Death Penalty
Privacy/Identity Theft
Domestic Violence
Sex Offenders/Child Abuse
Controlled Substances
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
Other Crimes and Sentencing
Procedural
Juries
Juvenile Justice
Corrections
Victims of Crime
Weapons
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
Law Enforcement
Family Law
Civil Law
Death Penalty
SB 1018 (Harman-R) Death penalty: lethal injection protocol
Requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to develop and implement a lethal injection protocol for use on and after 1/1/13, that utilizes the injection of a lethal quantity of an ultra-short-acting barbiturate or other similar drug, not to be used in combination with a chemical paralytic, in a quantity sufficient to cause death according to standards established under the direction of CDCR.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1331 (Cedillo-D) Death penalty: California Racial Justice Act
Provides that no person shall be condemned to death or executed pursuant to any judgment that was sought or obtained on the basis of race.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCA 27 (Harman-R) Death penalty appeals: transfer
Amends the California Constitution to also authorize the Supreme Court to transfer a cause to a court of appeal when a judgment of death has been pronounced. Requires, if the Supreme Court transfers a cause concerning a judgment of death to a court of appeal, that the Supreme Court review the resulting decision of the court of appeal affirming or reversing that judgment.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1359 (Huffman-D) Death penalty prisoners
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house condemned inmates in any state prison that contains level four security or a condemned facility designated by the department, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 461 (Correa-D) Identification documents: Matricula Consular
Adds a Matricula Consular, issued through a consulate office of the Mexican government, as an allowable form of identification for a credible witness to prove the identity of an individual who executes a written instrument.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
A similar bill was AB 442 (Arambula-I) which was vetoed.
SB 1087 (Alquist-D) Identity theft: restitution
Provides that restitution in an identity theft case shall include, for a period of time reasonably necessary to make the victim whole, the cost of repairing the victim's credit and monitoring the victim's credit report.
Chapter 107, Statutes of 2010
SB 1166 (Simitian-D) Privacy: security breach information
Requires that security breach notifications be written in plain language and contain certain specified information, including, among other things, contact information regarding the breach, the types of information breached, and, if possible to determine, the date, estimated date, or date range of the breach. Provides that a security breach notification may also include other specified information, at the discretion of the entity issuing the notification. Provides that any agency, person, or business that must provide a security breach notification under existing law to more than 500 California residents as a result of a single breach would be required to submit the notification electronically to the Attorney General.
Vetoed
SB 1268 (Simitian-D) Disclosure of personal information
Prohibits, with some exceptions, a transportation agency from selling or otherwise providing personally identifiable information of a person who subscribes to an electronic toll collection system or who uses a toll facility that employs such system and establishes time periods up to which an agency may retain that information. Establishes a minimum amount of money a person whose personally identifiable information was knowingly sold or otherwise provided may receive in damages and costs.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2010
SB 1361 (Corbett-D) Privacy: social networking Internet Web sites: minors
Prohibits a social networking Internet Web site from displaying the home address or telephone number, in specified text fields, of registered user who identifies himself/herself as under 18 years of age. Provides that a site that willfully and knowingly violates the prohibition is subject to a civil penalty, not to exceed $10,000 for each violation.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
SB 1476 (Padilla-D) Data information: consumers
Requires an investor-owned utility or publicly owned utility using advanced metering (smart meters) to protect consumers energy usage data from an unauthorized access or disclosure, and prohibits investor-owned utilities and publicly owned utilities from certain activities.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2010
AB 442 (Arambula-IN) Identification documents: Matricula Consular
Provides that a notary public may reasonable rely on a Matricula Consular issued by the government of the United States of Mexico as proper identification to prove the identity of an individual who executes a written instrument.
Vetoed
A similar bill was SB 461 (Correa-D) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee.
AB 1813 (Lieu-D) Personal information: public official
Includes information provided for cellular phone applications in the information that a public official may ask to be removed from the Internet and expands the definition of peace officer within the definition of public official.
