Public Safety

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Child Abuse/Sex Offenders

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SB 57 (Lieu-D) Electronic monitoring removal: sex offender

Prohibits a person who is required to register as a sex offender, and who is subject to parole supervision, from removing or disabling an electronic global positioning system or other monitoring device affixed as a condition of parole.
Chapter 776, Statutes of 2013

SB 59* (Evans-D) Crimes: sex crimes

Expands the definition of oral copulation and sexual penetration, as defined, to include situations in which the perpetrator fraudulently induces the victim to believe he/she is someone other than the perpetrator, not just the victim's spouse.
Chapter 282, Statutes of 2013

SB 130 (Corbett-D) Witnesses

Expands provisions allowing support persons while testifying to victims of specified sex offenses when they testify in court to include more crimes and to include attempts of specified crimes.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2013

SB 145 (Pavley-D) Sex offenders: child pornography

Creates new categories of offenses related to aggravated forms of child pornography with increased state prison terms for those offenses.
Chapter 777, Statutes of 2013

SB 160 (Lara-D) Classified school employees: misconduct against a child

Requires school districts and charter schools, within 30 days, to notify the Department of Education when a classified employee is dismissed, suspended, or is terminated from employment as a result of the misconduct against a child, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

SB 244 (Liu-D) Disorderly conduct

Provides that any adult convicted of a prostitution offense or soliciting a lewd act in public that involves minor must serve a minimum of 90 days, except as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 326 (Beall-D) Sex offenders

Authorizes the chief administrative official of a school to grant a person, who is required to register as a sex offender and is not a family member of a pupil who attends that school, permission to come into a school building or on the school grounds to volunteer at the school under specified conditions.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 2013

SB 386 (Correa-D) Registered sex offenders

States that the Legislature does not preempt local agencies from enacting ordinances that restrict where registered sex offenders may go within a local municipality.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 663 (Lara-D) Sexual assault: victims

Revises the definition of certain sex offenses, including rape, sodomy, and oral copulation, to apply if the victim is developmentally disabled, as defined.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 2 (Morrell-R) Sex offenders: parole violations

Requires a person who violates the conditions of parole or of postrelease community supervision by failing to fulfill sex-offender registration requirements to serve time for the violation in prison rather than in the county jail.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 20 (Waldron-R) Obscene matter: minors

Creates an additional fine of up to $2,000 to be imposed upon conviction of every offender who commits specified child pornography offenses when the offense is committed via government-owned property.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2013

AB 65* (Achadjian-R) Crimes: sex crimes

Expands the definitions of rape and sodomy committed by fraud that are restricted to the impersonation of a spouse to include cases where the perpetrator induces the victim to believe that he/she is someone known to the victim other than the perpetrator.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2013

AB 307 (Campos-D) Protective orders

Allows a court to issue a protective order up to 10 years when a defendant is convicted of specified sex crimes, regardless of the sentence imposed.
Chapter 291, Statutes of 2013

AB 321 (Donnelly-R) Registration of sex offenders: nonpermitted addresses

Requires an employee of a law enforcement agency who receives the registration of a sex offender or the update to a registration to check the address and ensure that the address is not that of a place where the sex offender is prohibited from staying or a place that serves the needs of children.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 406 (Torres-D) Child abuse reporting

Deletes the 1/1/14, sunset date on provisions of law authorizing counties to establish child abuse multidisciplinary personnel teams to allow provider agencies to share confidential information in order to investigate reports of suspected child abuse and neglect, as specified.
Chapter 7, Statutes of 2013

AB 579 (Melendez-R) Sex offenses against children

Provides that a prosecution may be commenced at any time prior to a victim's 28th birthday, or as specified, for any violation of specified criminal offenses, including harboring a principal to a felony, intimidating a witness, and conspiring to obstruct justice, if those offenses relate to a violation of various sex offenses, including rape and sodomy, in which the victim was a minor and the violation involved substantial sexual conduct.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 605 (Linder-R) Sex offenders: parole violations

Provides that a defendant who is released on parole or postrelease community supervision, who has suffered a prior or current felony requiring registration as a sex offender, and who violates any condition of parole or postrelease community supervision shall serve any period of incarceration ordered for that violation in the state prison.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 652 (Ammiano-D) Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act: homeless children

States that for the purposes of the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, the fact that a child is homeless or is classified as an unaccompanied minor, as defined, is not, in and of itself, a sufficient basis for reporting child abuse or neglect.
Chapter 486, Statutes of 2013

AB 681 (Melendez-R) Spousal support

Requires a court to consider as a factor in awarding spousal support, domestic violence perpetrated by either party against either party's child, as specified.
Chapter 455, Statutes of 2013

AB 702 (Ammiano-D) Sex offenders: registration

Recasts the lifetime sex offender registration schema into a three-tiered registration system for sex offenders for periods of 10 years, 20 years, or life.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 768 (Achadjian-R) Sexually violent predators: conditional release

Prohibits a sexually violent predator, who has been granted conditional release, from being released as a transient in any county, or being placed in housing that consists of a recreational or other vehicle, and declares extraordinary circumstances justifying the placement of a person, as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 790 (Gomez-D) Child abuse: reporting

Narrows the provision of law allowing a "team" of mandated child abuse and neglect reporters to select one member who files the mandated report to apply only to health care providers, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 992 (Perea-D) Sex offender registration: juvenile offenders

Requires a juvenile sex offender, as specified, who is placed on probation or parole for committing or attempting to commit specified sex offenses to register in accordance with the Sex Offender Registration Act.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1027 (Bonilla-D) Youth sports: criminal background checks

Authorizes a community youth athletics program to request state- and federal-level background checks for a volunteer coach or hired coach candidate.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1108 (Perea-D) Sex offenders: foster care homes

Makes it a misdemeanor for any person required to register as a sex offender, based on the commission of an offense against a minor, to reside (except as a client), to work, or to volunteer in specified foster homes or facilities.
Chapter 772, Statutes of 2013

ACR 34 (Cooley-D) Child Abuse Prevention Month

Acknowledges the month of April 2013 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 32, Statutes of 2013

ACR 66 (Waldron-R) Internet Crimes Against Children Awareness Month

Designates October 2013 as Internet Crimes Against Children Awareness Month, and states that the Legislature supports increased funding for the Internet Crimes Against Children task forces, online communications systems, and computer technology to help detect the sexual exploitation of children.
Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2013

Controlled Substances

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SB 253 (Hueso-D) Controlled substances: synthetic cannabinoids

Expands the definition of synthetic cannabinoids for purposes of its prohibitions, synthetic cannabinoid agonists that include, among other compounds, naphthoylindoles, naphthylmethylindoles, naphthoylpyrroles, naphthylmethylindenes, phenylacetylindoles, cyclohexylphenols, benzoylindoles, and adamantoylindoles.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 289 (Correa-D) Vehicles: driving under the influence: drugs

Provides that it is unlawful for a person to drive a vehicle if his/her blood contains any drug under the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act as specified, unless the drug was consumed in accordance with a valid prescription.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 439 (Steinberg-D) Medical marijuana

Exempts medical-marijuana collectives and cooperatives from criminal liability for possession, cultivation, possession for sale, sale, transport, importation, and furnishing marijuana, as well as, for maintaining a place, or knowingly providing a place for selling or furnishing marijuana.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 506 (Hill-D) Ephedrine: retail sale

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

SB 566 (Leno-D) Industrial hemp

Allows the regulated cultivation and processing of industrial hemp upon federal approval, as specified.
Chapter 398, Statutes of 2013

SB 649 (Leno-D) Possession of controlled substances: penalties

Provides that possession for personal use of specified controlled substances is an alternate felony-misdemeanor, not a straight felony.
Vetoed

SB 809 (DeSaulnier-D) Controlled substances: reporting

Establishes a funding mechanism to update and maintain the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, and requires all prescribing health care practitioners to apply to access related program information.
Chapter 400, Statutes of 2013

AB 828 (Holden-D) Controlled substances

Requires a person who violates one of the specified provisions pertaining to controlled substances be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, rather than a county jail, for the specified term.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1128 (Salas-D) Alcoholic beverages: underage drinking

Increases to a felony, the penalty for knowingly selling to, purchasing for, furnishing or giving alcohol to a person under 21 who drinks the alcohol and then proximately causes death or bodily injury to himself/herself or another.
Vetoed

AB 1137 (Mansoor-R) Industrial hemp

Revises the definition of marijuana so that the term does not include industrial hemp, as defined, and requires industrial hemp to be cultivated only from seeds imported in accordance with federal law or from seeds grown in California, as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

ACR 74 (Salas-D) Red Ribbon Week

Proclaims 10/23/13 to 10/31/13, as Red Ribbon Week, and encourages all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2013

Domestic Violence

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SCR 68 (Lieu-D) National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Recognizes October 2013, and each following October, as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2013

SJR 2 (Jackson-D) Violence Against Women Act

Urges the U.S. Congress to pass and the President to sign the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act and to ensure the sustainability of vital programs designed to keep women and families safe from violence and abuse.
Resolution Chapter 6, Statutes of 2013

SR 8 (Yee-D) Violence Against Women Act

Urges the United States Congress to pass the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, to ensure the sustainability of vital programs designed to keep women and families safe from violence and abuse.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 16 (John A. Pérez-D) Domestic violence: corporal injury

Adds former fiancés/fiancées and current and former dating relationships to the types of relationships - spouse/former spouse, cohabitant/former cohabitant, mother/father of the offender's child - that constitute felony domestic violence when corporal injury results in a traumatic condition.
Chapter 763, Statutes of 2013

AB 139 (Holden-D) Domestic violence: fees

Characterizes the payment imposed on a defendant who is granted probation for a domestic violence crime as a fee, not a fine.
Chapter 144, Statutes of 2013

AB 681 (Melendez-R) Spousal support

Requires a court to consider, as a factor in awarding spousal support, domestic violence perpetrated by either party against either party's child, as specified.
Chapter 455, Statutes of 2013

AJR 8 (John A. Pérez-D) Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act

Urges the U.S. Congress to pass and the President to sign the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act and ensure the sustainability of vital programs designed to keep women and families safe from violence and abuse.
Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2013

Firearms and Weapons

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SB 38 (De León-D) Firearms: prohibited persons

Requires the Department of Justice to establish a 30-day amnesty period, beginning no later than 7/1/15, during which time a person prohibited from possessing a gun may surrender any gun to local law enforcement without prosecution for that possession.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 47 (Yee-D) Firearms: assault weapons

Amends the definition of an "assault weapon" to include those weapons which do not have a fixed magazine but do have one of several specified features, and requires registration of weapons which now fall under the new definition but which previously did not require registration.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 53 (De León-D) Ammunition: purchase permits

