosecuting crimes committed by inmates, and $964,000 from the Inmate Welfare Fund for increased canteen costs driven by prison population increases.

Chapter 79, Statutes of 2005

SB 104 (Ortiz-D) Public health orders: enforcement

Specifically states in the codes that local peace officers may enforce the orders of the Department of Health Services and of local health officers issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease. Requires the state director and the local health officer to advise measures to be taken to prevent infection of enforcement officers when requesting enforcement of their orders. Deems moneys made available in the 2004-05 Budget Act for bioterrorism preparedness available for expenditure and encumbrance until August 30, 2006.

Chapter 478, Statutes of 2005

SB 165 (Speier-D) Office of the Special Counsel

Creates the Office of the Special Counsel, within the State Personnel Board, to administer the California Whistleblower Protection Act.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 317 (Margett-R) Peace officers: vehicle pursuit

Increases penalties for evading a peace officer.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 453* (Poochigian-R) Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program

Extends the existing July 1, 2005 sunset date for the Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program to July 1, 2009, and specifies a formula to be followed relative to how potential appropriations are to be allocated.

Chapter 497, Statutes of 2005

SB 506 (Poochigian-R) Public officials and homeland security

Provides confidentiality of voter registration information to public safety officials, state and federal judges, and court commissioners. Allows a local elections official in his/her discretion to extend confidentiality of vote registration information to specified public safety officials. Requires the Attorney General to furnish state summary criminal history information to persons employed within the Office of Homeland Security.

(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 660 (Kuehl-D) Public school students: questioning

Requires an elementary school principal to obtain the oral consent of a parent, guardian, or responsible relative of a pupil before making that pupil available to a peace officer for questioning, and requires a high school principal to inform a pupil of his/her right to request his/her parent, guardian, or responsible relative be present during questioning.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 692 (Morrow-R) Undocumented workers

Requires the California State University to conduct a comprehensive study of the cost and benefits that occur as a result of illegal immigration. Seeks to add representatives from the Department of the California Highway Patrol to the membership of the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy.

(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 718 (Aanestad-R) High-speed pursuits: statewide policy

Limits the ability of law enforcement to pursue a fleeing vehicle to those situations when there is reasonable suspicion the person committed a violent felony.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 719 (Romero-D) Police pursuits

Increases penalties for fleeing in a motor vehicle from police, conditions immunity for law enforcement agencies from liability for injuries from police vehicle pursuits on adoption and promulgation of pursuit policy and regular and periodic training. Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that each agency adopt periodic training relative to pursuit policies rather than requiring them to do so. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include at least one question in any of the noncommercial driver's license examinations relative to police pursuit. Makes the provisions operative on July 1, 2007.

Chapter 485, Statutes of 2005

SB 779 (Escutia-D) Peace officers: complaints: discovery

Requires law enforcement agencies to maintain for at least 15 years documents pertaining to complaints made against officers. Provides that these documents must be maintained in a file separate from his/her personnel file and are to include charges involving misconduct or moral turpitude. Modifies the discovery process for these files.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1005* (Florez-D) Qualified public safety officers: property tax

Specifies, beginning with the lien date for the 2006-07 fiscal year, full exemption from property taxation the principal residence of the unmarried surviving spouse of a qualified public safety officer that died in the line of duty.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1015* (Romero-D) Office of Homeland Security

Provides, until January 1, 2007, that the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) shall be considered a Class II criminal justice agency and requires the Attorney General to furnish state summary criminal history information to persons employed within the OHS whose duties and responsibilities require the authority to access criminal history and other intelligence information, and who have been cleared to do so by both the Department of Justice and the United States Department of Homeland Security for these purposes.

(At Assembly Desk)

SB 1049* (Hollingsworth-R) Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) teams

Appropriates $15 million from the General Fund for distribution to county sheriffs for the implementation of county and regional SAFE teams.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1107 (Senate Public Safety Committee) Omnibus public safety bill

Clarifies that the Department of Justice may charge the fee for funding child abuse and severe neglect report information to a government agency conducting a background investigation of a person seeking employment as a peace officer.

Chapter 279, Statutes of 2005

SCR 5 (Battin-R) Deputy Bruce Lee Memorial Highway

Designates, as the "Deputy Bruce Lee Memorial Highway," a 1.7 mile segment of Highway 111 in the City of La Quinta in Riverside County to honor the memory of Deputy Bruce Lee of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department who was killed in the line of duty after responding to a domestic disturbance call on May 13, 2003.

Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2005

SCR 7 (Denham-R) Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of State Highway Rout 99 in the City of Merced as the Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway to honor the memory of Stephan Gene Gray, a City of Merced police officer who was killed in the line of duty on April 15, 2004, while engaged in an undercover assignment with the department's Special Operations Unit.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

SCR 12 (Machado-D) CHP Officer Artie J. Hubbard Memorial Freeway

Designates, as the "CHP Officer Artie J. Hubbard Memorial Highway," a five-mile segment of Interstate 5 in Sacramento County in honor of the memory of CHP Officer Artie J. Hubbard, who was involved in a serious car accident in the line of duty on April 5, 1985, placed on life support soon after, and who died on December 8, 1995.

Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2005

SCR 20 (Soto-D) CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway

Designates a section of state Highway Route 60 in the City of Pomona as the CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway in honor of Thomas J. Steiner, a member of the Department of the California Highway Patrol for five years, who was mortally wounded on April 21, 2004, by an armed assailant while leaving the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Pomona.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

SCR 29 (Kehoe-D) Emergency services and homeland security

Creates, until November 30, 2006, the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security, with a specified membership of each house of the Legislature. The joint committee will be constituted as an investigating committee of the houses, and its powers will include making recommendations as to legislation and forming a technical advisory committee to assist it in carrying out its duties.

Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2005

SJR 14 (Battin-R) Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to recognize the Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, located at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, as a leader in homeland security training.

Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2005

SR 17 (Margett-R) Parole: 100th anniversary

Recognizes and commemorates 100 years of public service of parole agents in California (July 21, 1905 to present).

(Adopted by the Senate)

Identical to HR 17 (Huff-R).

AB 91 (Bogh-R) Resisting arrest

Creates minimum mandatory penalties for proximately causing injury to a public officer, peace officer or emergency medical technician (EMT) while resisting, delaying or obstructing the officer or EMT in the performance of his/her duty.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 104 (Bass-D) Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act

Makes numerous and significant revisions to the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (Proposition 36 of the November 2000 election).

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 138* (Assembly Budget Committee) State mandates: peace officers: budget trailer bill

Implements the state-mandated local government budget trailer bill which among other provisions requires the Commission on State Mandates to review its statement of decision regarding the Peace Officer Procedural Bill of Rights mandate. If the Commission finds the mandate does not require state reimbursement, the language specifies the finding shall only apply to activities occurring after the date the revised decision is adopted.

Chapter 72, Statutes of 2005

AB 139* (Assembly Budget Committee) Homeland Security expenditures: budget trailer bill

Adopts the General Government Budget which includes, among other provisions, requiring the Director of the Office of Homeland Security, in collaboration with the Department of Health Services, to report annually to the Legislature on the expenditure of federal homeland security and bioterrorism funds. Creates the Legal Services Revolving Fund and requires state agency payments for legal services performed by the Attorney General to be deposited into the new fund. Authorizes the Attorney General to expend money in the fund for litigation activities, upon appropriation by the Legislature.

Chapter 74, Statutes of 2005

AB 182 (Benoit-R) Search warrants

Allows any peace officer, including a district attorney investigator, to serve a search warrant rather than only a sheriff, marshal, or police officer.

Chapter 181, Statutes of 2005

AB 272* (Parra-D) County custodial officers

Adds the counties of Inyo, Kings, and Tulare to the list of specified counties within which deputy sheriffs assigned to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to specified custodial assignments are defined as peace officers whose authority extends to any place in California while engaged in the performance of his/her employment.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 305 (Mountjoy-R) Police vehicle pursuits: penalties

Increases penalties for fleeing in a motor vehicle from a peace officer in a motor vehicle while leaving penalties for fleeting from a peace officer on a bicycle the same. Increases numerous vehicle-related infractions, as specified, to misdemeanors, punishable by up to six months in county jail.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 332 (Bogh-R) Arrests: policy: immigration

Provides that no law enforcement entity or any local governing body may adopt an ordinance, rule, or order, or otherwise implement a policy, that prohibits law enforcement officers from initiating action to discover a person's alien status or that prohibits a law enforcement officer from arresting or booking a person for entering the United States illegally.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 373 (Bermudez-D) Peace officer safety

Creates the Two-Officer Patrol Car Pilot Program and requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop criteria and methods to test the safety and efficiency of two-officer patrol car deployment. DOJ must report the program's results to the Legislature and Governor by January 1, 2008.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 376 (Mountjoy-R) Amber Alert: penalties for false reports

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 423 (Spitzer-R) Liability: peace officers

Provides that there shall be no civil liability, and no cause of action shall arise, against any peace officer who makes a warrantless arrest, so long as the arrest is made without malice and there is a prompt, judicial determination of probable cause by a judicial officer following the arrest.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 458 (Jerome Horton-D) Peace officers

Grants peace officers general authority as peace officers throughout the state, while retaining their primary duty of enforcing specified provisions of law, as specified. Deletes the provision prohibiting these officers from carrying firearms except upon authorization of their employing agency. Requires additional training for those peace officers newly hired or appointed after July 1, 2006.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 472 (Benoit-R) Elder and disabled abuse

Authorizes In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) nonprofit consortia and public authorities to include criminal background checks, conducted by the Department of Justice, in processing potential IHSS caregivers.

(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 483 (Nunez-D) California Peace Officer Memorial Foundation: tax checkoff

Reauthorizes the checkoffs on the personal income tax form for the California Firefighters' Memorial Fund and the California Peace Officer Memorial Foundation.

Chapter 161, Statutes of 2005

AB 496 (Aghazarian-R) Service of process

Makes streamlining and clarifying changes to service of process statutes.

Double-joints with AB 333 (Harman-R).

Chapter 300, Statutes of 2005

AB 502 (Cogdill-R) Finance lenders: criminal history record checks

Requires applicants for new licenses under the California Finance Lenders Law to submit a full set of fingerprints and related information to the Commissioner of Corporations for a criminal history record check and requires the Commissioner to submit the fingerprint information t the department of Justice for review, as specified.

Chapter 425, Statutes of 2005

AB 507 (Daucher-R) Health studio child care providers: criminal history checks

Requires criminal background checks of people who are employed by "health studios" to provide child care.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 542 (Huff-R) Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to permit volunteers who have the approval of the chief of police or the sheriff for which the volunteer intends to perform services, to participate in any training course which POST provides.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 685 (Calderon-D) City of Montebello

Appropriates $500,000 from the General Fund to the City of Montebello to upgrade the Montebello Police Department's Computer-Aided Dispatch and Records Management System.

(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 759 (Lieber-D) Crime stoppers program

Permits counties with a local Crime Stoppers Program to levy an additional penalty, not to exceed $2, upon every fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed by the courts for criminal offenses, except parking offenses, to fund that county's local Crime Stoppers Program.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 784 (Garcia-R) SAFE teams

Appropriates $15 million from the General Fund to the State Controller for distribution to local law enforcement to support local Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) Team programs, as authorized under current law, to reduce violent sexual assault offenses through surveillance and arrest of habitual sex offenders and strict enforcement of sex offender registration requirements.