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2010
AB 2112 (Monning-D) Prescription Record Privacy Act
Enacts the Prescription Record Privacy Act, prohibiting a person or entity, including a pharmacist, from selling or releasing to a third party any physician prescribing data for marketing purposes, as defined, except when the data is necessary for any local, state, or federal governmental or oversight activity, as provided, or is necessary for the processing of a health care claim. Permits the release of physician prescribing data to a licensed health care professional, service plan, contractor, or facility, as provided, a health insurer or disability insurer, or an authorized operator of a program related to the treatment of chronic and seriously debilitating or life-threatening conditions. Permits the release of data for clinical trials or established research projects, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2480 (Bass-D) Privacy: commercial use of minor's photograph
Provides that any person who knowingly uses any photograph or likeness of a minor for commercial purposes, as define, without consent, shall be liable for any damages sustained by the person(s) injured as a result thereof and for the payment to the injured party of any profits attributable to that unauthorized use.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2559 (John Perez-D) Social security numbers
Prohibits a state agency, as defined, from requiring an applicant for any benefit, service, or privilege, or for participation in any program to provide his or her social security number unless the agency is otherwise expressly required by law to require that the applicant provide the social security number as a precondition to participation in the program or for receipt of the benefit, service, or privilege. Prohibits the agency from retaining the person's social security number, and requires the agency to conform their application forms.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2698 (Block-D) Identity theft: foster youth
Clarifies requirements for county welfare departments to request credit reports on behalf of youth in foster care at 16 years of age in order to detect and correct identity theft and requires the Department of Social Services to share in this responsibility.
Vetoed
Domestic Violence
SB 662 (Yee-D) Domestic violence: marriage license fees
Permits a county board of supervisors to increase the marriage license fees used to fund domestic violence shelters by $10 and clarifies when such shelters may receive these funds.
Vetoed
SB 782 (Yee-D) Domestic violence: residential tenancies
Prohibits a landlord from terminating a tenancy based upon an act or acts of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking against the tenant or tenant's household member, if the act(s) can be appropriately documented and the perpetrator is not a tenant of the same dwelling unit as the tenant. Permits a tenant to change locks of the dwelling unit, or request the landlord to do so, as specified, if the tenant has a restraining order against another person based on that other person's acts of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking against the tenant.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 2010
SB 1222 (Wolk-D) Domestic violence: marriage licenses: vital records
Authorizes, until 1/1/12, Solano County, upon making specified findings and declarations, to increase fees for marriage licenses, certified copies of marriage certificates, fetal death records, and death records, up to a maximum of $2. Requires these funds to be used for governmental oversight and coordination of domestic violence and family violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution efforts.
Chapter 520, Statutes of 2010
SB 1233 (Oropeza-D) Domestic violence: confidential address programs
Removes the 1/13/10 sunset date on the Safe at Home project a confidential address program that offers victim anonymity.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2010
AB 375 (Nielsen-R) Domestic violence: child custody: child sexual abuse
Limits the ability of the court to grant an ex parte request to modify a child custody order in cases of domestic violence or child sexual abuse.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1081 (Torrico-D) Domestic violence: electronic monitoring surveillance
Requires electronic monitoring via Global Positioning System surveillance for persons convicted of violating specified protective orders, stalking, or felony domestic violence.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1082* (Torrico-D) Domestic Violence Prevention and Sexual Abuse Fund
Imposes a 12% tax on tangible personable property that is harmful matter, as defined, to fund a program for the surveillance of domestic abusers and stalkers, and programs that support victims and the prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1248 (Emmerson-R) Domestic violence: refusal to testify
Authorizes the court to require a victim of a domestic violence crime who refuses to testify to attend one session of counseling and schedule a hearing to take place after the counseling session to determine whether the victim's decision not to testify was made freely and voluntarily and without coercion. Authorizes the district attorney to refer the victim to a nonprofit counseling group for purposes of that provision.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1360 (John Perez-D) Felony domestic violence
Expands the definition of felony domestic violence to include the offender's "fiance" or "someone with whom the offender has, or previously had, a dating or engagement relationship," as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1738 (Tran-R) Domestic violence: incident report
Expands the current law providing domestic violence victims with a free copy of the domestic violence incident report to include family members and additional representatives, as specified.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2010
AB 1770 (Galgiani-D) Domestic violence: Stanislaus County
Authorizes, as a pilot program, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors to increase specified fees to fund domestic violence prevention programs and direct services.