Amends existing law regarding sales of handgun ammunition, as defined, to apply to all ammunition, and places additional regulations on the sale, and purchase of ammunition, as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 108 (Yee-D) Firearms

Requires the Department of Justice to conduct a study to determine effective and safe fireman storage measures aimed at reducing unintentional injury and death as well as firearm theft and their unauthorized use.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 127 (Gaines-R) Firearms: mentally disordered persons

Requires that reports by a licensed psychotherapist to a local law enforcement agency regarding the identity of a person who has communicated to that therapist a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim or victims be made within 24 hours, and requires that local law enforcement agencies, when they receive such reports, notify the Department of Justice electronically and within 24 hours of receiving that report.
Chapter 753, Statutes of 2013

SB 293 (DeSaulnier-D) Firearms: owner-authorized handguns

Defines owner-authorized handguns and provides that if and when two owner-authorized handguns are placed on the Department of Justice roster of not unsafe handguns two years from the date the second handgun was placed on the roster, the Department will not place a handgun on the roster that is not an owner-authorized handgun.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 299 (DeSaulnier-D) Firearms: lost or stolen: reports

Requires owners and possessors of firearms to report the theft or loss of a firearm to a local law enforcement agency within seven days of the time they knew or reasonably should have known that the firearm had been stolen or lost, as specified. Requires firearms dealers to post notice of this requirement within their licensed premises, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 303 (Knight-R) Peace officers: concealed weapon endorsement

Makes conforming changes to law regarding issuance of ID cards and concealed weapons endorsements to honorably retired peace officers, as specified.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2013

SB 363 (Wright-D) Firearms: criminal storage: unsafe handguns

Expands the crime of "criminal storage" to include keeping a loaded firearm within premises where a prohibited person is likely to gain access, and actually accesses and causes injury, as specified.
Chapter 758, Statutes of 2013

SB 374 (Steinberg-D) Firearms: assault weapons

Amends the definition of an assault weapon as it pertains to rifles; defines "detachable magazines" and "fixed magazines;" and specifies that rifles which are not assault weapons have fixed magazines.
Vetoed

SB 385 (Block-D) Firearms: Private Patrol Operators

Authorizes a licensed Private Patrol Operator, as defined, to be the legal owner of a firearm, and establishes procedures for Private Patrol Operators to assign its firearms to its employees who are licensed to carry firearms.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 396 (Hancock-D) Firearms: magazine capacity

Prohibits the possession of any large-capacity magazine with specified exemptions.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 475 (Leno-D) Firearm sales at the Cow Palace

Provides that gun shows at the Cow Palace can occur only upon prior approval of both the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo and the City and County of San Francisco, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 567 (Jackson-D) Firearms: shotguns

Redefines the meaning of "shotgun" and requires registration with the Department of Justice of shotguns with a revolving cylinder.
Vetoed

SB 644 (Cannella-R) Firearms: felons in possession

Provides that a subsequent conviction for the felony offense of possession of a firearm by a person previously convicted of a felony is punishable by imprisonment in state prison for a term of four, five, or six years.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 683 (Block-D) Firearms: firearm safety certificate

Extends the safety certificate requirement for handguns to all firearms, and requires the performance of a safe handling demonstration to receive a long gun.
Chapter 761, Statutes of 2013

SB 755 (Wolk-D) Firearms: prohibited persons

Adds specified offenses to the list of misdemeanors that result in a 10-year prohibition on firearms and ammunition possession, and adds certain misdemeanors related to substance abuse for which a violation of two or more within a three-year period will result in a 10-year prohibition on firearms possession.
Vetoed

SB 759 (Nielsen-R) California State Military Museum and Resource Center

Provides that any state agency, county, municipality, or special district may offer excess military weapons or equipment, including historical war equipment, to the California State Military Museum and Resource Center or any branch museum, as specified.
Chapter 698, Statutes of 2013

SCR 49 (Knight-R) Firearms

Commemorates the five-year anniversary of the District of Columbia v. Heller decision and the U.S. Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms."
(Failed passage on Senate Floor; reconsideration granted)

AB 48 (Skinner-D) Firearms: large-capacity magazines

Adds the purchase or receipt of any large capacity magazine to the existing ban on the importation, manufacture, or sale of such magazines, and commencing 1/1/14, makes it a misdemeanor for any person who knowingly manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports, keeps for sale, or who gives, lends, buys, or receives any large capacity magazine conversion kit, as specified.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2013

AB 169 (Dickinson-D) Unsafe handguns

Changes provisions related to unsafe handguns by limiting the transfer of unsafe handguns to those who are authorized to possess them, and by applying the provisions to single-shot pistols which can be easily modified to semi-automatic weapons.
Vetoed

AB 170 (Bradford-D) Assault weapons and .50 BMG rifles

Provides that only an individual person may be issued a permit to possess an assault weapon, .50 BMG rifle, or machine gun, as specified.
Chapter 729, Statutes of 2013

AB 180 (Bonta-D) Registration and licensing of firearms: City of Oakland

Provides an exemption for the City of Oakland to enact and enforce ordinances and regulations that are more restrictive than state law regulating the registration or licensing of commercially manufactured firearms.
Vetoed

AB 187* (Bonta-D) Ammunition: taxation

Imposes a tax on retailers at the rate of 10% of the gross receipts from ammunition sales in this state on or after 1/1/14.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 231 (Ting-D) Firearms: criminal storage

Creates the crime of criminal storage in the third degree, which imposes liability if a person negligently stores or leaves a loaded firearm in a place where he/she knows, or reasonably should know, that a child is likely to access it without the permission of the child's parent or guardian.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2013

AB 232* (Ting-D) Gun buybacks: income taxes: credit

Provides a tax credit, under the Personal Income Tax Law, for a handgun, shotgun, rifle, or assault weapon in working condition that is either surrendered or sold to local law enforcement in a gun buyback program.
(In Assembly Revenue and Tax Committee)

AB 249 (Donnelly-R) Firearms: open carry prohibitions

Repeals the prohibitions against the open carrying of an unloaded firearm that is not a handgun, or an exposed and unloaded handgun, on his/her person outside a vehicle while on a public street or in a public place in an incorporated city or city and county, and makes other conforming changes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 500 (Ammiano-D) Firearms

Establishes safe firearms storage requirements when persons prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm reside in a household where a firearm is present; creates procedures specifying when the Department of Justice is allowed to delay release of firearms when background checks are not completed within the 10-day waiting period but within the 30-day window; and requires the Department be notified that firearms are in fact delivered after the transferee takes possession of a gun.
Chapter 737, Statutes of 2013

AB 538 (Pan-D) Firearms

Makes a series of changes to the firearm purchase and transfer processes, as specified.
Chapter 738, Statutes of 2013

AB 539 (Pan-D) Firearm possession: prohibitions

Allows a person who is temporarily prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm to transfer firearms in his/her possession or ownership to a licensed firearms dealer for storage during the period of prohibition, as specified.
Chapter 739, Statutes of 2013

AB 685 (Achadjian-R) Peace officer's state-issued handgun

Provides that the spouse or domestic partner of a peace officer who has been killed in the line of duty be allowed to purchase the decedent's state-issued handgun, as specified.
Chapter 16, Statutes of 2013

AB 703 (Hall-D) Firearms: peace officers

Provides that a retired Level I reserve peace officer is entitled to an endorsement for a concealed weapons permit if he/she carried a firearm during the course and scope of his/her appointment and he/she served in the aggregate the minimum amount of time specified by the retiree's agency's policy.
Chapter 267, Statutes of 2013

AB 740 (Alejo-D) Firearms

Applies the definition of infrequent transactions to all gun transactions; specifies regulations for direct shipment sales of guns; and requires electronic notification to the Department of Justice from state courts regarding specified information related to mental status of persons who may be prohibited from possessing a gun.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 871 (Jones-R) Concealed weapons

Provides that "good cause" for the issuance of a license to carry a concealed handgun by a sheriff or a chief of a municipal police force includes, but is not limited to, personal protection or self-defense.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1020 (Bonta-D) Firearms: notice to purchasers

Requires the Department of Justice to send a notice, during the 10-day waiting period, to every person who applies to purchase a gun informing him/her of gun laws relating to gun transfers and storage, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1040 (Wieckowski-D) Peace officer: firearms

Requires the chief probation officer of each county to train and arm those probation officers and deputy probation officers who are assigned supervision duties over persons who are on probation or post-release community supervision who are deemed "high risk."
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1084 (Melendez-R) Firearms: punishment

Increases the penalties for numerous offenses related to the illegal possession of firearms, and requires that many related sentences be served in the state prison rather than county jail under realignment.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1131 (Skinner-D) Firearms

Increases the period of time during which a person is prohibited from possessing a gun based on a mental illness or mental disorder, or a serious threat of violence communicated to a licensed psychotherapist.
Chapter 747, Statutes of 2013
A similar bill is AB 1296 (Skinner-D) which is Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 1296 (Skinner-D) Firearms: mentally disordered persons

Increases the period of time during which a person is prohibited from possessing a gun based on a mental illness or mental disorder, or a serious threat of violence communicated to a licensed psychotherapist.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is AB 1131 (Skinner-D), Chapter 747, Statutes of 2013.