(Held under submission in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 789 (Lieber-D) Crimes against individuals with disabilities

Requires each law enforcement agency, during the next substantive revision of the local forms used to collect and report criminal statistics to the Department of Justice, but in no event later than January 1, 2009, to modify the local forms to allow identification of whether or not the victim of the crime has a disability and, if so, whether the disability is psychiatric, cognitive, or physical. Requires each law enforcement agency to develop a protocol during criminal investigations to not in crime reports whether or not the officer(s) investigating the criminal activity identified the victim as disabled.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 795 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Peace officers: California Science Center

Authorizes the California Science Center (CSC) to contract with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training for a study, pursuant to existing law, to address the advisability of a change in designation or status of some or all of the museum security and safety officers of the CSC. Provides that officers and employees of the state may receive their compensation from any nonprofit corporation formed exclusively to aid and assist a state museum if the level of compensation receives prior written approval of the Department of Personnel Administration.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 804 (La Suer-R) California Highway Patrol: disability/workers' compensation

Reduces certain workers' compensation and disability retirement benefits for members of the California Highway Patrol under certain circumstances. Requires a "patrol member" eligible for the maximum service retirement benefit who retires due to a work related injury and subsequently obtains work as a peace officer outside of state service to have their industrial disability retirement pension converted into a service retirement pension. Provides that this applies only to persons who retire on or after January 1, 2006. Requires the retired patrol member to provide employment data to the Public Employees' Retirement System to administer the provision. Failure to provide the required information results in a suspension of the disability benefit.

(In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 812 (Matthews-D) Health and Human Services Agency: background checks

Requires standardized background checks within the Health and Human Services Agency.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 857 (Bass-D) Vehicle registration fees: crime prevention programs

Extends, until January 1, 2012, the sunset date on law that allows counties to impose a $1 surcharge on vehicle registration fees to fund crime prevention programs.

Chapter 470, Statutes of 2005

AB 858 (Bass-D) Substance abuse and crime prevention: funding

Makes changes relating to Proposition 36 (the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000). States legislative intent to fund the Substance Abuse Treatment Fund in the annual Budget Act.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 900 (Benoit-R) Department of Food and Agriculture: investigators

Authorizes Department of Food and Agriculture investigators, who are not peace officers, to have Penal Code powers of arrest, to serve warrants, and to have access to summary criminal background information.

Chapter 190, Statutes of 2005

AB 940 (Chu-D) Missing Persons DNA Data Base

Extends the sunset on the funding mechanism for the Missing Persons DNA Data Base from January 1, 2006, until January 1, 2010.

Chapter 471, Statutes of 2005

AB 992 (Spitzer-R) Law enforcement surveillance

Provides that University of California peace officers and California State University peace officers can overhear or record a communication in any criminal investigation related to a sexual assault or other sex offense.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 994 (Sharon Runner-R) Department of Insurance investigators

Provides that Department of Insurance (DOI) investigators designated by the Insurance Commissioner, rather than the Chief of DOI's Bureau of Fraudulent Claims, are peace officers, provided that the primary duty of those investigators is enforcement of fraudulent claims and other laws specified in this bill regulating persons and businesses licensed by DOI.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1015 (Chu-D) Hate crimes

Requires local law enforcement agencies, and in turn, the Department of Justice to report the actual characteristics of hate crime victims to the Legislature in an already required report on hate crimes.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1079 (Sharon Runner-R) Department of Developmental Services: criminal history

Requires the Director of the Department of Development Services to obtain criminal history information regarding the consumers and, notwithstanding confidentiality provisions, to disclose that information to the regional centers and existing or prospective community care providers.

(In Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 1138 (Dymally-D) PERS: CHP officers

Authorizes current members of the California Highway Patrol who are former members of the California State Police (CSP) to convert their service performed with the CSP to patrol member service under the Public Employees' Retirement System.

(In Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1237 (Leno-D) Tasers

Requires law enforcement agencies that use tasers to report the use of tasers to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for one year and for DOJ to report these data to the Legislature. Authorizes the Department of Health Services to contract with a private entity, funded by private sources, to conduct an independent medical review of the effects of taser use on humans to report any policy recommendations to the Legislature no later than July 1, 2007.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1289 (Jerome Horton-D) State hospital police

Arms state hospital and developmental center peace officers by deleting the statutory provision that allows them to carry guns only if authorized by, and under terms and conditions specified by, their employing agency.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1294 (Umberg-D) Investigative subpoenas: violent felonies

Provides that in any criminal investigation of a specified felony where there is probable cause to believe that an emergency situation exists involving a substantial danger to life or limb, authorizes the Attorney General, district attorney, sheriff, police chief, or their designee, to issue in writing, under penalty of perjury, subpoenas for the production of certain records from a public utility, bank, credit union, savings association, telephone company or other provider of electronic communication services when investigating a violent felony. Provides that no cause of action shall be brought against any provider, its officers, employees, or agents for providing information, facilities, or assistance in good faith compliance with a subpoena.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1305 (Sharon Runner-R) Wiretaps

Clarifies that the wiretap provisions in existing law do not apply to voice mail and other stored communications.

Chapter 17, Statutes of 2005

AB 1368 (Umberg-D) Workers' compensation

Exempts specified safety members and employees from existing medical conditions and provisions that limit the employer liability to the purchase of permanent disability caused by the injury.

(In Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

AB 1470 (Negrete McLeod-D) Criminal history information: minors

Requires an arresting agency to provide the Department of Justice with the fingerprints and arrest data of any juvenile arrested for a crime.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1517 (Sharon Runner-R) Department of Managed Health Care: employee information

Requires those employees and contractors of the Department of Managed Health Care who have access to confidential medical information to undergo a state and federal background check.

Chapter 339, Statutes of 2005

AB 1536 (Bass-D) City of Los Angeles security officers

Grants powers of arrest, as specified, to security officers employed by the City of Los Angeles acting in the course and scope of their duties, provided that they complete a training course in the exercise of those powers, certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Makes that authority contingent upon a memorandum of understanding with the City of Los Angeles permitting the exercise of that authority.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1550 (Arambula-D) Unincorporated areas: vehicle law enforcement

Grants authority to the Boards of Supervisors of Fresno County and Los Angeles County to authorize the county sheriff to enforce the provisions of the Vehicle Code in the unincorporated areas of those two counties.

(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1601 (Laird-D) Child care provider: background checks

Adds aunts and uncles to the set of persons who must undergo criminal record and child abuse central index clearances to be paid for caring for state-subsidized children, and more quickly suspends from payment any person who is determined to have a criminal record of more than traffic infractions.

(Failed passage in Senate Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1647 (Negrete McLeod-D) Peace officers

Removes, generally, prohibitions in existing law against specified categories of state peace officers who may carry firearms only with the authorization of their employing agency.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1688 (Niello-R) Illegal dumping officers

Adds persons employed by a city, county, or city and county as illegal dumping officers, provided that the primary duty of these persons is the enforcement of illegal dumping laws, to the list of persons who are not peace officers but may exercise powers of arrest of a peace officer and the power to serve warrants if that person receives the Penal Code 832 course.

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1691 (Lieber-D) Teachers: criminal records checks

Authorizes the Department of Justice to directly contact an applicant for a teaching credential if issues arise in the process of conducting the background check and require clarification and further documentation.

(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1774* (Assembly Human Services Committee) Child welfare services: criminal record checks

Resolves several inconsistencies in criminal background check processes for child placement purposes.

(In Senate Human Services Committee)

ACA 20 (Haynes-R) California Border Police

Establishes the Division of Homeland Security, also to be known as the California Border Police, in the Office of Emergency Services to aid in the enforcement of immigration laws.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 16 (Wolk-D) CHP Sergeant Gary R. Wagers Memorial Interchange

Designates the interchange of Interstate 5 and State Highway 113 in Woodland, as the California Highway Patrol Sergeant Gary R. Wagers Memorial Interchange to honor the memory of California Highway Patrol Sergeant Gary R. Wagers who died in a patrol vehicle collision in the line of duty while pursuing a traffic violator at high speed in the early morning hours of March 15, 2001, on State Highway Route 113 at the interchange with State Highway Route 5, in Woodland, California.

Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2005

ACR 20 (Oropeza-D) CHP Officer Merle L. Andrews Memorial Interchange

Dedicates the Routes 405 and 101 interchange in the Los Angeles County , as the CHP Officer Merle L. Andrews Memorial Interchange to honor the memory of CHP Officer Merle L. Andrews who was killed in the line of duty on December 20, 1967. Officer Andrews was attempting to arrest a man wanted in connection with a stolen vehicle, robbery, and kidnapping when the man opened fire on Officer Andrews. Officer Andrews succumbed to this injuries as a result of the shooting.

Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2005

ACR 35 (Hancock-D) California Police Activities League Day

Recognizes April 11, 2005, as Califoria Police Activities League Day.

Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2005

ACR 41 (Negrete McLeod-D) California Peace Officers' Memorial Day

Designates May 6, 2005, as California Peace Officers Memorial Day, and urges all Californians to remember and appreciate the service provided by peace officers.

Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2005

ACR 46 (Strickland-R) CHP Officer David W. Copleman Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of State Highway Route 126 in Ventura County as the California Highway Patrol Officer David W. Copleman Memorial Highway to honor the memory of David W. Copleman who was killed in the line of duty on April 6, 1985, when he was in pursuit on State Highway Route 126 and was struck head-on by an uninvolved vehicle.

Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 2005

ACR 70 (Umberg-D) Westminster Police Ofcr Steven L. Phillips Memorial Highway

Designates the portion of State Highway Route 39, within the boundaries of the City of Westminster, as the Westminster Police Officer Steven L. Phillips Memorial Highway to honor the memory of Officer Phillips who died in an on-duty traffic accident on January 29, 2004, at the intersection of Trask Avenue and Jackson Street in the City of Westminster. He was the first officer in the Westminster Police Department's 46-year history to die in the line of duty.

Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2005

HR 17 (Huff-R) 100th anniversary of parole

Recognizes and commemorates 100 years of the efforts of parole agents and retired officers to promote public safety in California.

Adopted by the Assembly

A similar bill is SR 17 (Margett-R).

Family Law

SB 218 (Scott-D) Termination of parental rights

Double-joints with AB 519 (Leno-D), AB 1338 (Nation-D), and AB 1412 (Leno-D).

Chapter 636, Statutes of 2005

SB 302 (Scott-D) Adoption

Makes numerous changes to statutes relating to adoptions.

Chapter 627, Statutes of 2005

SB 359 (Ortiz-D) Child custody

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 565* (Migden-D) Property tax: domestic partners

Excludes the transfer of real estate between registered domestic partners from transfers resulting in the reappraisal of real property.

Chapter 416, Statutes of 2005

SB 585 (Kehoe-D) Protective orders: firearms

Revises the application for a protective order form to include a space for the petitioner to identify all firearms known to be in the possession of the respondent, the location of the firearms, the basis for the petitioner's knowledge regarding the existence and location of the firearms, and why the respondent's possession of firearms subjects the petitioner to an increased risk of harm. Requires the respondent to notify the court of the relinquishment within 48 rather than 72 hours, and requires the court, upon issuance of a protective order, to order the respondent to relinquish any firearm in that person's control to local law enforcement officials or a licensed gun dealer, within 24 hours of being served with the order. Authorizes the court to issue a search warrant for the immediate search and seizure of any firearm in the respondent's possession upon a judicial finding of probable cause that the respondent's possession of firearms creates an increased risk of harm to the petitioner and that specified firearms will be found a specified location.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 594 (Torlakson-D) Custody and visitation: sex offenders

Expands the prohibition against allowing custody or visitation to a registered sex offender to include individuals who reside with registered sex offenders.