Chapter 578, Statutes of 2010
AB 1883 (Evans-D) Domestic violence: county fees
Authorizes a county board of supervisors, upon making findings and declarations of the need for governmental oversight and coordination of domestic violence agencies and the need for funding community based domestic violence programs, to increase fees for certified copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records by up to $4.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 2011* (Arambula-IN) Domestic violence probationer
Requires persons granted probation for a domestic violence offense to make a minimum payment of $400. Provides that grants to support the Domestic Violence Training and Education program shall be awarded on a competitive basis and be administered by the California State Department of Public Health, in consultation with the statewide domestic violence coalition.
Chapter 132, Statutes of 2010
AB 2348 (Yamada-D) Domestic violence: marriage license fees
Reauthorizes, until 1/1/16, the existing increased fees for certain vital records in the County of Yolo.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2364 (Nava-D) Domestic violence: unemployment insurance
Permits the Employment Development Department to award Unemployment Insurance benefits to workers who leave their jobs to protect family members from domestic violence. Double-jointed with AB 2055 (De La Torre-D).
Chapter 678, Statutes of 2010
AB 2762 (Assembly Housing And Community Development Committee) Domestic violence: 2010 housing omnibus bill
Exempts properties falling under the jurisdiction of Notice of Affordability Restrictions on Transfer of Property that confidentially house victims of domestic violence from the requirement that a property's address be listed.
Chapter 610, Statutes of 2010
Sex Offenders/Child Abuse
SB 46 (Alquist-D) Sex offenders: statutes of limitations
Eliminates the statute of limitations for the crimes of rape, sodomy, lewd act on a child or dependent person, oral copulation, continuous sexual abuse of a child, or forcible sexual penetration.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 50 (Corbett-D) Victims of sexual assault
Provides that victims of sexual assault are not required to participate in the criminal justice system or cooperate with law enforcement in order to be provided with a forensic medical exam.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 496 (Maldonado-R) Sex offenders: real estate license
Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Real Estate, to deny an application for a real estate license, or revoke, non-renew or refuse to reinstate the license for a person who is a registered sex offender, with specified exceptions.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 504 (Runner-R) Registered sex offenders: GPS
Expressly authorizes local law enforcement agencies to monitor registered sex offenders subject to GPS monitoring by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who register in their jurisdiction.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 564 (Hollingsworth-R) Sexually violent predators
Requires sexually violent predators who are released into a forensic conditional release program to be placed in a reentry facility administered by the Department of Mental Health, which may include a new or an existing facility, until suitable housing is found. Precludes failure to be placed in a reentry facility from being grounds for preventing conditional release.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 584 (Hollingsworth-R) Computer access by registered sex offenders
Requires any person who is required to register as a sex offender for committing a crime where the trier of fact made a finding that a computer was used to facilitate the commission of the crime, to inform the registering agent as to whether or not he/she has access to a computer or other device with Internet capability.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 689 (Hollingsworth-R) Sexually violent predators
Requires the Department of Justice to develop and implement a fully Web-enabled system to provide the public, via an Internet Web site, with monitoring and mapping information showing the actual, physical location in real time of sex offenders who have been declared sexually violent predators, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 834 (Florez-D) Sexual offenses: court orders: minor victims
Authorizes the court, upon the conviction of a defendant for a sexual offense involving a minor victim, or if a juvenile petition involving a sexual offense against a minor victim is admitted or sustained, to issue orders prohibiting the defendant or juvenile, for a period up to 10 years, from harassing, intimidating, or threatening the victim, or the victim's family members or spouse.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2010
SB 840 (Yee-D) Sexual assault: reporting crimes
Requires a person who reasonably believes he/she has observed a murder, rape, or other specified sexual offense, where the victim is under the age of 14 years, to notify a peace officer. Raises the maximum age from 14 to 18.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1026 (Wyland-R) Sex offenses: conditional exam of minor victims
Removes existing requirement that the examination of witnesses for the contemporaneous examination and cross-examination by a closed-circuit television must be a minor 13 years of age or younger.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1027 (Wyland-R) Sex offenders: parole
Provides that prisoners who are required to register pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act and who are sentenced to an indeterminate sentence shall be ineligible for parole unless the prisoner has been evaluated by two practicing psychiatrists or practicing licensed psychologists, or one practicing psychiatrist and one practicing licensed psychologist, appointed as specified, and both of these professionals have determined that the prisoner poses no danger to society based on an interview and the administration of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1037 (Correa-D) Sex crime sentencing
Authorizes a court to impose a full, consecutive subordinate term where a defendant is convicted, along with other offenses, of one of a list of a specified sex crimes, thereby restoring a sentencing provision that was eliminated by Proposition 83 of the November 2006 General Election.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1062 (Strickland-R) Sex offenders: terminology
Among other provisions, replaces outdated term "sexual habitual offender" with the term "high risk sex offender" in the codes.