Human Trafficking

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SB 60 (Wright-D) Crime victims: human trafficking

Adds human trafficking victims who have suffered emotional injury to the list of victims eligible for compensation from the Victim Compensation Program administered by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 2013

SB 327 (Yee-D) Human trafficking: pardons and parole

Allows a writ of habeas corpus when evidence of human trafficking was not presented at trial and provides that the Board of Parole Hearings will give great weight to evidence that a prisoner is a victim of human trafficking.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 473 (Block-D) Human trafficking

Adds human trafficking to the list of offenses that may be used to establish a pattern of criminal activity for the purpose of enhancing the sentence of any person who commits a crime for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 156 (Holden-D) Human trafficking: interception of electronic communications

Expands existing authorization for wiretaps to include the offense of human trafficking.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 694 (Bloom-D) Admissibility of evidence: victims of human trafficking

Clarifies that evidence that a victim of human trafficking has engaged in a commercial sex act cannot be used to prosecute that victim for the commercial sex act.
Chapter 126, Statutes of 2013

AB 795 (Alejo-D) Human trafficking

Provides that a defendant who has been convicted of solicitation or prostitution, as specified, may petition the court for, and the court may set aside the conviction, if the defendant can show that the conviction was the result of his/her status as a victim of human trafficking.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1321 (Jones-R) Serious felonies: human trafficking

Adds certain felonies, including threatening a witness and human trafficking, to the definition of a serious felony, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

ACR 6 (Donnelly-R) Human trafficking

Recognizes the month of January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and recognizes 2/1/13, as California's Free From Slavery Day.
Resolution Chapter 5, Statutes of 2013

Juvenile Justice

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SB 61 (Yee-D) Juveniles: solitary confinement

Establishes standards and protocols for the use of solitary confinement of minors and wards in state and local juvenile facilities, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 166 (Liu-D) Juveniles: attorney qualifications

Requires the Judicial Council to establish minimum hours of training and education necessary in order to be appointed as counsel in delinquency proceedings, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 260 (Hancock-D) Youth offender parole hearings

Establishes a parole process for persons sentenced to prison for crimes committed before attaining 18 years of age.
Chapter 312, Statutes of 2013

SB 458 (Wright-D) Gangs: statewide database

Requires a local law enforcement agency to provide written notice to a minor and his/her parent or guardian prior to designating that minor as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate in a shared gang database, as specified.
Chapter 797, Statutes of 2013

SB 569 (Lieu-D) Interrogation: electronic recordation

Requires the electronic recordation of custodial interrogations of minors suspected of committing murder, and sets forth exceptions and remedies to that requirement.
Chapter 799, Statutes of 2013

AB 36 (Dahle-R) Probation officer: appointments

Changes the appointment and removal process of probation officers to require the county board of supervisors, in conjunction with the court, to appoint and remove probation officers.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 915 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Youth Community Incentives Act of 2013

Requires the state to allocate to counties 75% of savings realized by the transfer of juvenile offenders from the custody of the Division of Juvenile Facilities to county control, to be used as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1006 (Yamada-D) Juvenile court records: sealing and destruction

Requires on and after 1/1/15, courts and probation departments, to ensure information regarding the potential sealing of juvenile court records is provided to minors in juvenile proceedings, as specified.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2013

AB 1276 (Bloom-D) Parole: juvenile offenders

Provides a parole mechanism for a person convicted of a non-homicide offense that was committed before the person had attained 18 years of age.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

HR 23 (Bradford-D) Relative to youth

Resolves that the Assembly encourage the Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color to continue to advance its legislative agenda to improve the lives of young people of color, including its work to reduce the use of policies and practices that push boys out of school and to instead promote common sense discipline that keeps pupils in school and on track.
Adopted by the Assembly

Law Enforcement

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SB 15 (Padilla-D) Aviation: unmanned aircraft systems

Clarifies when a law enforcement agency needs a warrant to use an unmanned aircraft system and that it cannot be used in a manner to invade a person's privacy.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 114 (Pavley-D) Commercially sexually exploited minors

Extends the sunset date by three years for the discretionary pilot project in Los Angeles County regarding the development of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary model reflecting the best practices for the response of law enforcement and the criminal juvenile justice systems to identify, assess and address the needs of commercially sexually exploited children who have been arrested or detained by local law enforcement.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2013

SB 162 (Lieu-D) Prisoners: temporary removal

Provides a process for district attorneys and peace officers to seek a court order for the temporary removal of a prisoner from prison for a "legitimate law enforcement purpose," as specified.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2013

SB 199 (De León-D) Probation: community corrections

Adds two law enforcement rank-and-file members to the local Community Corrections Partnerships, and the Executive Committees of the Partnerships, as specified.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 303 (Knight-R) Peace officers: concealed weapon endorsement

Makes conforming changes to law regarding issuance of ID cards and concealed weapons endorsements to honorably retired peace officers, as specified.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2013

SB 313 (De León-D) Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act

Prohibits a public agency from taking punitive action, or denying promotion on grounds other than merit, against a public safety officer, because the officer's name was placed on a Brady list, as specified.
Chapter 779, Statutes of 2013

SB 385 (Block-D) Firearms: Private Patrol Operators

Authorizes a licensed Private Patrol Operator, as defined, to be the legal owner of a firearm, and establishes procedures for the Operators to assign its firearms to its employees who are licensed to carry firearms.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 388 (Lieu-D) Public safety officers and firefighters

Extends the procedural protections under the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights and the Peace Officers Procedural Bill of Rights that now apply to a firefighter or peace officer who are under investigation and subjected to interrogation by their employer to apply to any firefighter or peace officer, whether or not they are under investigation.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 458 (Wright-D) Gangs: statewide database

Requires a local law enforcement agency to provide written notice to a minor and his/her parent or guardian prior to designating that minor as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate in a shared gang database, as specified.
Chapter 797, Statutes of 2013

SB 467 (Leno-D) Privacy: electronic communications: warrants

Requires a search warrant when a governmental agency is seeking the contents of a wire or electronic communication that is stored, held or maintained by a provider, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 717* (DeSaulnier-D) Search warrants: driving under the influence

Authorizes a search warrant to allow officers to take a sample of the blood as evidence in misdemeanor driving under the influence when a person refuses to consent, as specified.
Chapter 317, Statutes of 2013

SB 771* (Galgiani-D) Inmates: temporary removal

Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations to temporarily remove an inmate from prison or any other institution for the purpose of permitting the inmate to assist with the gathering of evidences related to crimes.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 2013
A similar bill is SB 813 (Galgiani-D) which is in Senate Public Safety Committee.

SB 813 (Galgiani-D) Inmates: temporary removal

Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to temporarily remove an inmate from prison or any other institution for the purpose of permitting the inmate to assist with the gathering of evidences related to crimes.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
A similar bill is SB 717 (Galgiani-D), Chapter 181, Statutes of 2013.

SCR 6 (Wolk-D) Vallejo Police Officer James Capoot Memorial Highway

Names a portion of State Highway Route 37 in Solano County as the Vallejo Police Officer James Capoot Memorial Highway.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2013

SCR 13 (Nielsen-R) Redding Police Officer Owen "Ted" Lyon Memorial Bridge

Names the Sacramento River Bridge in Redding as the Redding Police Officer Owen "Ted" Lyon Memorial Bridge.
Resolution Chapter 86, Statutes of 2013

SCR 23 (Cannella-R) Soledad State Prison Correctional Officers Memorial Highway

Names a portion of State Highway Route 101 in Monterey County as the Soledad State Prison Correctional Officers Memorial Highway honoring John V. Mills, William C. Shull, Robert J. McCarthy, and Kenneth E. Conant.
Resolution Chapter 95, Statutes of 2013

SCR 39 (Correa-D) California Peace Officers' Memorial Day

Designates Monday, 5/6/13, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day, and urges all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers, and recognizes specified California peace officers who were killed in defense of their communities.
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2013

SCR 43 (DeSaulnier-D) CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom Memorial Undercrossing

Names the Livorna Road undercrossing of State Highway Route 680 in Contra Costa County as the CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom Memorial Undercrossing.
Resolution Chapter 98, Statutes of 2013

SCR 57 (Hernandez-D) CHP Officers Horine and Leiphardt Memorial Highway

Names a portion of Interstate 10 in Los Angeles County as the CHP Officers Harold E. Horine and Bill Leiphardt Memorial Highway.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

SCR 64 (Roth-D) Sergeant Gilbert Cortez and K-9 Mattie Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of State Highway Route 15 in Riverside County as the Sergeant Gilbert Cortez and K-9 Mattie Memorial Highway.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 4 (Ammiano-D) State government: federal immigration policy enforcement

Prohibits a law enforcement official from detaining an individual on the basis of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody, unless specified conditions are met.
Chapter 570, Statutes of 2013

AB 128 (Bradford-D) Peace officers: airport law enforcement

Changes the peace officer status of airport law enforcement officers regularly employed by Los Angeles World Airport to peace officers whose authority extends to any place in California, as specified.
Chapter 783, Statutes of 2013

AB 176 (Campos-D) Family law: protective and restraining orders

Provides enforcement priority when there are multiple restraining orders involving the same parties.
Chapter 263, Statutes of 2013

AB 238 (Gomez-D) Protective and restraining orders: computer database system

Deletes requirements of law enforcement officers to carry copies of emergency protective orders while on duty and instead requires law enforcement officers to have the orders entered into the computer database system maintained by the Department of Justice.
Chapter 145, Statutes of 2013

AB 351 (Donnelly-R) Civil liberties: suspension of habeas corpus

Prohibits state agencies, political subdivision, employees, and members of the California National Guard officials from knowingly aiding an agency of the U.S. Armed Forces in enforcing specified federal laws if the agency, political subdivision, employee, or National Guard member would violate the U.S. or California Constitutions or any state law by providing that aid.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2013

AB 398 (Fox-D) Public safety officers

Adds county coroners and deputy coroners, who are not also part of a sheriff's department, to the list of public safety officers covered by the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, which provides specific conditions and procedures to be followed whenever a public safety officer is investigated for misconduct.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 535 (Quirk-D) Emergency Alert System

Provides for the activation of the Emergency Alert System where a law enforcement agency receives a report that an abduction has occurred or that a child has been taken by anyone, including, but not limited to, a custodial parent or guardian, and additional existing circumstances exist.
Chapter 328, Statutes of 2013

AB 685 (Achadjian-R) State goods: peace officer's state-issued handgun

Provides that the spouse or domestic partner of a peace officer, who has been killed in the line of duty, be allowed to purchase the decedent's state-issued handgun, as specified.
Chapter 16, Statutes of 2013

AB 703 (Hall-D) Peace officers: firearms

Provides that a retired Level I reserve peace officer is entitled to an endorsement for a concealed weapons permit if he/she carried a firearm during the course and scope of his/her appointment and he/she served in the aggregate the minimum amount of time specified by the retiree's agency's policy.
Chapter 267, Statutes of 2013

AB 909 (Gray-D) Metal theft and related recycling crimes

Requires, on or after 1/1/15, the Department of Justice to establish the Metal Theft Task Force Program.
Vetoed

AB 924 (Bigelow-R) Grand theft

Provides that a defendant, convicted of theft of an animal or a specified animal carcass, may be subject to a fine of up to $5,000, the proceeds of which will be allocated to the Bureau of Livestock Identification of the Department of Agriculture, to be used for investigation of livestock and animal carcass theft.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2013

AB 956 (Mansoor-R) Vehicle accidents: fleeing

Applies a five-year sentence enhancement for fleeing a scene, which is currently imposed on vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and vehicular manslaughter, while intoxicated to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, when the alleged perpetrator flees the scene.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 979 (Weber-D) Peace officers: Maritime Peace Officer Training

Requires peace officers who serve as crew members on a waterborne law enforcement vessel to complete a course in basic maritime operations for law enforcement officers, as specified.
Chapter 619, Statutes of 2013