Chapter 483, Statutes of 2005

SB 678* (Ducheny-D) Indian children

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 720 (Kuehl-D) Domestic violence: protective orders: contempt

Double-joints with AB 112 (Cohn-D), AB 118 (Cohn-D), and AB 1288 (Chu-D).

Chapter 631, Statutes of 2005

SB 799 (Simitian-D) Special filing fees: adoptions

Lowers the special filing fee for issuing a certificate of official character to documents related to child adoptions from $20 to $10 per signature (which is generally per document).

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 896 (Runner-R) Private child support collection agencies

Requires private child support collectors (PCSCs) to comply with some basic consumer protections to ensure that child support obligees have clear information about the contract they are entering into, have some basic rights to cancel the contract, receive meaningful notice of collections made and the amount of the collections kept by the private agency as its fee, requires PCSCs to follow the debt collection practices that apply to collectors of other types of consumer debt, and provides remedies when PCSCs do not comply with these requirements.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 973 (Kuehl-D) Public employees' retirement: domestic partners

Amends the Public Employees' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement System, and the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 to entitle retired members to elect to change optional retirement allowances to provide for their domestic partners.

Chapter 418, Statutes of 2005

SB 1031 (Hollingsworth-R) Dissolution of marriage: family education

Requires parties seeking dissolution of marriage or legal separation to attend four hours of family education if there are children from the marriage.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 1082* (Morrow-R) Child support: military reservists

Facilitates a process whereby deployed military personnel can seek a modification of their child support orders, and makes related changes.

Chapter 154, Statutes of 2005

SB 1088 (Bowen-D) Family law: ex parte communications

Requires the Judicial Council of California to adopt a rule limiting ex parte communication in family court.

Chapter 489, Statutes of 2005

SCA 1 (Morrow-R) Marriage

Places before the voters a proposed constitutional amendment to recognize as valid or recognized in California only a marriage between a man and a woman whether the marriage was contracted in California or elsewhere, and to confer the benefits, rights and responsibilities of a marriage only upon a man and a woman in marriage, and not upon any other union or partnerships.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 19 (Leno-D) Gender-neutral marriage

Eliminates the current "different-gender" requirements in the state's definition of marriage. Clarifies gender-specific terms in the state's family laws shall be construed to be gender-neutral, except in regards to Section 308.5 of the Family Code, concerning recognition of marriages contracted in other jurisdictions (Proposition 22 of 2000).

(Failed passage on Assembly Third Reading File; reconsideration granted)

AB 99 (Cohn-D) Protective orders: expiration

Allows a court to issue protective orders, stay-away orders and residence exclusion orders for up to five years, instead of three years under current law, and allows the court to renew those orders, upon request of a party, for an additional five years instead of three years under current law.

Chapter 125, Statutes of 2005

AB 112 (Cohn-D) Protective orders: priority

Provides that emergency protective orders take precedence in enforcement over any other restraining or protective order, as specified and limited.

Chapter 132, Statutes of 2005

AB 118 (Cohn-D) Protective orders: minor children

Requires that, if a protective order has been issued by a criminal court, the court shall make reference to said protective order and acknowledge the precedence of enforcement of said criminal protective order. Requires the Judicial Council of California to modify criminal and civil court forms consistent with the bill, by July 1, 2006.

Double-joints with AB 112 (Cohn-D), AB 1288 (Chu-D), and SB 720 (Kuehl-D).

Chapter 465, Statutes of 2005

AB 265 (Haynes-R) Child custody: parents on active military duty

Prohibits a court from modifying an order granting custody of a child if the party who was granted custody of the child is a member of the California National Guard and he/she has been called to active duty, unless the court determines that modifying the order is in the best interest of the child and the party has either died while on active duty or is no longer able to provide adequate care for the child.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 429 (Chu-D) Workplace harassment: protective orders

Establishes procedures by which a law enforcement officer called to the scene of violence or credible threat of violence in the workplace to authorize the officer to verbally serve a protective order on the defendant who had not been served with the order previously, as specified.

Chapter 467, Statutes of 2005

AB 447 (La Suer-R) Adoption: final hearings

Authorizes the court to waive the requirement that prospective adoptive parents and the child proposed to be adopted appear before the court at the final hearing in which the court makes and enters the order of adoption of the child.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 498 (Haynes-R) Child support guidelines: National Guard members

Provides that the annual net disposable income of a parent who is on active duty as a member of the National Guard shall be calculated on the basis of his/her gross income from the National Guard for each moth or part of a month during that year that the parent is on active duty, and makes other related changes.

(Unassigned to a committee)

AB 519 (Leno-D) Parental rights: reinstatement after termination

Permits, under limited circumstances, a child whose parents have had their rights terminated to petition the court to have the rights reinstated. Additionally, authorizes the juvenile court to issue ex parte orders protecting parents, guardians, and caregivers even if an order protecting the child is not being issued simultaneously.

Double-joints with SB 218 (Bowen-D), AB 1338 (Nation-D), and AB 1412 (Leno-D).

Chapter 634, Statutes of 2005

AB 541 (Harman-R) Guardians

Authorizes a court to require any person who is seeking custody of, or visitation with, a child who is the subject of a guardianship proceeding, to undergo drug testing, as specified. Authorizes the court to require any person who is the guardian of the person, unrelated to the ward, and who receives compensation for acting as guardian of the person to comply with those provisions.

Chapter 302, Statutes of 2005

AB 634 (Lieber-D) International marriage brokers

Regulates how international marriage brokers do business in California.

In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 667 (Jones-D) Child support enforcement

Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to contract with an appropriate and qualified entity to conduct an evaluation of the child support program and to convene an advisory committee to oversee the review.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 849 (Leno-D) Gender-neutral marriage

Redefines marriage in California as a union between two persons, making it gender-neutral and thereby permitting same-sex marriages in the state. Provides that it does not, however, require any clergy or religious official to solemnize any marriage in violation of his/her right to free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the California Constitution. Contains legislative findings and declarations that it does not amend or modify Section 308.5 of the Family Code that declares only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Section 308.5 was enacted by the initiative Proposition 22 in 2000. Contains other findings and declarations regarding the history of statutes and decisional law that define marriage relative to gender neutrality or that address the constitutional infirmity of statutes that limit the ability to marry to heterosexual couples. Declares the Legislature's intent to end marriage discrimination in California without altering Section 308.5 of the Family Code.

Vetoed by the Governor

A similar bill is AB 19 (Leno-D) which failed passage on the Assembly Floor. The contents of AB 19 were amended into AB 849 on June 28, 2005.

AB 860 (Bass-D) Arrested persons: notice of parental rights

States the intent of the Legislature to require local law enforcement agencies to provide every person who is arrested and has minor children with information about their parental rights and responsibilities, including the process of termination of parental rights.

(Unassigned to a committee)

AB 862 (Bass-D) Inmates: parental rights and responsibilities

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide inmates with the following information: (1) a Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) Child Support Handbook, (2) a pamphlet entitled "Child Support Information for the Parent in Jail or Prison," and (3) any other material developed by the DCSS that will provide the necessary information regarding child support processes and procedures.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 978 (Sharon Runner-R) Restraining orders: stalking

Requires a court to prohibit a party enjoined under a civil or criminal protective order from taking any action to obtain the address or location of the protected party, or of the protected party's family members, caretakers or guardian unless there is good cause not to make the order.

Chapter 472, Statutes of 2005

AB 1102 (Hancock-D) Marriage

Makes numerous changes to the issuance and registration of marriage licenses.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1236 (DeVore-R) Marriage Choice Act of 2005

Enacts the Marriage Choice Act of 2005 to allow new and existing couples to enter into a marriage contract that makes it more difficult to get divorced by returning these couples to the days of "fault-based" divorce, and again allowing judges to punish spouses they believe are most at fault for the divorce through the unequal division of joint assets.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1307 (Dymally-D) Child custody

Establishes equal joint custody as the presumed rule in all custody cases, except where a parent opposing such an order can establish by clear and convincing evidence that such shared parenting is not in the best interest of the child.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1338 (Nation-D) Immigrant children: appointment of attorney

Requires, when the court determines it is in the child's best interests, the appointment of an immigration attorney for the following children: (1) a dependent child who is not a citizen of the Untied States or a lawful permanent resident for whom the court has determined parental reunification is no longer an option, and (2) a child who is adjudged a ward of the court who is not a citizen of the United States or a lawful permanent resident and who is in foster care or deemed unlikely to reunify with his/her parent.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1502 (Salinas-D) Family law: San Benito County pilot project

Creates in San Benito County, until January 1, 2009, a pilot project in which a family law court appoints an attorney and a multidisciplinary team of professions who shall support the attorney to represent the best interests of a child in family law matters when the custody of the child is in dispute and either one party to the action has accused the other party of domestic violence or there are allegations of child abuse by one of the parties against the child who is the subject of the custody dispute.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1638 (Nava-D) Adoption of dependent children

Expedites adoptions of foster children in certain circumstances.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1743 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Child support

Seeks to clarify and expand the scope of the existing program allowing for the compromise of child support debt owed by parents to the state when their children have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect. Aligns this program's required review hearing with the annual eligibility redeterminations required for CalWORKS and foster care.

Chapter 198, Statutes of 2005

ACA 3 (Haynes-R) Marriage

Seeks to ask the state's voters to amend the California Constitution by limiting marriage to opposite sex couples only. Limits the rights, responsibilities, benefits and obligations afforded to married couples to those couples only.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 85 (Leno-D) Court Adoption and Permanency Month

Proclaims November 2005, as Court Adoption and Permanency Month.

Resolution Chapter 136, Statutes of 2005

AJR 17 (Jones-D) Child support penalties

Requests the United Congress to enact the Child Support Reinvestment Act of 2005, recently introduced by Congresswoman Matsui, to allow states that have been assessed federal penalties for failing to timely implement an automated child support collection program, to reinvest those penalties in child support program improvements and automated system development and to use as a base year for the calculation of those penalties the year prior to when penalties were first imposed.

Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2005

Civil Law

SB 13 (Bowen-D) Personal information: state data bases

Permits state agencies to release personal information to the University of California or a nonprofit educational institution conducting scientific research only if the research proposal has been reviewed and approved by the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (the state's Institutional Review Board) for the Health and Human Services Agency. Requires the committee to apply specified standards pertaining to data protection to its review of research proposals.

Chapter 241, Statutes of 2005

SB 126 (Runner-R) Liability: police pursuits

Makes a person liable for the emergency response costs incurred by a public entity when responding to an incident caused by the persons willful flight from police pursuit in a motor vehicle. The public entity could only recover after restitution was made to victims of the incident.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 130 (Margett-R) Works of improvement: stop notices

Provides that a stop notice claimant be permitted to reduce or release a stop notice without impairing the claimant's ability to serve subsequent stop notices which are timely and proper if they become necessary. Provides that the release of a stop notice be permitted to be in a form other than that currently required by statute in order to enhance and better facilitate the parties' ability to resolve existing payment disputes.

Chapter 15, Statutes of 2005

SB 158 (Machado-D) Power of attorney

Revises the Statutory Form Power of Attorney to include a statement on the form that a third party may seek identification.

Chapter 251, Statutes of 2005

SB 222 (Runner-R) Privacy: social security numbers

Imposes misdemeanor penalties where a person or entity violates state law protecting the privacy of social security numbers.