AB 1195 (Eggman-D) Public records: crime victims

Prohibits law enforcement agencies from requiring proof of legal presence in the U.S. and refusing to accept certain forms of identification, if identification is required, for the disclosure of crime reports and other related records required to be disclosed under the Public Records Act.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2013

AB 1250 (Perea-D) Privileged communications: identity of informer

Clarifies that the informant privilege applies to communications between people who call crime stopper organizations for the purpose of transmittal of that information to law enforcement.
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2013

AB 1327 (Gorell-R) Unmanned aircraft systems

Creates standards for the use of unmanned aerial systems by state and local agencies.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 3 (Logue-R) CHP Officer Robert J. Quirk Memorial Highway

Names a portion of State Highway Route 5 in Tehama County as the CHP Officer Robert J. Quirk Memorial Highway.
Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2013

ACR 14 (Yamada-D) Deputy Tony Diaz, Memorial Rest Area

Designates the rest area on Interstate 5 in Dunnigan as the Deputy Tony Diaz, Yolo County Sheriff's Office, Memorial Rest Area.
Resolution Chapter 63, Statutes of 2013

ACR 16 (Hagman-R) Gerald "Blackie" Sawyer Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of State Route 39 in Los Angeles and Orange Counties as the Detective Gerald "Blackie" Sawyer Memorial Highway.
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2013

ACR 62 (Ian Calderon-D) Detectives Mike Lane and John Pierce Memorial Highway

Designates a portion of State Route 72 in the County of Los Angeles as the Detectives Mike Lane and John Pierce Memorial Highway.
Resolution Chapter 139, Statutes of 2013

ACR 68 (Donnelly-R) Detective Jeremiah MacKay Memorial Highway

Names a portion of State Route 38 in San Bernardino County as the Detective Jeremiah MacKay Memorial Highway.
Resolution Chapter 142, Statutes of 2013

ACR 69 (Salas-D) CHP Officer Dean Esquibel Memorial Bridge

Names the Cross Creek Bridge on State Route 198 in Kings County as the CHP Officer Dean Esquibel Memorial Bridge.
Resolution Chapter 143, Statutes of 2013

ACR 70 (Chesbro-D) CHP Officer Kenneth E. Marshall Memorial Interchange

Designates an interchange on U.S. Route 101 in Humboldt County as the CHP Officer Kenneth E. Marshall Memorial Interchange.
Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2013

Procedural (Criminal only)

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SB 130 (Corbett-D) Witnesses

Expands the list of criminal charges for which a prosecuting witness may have a support person present while testifying for the prosecution of the enumerated offenses.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2013

SB 210 (Hancock-D) Criminal procedure: release on defendant's own recognizance

Authorizes a court to determine, at the time of arraignment in any case that is before a court concerning the commission of a felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, whether a defendant who is still in custody may be released on his/her own recognizance, as specified.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 513 (Hancock-D) Diversion programs: sealed records

Provides that, two years after successfully completing a prefiling diversion program, an individual may petition the court for an order sealing the records of arrest and related court files and records, as specified.
Chapter 798, Statutes of 2013

SB 653 (Knight-R) Criminal procedure: pleas

Provides that the motion to set aside a plea because the advisement on immigration consequences was not given must be brought within the statutory time frame in which the records must be kept.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 717* (DeSaulnier-D) Search warrants: driving under the influence

Authorizes a search warrant to allow officers to take a sample of the blood as evidence in misdemeanor driving under the influence when a person refuses to consent, as specified.
Chapter 317, Statutes of 2013

SB 779 (Anderson-R) Capital punishment: appeals

Changes the way the death penalty is carried out in California, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 794 (Evans-D) Juries: criminal trials: peremptory challenges

Reduces the number of peremptory challenges the prosecution and defense get in misdemeanor trials.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 184 (Gatto-D) Statute of limitations

Provides that, in addition to filing a criminal complaint within the existing statute of limitations, if a person flees the scene of an accident that caused death or permanent, serious injury, as specified, a criminal complaint may be filed within one year after the person is initially identified by law enforcement as a suspect in the commission of the offense.
Chapter 765, Statutes of 2013

AB 336 (Ammiano-D) Crimes: prostitution: evidence

Establishes a procedure for an in-camera hearing when prosecutors seek to enter condoms as evidence in prostitution cases.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 568 (Muratsuchi-D) Criminal procedure: testimony of law enforcement officers

Clarifies the definition of a law enforcement officer for purposes of introducing hearsay statements at a preliminary hearing.
Chapter 125, Statutes of 2013

AB 766 (Beth Gaines-R) Attorney General: investigations

Prohibits the Attorney General from offering a promise of use or transactional immunity during the course of an investigation into the misuse of public funds, unless specified findings are made.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 807 (Ammiano-D) Criminal investigations: eyewitness identification

Authorizes law enforcement agencies to adopt regulations for conducting in-person and photo lineups; allows expert testimony at trial regarding the reliability of eyewitness identification; and requires the court to provide a jury instruction advising that it may consider whether or not law enforcement followed specified procedures when determining the reliability of eyewitness identification.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 810 (Muratsuchi-D) Law enforcement: data sharing

Requires the Attorney General to examine the feasibility of an intercounty criminal offender database that is accessible to local law enforcement agencies, including municipal police departments, for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing local law enforcement operations by ensuring readily available information on criminal offenders.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 885 (Ammiano-D) Discovery: prosecutorial duty to disclose information

Provides that in any criminal trial in which the court determines that the prosecuting attorney has failed to disclose materials and information required under law, the court shall instruct the jury that the intentional failure to disclose the materials and information occurred and that the jury may consider the failure to disclose as circumstantial evidence to support the presence of reasonable doubt.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1004 (Gray-D) Criminal procedure

Makes technological updates to procedures related to the judicial issuance of an arrest warrant, as specified.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2013

AB 1195 (Eggman-D) Public records: crime victims

Prohibits law enforcement agencies from requiring proof of legal presence in the United States and refusing to accept certain forms of identification, if identification is required, for the disclosure of crime reports and other related records required to be disclosed under the California Public Records Act.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2013

Sentencing/Corrections/Parole

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SB 57 (Lieu-D) Electronic monitoring: removing or disabling GPS device

Prohibits a person who is required to register as a sex offender and who is subject to parole supervision from removing or disabling, as specified, an electronic global positioning system or other monitoring device affixed as a condition of parole.
Chapter 776, Statutes of 2013

SB 61 (Yee-D) Juveniles: solitary confinement

Establishes standards and protocols for the use of solitary confinement of minors and wards in state and local juvenile facilities, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 130 (Corbett-D) Witnesses

Expands the list of criminal charges for which a prosecuting witness may have a support person present while testifying for the prosecution of the enumerated offenses.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2013

SB 145 (Pavley-D) Sex offenders: child pornography

Creates new categories of offenses related to aggravated forms of child pornography with increased state prison terms for those offenses.
Chapter 777, Statutes of 2013

SB 162 (Lieu-D) Prisoners: temporary removal

Provides a process for district attorneys and peace officers to seek a court order for the temporary removal of a prisoner from prison for a "legitimate law enforcement purpose," as specified.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2013

SB 188 (Liu-D) Conservation camps: county-operated camps

Authorizes counties to establish and operate conservation camps for male and female county jail inmates. Provides that county jail inmates assigned to a county conservation camp earns two days of sentence reduction for each day of service.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 225 (Emmerson-R) Imprisonment: sentences punishable in state prison

Revises the criminal justice realignment of 2011 by requiring that defendants convicted of a felony and sentenced to an aggregate term of more than three years shall serve that sentence in prison, as specified.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 226 (Emmerson-R) Defendants: severe mental disorder

Revises the criminal justice realignment of 2011 to provide that certain felons believed to be severely mentally disordered be assessed and, if found to be so, sentenced to state prison instead of county correctional facility, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 255* (Cannella-R) Disorderly conduct: invasion of privacy

Creates a new misdemeanor for the distribution of an image of an identifiable person's intimate body parts which had been taken with an understanding that the image would remain private, commonly referred to as "revenge porn."
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2013

SB 260 (Hancock-D) Youth offender parole hearings

Establishes a parole process for persons sentenced to prison for crimes committed before attaining 18 years of age.
Chapter 312, Statutes of 2013

SB 287 (Walters-R) Prison: community supervision: eligibility

Expands the scope of inmates subject to parole supervision instead of probation supervision upon release from prison, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 295 (Emmerson-R) Sexually violent predators: civil commitment

Makes a series of clarifying revisions to procedures used by the courts for handling sexually violent predator petitions regarding conditional and unconditional release.
Chapter 182, Statutes of 2013

SB 419 (Block-D) Supervised persons: flash incarceration

Extends the use of a penalty known as "flash incarceration" to defendants granted probation or placed on mandatory supervision.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 507 (Cannella-R) Arson: commercial livestock farms

Authorizes an enhancement, as specified, for a felony conviction of arson to be imposed if a fire is set with the intent to disrupt the commercial operations of an animal feeding operation, an animal feedlot, or livestock sales yard.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 543 (Block-D) Petty theft: enhancements for prior convictions

Specifies a conviction for theft, embezzlement, forgery, fraud, or identity theft against an elder or dependent adult as a prior qualifying offense in the crime of petty theft with a specified prior conviction.
Chapter 782, Statutes of 2013

SB 611 (Hill-D) Correctional facilities: bond financing

Decreases the amount authorized by the State Public Works Board for revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes, as specified and authorizes the Board of State and Community Corrections to select the County of San Mateo for the grant of a conditional award, on the same basis as other counties under this program, as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 706 (Correa-D) County prisoners: Community Reintegration

Creates a 12-month period of post release status for felons who have served their felony terms in county jail, which will include warrantless search and seizure, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 708 (Nielsen-R) Imprisonment: sentences punishable in state prison

Provides that any person convicted of a felony who has been previously convicted of at least three felonies shall serve his/her sentence in prison, regardless of whether the defendant would otherwise be subject to a felony jail term, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 710 (Nielsen-R) Parole

Provides that all inmates released from state prison shall be placed on parole under the supervision of state parole officers and requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to open at least three "adjustment and rehabilitation centers," as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 742* (Nielsen-R) Defendants

Imposes additional penalties for persons who have been put on electronic monitoring, and willfully and knowingly remove or disable a device affixed to his/her person, or the person of another.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 769 (Block-D) Veterans: criminal defendants

Clarifies that when a case is dismissed after probation under a provision for veterans who have suffered service related mental health problems, the veteran still does not have the right to carry a firearm.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2013

SCR 69 (Galgiani-D) Prisoners: overcrowding

Urges the Attorney General to seek a reduction in the prisoner population in the state prisons of at least 20,000 inmates by shifting these inmates to federal prisons, and report the results of these efforts to the Legislature.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 15 (Bradford-D) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: inmates

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, not less than 45 days prior to the release of an inmate, to notify the local law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction to which the inmate is to be released regarding the scheduled release.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 36 (Dahle-R) Probation officer: appointments

Changes the appointment and removal process of probation officers to require the county board of supervisors, in conjunction with the court, to appoint and remove probation officers.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 63 (Patterson-R) Electronic monitoring: removing or disabling

Creates an alternative felony/misdemeanor offense for removal of an electronic monitoring device affixed as a condition of post-release community supervision or parole.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 68 (Maienschein-R) Parole

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide notice to the county of commitment, and the proposed county of release, if that county is different than the county of commitment, at least 30 days or as specified, prior to a medical parole hearing or a medical parole release.
Chapter 764, Statutes of 2013

AB 139 (Holden-D) Domestic violence: fees

Characterizes the payment imposed on a defendant who is granted probation for a domestic violence crime as a fee, not a fine.
Chapter 144, Statutes of 2013

AB 222 (Cooley-D) Crimes: enhancements: punishment: state prison

Requires that the sentence for specified drug convictions be served in state prison and not in county jail, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 353 (Brown-D) Parole: medical parole

Exempts from medical parole eligibility, a prisoner who was convicted of the murder of a peace officer, as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 492 (Quirk-D) Probation: nonviolent drug offenses

Provides that where a defendant is placed on probation under the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, the court in the county of conviction shall transfer the case to the county of the probationer's residence, unless the court in the county of conviction determines that the transfer will be inappropriate, as specified.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2013

AB 494 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Prisoners: literacy and education

Updates literacy program goals in the state prisons, as specified.
Chapter 784, Statutes of 2013

AB 560 (Ammiano-D) Sentencing: recall and mandatory supervision

Requires all individuals who are sentenced to county jail for specified felonies to serve at least the final six months of their sentence under mandatory supervision.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 601 (Eggman-D) Parole

Authorizes the court to return a parolee to state prison for a period not to exceed one year when parole is revoked.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 605 (Linder-R) Sex offenders: parole violations

Provides that a defendant, who is released on parole or post-release community supervision, who has suffered a prior or current felony requiring registration as a sex offender, and who violates any condition of parole or post-release community supervision, will serve any period of incarceration ordered for that violation in the state prison.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsiderations granted)

AB 624 (Mitchell-D) County jail: rehabilitation credits

Authorizes a sheriff or county director of corrections, in addition to credit awarded for good behavior, to also award a prisoner program credit reductions from his/her term of confinement, as specified.
Chapter 266, Statutes of 2013

AB 651 (Bradford-D) Convictions: expungement

Authorizes a court, in its discretion and in the interests of justice, to grant expungement relief for a conviction of a petitioner sentenced to county jail pursuant to criminal justice realignment if specified conditions are satisfied.
Chapter 787, Statutes of 2013

AB 723 (Quirk-D) Post release community supervision: revocation

Authorizes an individual on post-release community supervision, who has been arrested and held in custody pending a hearing on a revocation petition filed against him/her, to move the court for release on bail or release on his/her own recognizance, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 752 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Work furlough: county jails

Expands eligibility for jail work furlough programs, currently limited to persons imprisoned in the county jail for a misdemeanor, nonpayment of a fine, contempt, or as a condition of probation for any criminal offense, to include felons sentenced to county jail.
Chapter 52, Statutes of 2013

AB 765 (Ammiano-D) Sentencing

Addresses the constitutional infirmity of the state's three-tier determinate sentencing law by prohibiting imposition of the upper term of imprisonment unless aggravating factors are found to be true by a jury.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 768 (Achadjian-R) Sexually violent predators: conditional release

Prohibits a sexually violent predator, who has been granted conditional release, from being released as a transient in any county or being placed in housing that consists of a recreational or other vehicle, as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 805 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Bail

Provides that a judge or magistrate may consider the report prepared by investigative staff for the purpose of recommending whether or not a defendant should be released on his/her own recognizance.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2013

AB 884 (Bonilla-D) County Board of Parole Commissioners: parole terms

Increases the term of years that a county parole board may place a county jail prisoner on county parole from two to three years.
Chapter 456, Statutes of 2013

AB 924 (Bigelow-R) Grand theft

Provides that a defendant convicted of theft of an animal or a specified animal carcass may be subject to a fine of up to $5,000. Requires the proceeds to be allocated for investigation of livestock and animal carcass theft.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2013

AB 956 (Mansoor-R) Vehicle accidents: fleeing

Applies a five-year sentence enhancement for fleeing a scene, which is currently imposed on vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter when the alleged perpetrator flees the scene.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 986 (Bradford-D) Post release community supervision: flash incarceration

Revises the definition of "flash incarceration," which currently is defined to include a period of detention in a county jail, to include city jails.
Chapter 788, Statutes of 2013

AB 992 (Perea-D) Sex offender registration: juvenile offenders

Requires a juvenile sex offender, who is placed on probation or parole for committing or attempting to commit specified sex offenses, to register in accordance with the Sex Offender Registration Act, as specified.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 994 (Lowenthal-D) Postplea misdemeanor diversion programs

Requires each prosecuting attorney, as specified, to establish a post-plea misdemeanor diversion program where qualified misdemeanor defendants who plead guilty or nolo contendere may be offered diversion in lieu of sentencing.
Vetoed

AB 999 (Bonta-D) Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a five-year plan to expand the availability of condoms in all California prisons, as specified, and will be known as the Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act.
Vetoed

AB 1019 (Ammiano-D) State prisons: career technical education

Requires goals for career technical education to be set by the Superintendent of Correctional Education, and establishes factors that are required to be considered when establishing a career technical education program, as specified.
Chapter 789, Statutes of 2013

AB 1040 (Wieckowski-D) Peace officer: firearms

Requires the chief probation officer of each county to train and arm those probation officers and deputy probation officers who are assigned supervision duties over persons who are on probation or post-release community supervision who are deemed "high risk."
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1050 (Dickinson-D) Board of State and Community Corrections

Requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to define key terms relevant to data collection and evidence-based programs and practices, as specified.
Chapter 270, Statutes of 2013

AB 1065 (Holden-D) Parole

Specifies that an inmate being released from state prison is ineligible for Post Release Community Supervision if that inmate had, under a previous sentence, been deemed a mentally disordered offender.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1118 (Hagman-R) Statewide bail schedule

Requires the Judicial Council, on or before 1/1/15, to prepare, adopt, and annually revise a statewide bail schedule for all bailable felony offenses and for all misdemeanor and infraction offenses, except as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1119 (Hagman-R) Postrelease reentry pilot program

Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a three-year postrelease reentry pilot program, as specified, to provide comprehensive and structured reentry services for offenders released from state prison.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1128 (Salas-D) Alcoholic beverages: underage drinking

Increases to a felony the penalty for knowingly selling to, purchasing for, furnishing or giving alcohol to a person under 21 who drinks the alcohol and then proximately causes death or bodily injury to himself/herself or another.
Vetoed

AB 1238 (Weber-D) Parole: reentry programs

Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish up to five reentry work training programs for parolees between 18 and 24 years of age to assist in community reintegration upon discharge from prison.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1276 (Bloom-D) Parole: juvenile offenders

Provides a parole mechanism for a person convicted of a non-homicide offense that was committed before the person had attained 18 years of age.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1325 (John A. Pérez-D) Vandalism: punishment

Extends from 240 days to one year, the period of time for a person convicted of vandalism or affixing graffiti to complete his/her court-imposed community service.
Chapter 791, Statutes of 2013

AB 1334 (Conway-R) Parole

Requires any person who has been released after serving a term for an offense for which the person is required to register as a sex offender to be subject to parole supervision by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Requires that a person released from state prison who has a prior conviction or juvenile adjudication for which the person is required to register as a sex offender to be subject to parole supervision by the Department and the jurisdiction of the court in the county in which the person is released or resides.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1335 (Maienschein-R) Sex offenses: disabled victims

Increases the prison terms for a person convicted of a sexual offense against a person with a mental disorder, developmental or physical disability and expands the definition of continuous sexual abuse of a disabled person, as specified.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

Victims of Crime

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SB 60 (Wright-D) Crime victims: human trafficking

Adds human trafficking victims who have suffered emotional injury to the list of victims eligible for compensation from the Victim Compensation Program administered by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 2013

SB 130 (Corbett-D) Witnesses

Expands the list of criminal charges for which a prosecuting witness may have a support person present while testifying for the prosecution of the enumerated offenses.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2013

SB 255* (Cannella-R) Disorderly conduct: invasion of privacy

Creates a new misdemeanor for the distribution of an image of an identifiable person's intimate body parts which had been taken with an understanding that the image would remain private, commonly referred to as "revenge porn."
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2013

AB 65* (Achadjian-R) Crimes: sex crimes

Expands the definitions of rape and sodomy committed by fraud that are restricted to the impersonation of a spouse to include cases where the perpetrator induces the victim to believe that he/she is someone known to the victim other than the perpetrator.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2013

AB 307 (Campos-D) Protective orders

Allows a court to issue a protective order up to 10 years when a defendant is convicted of specified sex crimes, regardless of the sentence imposed.
Chapter 291, Statutes of 2013

AB 602 (Yamada-D) Mentally/developmentally disabled persons: reporting abuse

Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to develop a course on investigations of abuse of residents of state mental hospitals and developmental centers and requires mandated reporters to report specified forms of serious abuse of persons in those settings, as specified.
Chapter 673, Statutes of 2013

AB 1340 (Achadjian-R) State Hospital Employees Act

Requires any case of assault by a patient of a state hospital, as specified, to be immediately referred to the local district attorney, and if, after the referral, the patient is found guilty of a misdemeanor or a felony assault, the local district attorney declines to prosecute, or the patient is found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity, requires the patient to be placed in the enhanced treatment unit of the hospital until the patient is deemed safe to return to the regular population of the hospital.
(In Senate Health Committee)

Miscellaneous

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SB 55 (Hill-D) Ignition interlock devices: repeat DUI offenders

Requires a person convicted of an alcohol-related driving under the influence for a second or subsequent offense, to install an ignition interlock device on his/her vehicles in order to receive a restricted driver's license or to reinstate driving privileges.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 107 (Corbett-D) Sexual assault: victim medical evidentiary examination

Repeals the 1/1/14 sunset date authorizing the use of federal funds to cover the costs of medical evidentiary exams of sexual assault victims.
Chapter 148, Statutes of 2013