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 296* (Campbell-R) Trusts

Corrects an erroneous appellate court decision on whether a distribution to a trust is allocable to principal or income, and immunizes from liability in part those trustees who made allocations pursuant to the Estate of Thomas decision.

Chapter 51, Statutes of 2005

SB 312 (Ackerman-R) Summary judgment

Makes an exception to existing conditions and requirements necessary to file a motion for summary judgment if the court for good cause orders otherwise or the parties stipulate otherwise.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 390 (Bowen-D) Probate agreements and assignments

Sets forth a procedure to be adhered to relative to an assignment of a beneficiary's interest in a decedent's estate, as specified.

Chapter 438, Statutes of 2005

SB 440 (Speier-D) Personal information

Requires any state agency, or person contracting with a state agency, to encrypt personal information that is transported via a laptop or other electronic storage device, and prohibits a business from discriminating against a customer who does not permit the business to share the customer's personal information.

(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 754 (Poochigian-R) Trusts: unitrust conversions

Allows a trustee, under specified terms and conditions, to convert a trust into a unitrust, reconvert from a unitrust to a trust and change the distribution payout of the unitrust. Requires a fiduciary administering a unitrust, reconverting a trust, or changing the percentage payout from a unitrust, to administer the trust impartially.

Chapter 100, Statutes of 2005

SB 756 (Romero-D) Discrimination: restrictive covenants

Deletes provisions, in existing law, authorizing a person to file an application with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), requiring DFEH to respond, and authorizing the person to strike out the restrictive covenant, attach a statement to the document, and record the modified document.

Double-joints with AB 394 (Niello-R).

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 768 (Simitian-D) Identity Information Protection Act of 2005

Requires certain security measures be implemented into government-issued identification that incorporate radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, with certain specified exceptions, and prohibits the use of RFID in four classes of widely-issued government documents.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

A similar bill is SB 682 (Simitian-D) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 815 (Ortiz-D) Substitute service of process

Authorizes substitute service of a summons on a defendant's insurance company if it is determined that the party to be served cannot be served in other manners, as specified. Provides, except as specified, that a plaintiff who elects to serve the defendant's insurer as a substitute for service by publication thereby waives any claim above the insured's policy limits.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 855 (Poochigian-R) Special access: notice of violation and right to care

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; reconsideration granted)

SB 937 (Aanestad-R) Liability: obesity claims

Immunizes a manufacturer, distributor, packer, carrier, marketer, advertiser, or seller of food or nonalcoholic beverages intended for human consumption, or an association of one or more of those entities, from liability in any civil action arising out of weight gain, obesity, a related health condition, or any other generally known health condition allegedly caused by or likely to result from the long-term consumption of food or nonalcoholic beverage that results in weight gain or obesity.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 947 (Morrow-R) Construction contracts: indemnity

Provides that any provisions, clauses, covenants, or agreements contained in, collateral to, or affecting any construction contract entered into on or after January 1, 2006, for the construction of residential units, as specified, that purport to indemnify the promisee against liability for damages for injury to property, or any other loss, damage, or expense arising from the act or omission of the promisor, shall be limited only to damages, injury, loss, or expense caused by the promisor, or the promisor's subcontractors, agents, or representatives, without regard to any applicable standard of liability, except as specified.

(in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1030 (Hollingsworth-R) Discrimination: religion

Requires that specified provisions relative to discrimination not be construed to require a business establishment to provide nonessential services to a member of the public, if to do so violates one's conscience due to a sincerely held religious belief.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1099 (Hollingsworth-R) Eminent domain: agricultural property

Prohibits the exercise of the power of eminent domain to acquire agricultural property for public use unless one of two specified conditions are met.

(In Senate Agriculture Committee)

SB 1108 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Maintenance of the codes

Makes numerous technical changes in the California codes that have been recommended by the Legislative Counsel. The proposed changes are technical and non-controversial and make no substantive changes in the law.

Chapter 22, Statutes of 2005

SCA 12 (Torlakson-D) Eminent domain

Amends the California Constitution to specify that eminent domain cannot be used to take owner-occupied residential property for private use.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee for interim study)

SCA 15 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain

Amends the California Constitution to provide that private property may only be taken by eminent domain for a "stated public purpose" and may not be taken or damaged for private use. Specifies that property taken by eminent domain must be owned and occupied by the contemnor or another government agency and used for the stated public purpose, and may only be leased to entities regulated by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires a prior owner to be given a right to reacquire the property for a fair market value if it is sold or transferred after ceasing to be used for the stated public use.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

SCR 15 (Morrow-R) California Law Revision Commission: study

Re-authorizes the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC) to study 21 specified topics previously authorized for study by the Legislature, for its report and recommendations to the Legislature. Directs CLRC to conduct a comprehensive review of the Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) and applicable case law in order to clarify the circumstances in which parties are entitled to oral argument in hearings under the CCP. Requires that before commencing work on any project within the list of topics authorized for study by the Legislature, the CLRC shall submit a detailed description of the scope of work to the Chairs and Vice Chairs of the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and Assembly, and if during the course of the project there is a major change to the scope of work, submit a description of the change.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SCR 42 (Campbell-R) California Law Revision Commission

Requires the California Law Revision Commission to conduct a comprehensive review of provisions of the Probate Code relating to "no contest" clauses under Sections 21300 et seq. of the Probate Code.

Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2005

AB 12 (DeVore-R) Nonprobate transfers: California Law Revision Commission

Requires the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC) to study the use of beneficiary deeds as a means of conveying real property interests as a nonprobate transfer of property in California. Requires the CLRC to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2007.

Chapter 422, Statutes of 2005

AB 20 (Leslie-R) Disabled persons: access

Precludes commencement of an action for damages against a public facility for a de minimus deviation from a code or regulation that has no significant impact on a disabled person's right to the goods and services provided by the facility, as specified. Provides that the remedy for a technical violation, as defined, is injunctive relief and the recovery of attorney's fees.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 69 (Harman-R) Multiple-party accounts

Clarifies that the ownership of funds withdrawn from a joint account is determined by the net contributions the parties make to the account. Reverses Lee v. Yang in which the court allowed a withdrawing party to keep the funds withdrawn from a joint account, without regard to the source of the funds.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 153 (Assembly Budget Committee) Code of Civil Procedure

Repeals and re-enacts Section 1021.8 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides that whenever the Attorney General (AG) prevails in a civil action to enforce specified public rights actions, the court shall award to the AG all costs of investigating and prosecuting the action.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 173 (Houston-R) Immunity: obesity claims

Provides manufacturers, distributors and sellers of food with immunity from liability for obesity-related health claims.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 192 (Tran-R) Tort Claims Act

Limits the liability of public entities in actions for injury to $250,000 per individual or $500,000 per occurrence.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 202 (Harman-R) Arbitration agreements

Makes the provisions of Section 1281.2 of the Code of Civil Procedure the exclusive means for a party to an arbitration agreement to seek to compel arbitration of a controversy or claim asserted in the court to be subject to that arbitration agreement, or to defend against an action, proceeding, claim, or cause of action asserted in the court to be subject to that arbitration agreement.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 204 (Harman-R) Decedents' estates: posthumously conceived children

Revises several provisions of the statute enacted in 2004, that established rules for determining the rights of a posthumously conceived and born child with respect to distribution of property after a decedent's death.

Chapter 285, Statutes of 2005

AB 238 (Harman-R) Fraudulent Transfers Act: personal property

Clarifies existing law by exempting a governmental entity from an existing Civil Code provision that required delivery and change of possession of personal property for the property to be exempt from enforcement of judgments by creditors.

Chapter 43, Statutes of 2005

AB 248* (Tran-R) Fraudulent transfers

Makes technical corrections to obsolete cross-references in the Uniform Fraudulent Transfers Act.

Chapter 34, Statutes of 2005

AB 333 (Harman-R) Civil Discovery Act

Provides that a deposition of an organization will be treated as a single deposition for purposes of the provisions applicable to discovery in a limited civil case even when more than one person may be designated or required to testify. Requires a deposition officer to put the deponent under oath or affirmation and also requires the testimony and any stated objections, if taken stenographically, to be taken by a certified shorthand reporter. Authorizes a petitioner's successor in interest (consistent with a petitioner's rights under current law) who expects to be a party to a lawsuit in state court to petition to conduct discovery before the lawsuit is filed under specified conditions. Provides that a deposition is admissible in a court of this state if it was taken under the provisions of the Civil Discovery Act or under comparable provisions of another state, or the federal courts, or a foreign nation in which it was taken. Makes various minor substantive and nonsubstantive, technical, and conforming changes to the Civil Discovery Act.

Double-joints with AB 496 (Aghazarian-R).

Chapter 294, Statutes of 2005

AB 355 (Tran-R) Joint or several obligations

Authorizes the court, in any affected action, to instruct the jury on the effect of finding any party, including the state, partially liable.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 378 (Chu-D) Statute of limitation: protected classes

Extends from one to three years the time within which an action seeking penalties for an alleged violation of California's hate crimes statute (Tom Bane Civil Rights Act) may be brought.

Chapter 123, Statutes of 2005

AB 381 (Montanez-D) Physical invasion of privacy: liability

Provides that an assault committed with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or physical impression of the plaintiff subjects a person to provisions of law authorizing liability for up to three times the amount of general and special damages proximately caused by that violation, punitive damages, and disgorgement to the plaintiff of any proceeds or other consideration as a result of the violation. Provides that a person who directs, solicits, actually induces, or actually causes another person to commit an assault of this nature is liable for other specified damages.

Chapter 424, Statutes of 2005

AB 406 (Haynes-R) Construction defect disputes

States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation governing the use of indemnification and additional-insured provisions in construction contracts with respect to construction defect disputes, as specified.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

Similar bills are AB 573 (Wolk-D) and AB 1038 (Houston-R), which are both in Senate Rules Committee.

AB 415* (Harman-R) Arbitration: out-of-state attorneys

Chapter 607, Statutes of 2005

AB 528 (Frommer-D) Civil actions

Provides for enforcement of existing public health and environmental laws.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 533 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public works of improvement

Provides that whenever an original contractor's agreement is assigned to a third party, the third party shall be required to provide a payment bond.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 541 (Harman-R) Guardians

Chapter 302, Statutes of 2005

AB 758 (Calderon-D) Construction contracts: indemnity and defense

Provides that for all residential construction contracts entered into after January 1, 2006, all provisions, clauses, covenants, or agreements contained in any such construction contract that purport to indemnify, including cost to defend, the builder by a subcontractor against liability for claims of construction defects will be unenforceable to the extent the claims arise out of, pertain to, or relate dot the negligence of the builder or the builder's other agent's, other servants, or other independent contractors who are directly responsible to the builder, or for defects in design furnished by those persons, or to the extent the claims do not arise out of, pertain to, or relate to the scope of work in the written agreement between the parties.

Chapter 394, Statutes of 2005

AB 915 (Keene-R) Civil actions: time of commencing

Extends the period for commencement of an action upon a written contract, book account, or the rescission of a written contract from four years to seven years.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 941 (Canciamilla-D) Construction defects: prelitigation procedure

Establishes a general requirement for homeowners to contact the builder to inform the builder of the nature and location of a construction defect and allow the builder to inspect the defect at a mutually convenient time before the homeowner could seek legal remedies for homes purchased prior to January 2003.