SB 144 (Cannella-R) 2013 Realignment Legislation addressing justice reinvestment

Establishes the Realignment Reinvestment Fund and a formula to annually calculate deposits into the Fund for the purpose of providing local agencies additional funding for responsibilities resulting from the 2011 Realignment Legislation addressing public safety.
(Failed passage in Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

SB 191 (Padilla-D) Emergency medical services

Authorizes county Boards of Supervisors to elect to levy an additional $2 for every $10 fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed or collected by the courts for all criminal offenses, including violations of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act and Vehicle Code for purposes of the Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund, and requires 15% of the collected assessments to be utilized for all pediatric trauma centers throughout the county, as specified.
Chapter 600, Statutes of 2013

SB 272 (Corbett-D) Advertising and solicitations: veterans

Prohibits implying any military veteran or military veteran service organization connection, approval or endorsement of any financial product, goods or services unless there is an expressed connection to that military veteran entity.
Chapter 695, Statutes of 2013

SB 298 (Wyland-R) Local government: supplemental law enforcement services

Allows Orange County, or a city within the County, to contract for supplemental law enforcement services to enforce the Vehicle Code on a homeowners' association's privately owned and maintained road.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 2013

SB 333 (Lieu-D) Crimes: emergencies: false reporting

Provides that any individual convicted of filing a false emergency report is liable to a public agency for the reasonable cost of the emergency response by the public agency.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2013

SB 340 (Jackson-D) Law enforcement: anti-reproductive-rights crimes

Eliminates the sunset date on the Reproductive Rights Law Enforcement Act.
Chapter 285, Statutes of 2013

SB 347 (Beall-D) Youth shelters: funding

Allows a county to avoid repayment provisions established under the Youth Center and Youth Shelter Bond Act of 1988 for funds initially allocated for shelters for abused and neglected children and later expended for shelters for runaway or homeless youth, as specified.
Chapter 493, Statutes of 2013

SB 365 (Wolk-D) Jail construction: funding

Makes changes to jail construction and juvenile facility funding which is allocated by the Board of State Community Corrections.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2013

SB 378 (Block-D) Official record of conviction: digitized documents

Authorizes the use of electronically digitized documents as evidence in situations where documents or records can be admitted.
Chapter 150, Statutes of 2013

SB 445 (Hill-D) Revenue bond financing of prison construction

Modifies the manner in which the Board of State and Community Corrections awards project funds for the construction of local county jails.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 466 (DeSaulnier-D) California Institute for Criminal Justice Policy

Creates the California Institute for Criminal Justice Policy, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 514 (Senate Public Safety Committee) Crimes

Makes technical and corrective changes to various code sections relating generally to criminal justice laws, as specified.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2013

SB 530 (Wright-D) Criminal offenders: rehabilitation

Provides that a potential employer may not ask for, seek, or utilize as a factor in determining any condition of employment, information about a conviction that has been judicially dismissed or ordered sealed, as specified.
Chapter 721, Statutes of 2013

SB 544 (DeSaulnier-D) Violence prevention

Creates a new California Violence Prevention Authority within the Department of Public Health, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 606 (De León-D) Harassment: child or ward

Clarifies that misdemeanor harassment of a child because of the employment of the child's parent or guardian may include attempting to record the child's image or voice if done in a harassing manner; increases criminal penalties; and subjects a person who commits misdemeanor harassment to civil liability.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2013

SB 618 (Leno-D) Wrongful convictions

Streamlines and provides clarity to the process for compensating persons who have been exonerated after serving time incarcerated.
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2013

SB 709 (Nielsen-R) Inmates: mental evaluations

Adds that as a condition of parole, a prisoner who has a severe mental disorder, as defined, prior to their release, shall have a face-to face evaluation with a practicing psychiatrist or psychologist from the Department of State Hospitals, as specified.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 716 (Lara-D) Inmates: civil rights

Requires state, local and private correctional facilities to create a safe environment free from sexual abuse for inmates or detainees by adopting policies implementing the United States Prison Rape Elimination Act, which are currently binding on state and local facilities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 762 (Hill-D) Secondhand goods: lost, stolen, or embezzled items

Clarifies the interests of licensed pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers relating to the seizure and disposition of property during a criminal investigation or criminal case.
Chapter 318, Statutes of 2013

SB 782 (DeSaulnier-D) Sexual assault treatment and prevention

Imposes a tax on sexually oriented businesses, as specified, the proceeds of which will be used to fund sexual violence prevention programs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 801 (Roth-D) Department of Finance: reports: crimes

Directs the Department of Finance to annually require each department head, or designee, responsible for auditing the accounts of a state entity, as specified, to certify under penalty of perjury that the budgeting and accounting information provided to the Department reconciles to the year-end finance reports submitted to the State Controller's Office.
Chapter 281, Statutes of 2013

SB 803 (DeSaulnier-D) False documents: real property: voiding and restitution

Provides that where a defendant is convicted of specified offenses, or any other offense, in which an instrument affecting the right, title, or interest in real property was forged or false, and where the instrument was filed, registered, or recorded, as specified, the prosecuting attorney or the judge may make a motion for a noticed hearing to adjudge the instrument void, and to order restitution for an affected person.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

SCR 22 (Evans-D) Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Denim Day California

Designates the month of April 2013 as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, recognizes 4/24/13, as Denim Day California, and encourages everyone to wear jeans on that day to help communicate the message that there is no excuse for, and never an invitation to commit rape.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2013

SCR 51 (Lieu-D) California Bullying Prevention Day

Declares 12/12/13, as California Bullying Prevention Day, and recognizes the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of bullying prevention in California.
Resolution Chapter 114, Statutes of 2013

SCR 56 (Torres-D) National Night Out

Proclaims 8/6/13 as National Night Out in California, and urges the people of California to observe and participate in National Night Out.
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2013

AB 310 (Alejo-D) Crime prevention

Adds South Monterey and Salinas Counties to the list of specified counties that have high incidences of gang violence and includes them in the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 329 (Pan-D) Ticket sellers: equitable online ticket buying process

Makes it a misdemeanor to intentionally use or sell software to circumvent a security measure, access control system, or other control or measure on a ticket seller's Internet Web site that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying process.
Chapter 325, Statutes of 2013

AB 339 (Dickinson-D) Sale of animals at swap meets

Makes it unlawful to sell animals at a swap meet unless the local jurisdiction has adopted an ordinance that includes specified requirements relating to the care and treatment of the animals.
Chapter 231, Statutes of 2013

AB 347 (Achadjian-R) Arson: registration

Requires the Department of Justice to make arson registration information, specifically, statements, photographs, and fingerprints, available to a chief fire official of a legally organized fire department or fire protection district California.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 465 (Bonilla-D) Youth sports: criminal background checks

Provides that a community youth athletic program can request state and federal level criminal history information from the Department of Justice for a volunteer or paid coach.
Chapter 146, Statutes of 2013

AB 508 (Ian Calderon-D) Debt collection: homeless veterans

Delays garnishing wages or levying against the bank account of a veteran to pay for specified violations when a court determines that the person is homeless.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2013

AB 524 (Mullin-D) Immigrants: extortion

Provides that a threat to report the immigration status or suspected immigration status of an individual or the individual's family may induce fear sufficient to constitute extortion.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2013

AB 604 (Ammiano-D) Medical cannabis: state regulation and enforcement

Enacts the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Control Act, and creates the Division of Medical Marijuana Regulation and Enforcement in order to regulate the cultivation, manufacture, testing, transportation, distribution, and sale of medical marijuana.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 610 (Achadjian-R) State hospitals: involuntary treatment

Requires the county of commitment to pay the non-treatment costs associated with any hearing for an order seeking involuntary treatment of psychotropic medication for a mentally disordered offender whose commitment in a state hospital has been extended beyond the expiration of parole.
Chapter 705, Statutes of 2013

AB 618 (Perea-D) San Joaquin River Conservancy: violations: penalties

Makes a person who violates any posted regulation adopted by the San Joaquin River Conservancy guilty of an infraction punishable by a maximum fine of $250 and authorizes any California peace officer to enforce any regulation adopted by the Conservancy.
(At Assembly Desk)

AB 623 (Lowenthal-D) Inmates: psychiatric medication: informed consent

Prohibits, except as specified, a person confined in a county jail from being administered any psychiatric medication without his/her prior informed consent.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 720 (Skinner-D) Inmates: health care enrollment

Authorizes the board of supervisors in each county, in consultation with the county sheriff, to designate an entity or entities to assist county jail inmates with submitting an application for a health insurance affordability program, consistent with federal requirements.
Chapter 646, Statutes of 2013

AB 721 (Bradford-D) Controlled substances: transporting with intent to sell

Defines "transports" for purposes of transporting specified controlled substances to mean to transport for sale.
Chapter 504, Statutes of 2013

AB 781 (Bocanegra-D) Sales and use taxes: fees: administration: noncompliance

Makes it a punishable offense for any person to sell, purchase, install, transfer or possess software programs that falsify reported sales, as specified.
Chapter 532, Statutes of 2013

AB 971 (Garcia-D) Public agency employers: criminal history information

Authorizes a social services paratransit agency to receive state and local criminal history information with respect to its contracted service providers for the purpose of oversight and enforcement of the agency's policies.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2013

AB 1072 (Wagner-R) Mortgage loan modification

Creates an alternate felony/misdemeanor offense for violating existing provisions of law related to unlawful activities in conjunction with a mortgage loan modification.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1120 (Hagman-R) Department of Justice: felony reporting: release

Requires the Department of Justice to collect specified data on persons charged with a felony and post it on the Department's Internet Web site, absent personal identifiers.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1123 (Patterson-R) Street gangs

Abrogates a California Supreme Court case by redefining the term "criminal conduct by members of a gang" for the purposes of the crime of active participation in a criminal street gang.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)

ACR 53 (Quirk-Silva-D) Sober Graduation Month

Designates 5/31/13, to 6/30/13, as Sober Graduation Month and encourages Californians to participate in this observance and join the Department of California Highway Patrol in supporting efforts to save lives of young people through a Sober Graduation Month.
Resolution Chapter 58, Statutes of 2013

ACR 72 (Quirk-Silva-D) California Firefighters Memorial Day

Proclaims 10/5/13, as California Firefighters Memorial Day.
Resolution Chapter 146, Statutes of 2013

ACR 81 (Mitchell-D) Senior Fraud Awareness Day

Proclaims 11/13/13, as Senior Fraud Awareness Day.
(In Senate Rules Committee)