(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 984 (Laird-D) Liability: genetically engineered plants

Provides that the manufacturer of a genetically engineered plant is liable to specified plaintiffs in cases where the plant has caused economic damage or loss to the plaintiff. Provides that the manufacturer is liable for damages, attorney fees and litigation costs should the plaintiff prevail in legal proceedings authorized by this bill. Prohibits the manufacturer a defense to liability unless specific circumstances apply. Provides that a manufacturer's liability may not be waived.

(Held without recommendation in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 1038 (Houston-R) Construction defects

States the Legislature's intention to enact legislation governing the use of indemnification and/or additional-insured provisions in construction contracts with respect to construction defect disputes in order to expedite the fair and efficient resolution of these disputes and to address the availability and cost of liability insurance for builders, contractors, subcontractors, design professionals and others, as well as the cost of housing.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1042 (Harman-R) Pretrial settlement offers

Reduces the interest rate on judgments currently available to plaintiffs whose pretrial offers to settle are rejected by defendants and who subsequently receive more favorable judgments at trial.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1150 (La Suer-R) Civil warrants

Enacts a series of requirements to govern the issuance and execution of civil arrest warrants for failure to appear pursuant to a subpoena or a court order. Establishes that the sheriff may obtain specified fees for the processing and execution of a warrant. Requires the person seeking enforcement of the subpoena or court order to pay those fees, but permits that person to seek $500 plus damages and costs in a civil suit against the person named in the subpoena or court order. Permits the court to make a civil assessment of up to $1,000 against a person who fails to appear in court after signing a promise to appear.

Chapter 474, Statutes of 2005

AB 1158* (Lieber-D) Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)

Enacts additional provisions with respect to Anti-SLAPP motions and SLAPPback lawsuits, as specified.

Chapter 535, Statutes of 2005

AB 1162 (Mullin-D) Eminent domain

Prohibits, until January 1, 2008, a community redevelopment agency, or community development commission or joint powers agency, as specified, from exercising the power of eminent domain to acquire owner-occupied residential real property if ownership of the property will be transferred to a private party or private entity. Requires the California Research Bureau of the State Library to submit two reports to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2007, and on or before January 1, 2008, regarding the exercise of the power of eminent domain, as specified. Requires the California Law Revision Commission to conduct a related study and submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2008.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1176 (Tran-R) Arbitration

Allows, but does not require, decisions in private arbitration to be supported by law and substantial evidence, and permits a court to vacate the award if it is not supported by substantial evidence or is based on an error of law.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1179 (Yee-D) Violent video games: sales to minors

Requires violent video games to be labeled, as specified, and prohibits the sale or rental of those violent video games to minors. Provides that a person who violates the act shall be liable in an amount of up to $1,000 for each violation.

Chapter 638, Statutes of 2005

A similar bill is AB 450 (Yee-D) which is on the Assembly Inactive File.

AB 1287 (Evans-D) Health studios

Authorizes a health studio to limit access to persons of a single gender for certain areas where equipment for physical exercise is used or classes for physical exercise instruction are conducted. Prohibits a health studio from limiting access to persons of a single gender in other areas of a health studio, such as dining areas, bars, seating areas, retail sales areas, and sports courts.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1397 (Arambula-D) Eminent domain

Requires a local public entity that appropriates electric, gas, or water public utility property to prove a more necessary use by clear and convincing evidence that the public utility has continually failed to comply with governing rules and regulations.

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1400 (Laird-D) Marital status and sexual orientation

Imports into the Unruh Civil Rights Act definitions of the terms "disability," "religion," "sex," and "sexual orientation" from the Fair Employment and Housing Act. Declares that it does not intend to affect the California Supreme Court's holding in Marina Point, Ltd. v. Wolfson (1982) 30 Cal.3d 721.

Chapter 420, Statutes of 2005

AB 1495* (Canciamilla-D) Public records

Exempts from public disclosure under the Public Records Act critical infrastructure information, as defined in the federal Homeland Security Act, that is voluntarily provided to the California Office of Homeland Security.

Double-joints with SB 922 (Ducheny-D).

Chapter 476, Statutes of 2005

AB 1553 (Evans-D) Arbitration

Provides that if an arbitration agreement requires that arbitration be demanded or initiated within a period of time, the commencement of a civil action by that party within that period of time shall toll the applicable time limitations contained in the arbitration agreement with respect to that controversy, from the date the civil action is commenced until 30 days after a final determination by the court that the party is required to arbitrate the controversy, or 30 days after the final termination of the civil action that was commenced and initiated the tolling, whichever date occurs first.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1622 (Liu-D) Private works of improvement

Provides that, with respect to any retention proceeds provided for in a prime contract or any subcontract entered into on or after January 1, 2006, between an owner and an original contractor relating to the construction of a private work of improvement, retention proceeds withheld from a payment by the owner to the original contractor, by the original contractor to a subcontractor, or by any subsequent subcontractors will be limited to maximum retention rates, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1676 (Richman-R) Terminal illness directives

Enacts the Advanced Directives and Terminal Illness Decisions Program and calls for collaboration among state entities to develop information about end-of-life care and advance health directives.

Chapter 434, Statutes of 2005

AB 1700 (Pavley-D) Secrecy agreements

Regulates the use of secrecy agreements and court orders regarding evidence discovered in litigation tending to show the existence of a public danger.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1740 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Civil procedure

Provides that an agreement entered into or renewed after January 1, 2006, establishing a forum outside of this state for the hearing or determination of a matter arising from an offer or provision of goods, services, property, or extensions of credit primarily for personal, family, or household purposes to a California consumer is contrary to public policy and is void and unenforceable.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

ACA 22 (La Malfa-R) Eminent domain

Adds a condition that private property may be taken or damaged by eminent domain proceedings only for a stated public use and only upon an independent judicial determination on the evidence that the condemnor has proven that no reasonable alternative exists. Requires that the property be owned and occupied by the condemnor, except as specified, and used only for the stated public use. Provides that if the property ceases to be used for the stated public use, the former owner or a beneficiary or an heir, who has been designated for this purpose, will have the right to reacquire the property for the compensated amount or its fair market value, whichever is less, before the property may be sold or transferred.

(Unassigned to a committee)

ACR 74 (Saldana-D) Title IX: 33rd anniversary

Commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the enactment of Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Right Act of 1964, and urges California educational institutions, as specified, to continue to comply with Title IX requirements relating to athletics by relying on various sources of information rather than a single survey to determine whether the institution is fully and effectively accommodating the athletic interests and abilities of both sexes.

Resolution Chapter 133, Statutes of 2005

Index (in Bill Order)