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Measure and ReferenceAuthorMeasure Title
SB 15 - Law EnforcementPadilla-DAviation: unmanned aircraft systems
SB 38 - Firearms and WeaponsDe León-DFirearms: prohibited persons
SB 47 - Firearms and WeaponsYee-DFirearms: assault weapons
SB 53 - Firearms and WeaponsDe León-DAmmunition: purchase permits
SB 55 - MiscellaneousHill-DIgnition interlock devices: repeat DUI offenders
SB 57 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersLieu-DElectronic monitoring removal: sex offender
SB 57 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleLieu-DElectronic monitoring: removing or disabling GPS device
SB 59* - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersEvans-DCrimes: sex crimes
SB 60 - Human TraffickingWright-DCrime victims: human trafficking
SB 60 - Victims of CrimeWright-DCrime victims: human trafficking
SB 61 - Juvenile JusticeYee-DJuveniles: solitary confinement
SB 61 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleYee-DJuveniles: solitary confinement
SB 107 - MiscellaneousCorbett-DSexual assault: victim medical evidentiary examination
SB 108 - Firearms and WeaponsYee-DFirearms
SB 114 - Law EnforcementPavley-DCommercially sexually exploited minors
SB 127 - Firearms and WeaponsGaines-RFirearms: mentally disordered persons
SB 130 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersCorbett-DWitnesses
SB 130 - Procedural (Criminal only)Corbett-DWitnesses
SB 130 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleCorbett-DWitnesses
SB 130 - Victims of CrimeCorbett-DWitnesses
SB 144 - MiscellaneousCannella-R2013 Realignment Legislation addressing justice reinvestment
SB 145 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersPavley-DSex offenders: child pornography
SB 145 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParolePavley-DSex offenders: child pornography
SB 160 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersLara-DClassified school employees: misconduct against a child
SB 162 - Law EnforcementLieu-DPrisoners: temporary removal
SB 162 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleLieu-DPrisoners: temporary removal
SB 166 - Juvenile JusticeLiu-DJuveniles: attorney qualifications
SB 188 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleLiu-DConservation camps: county-operated camps
SB 191 - MiscellaneousPadilla-DEmergency medical services
SB 199 - Law EnforcementDe León-DProbation: community corrections
SB 210 - Procedural (Criminal only)Hancock-DCriminal procedure: release on defendant's own recognizance
SB 225 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleEmmerson-RImprisonment: sentences punishable in state prison
SB 226 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleEmmerson-RDefendants: severe mental disorder
SB 244 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersLiu-DDisorderly conduct
SB 253 - Controlled SubstancesHueso-DControlled substances: synthetic cannabinoids
SB 255* - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleCannella-RDisorderly conduct: invasion of privacy
SB 255* - Victims of CrimeCannella-RDisorderly conduct: invasion of privacy
SB 260 - Juvenile JusticeHancock-DYouth offender parole hearings
SB 260 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleHancock-DYouth offender parole hearings
SB 272 - MiscellaneousCorbett-DAdvertising and solicitations: veterans
SB 287 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleWalters-RPrison: community supervision: eligibility
SB 289 - Controlled SubstancesCorrea-DVehicles: driving under the influence: drugs
SB 293 - Firearms and WeaponsDeSaulnier-DFirearms: owner-authorized handguns
SB 295 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleEmmerson-RSexually violent predators: civil commitment
SB 298 - MiscellaneousWyland-RLocal government: supplemental law enforcement services
SB 299 - Firearms and WeaponsDeSaulnier-DFirearms: lost or stolen: reports
SB 303 - Firearms and WeaponsKnight-RPeace officers: concealed weapon endorsement
SB 303 - Law EnforcementKnight-RPeace officers: concealed weapon endorsement
SB 313 - Law EnforcementDe León-DPublic Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act
SB 326 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersBeall-DSex offenders
SB 327 - Human TraffickingYee-DHuman trafficking: pardons and parole
SB 333 - MiscellaneousLieu-DCrimes: emergencies: false reporting
SB 340 - MiscellaneousJackson-DLaw enforcement: anti-reproductive-rights crimes
SB 347 - MiscellaneousBeall-DYouth shelters: funding
SB 363 - Firearms and WeaponsWright-DFirearms: criminal storage: unsafe handguns
SB 365 - MiscellaneousWolk-DJail construction: funding
SB 374 - Firearms and WeaponsSteinberg-DFirearms: assault weapons
SB 378 - MiscellaneousBlock-DOfficial record of conviction: digitized documents
SB 385 - Firearms and WeaponsBlock-DFirearms: Private Patrol Operators
SB 385 - Law EnforcementBlock-DFirearms: Private Patrol Operators
SB 386 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersCorrea-DRegistered sex offenders
SB 388 - Law EnforcementLieu-DPublic safety officers and firefighters
SB 396 - Firearms and WeaponsHancock-DFirearms: magazine capacity
SB 419 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBlock-DSupervised persons: flash incarceration
SB 439 - Controlled SubstancesSteinberg-DMedical marijuana
SB 445 - MiscellaneousHill-DRevenue bond financing of prison construction
SB 458 - Juvenile JusticeWright-DGangs: statewide database
SB 458 - Law EnforcementWright-DGangs: statewide database
SB 466 - MiscellaneousDeSaulnier-DCalifornia Institute for Criminal Justice Policy
SB 467 - Law EnforcementLeno-DPrivacy: electronic communications: warrants
SB 473 - Human TraffickingBlock-DHuman trafficking
SB 475 - Firearms and WeaponsLeno-DFirearm sales at the Cow Palace
SB 506 - Controlled SubstancesHill-DEphedrine: retail sale
SB 507 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleCannella-RArson: commercial livestock farms
SB 513 - Procedural (Criminal only)Hancock-DDiversion programs: sealed records
SB 514 - MiscellaneousSenate Public Safety CommitteeCrimes
SB 530 - MiscellaneousWright-DCriminal offenders: rehabilitation
SB 543 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBlock-DPetty theft: enhancements for prior convictions
SB 544 - MiscellaneousDeSaulnier-DViolence prevention
SB 566 - Controlled SubstancesLeno-DIndustrial hemp
SB 567 - Firearms and WeaponsJackson-DFirearms: shotguns
SB 569 - Juvenile JusticeLieu-DInterrogation: electronic recordation
SB 606 - MiscellaneousDe León-DHarassment: child or ward
SB 611 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleHill-DCorrectional facilities: bond financing
SB 618 - MiscellaneousLeno-DWrongful convictions
SB 644 - Firearms and WeaponsCannella-RFirearms: felons in possession
SB 649 - Controlled SubstancesLeno-DPossession of controlled substances: penalties
SB 653 - Procedural (Criminal only)Knight-RCriminal procedure: pleas
SB 663 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersLara-DSexual assault: victims
SB 683 - Firearms and WeaponsBlock-DFirearms: firearm safety certificate
SB 706 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleCorrea-DCounty prisoners: Community Reintegration
SB 708 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleNielsen-RImprisonment: sentences punishable in state prison
SB 709 - MiscellaneousNielsen-RInmates: mental evaluations
SB 710 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleNielsen-RParole
SB 716 - MiscellaneousLara-DInmates: civil rights
SB 717* - Law EnforcementDeSaulnier-DSearch warrants: driving under the influence
SB 717* - Procedural (Criminal only)DeSaulnier-DSearch warrants: driving under the influence
SB 742* - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleNielsen-RDefendants
SB 755 - Firearms and WeaponsWolk-DFirearms: prohibited persons
SB 759 - Firearms and WeaponsNielsen-RCalifornia State Military Museum and Resource Center
SB 762 - MiscellaneousHill-DSecondhand goods: lost, stolen, or embezzled items
SB 769 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBlock-DVeterans: criminal defendants
SB 771* - Law EnforcementGalgiani-DInmates: temporary removal
SB 779 - Procedural (Criminal only)Anderson-RCapital punishment: appeals
SB 782 - MiscellaneousDeSaulnier-DSexual assault treatment and prevention
SB 794 - Procedural (Criminal only)Evans-DJuries: criminal trials: peremptory challenges
SB 801 - MiscellaneousRoth-DDepartment of Finance: reports: crimes
SB 803 - MiscellaneousDeSaulnier-DFalse documents: real property: voiding and restitution
SB 809 - Controlled SubstancesDeSaulnier-DControlled substances: reporting
SB 813 - Law EnforcementGalgiani-DInmates: temporary removal
SCR 6 - Law EnforcementWolk-DVallejo Police Officer James Capoot Memorial Highway
SCR 13 - Law EnforcementNielsen-RRedding Police Officer Owen "Ted" Lyon Memorial Bridge
SCR 22 - MiscellaneousEvans-DSexual Assault Awareness Month: Denim Day California
SCR 23 - Law EnforcementCannella-RSoledad State Prison Correctional Officers Memorial Highway
SCR 39 - Law EnforcementCorrea-DCalifornia Peace Officers' Memorial Day
SCR 43 - Law EnforcementDeSaulnier-DCHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom Memorial Undercrossing
SCR 49 - Firearms and WeaponsKnight-RFirearms
SCR 51 - MiscellaneousLieu-DCalifornia Bullying Prevention Day
SCR 56 - MiscellaneousTorres-DNational Night Out
SCR 57 - Law EnforcementHernandez-DCHP Officers Horine and Leiphardt Memorial Highway
SCR 64 - Law EnforcementRoth-DSergeant Gilbert Cortez and K-9 Mattie Memorial Highway
SCR 68 - Domestic ViolenceLieu-DNational Domestic Violence Awareness Month
SCR 69 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleGalgiani-DPrisoners: overcrowding
SJR 2 - Domestic ViolenceJackson-DViolence Against Women Act
SR 8 - Domestic ViolenceYee-DViolence Against Women Act
AB 2 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersMorrell-RSex offenders: parole violations
AB 4 - Law EnforcementAmmiano-DState government: federal immigration policy enforcement
AB 15 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBradford-DDepartment of Corrections and Rehabilitation: inmates
AB 16 - Domestic ViolenceJohn A. Pérez-DDomestic violence: corporal injury
AB 20 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersWaldron-RObscene matter: minors
AB 36 - Juvenile JusticeDahle-RProbation officer: appointments
AB 36 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleDahle-RProbation officer: appointments
AB 48 - Firearms and WeaponsSkinner-DFirearms: large-capacity magazines
AB 63 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParolePatterson-RElectronic monitoring: removing or disabling
AB 65* - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersAchadjian-RCrimes: sex crimes
AB 65* - Victims of CrimeAchadjian-RCrimes: sex crimes
AB 68 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleMaienschein-RParole
AB 128 - Law EnforcementBradford-DPeace officers: airport law enforcement
AB 139 - Domestic ViolenceHolden-DDomestic violence: fees