Bill	Author and Bill Title	Reference Links
SB 3	Torlakson-D Double fine zones	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 9*	Denham-R Reimbursement for homicide prosecution and trials	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 13	Bowen-D Personal information: state data bases	Civil Law
SB 16*	Alquist-D Sex offenders: tolling	Sex Offenders Procedural
SB 22*	Migden-D Proposition 69 funding	Law Enforcement
SB 33	Battin-R Lewd conduct with children	Child Abuse
SB 34*	Florez-D Sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 43	Battin-R Megan's Law	Sex Offenders
SB 48	Scott-D Ammunition	Weapons
SB 56	Dunn-D Trial courts: judgeships	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 59	Lowenthal-D Mandatory reporting of theft of handguns	Weapons
SB 67*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget Act of 2005: court fees	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 78	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee 2004 Budget: California Youth Authority supplemental funding	Juvenile Justice Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 91	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee 2004 Budget deficiency: Corrections	Corrections Law Enforcement
SB 92	Murray-D Computer spyware	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 93	Florez-D Local government finance: Tulare County	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 95	Murray-D Vehicles: ignition interlock device	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 96*	Murray-D Peer-to-peer networks: file sharing software	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 97	Murray-D Commercial electronic mail: penalties	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 104	Ortiz-D Public health orders: enforcement	Law Enforcement
SB 111	Alquist-D Statute of limitations: sex crimes	Sex Offenders
SB 116	Dutton-R Child abandonment: safe surrender of newborns	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 126	Runner-R Liability: police pursuits	Civil Law
SB 129	Margett-R Biological evidence: storage	Sex Offenders Procedural
SB 130	Margett-R Works of improvement: stop notices	Civil Law
SB 138	Maldonado-R Criminal procedure: closed-circuit testimony	Child Abuse Procedural
SB 151	Soto-D Intimidating or improperly influencing judges	Other Crimes and Sentencing Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 152	Speier-D Pseudoephedrine	Controlled Substances
SB 156	Soto-D Animal fighting	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 158	Machado-D Power of attorney	Civil Law
SB 159	Runner-R Inmates: health care services	Corrections
SB 165	Speier-D Office of the Special Counsel	Law Enforcement
SB 171	Alquist-D Interrogation: recording	Procedural
SB 176	Denham-R Traffic collision: fatality: blood alcohol testing	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 180	Kuehl-D Human trafficking	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 207	Scott-D Driving-under-the-influence	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 212	Lowenthal-D Lapses of consciousness	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 218	Scott-D Termination of parental rights	Juvenile Justice Family Law
SB 222	Runner-R Privacy: social security numbers	Other Crimes and Sentencing Civil Law
SB 235	Denham-R HIV exposure through unprotected sexual activity	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 238	Migden-D Double-Fine Zone: Golden Gate Bridge	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 239	Romero-D Media access to inmates	Corrections
SB 252	Ackerman-R Jurors: payment	Juries
SB 269	Dutton-R Unsafe handguns	Weapons
SB 277	Battin-R Sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 283	Maldonado-R Double fine zones and tractor-trailer lengths	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 294	Morrow-R Automatic appeals: waiver of right	Death Penalty
SB 296*	Campbell-R Trusts	Civil Law
SB 302	Scott-D Adoption	Family Law
SB 305	Morrow-R Firearms	Weapons
SB 307	Simitian-D Dextromethorphan: sale to minors	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 312	Ackerman-R Summary judgment	Civil Law
SB 317	Margett-R Evading a peace officer	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement
SB 330	Cedillo-D Mental competency	Procedural
SB 337	Maldonado-R Public postsecondary students: dismissal	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 346	Battin-R Child identity theft	Identity Theft Juvenile Justice
SB 357	Dunn-D Serialized handgun ammunition	Weapons
SB 359	Ortiz-D Child custody	Child Abuse Family Law
SB 366	Kuehl-D Offenders' families: female offenders	Corrections
SB 378	Morrow-R Death penalty appeals: appointment of counsel	Death Penalty Corrections
SB 383	Maldonado-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
SB 388	Poochigian-R Gun violence public education program	Weapons
SB 390	Bowen-D Probate agreements and assignments	Civil Law
SB 391	Poochigian-R Gang crime enhancements	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 395	Escutia-D California Court Facilities Bond Act of 2006	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 416	Ackerman-R Grand juries	Juries
SB 422	Simitian-D Small claims court: jurisdiction	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 434	Simitian-D False reporting	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 440	Speier-D Personal information	Civil Law
SB 444	Ackerman-R Gangs	Identity Theft
SB 447*	Poochigian-R Youth authority	Juvenile Justice
SB 448	Poochigian-R Sex crimes on a child	Sex Offenders
SB 449	Denham-R Crimes	Sex Offenders
SB 450	Poochigian-R Appeals: fugitive defendants	Procedural
SB 453*	Poochigian-R Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program	Law Enforcement
SB 460	Margett-R Offender access to personal information	Identity Theft Corrections
SB 466	Kuehl-D Mobile photo radar enforcement system	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 478	Alquist-D Obscene matter: definition	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 480	Denham-R Central Coast Veterans Cemetery	Corrections
SB 488	Soto-D Contractors	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 500	Kuehl-D Pregnant and parenting foster youth	Juvenile Justice
SB 504	Alquist-D Vehicles: dealerships: identity theft	Identity Theft
SB 506	Poochigian-R Voter registration information	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Law Enforcement
SB 508	McClintock-R Vehicles: driver's license: forgery: manufacture: sale	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 520	Ashburn-R Juvenile justice	Juvenile Justice
SB 532	Torlakson-D BB devices	Weapons
SB 536	Bowen-D Illegal Drug Lab Cleanup Account: methamphetamine	Controlled Substances
SB 541	Margett-R Uniform Controlled Substances Act	Controlled Substances
SB 544	Battin-R Sex offenders: custody and visitation	Sex Offenders
SB 547	Cox-R Vehicle impoundment: pilot program	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 556*	Migden-D Drug treatment	Controlled Substances
SB 565*	Migden-D Property tax: domestic partners	Family Law
SB 570	Migden-D Mentally incompetent minors	Juvenile Justice
SB 584	Soto-D Trespass: courthouse or county building	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 585	Kehoe-D Domestic violence: firearms	Weapons Family Law
SB 588*	Runner-R The Sexual Predator Punishment & Control Act: Jessica's Law	Sex Offenders
SB 591	Cedillo-D Impounding vehicles	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 594	Torlakson-D Custody and visitation: sex offenders	Sex Offenders Family Law
SB 597	Torlakson-D Auto insurance	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 598	Torlakson-D Leaving the scene of an accident	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 609	Romero-D Juvenile justice reform	Juvenile Justice
SB 613	Denham-R Offenses against minors	Child Abuse Sex Offenders
SB 616	Speier-D Inmate health care	Corrections
SB 617	Speier-D Women prisoners	Corrections
SB 618	Speier-D Inmates: individualized assessments and plans	Corrections
SB 619*	Speier-D Electronic monitoring	Corrections
SB 620	Speier-D Youth and adult facilities: random searches	Corrections
SB 622	Speier-D Correctional facilities: educational programs	Corrections
SB 629	Dutton-R Driver's license: registered sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 647*	Margett-R Parole revocation	Corrections
SB 660	Kuehl-D Public school students: questioning	Law Enforcement
SB 672	Cox-R Inmate education programs: apportionment	Corrections
SB 675	Cedillo-D Vehicle forfeiture: safe transportation	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 678*	Ducheny-D Indian children	Juvenile Justice Family Law
SB 681	Simitian-D Vehicles: wireless telephones	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 685	Kehoe-D Homicide trial reimbursements	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 692	Morrow-R Undocumented workers	Law Enforcement
SB 718	Aanestad-R High-speed pursuits: statewide policy	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement
SB 719	Romero-D Police pursuits	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement
SB 720	Kuehl-D Domestic Violence: protective orders	Domestic Violence Child Abuse Family Law
SB 722*	Denham-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
SB 723	Denham-R Sexually violent predators: conditional release program	Sex Offenders
SB 726	Florez-D Dependent children	Juvenile Justice
SB 735	Torlakson-D Trespass	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 737*	Romero-D Corrections	Juvenile Justice Corrections
SB 751	Morrow-R Human trafficking	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 754	Poochigian-R Trusts: unitrust conversions	Civil Law
SB 756	Romero-D Discrimination: restrictive covenants	Civil Law
SB 768	Simitian-D Identity Information Protection Act of 2005	Identity Theft Civil Law
SB 779	Escutia-D Peace officers: complaints: discovery	Law Enforcement
SB 795	Romero-D Youth Authority: parole	Juvenile Justice
SB 797	Romero-D Marijuana: possession	Controlled Substances
SB 799	Simitian-D Special filing fees: adoptions	Family Law
SB 800	Simitian-D Vehicles: approaching emergency vehicles	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 803*	Ducheny-D Ongoing Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2005	Controlled Substances
SB 806	Speier-D Provisional licensing program	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 807	Simitian-D Evidence: penitential communications	Sex Offenders Procedural
SB 814	Romero-D Prisons: segregation	Corrections
SB 815	Ortiz-D Substitute service of process	Civil Law
SB 817	Ashburn-R Murder: special circumstances	Death Penalty
SB 823	Margett-R Provisional licensing program: speed contest	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 827	Maldonado-R County trial costs: state reimbursement	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 839	Poochigian-R Identity theft: penalties	Identity Theft
SB 842	Machado-D Domestic violence: study	Domestic Violence
SB 852	Bowen-D Identity theft	Identity Theft
SB 855	Poochigian-R Special access: notice of violation and right to care	Civil Law
SB 864	Poochigian-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
SB 865	Poochigian-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
SB 874	Romero-D Public contracts	Juries
SB 894	Dunn-D Practice of law	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 896	Runner-R Private child support collection agencies	Family Law
SB 898	Poochigian-R Weapons in state buildings	Weapons
SB 901*	Denham-R Prisons	Corrections
SB 914	Kehoe-D Animal cruelty	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 934	Vincent-D Dogs and cats: spay or neuter agreement: penalties	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 936	Maldonado-R Homicide	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 937	Aanestad-R Liability: obesity claims	Civil Law
SB 939	Runner-R Retired reserve peace officers: concealed firearms	Weapons
SB 946	Florez-D Community correctional facilities	Corrections
SB 947	Morrow-R Construction contracts: indemnity	Civil Law
SB 963*	Ashburn-R Home detention: electronic monitoring	Corrections
SB 971	Poochigian-R Assault: school employees	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 972	Poochigian-R Victims of Crimes Program: restitution: collection	Victims of Crime
SB 973	Kuehl-D Public employees' retirement: domestic partners	Family Law
SB 1005*	Florez-D Qualified public safety officers: property tax	Law Enforcement
SB 1014*	Alquist-D State reimbursement of local investigation costs	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 1015*	Romero-D Office of Homeland Security	Law Enforcement
SB 1018	Simitian-D Elder and dependent adult abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1021	Bowen-D Infractions: bodily injury or great bodily injury	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 1030	Hollingsworth-R Discrimination: religion	Civil Law
SB 1031	Hollingsworth-R Dissolution of marriage: family education	Family Law
SB 1034	Hollingsworth-R Community care facilities: wards of the juvenile court	Juvenile Justice
SB 1038	Hollingsworth-R Firearms	Weapons
SB 1044	Hollingsworth-R Sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 1045	Hollingsworth-R Sex offender registration	Sex Offenders
SB 1046	Hollingsworth-R Parolees: placement	Sex Offenders
SB 1049*	Hollingsworth-R Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) teams	Law Enforcement
SB 1051	Hollingsworth-R Juvenile and adult sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 1062	Bowen-D Domestic violence	Domestic Violence
SB 1074	Hollingsworth-R Parole: Global Positioning System	Corrections
SB 1082*	Morrow-R Child support: military reservists	Family Law
SB 1088	Bowen-D Family law: ex parte communications	Family Law
SB 1098	Hollingsworth-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
SB 1099	Hollingsworth-R Eminent domain: agricultural property	Civil Law
SB 1107	Senate Public Safety Committee Omnibus Public Safety Bill	Domestic Violence Child Abuse Law Enforcement
SB 1108	Assembly Judiciary Committee Maintenance of the codes	Civil Law
SCA 1	Morrow-R Marriage	Family Law
SCA 12	Torlakson-D Eminent domain	Civil Law
SCA 15	McClintock-R Eminent domain	Civil Law
SCA 16	Runner-R Judicial districts	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SCR 5	Battin-R Deputy Bruce Lee Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 7	Denham-R Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 12	Machado-D CHP Officer Artie J. Hubbard Memorial Freeway	Law Enforcement
SCR 13	Battin-R Child Abuse Prevention Month	Child Abuse
SCR 15	Morrow-R California Law Revision Commission: study	Civil Law
SCR 20	Soto-D CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 29	Kehoe-D Emergency services and homeland security	Law Enforcement
SCR 38	Alquist-D Crime Victims' Rights Week	Victims of Crime
SCR 39	Alquist-D Sexual Assault Awareness Month	Sex Offenders
SCR 42	Campbell-R California Law Revision Commission	Civil Law
SJR 14	Battin-R Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center	Law Enforcement
SR 12	Romero-D Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Denim Day	Sex Offenders
SR 17	Margett-R Parole: 100th anniversary	Law Enforcement
AB 4	Bogh-R Permanent revocation of a license: DUI	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 12	DeVore-R Nonprobate transfers: California Law Revision Commission	Civil Law
AB 19	Leno-D Gender-neutral marriage	Family Law
AB 20	Leslie-R Disabled persons: access	Civil Law
AB 22	Lieber-D Human trafficking	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 27	Mullin-D Homicide trial costs	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 33	Sharon Runner-R Contact with minors	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 35	Spitzer-R Megan's Law	Sex Offenders
AB 46	Walters-R Ecstasy (MDMA, XTC)	Controlled Substances
AB 47	Cohn-D Public contracts: medical care services	Corrections
AB 50	Leno-D Crimes: third strike	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 59	Cohn-D Domestic violence: presence of minors	Domestic Violence
AB 64	Cohn-D Recording crimes	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 69	Harman-R Multiple-party accounts	Civil Law
AB 70	Maze-R Reissuance of vehicle license plates: rape victims	Victims of Crime
AB 86	Levine-D Firearms	Weapons
AB 88	Koretz-D Illegal assault weapons	Weapons
AB 91	Bogh-R Resisting arrest	Law Enforcement
AB 96	Cohn-D High- risk sex offenders: enhancements	Sex Offenders
AB 98	Cohn-D Firearms	Weapons
AB 99	Cohn-D Protective orders: expiration	Family Law
AB 100	Cohn-D Domestic Violence: Dept. of Health Services Advisory Council	Domestic Violence
AB 101	Cohn-D Remote stun guns	Weapons
AB 102	Cohn-D Parole: high-risk sex offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 104	Bass-D Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act	Law Enforcement
AB 106	Cohn-D Spousal battery: fines: amnesty	Domestic Violence
AB 107	Benoit-R Traffic violator schools: lesson plans	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 108	Houston-R Attorney advertising: residential construction defects	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 112	Cohn-D Protective orders: priority	Family Law
AB 113	Cohn-D Child sex offender parole placement: proximity to schools	Sex Offenders
AB 114	Cohn-D Child abuse	Child Abuse
AB 118	Cohn-D Protective orders: minor children	Family Law
AB 120	Cohn-D Domestic violence: children	Domestic Violence
AB 125	Dymally-D Cocaine penalties	Controlled Substances
AB 138*	Assembly Budget Committee State mandates: peace officers: budget trailer bill	Law Enforcement
AB 139*	Assembly Budget Committee Juvenile probation funding: budget trailer bill	Juvenile Justice Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Law Enforcement
AB 145*	Assembly Budget Committee Budget trailer bill: uniform civil fees	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 153	Assembly Budget Committee Budget Trailer Bill: Code of Civil Procedure	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law
AB 157	Levine-D Tasers	Weapons
AB 161	Vargas-D Prisoners: clergy	Corrections
AB 173	Houston-R Immunity: obesity claims	Civil Law
AB 176	Bermudez-D Trial courts: limited-term employees	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 182	Benoit-R Search warrants	Law Enforcement
AB 183*	Cogdill-R Conservation camps: Madera County	Corrections
AB 190	Negrete McLeod-D California Sexual Violence Victim Service Fund	Sex Offenders Victims of Crime
AB 192	Tran-R Tort Claims Act	Civil Law
AB 202	Harman-R Arbitration agreements	Civil Law
AB 204	Harman-R Decedents' estates: posthumously conceived children	Civil Law
AB 210	Vargas-D Sex offenses	Sex Offenders
AB 211	Cohn-D Remote stun guns	Weapons
AB 212	DeVore-R Prisons: family visits	Corrections
AB 217	Vargas-D Registered sex offenders: long-term care facilities	Sex Offenders
AB 220	Assembly Public Safety Committee Domestic violence	Domestic Violence
AB 221	Bogh-R Sexually violent predators: early release credits	Sex Offenders
AB 231	Sharon Runner-R Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act: Jessica's Law	Corrections
AB 233	Haynes-R CalWORKs: eligibility disqualification	Sex Offenders
AB 238	Harman-R Fraudulent Transfers Act: personal property	Civil Law
AB 240*	Bermudez-D Child sex offender: parole placement	Sex Offenders
AB 246	Walters-R Statutes of limitation: accessory to felony	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 248*	Tran-R Fraudulent transfers	Civil Law
AB 250	Matthews-D Merced County: homicide trial costs	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 253	Aghazarian-R Child abuse	Child Abuse
AB 262	Berg-D Courts: transfer of county facilities	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 265	Haynes-R Child custody: parents on active military duty	Family Law
AB 272*	Parra-D County custodial officers	Law Enforcement
AB 275	Baca-D Drug Dealer Liability Act: civil liability: manufacture	Controlled Substances
AB 280	Oropeza-D Trespass: harbor and port passenger terminals	Other Crimes and Sentencing Weapons
AB 281	Liu-D Child pornography	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 282	Benoit-R Sexually explicit material	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 283	Koretz-D Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine: retail sale	Controlled Substances
AB 296	Negrete McLeod-D Hepatitis C	Corrections
AB 299	Maze-R Mandatory child abuse reporting	Child Abuse
AB 305	Mountjoy-R Police vehicle pursuit	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement
AB 308	Jerome Horton-D Hate crimes	Other Crimes and Sentencing Corrections
AB 312	Ruskin-D Records: subpoena authority	Procedural
AB 313	Ruskin-D Parole offices	Corrections
AB 314	Parra-D Department of the Youth Authority	Juvenile Justice
AB 324	Mountjoy-R Correctional facilities: faith- and morals-based programs	Corrections
AB 332	Bogh-R Arrests: policy: immigration	Law Enforcement
AB 333	Harman-R Civil Discovery Act	Civil Law
AB 335	Walters-R Crime: bail	Sex Offenders
AB 336	Huff-R Controlled substances	Controlled Substances
AB 352	Koretz-D Semiautomatic firearms: unsafe handgun requirements	Weapons
AB 355	Tran-R Joint or several obligations	Civil Law
AB 373	Bermudez-D Peace officer safety	Law Enforcement
AB 376	Mountjoy-R Amber alerts	Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement
AB 378	Chu-D Statute of limitation: protected classes	Civil Law
AB 381	Montanez-D Physical invasion of privacy: liability	Civil Law
AB 404	Leno-D Bail licenses	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 406	Haynes-R Construction defect disputes	Civil Law
AB 415*	Harman-R Arbitration: out-of-state attorneys	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law
AB 418	Koretz-D Dogs: animal cruelty: ear cropping	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 421	Spitzer-R Crime: distribution of personal information	Identity Theft
AB 423	Spitzer-R Liability: peace officers	Law Enforcement
AB 424	Calderon-D Identity theft: definition	Identity Theft
AB 427	La Malfa-R Workers' compensation: local inmates	Corrections
AB 429	Chu-D Workplace harassment: protective orders	Family Law
AB 437	Parra-D Megan's Law	Sex Offenders
AB 438	Parra-D Sex offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 439	Parra-D Registered sex offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 440	Matthews-D Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
AB 447	La Suer-R Adoption: final hearings	Family Law
AB 448	La Suer-R Assault weapons	Weapons
AB 452	Yee-D Safety enhancement: double fine zone	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 456	Torrico-D Public employees' retirement: fraud	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 458	Jerome Horton-D Peace officers	Law Enforcement
AB 465	Cogdill-R Controlled substances: iodine	Controlled Substances
AB 472	Benoit-R Elder and disabled abuse	Law Enforcement
AB 478	Lieber-D Medical care of pregnant inmates and wards	Corrections
AB 483	Nunez-D California Peace Officer Memorial Foundation: tax checkoff	Law Enforcement
AB 484	Benoit-R Elder and dependent adults: identity theft	Identity Theft
AB 496	Aghazarian-R Service of process	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Law Enforcement
AB 498	Haynes-R Child support guidelines: National Guard members	Family Law
AB 502	Cogdill-R Finance lenders: criminal history record checks	Law Enforcement
AB 505	Leno-D Prisoners	Corrections
AB 506	Montanez-D Teen dating violence	Domestic Violence
AB 507	Daucher-R Health studio child care providers: criminal history checks	Law Enforcement
AB 519	Leno-D Parental rights: reinstatement after termination	Juvenile Justice Family Law
AB 528	Frommer-D Civil actions	Civil Law
AB 533	Negrete McLeod-D Public works of improvement	Civil Law
AB 541	Harman-R Guardians	Family Law Civil Law
AB 542	Huff-R Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training	Law Enforcement
AB 543	Houston-R Contra Costa County prisoner education program	Corrections
AB 545	Garcia-R Correctional peace officers	Corrections
AB 550	Goldberg-D Correctional institutions: sexual abuse	Corrections
AB 557	Karnette-D Criminal procedure: testimony	Procedural
AB 561	Montanez-D Inmate education programs	Corrections
AB 570	Villines-R Vehicles: fleeing a peace officer	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 571	Levine-D Vehicles: DUI: blood-alcohol concentration	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 603	Spitzer-R Sexually violent predators: parole	Sex Offenders
AB 618	Cogdill-R Identity theft: penalties	Identity Theft
AB 620	Negrete McLeod-D Examination of witnesses	Procedural
AB 627	Leslie-R Parole: religious counseling	Corrections
AB 629	Chan-D Alameda County reentry services pilot program	Corrections
AB 631	Leno-D Narcotic treatment programs	Controlled Substances
AB 632	Chu-D Sex Offender Management Board	Sex Offenders
AB 634	Lieber-D International marriage brokers	Family Law
AB 646	Sharon Runner-R Body piercing	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 658	Liu-D Women inmates	Corrections
AB 663	La Suer-R Offenses relating to prisons and prisoners	Corrections
AB 664	Jones-D Administration of the State Bar	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 667	Jones-D Child support enforcement	Family Law
AB 684	Sharon Runner-R Drug paraphernalia	Controlled Substances
AB 685	Calderon-D City of Montebello	Law Enforcement
AB 690	Saldana-D Weapons of mass destruction civil support team	Weapons
AB 698	Haynes-R Media access to inmates	Corrections
AB 734	Dymally-D Endangered species: crimes	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 743	Strickland-R Minors: rape	Sex Offenders Juvenile Justice
AB 750	Mullin-D Trial court funding: San Mateo County	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 753	Gordon-D Driving under the influence	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 754	Jones-D Firearms	Weapons
AB 758	Calderon-D Construction contracts: indemnity and defense	Civil Law
AB 759	Lieber-D Crime stoppers program	Law Enforcement
AB 760	Nava-D Children of incarcerated parents	Procedural
AB 763	Tran-R Juvenile justice coordinating councils	Juvenile Justice
AB 776	Chu-D Mandatory child abuse and neglect reporting	Child Abuse
AB 784	Garcia-R SAFE teams	Law Enforcement
AB 786	Ruskin-D Identity theft: California State University	Identity Theft
AB 787	DeVore-R Crime: impersonating a veteran	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 789	Lieber-D Crimes against individuals with disabilities	Victims of Crime Law Enforcement
AB 795	Ridley-Thomas-D Peace officers: California Science Center	Law Enforcement
AB 804	La Suer-R California Highway Patrol: disability/workers' compensation	Law Enforcement
AB 806	La Suer-R High technology crimes	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 807	La Suer-R Sex offenses: minors	Sex Offenders
AB 808	La Suer-R Sex offenders: group homes	Sex Offenders
AB 809	La Suer-R Victim notification	Victims of Crime
AB 812	Matthews-D Health and Human Services Agency: background checks	Law Enforcement
AB 821	Ridley-Thomas-D Prisoners: voting	Corrections
AB 849	Leno-D Gender-neutral marriage	Family Law
AB 851	Koretz-D Criminal records: expungement	Procedural
AB 855	Bass-D CalWORKs	Corrections
AB 857	Bass-D Vehicles: registration fees: crime prevention programs	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement
AB 858	Bass-D Substance abuse and crime prevention: funding	Law Enforcement
AB 860	Bass-D Arrested persons: notice of parental rights	Family Law
AB 862	Bass-D Inmates: parental rights and responsibilities	Corrections Family Law
AB 863	Bass-D Child Welfare Council	Juvenile Justice
AB 877	Huff-R Vehicles: impound	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 878	Chavez-D Felonies: profits	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 880	Cohn-D Dependent children	Juvenile Justice
AB 893	Shirley Horton-R Sex offenders: community placement	Sex Offenders
AB 900	Benoit-R Department of Food and Agriculture: investigators	Law Enforcement
AB 915	Keene-R Civil actions: time of commencing	Civil Law
AB 916	Canciamilla-D Elder abuse: identity theft	Identity Theft
AB 928	Jerome Horton-D Attorney's fees	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 940	Chu-D Missing Persons DNA Data Base	Law Enforcement
AB 941	Canciamilla-D Construction defects: prelitigation procedure	Civil Law
AB 944	Ridley-Thomas-D Firearms: warning	Weapons
AB 946	Wyland-R Identity theft: fines	Identity Theft
AB 963	Garcia-R Provisional driver's license: cell phone restriction	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 971	Jerome Horton-D Corrections: superintendents	Corrections
AB 978	Sharon Runner-R Restraining orders: stalking	Family Law
AB 979	Sharon Runner-R Driving under the influence: restricted driver's license	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 984	Laird-D Liability: genetically engineered plants	Civil Law
AB 988	Bogh-R Criminal profiteering	Identity Theft
AB 992	Spitzer-R Law enforcement surveillance	Law Enforcement
AB 994	Sharon Runner-R Department of Insurance investigators	Law Enforcement
AB 996	Ridley-Thomas-D Handgun ammunition: retail display	Weapons
AB 998	Chu-D Sexual assault: medical exams	Sex Offenders
AB 999	La Malfa-R Attempted murder: custodial officers	Other Crimes and Sentencing Corrections
AB 1015	Chu-D Hate crimes	Victims of Crime Law Enforcement
AB 1022	Walters-R Murder: assault on a child	Child Abuse
AB 1023	Walters-R Child exploitation	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1025	Walters-R Driving in excess of 100 mph	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1034	Spitzer-R Methamphetamine manufacturing: increased prison penalties	Controlled Substances
AB 1035	Spitzer-R Public officials: Internet posting of home information	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1036	Koretz-D Identity theft	Identity Theft
AB 1038	Houston-R Construction defects	Civil Law
AB 1042	Harman-R Pretrial settlement offers	Civil Law
AB 1060	Liu-D Firearms	Weapons
AB 1063	Cogdill-R Unlawful manufacture and possession	Controlled Substances
AB 1069	Montanez-D Deceptive identification documents	Identity Theft
AB 1078	Keene-R Contaminated property	Controlled Substances
AB 1079	Sharon Runner-R Department of Developmental Services: criminal history	Law Enforcement
AB 1080	Sharon Runner-R Department of the Youth Authority: sex offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 1102	Hancock-D Marriage	Family Law
AB 1106	Strickland-R Crimes	Sex Offenders
AB 1109	Shirley Horton-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
AB 1112	Cohn-D Loitering: transit facilities	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1120*	Benoit-R Sexually Violent Predator Act	Sex Offenders
AB 1121	Koretz-D Sentencing	Death Penalty
AB 1127	Garcia-R Two-way teleconferencing testing	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1132	Torrico-D Impounding vehicles	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1133	Harman-R Evidentiary privileges	Procedural
AB 1138	Dymally-D PERS: CHP officers	Law Enforcement
AB 1148	Nakanishi-R Ice cream trucks: parking	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1150	La Suer-R Civil warrants	Civil Law
AB 1152	La Suer-R Parole: global positioning system device	Sex Offenders
AB 1153	La Suer-R Offenses against minors: impersonating a minor	Child Abuse Sex Offenders
AB 1158*	Lieber-D Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)	Civil Law
AB 1160	Lieber-D Manslaughter	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1162	Mullin-D Eminent domain	Civil Law
AB 1169	Torrico-D Assault and battery: transit employee	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1176	Tran-R Arbitration	Civil Law
AB 1179	Yee-D Violent video games: sales to minors	Civil Law
AB 1183	Vargas-D Insurance: anti-fraud	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1188	Wolk-D Mandatory reporting: penalties	Child Abuse Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1198	Mullin-D Juvenile court records: County of San Mateo	Juvenile Justice
AB 1236	DeVore-R Marriage Choice Act of 2005	Family Law
AB 1237	Leno-D Tasers	Weapons Law Enforcement
AB 1257	Umberg-D Child pornography crimes	Child Abuse
AB 1267	Leslie-R Corrections Standards Authority	Juvenile Justice Corrections
AB 1287	Evans-D Health studios	Civil Law
AB 1288	Chu-D Court orders: firearms	Domestic Violence Procedural Weapons
AB 1289	Jerome Horton-D State hospital police	Law Enforcement
AB 1293	Oropeza-D Depositions	Procedural
AB 1294	Umberg-D Investigative subpoenas: violent felonies	Law Enforcement
AB 1305	Sharon Runner-R Wiretaps	Law Enforcement
AB 1307	Dymally-D Child custody	Family Law
AB 1322*	Evans-D Judges: disqualification standards	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1323*	Vargas-D Registered sex offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 1325	Vargas-D Speed contests	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1333	Frommer-D Grease waste haulers	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1338	Nation-D Immigrant children: appointment of attorney	Juvenile Justice Family Law
AB 1349*	Goldberg-D Narcotic treatment programs	Controlled Substances
AB 1353	Liu-D DUI offenders: education and counsel	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1368	Umberg-D Workers' compensation	Law Enforcement
AB 1384	Laird-D Double fine zones	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1389	Oropeza-D Littering: cigarette butts	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1397	Arambula-D Eminent domain	Civil Law
AB 1400	Laird-D Marital status and sexual orientation	Civil Law
AB 1412	Leno-D Dependent children: out-of-home placements	Juvenile Justice
AB 1413	DeVore-R Traffic accident notification	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1422	Bogh-R Long-term health care facilities: sexual offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 1426	Liu-D Animal euthanasia	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1427	Mountjoy-R Sexual cases: abortion	Sex Offenders
AB 1435	Evans-D Courthouse Construction Fund	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1446	Karnette-D Foreign prisoners	Corrections
AB 1447	Garcia-R Provisional driver's licenses: restrictions	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1448	Saldana-D Conflicts of interest	Juvenile Justice
AB 1449	Bermudez-D Graffiti abatement	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1453	Daucher-R Adjudication of rights to produce groundwater	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1459	Canciamilla-D Small claims courts	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1465	Mountjoy-R Prisoners: medical treatment	Corrections
AB 1470	Negrete McLeod-D Criminal history information: minors	Law Enforcement
AB 1484	Wyland-R Sexually violent predators: definition	Sex Offenders
AB 1495*	Canciamilla-D Public records	Civil Law
AB 1501	Yee-D Juvenile prostitution	Juvenile Justice
AB 1502	Salinas-D Family law: San Benito County pilot project	Family Law
AB 1504	La Suer-R Driver's licenses: registered sex offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 1505	La Suer-R Victim restitution	Victims of Crime
AB 1517	Sharon Runner-R Department of Managed Health Care: employee information	Law Enforcement
AB 1529	Jones-D State Bar of California: dues	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1536	Bass-D City of Los Angeles security officers	Law Enforcement
AB 1540	Bass-D Criminal procedure: habeas corpus	Procedural
AB 1542	Parra-D Sentencing: combat veterans	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1550	Arambula-D Unincorporated areas: vehicle law enforcement	Law Enforcement
AB 1551	Sharon Runner-R Sexual predators	Sex Offenders
AB 1553	Evans-D Arbitration	Civil Law
AB 1566	Calderon-D Identity theft	Identity Theft
AB 1581	Garcia-R Identity theft	Identity Theft
AB 1587	Saldana-D Farmed Animal Reform Act	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1599	La Malfa-R Homicide trial costs	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1601	Laird-D Child care provider: background checks	Law Enforcement
AB 1605	Wolk-D Elder and dependent adult abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1622	Liu-D Private works of improvement	Civil Law
AB 1626	Nava-D Jury tampering	Juries
AB 1638	Nava-D Adoption of dependent children	Juvenile Justice Family Law
AB 1647	Negrete McLeod-D Peace officers	Weapons Law Enforcement
AB 1657	Evans-D Child victims: multidisciplinary centers	Victims of Crime
AB 1672	Nation-D Death row expansion study	Death Penalty Corrections
AB 1676	Richman-R Terminal illness directives	Civil Law
AB 1677	Koretz-D Corrections: condom distribution	Corrections
AB 1683	Shirley Horton-R Sex offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 1688	Niello-R Illegal dumping officers	Law Enforcement
AB 1691	Lieber-D Teachers: criminal records checks	Law Enforcement
AB 1700	Pavley-D Secrecy agreements	Civil Law
AB 1710	Wyland-R Tasers	Weapons
AB 1712	Hancock-D Domestic violence	Domestic Violence
AB 1715	Nation-D Housing Condemned Inmates	Death Penalty Corrections
AB 1739	Assembly Judiciary Committee California Commission on Access to Justice: report	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1740	Assembly Judiciary Committee Civil procedure	Civil Law
AB 1742	Assembly Judiciary Committee Courts: civil fees: procedure: court operations	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1743	Assembly Judiciary Committee Child support	Family Law
AB 1768*	Assembly Public Safety Committee Victim compensation trauma services	Victims of Crime
AB 1774*	Assembly Human Services Committee Child welfare services: criminal record checks	Law Enforcement
ACA 3	Haynes-R Marriage	Family Law
ACA 20	Haynes-R California Border Police	Law Enforcement
ACA 22	La Malfa-R Eminent domain	Civil Law
ACR 2	Cohn-D Domestic Violence Awareness Month	Domestic Violence
ACR 8	Dymally-D Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Awareness Month	Other Crimes and Sentencing
ACR 16	Wolk-D CHP Sergeant Gary R. Wagers Memorial Interchange	Law Enforcement
ACR 20	Oropeza-D CHP Officer Merle L. Andrews Memorial Interchange	Law Enforcement
ACR 33	Lieber-D Joint Committee on Human Trafficking in California	Other Crimes and Sentencing
ACR 35	Hancock-D California Police Activities League Day	Law Enforcement
ACR 39	Tran-R Child Abuse Prevention Month	Child Abuse
ACR 41	Negrete McLeod-D California Peace Officers' Memorial Day	Law Enforcement
ACR 46	Strickland-R CHP Officer David W. Copleman Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 63	Negrete McLeod-D CYA Counselor Ineasie M. Baker Memorial Freeway	Juvenile Justice
ACR 70	Umberg-D Westminster Police Ofcr Steven L. Phillips Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 73	McCarthy-R Firearms statutes	Weapons
ACR 74	Saldana-D Title IX: 33rd anniversary	Civil Law
ACR 85	Leno-D Court Adoption and Permanency Month	Family Law
AJR 17	Jones-D Child support penalties	Family Law
GRP 1	Other Governor Committee Youth and Adult Correctional Agency	Corrections
HR 17	Huff-R 100th anniversary of parole	Law Enforcement