AB 139 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleHolden-DDomestic violence: fees
AB 156 - Human TraffickingHolden-DHuman trafficking: interception of electronic communications
AB 169 - Firearms and WeaponsDickinson-DUnsafe handguns
AB 170 - Firearms and WeaponsBradford-DAssault weapons and .50 BMG rifles
AB 176 - Law EnforcementCampos-DFamily law: protective and restraining orders
AB 180 - Firearms and WeaponsBonta-DRegistration and licensing of firearms: City of Oakland
AB 184 - Procedural (Criminal only)Gatto-DStatute of limitations
AB 187* - Firearms and WeaponsBonta-DAmmunition: taxation
AB 222 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleCooley-DCrimes: enhancements: punishment: state prison
AB 231 - Firearms and WeaponsTing-DFirearms: criminal storage
AB 232* - Firearms and WeaponsTing-DGun buybacks: income taxes: credit
AB 238 - Law EnforcementGomez-DProtective and restraining orders: computer database system
AB 249 - Firearms and WeaponsDonnelly-RFirearms: open carry prohibitions
AB 307 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersCampos-DProtective orders
AB 307 - Victims of CrimeCampos-DProtective orders
AB 310 - MiscellaneousAlejo-DCrime prevention
AB 321 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersDonnelly-RRegistration of sex offenders: nonpermitted addresses
AB 329 - MiscellaneousPan-DTicket sellers: equitable online ticket buying process
AB 336 - Procedural (Criminal only)Ammiano-DCrimes: prostitution: evidence
AB 339 - MiscellaneousDickinson-DSale of animals at swap meets
AB 347 - MiscellaneousAchadjian-RArson: registration
AB 351 - Law EnforcementDonnelly-RCivil liberties: suspension of habeas corpus
AB 353 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBrown-DParole: medical parole
AB 398 - Law EnforcementFox-DPublic safety officers
AB 406 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersTorres-DChild abuse reporting
AB 465 - MiscellaneousBonilla-DYouth sports: criminal background checks
AB 492 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleQuirk-DProbation: nonviolent drug offenses
AB 494 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleV. Manuel Pérez-DPrisoners: literacy and education
AB 500 - Firearms and WeaponsAmmiano-DFirearms
AB 508 - MiscellaneousIan Calderon-DDebt collection: homeless veterans
AB 524 - MiscellaneousMullin-DImmigrants: extortion
AB 535 - Law EnforcementQuirk-DEmergency Alert System
AB 538 - Firearms and WeaponsPan-DFirearms
AB 539 - Firearms and WeaponsPan-DFirearm possession: prohibitions
AB 560 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleAmmiano-DSentencing: recall and mandatory supervision
AB 568 - Procedural (Criminal only)Muratsuchi-DCriminal procedure: testimony of law enforcement officers
AB 579 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersMelendez-RSex offenses against children
AB 601 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleEggman-DParole
AB 602 - Victims of CrimeYamada-DMentally/developmentally disabled persons: reporting abuse
AB 604 - MiscellaneousAmmiano-DMedical cannabis: state regulation and enforcement
AB 605 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersLinder-RSex offenders: parole violations
AB 605 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleLinder-RSex offenders: parole violations
AB 610 - MiscellaneousAchadjian-RState hospitals: involuntary treatment
AB 618 - MiscellaneousPerea-DSan Joaquin River Conservancy: violations: penalties
AB 623 - MiscellaneousLowenthal-DInmates: psychiatric medication: informed consent
AB 624 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleMitchell-DCounty jail: rehabilitation credits
AB 651 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBradford-DConvictions: expungement
AB 652 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersAmmiano-DChild Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act: homeless children
AB 681 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersMelendez-RSpousal support
AB 681 - Domestic ViolenceMelendez-RSpousal support
AB 685 - Firearms and WeaponsAchadjian-RPeace officer's state-issued handgun
AB 685 - Law EnforcementAchadjian-RState goods: peace officer's state-issued handgun
AB 694 - Human TraffickingBloom-DAdmissibility of evidence: victims of human trafficking
AB 702 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersAmmiano-DSex offenders: registration
AB 703 - Firearms and WeaponsHall-DFirearms: peace officers
AB 703 - Law EnforcementHall-DPeace officers: firearms
AB 720 - MiscellaneousSkinner-DInmates: health care enrollment
AB 721 - MiscellaneousBradford-DControlled substances: transporting with intent to sell
AB 723 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleQuirk-DPost release community supervision: revocation
AB 740 - Firearms and WeaponsAlejo-DFirearms
AB 752 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleJones-Sawyer-DWork furlough: county jails
AB 765 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleAmmiano-DSentencing
AB 766 - Procedural (Criminal only)Beth Gaines-RAttorney General: investigations
AB 768 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersAchadjian-RSexually violent predators: conditional release
AB 768 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleAchadjian-RSexually violent predators: conditional release
AB 781 - MiscellaneousBocanegra-DSales and use taxes: fees: administration: noncompliance
AB 790 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersGomez-DChild abuse: reporting
AB 795 - Human TraffickingAlejo-DHuman trafficking
AB 805 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleJones-Sawyer-DBail
AB 807 - Procedural (Criminal only)Ammiano-DCriminal investigations: eyewitness identification
AB 810 - Procedural (Criminal only)Muratsuchi-DLaw enforcement: data sharing
AB 828 - Controlled SubstancesHolden-DControlled substances
AB 871 - Firearms and WeaponsJones-RConcealed weapons
AB 884 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBonilla-DCounty Board of Parole Commissioners: parole terms
AB 885 - Procedural (Criminal only)Ammiano-DDiscovery: prosecutorial duty to disclose information
AB 909 - Law EnforcementGray-DMetal theft and related recycling crimes
AB 915 - Juvenile JusticeJones-Sawyer-DYouth Community Incentives Act of 2013
AB 924 - Law EnforcementBigelow-RGrand theft
AB 924 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBigelow-RGrand theft
AB 956 - Law EnforcementMansoor-RVehicle accidents: fleeing
AB 956 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleMansoor-RVehicle accidents: fleeing
AB 971 - MiscellaneousGarcia-DPublic agency employers: criminal history information
AB 979 - Law EnforcementWeber-DPeace officers: Maritime Peace Officer Training
AB 986 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBradford-DPost release community supervision: flash incarceration
AB 992 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersPerea-DSex offender registration: juvenile offenders
AB 992 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParolePerea-DSex offender registration: juvenile offenders
AB 994 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleLowenthal-DPostplea misdemeanor diversion programs
AB 999 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBonta-DPrisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act
AB 1004 - Procedural (Criminal only)Gray-DCriminal procedure
AB 1006 - Juvenile JusticeYamada-DJuvenile court records: sealing and destruction
AB 1019 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleAmmiano-DState prisons: career technical education
AB 1020 - Firearms and WeaponsBonta-DFirearms: notice to purchasers
AB 1027 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersBonilla-DYouth sports: criminal background checks
AB 1040 - Firearms and WeaponsWieckowski-DPeace officer: firearms
AB 1040 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleWieckowski-DPeace officer: firearms
AB 1050 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleDickinson-DBoard of State and Community Corrections
AB 1065 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleHolden-DParole
AB 1072 - MiscellaneousWagner-RMortgage loan modification
AB 1084 - Firearms and WeaponsMelendez-RFirearms: punishment
AB 1108 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersPerea-DSex offenders: foster care homes
AB 1118 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleHagman-RStatewide bail schedule
AB 1119 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleHagman-RPostrelease reentry pilot program
AB 1120 - MiscellaneousHagman-RDepartment of Justice: felony reporting: release
AB 1123 - MiscellaneousPatterson-RStreet gangs
AB 1128 - Controlled SubstancesSalas-DAlcoholic beverages: underage drinking
AB 1128 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleSalas-DAlcoholic beverages: underage drinking
AB 1131 - Firearms and WeaponsSkinner-DFirearms
AB 1137 - Controlled SubstancesMansoor-RIndustrial hemp
AB 1195 - Law EnforcementEggman-DPublic records: crime victims
AB 1195 - Procedural (Criminal only)Eggman-DPublic records: crime victims
AB 1238 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleWeber-DParole: reentry programs
AB 1250 - Law EnforcementPerea-DPrivileged communications: identity of informer
AB 1276 - Juvenile JusticeBloom-DParole: juvenile offenders
AB 1276 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleBloom-DParole: juvenile offenders
AB 1296 - Firearms and WeaponsSkinner-DFirearms: mentally disordered persons
AB 1321 - Human TraffickingJones-RSerious felonies: human trafficking
AB 1325 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleJohn A. Pérez-DVandalism: punishment
AB 1327 - Law EnforcementGorell-RUnmanned aircraft systems
AB 1334 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleConway-RParole
AB 1335 - Sentencing/Corrections/ParoleMaienschein-RSex offenses: disabled victims
AB 1340 - Victims of CrimeAchadjian-RState Hospital Employees Act
ACR 3 - Law EnforcementLogue-RCHP Officer Robert J. Quirk Memorial Highway
ACR 6 - Human TraffickingDonnelly-RHuman trafficking
ACR 14 - Law EnforcementYamada-DDeputy Tony Diaz, Memorial Rest Area
ACR 16 - Law EnforcementHagman-RGerald "Blackie" Sawyer Memorial Highway
ACR 34 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersCooley-DChild Abuse Prevention Month
ACR 53 - MiscellaneousQuirk-Silva-DSober Graduation Month
ACR 62 - Law EnforcementIan Calderon-DDetectives Mike Lane and John Pierce Memorial Highway
ACR 66 - Child Abuse/Sex OffendersWaldron-RInternet Crimes Against Children Awareness Month
ACR 68 - Law EnforcementDonnelly-RDetective Jeremiah MacKay Memorial Highway
ACR 69 - Law EnforcementSalas-DCHP Officer Dean Esquibel Memorial Bridge
ACR 70 - Law EnforcementChesbro-DCHP Officer Kenneth E. Marshall Memorial Interchange
ACR 72 - MiscellaneousQuirk-Silva-DCalifornia Firefighters Memorial Day
ACR 74 - Controlled SubstancesSalas-DRed Ribbon Week
ACR 81 - MiscellaneousMitchell-DSenior Fraud Awareness Day
AJR 8 - Domestic ViolenceJohn A. Pérez-DViolence Against Women Reauthorization Act
HR 23 - Juvenile JusticeBradford-DRelative to youth