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Death Penalty

SB 294 (Morrow-R) Automatic appeals: waiver of right

(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 378 (Morrow-R) Death penalty appeals: appointment of counsel

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 817 (Ashburn-R) Murder: special circumstances

(Failed passage in the Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1121 (Koretz-D) Sentencing

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1672 (Nation-D) Death row expansion study

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1715 (Nation-D) Housing Condemned Inmates

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

Identity Theft

SB 346 (Battin-R) Child identity theft

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 444 (Ackerman-R) Gangs

Chapter 482, Statutes of 2005

SB 460 (Margett-R) Offender access to personal information

Chapter 259, Statutes of 2005

SB 504 (Alquist-D) Vehicles: dealerships: identity theft

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 768 (Simitian-D) Identity Information Protection Act of 2005

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 839 (Poochigian-R) Identity theft: penalties

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 852 (Bowen-D) Identity theft

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 421 (Spitzer-R) Crime: distribution of personal information

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 424 (Calderon-D) Identity theft: definition

(On Senate Third Reading)

AB 484 (Benoit-R) Elder and dependent adults: identity theft

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 618 (Cogdill-R) Identity theft: penalties

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 786 (Ruskin-D) Identity theft: California State University

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 916 (Canciamilla-D) Elder abuse: identity theft

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 946 (Wyland-R) Identity theft: fines

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 988 (Bogh-R) Criminal profiteering

Chapter 53, Statutes of 2005

AB 1036 (Koretz-D) Identity theft

(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1069 (Montanez-D) Deceptive identification documents

Chapter 326, Statutes of 2005

AB 1566 (Calderon-D) Identity theft

Chapter 432, Statutes of 2005

AB 1581 (Garcia-R) Identity theft

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Domestic Violence

SB 720 (Kuehl-D) Domestic Violence: protective orders

Chapter 631, Statutes of 2005

SB 842 (Machado-D) Domestic violence: study

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1062 (Bowen-D) Domestic violence

(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 1107 (Senate Public Safety Committee) Omnibus Public Safety Bill

Chapter 279, Statutes of 2005

AB 59 (Cohn-D) Domestic violence: presence of minors

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 100 (Cohn-D) Domestic Violence: Dept. of Health Services Advisory Council

Chapter 462, Statutes of 2005

AB 106 (Cohn-D) Spousal battery: fines: amnesty

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 120 (Cohn-D) Domestic violence: children

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 220 (Assembly Public Safety Committee) Domestic violence

Chapter 215, Statute of 2005

AB 506 (Montanez-D) Teen dating violence

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1288 (Chu-D) Court orders: firearms

Chapter 702, Statutes of 2005

AB 1712 (Hancock-D) Domestic violence

Chapter 545, Statutes of 2005

ACR 2 (Cohn-D) Domestic Violence Awareness Month