Chapter 709, Statutes of 2010
SB 1183 (Maldonado-R) Teachers: child abuse reporting
Requires, effective 1/1/11, the holder of a teaching or services credential issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to complete an approved training program by 1/1/12, and every two years thereafter, in the duties imposed on mandated reporters, as specified. Requires the holder of the credential to submit verification that he/she has complied with the training requirement, and, on and after 1/1/12, prohibits the Commission from renewing a credential of a person who has not complied with the requirement. Requires the Office of Child Abuse Prevention, in the Department of Social Services, or another agency approved by the Department of Social Services to make resources it may have for training for mandated reporters available to all school districts and school district personnel.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1195 (Wyland-R) Sex offenders: punishment
Changes the punishment for various sex crimes from a determinate sentence to an indeterminate sentence with a life term, as specified. Requires the court to impose any applicable enhancements consecutive to the life term for these crimes.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1201 (DeSaulnier-D) Sex offenders: assessments
Expressly requires that sex offender parolees transferred from other jurisdictions to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation be risk assessed pursuant to the requirements of the California "State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders," as specified. Double-jointed with AB 1844 (Fletcher-R), Chapter 219, Statutes of 2010 and SB 1062 (Strickland-R), Chapter 709, Statutes of 2010.
Chapter 710, Statutes of 2010
SB 1204 (Runner-R) Sex offenders: social networking prohibition: online address
Requires all registered sex offenders to provide all of their e-mail addresses, online addresses, and instant messaging user names to the local law enforcement agencies no later than 12/31/11, and, thereafter, at the time of original registration and within 30 days of establishing a new online account.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1253 (Strickland-R) Sex offenders: probation
Prohibits a person convicted of lewd or lascivious acts upon or with the body of a child, or of continuous sexual abuse of a child, from being placed or residing within one-half mile of the child victim's residence for the duration of his/her probation term unless the court, on the record, states its reasons for finding that this residency restriction would not serve the best interest of the victim.
Chapter 49, Statutes of 2010
SB 1279 (Pavley-D) Sexually exploited minors pilot project: Los Angeles County
Authorizes until 1/1/14, a discretionary pilot project in Los Angeles County to encourage the development of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary model reflecting the best practices for the response of law enforcement and the criminal and 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 for prostitution crimes, as specified.
Chapter 116, Statutes of 2010
SB 1352 (Wyland-R) Rape kits
Requires rape kits collected on or after 1/1/11, in criminal investigations be processed and analyzed for identification purposes within 30 days of delivery to law enforcement. Requires that all rape kits collected prior to 1/1/11, in criminal investigations be processed and analyzed for identification purposes not later than 6/30/11.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 33 (Nava-D) Sex offenders: information data
Mandates the release of information related to sex offenders when a stranger abduction occurs.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2010
AB 61 (Nava-D) Sex offenses: minors: deferred entry of judgment
Statutorily excludes minors alleged to have committed specified sex offenses from eligibility for deferred entry of judgment, as enacted by Proposition 21 in 2000.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 168 (Nava-D) Sexually violent predator proceedings: juvenile case files
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Mental Health, and the district attorney to obtain records of sustained juvenile petitions for specified sex offenses committed by a person 14 years or older in a sexually violent predator law proceeding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 375 (Nielsen-R) Child sexual abuse: child custody
Limits the ability of the court to grant an ex parte request to modify a child custody order in cases of domestic violence or child sexual abuse.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 383 (Lieu-D) Sex crimes: DNA evidence
Extends the limitation on the time period for testing DNA in specified sex crimes committed after 1/1/01, as specified, from two to five years.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 505 (Furutani-D) Sex offenders: housing
Prohibits any person released on parole after having served a term of imprisonment in state prison for an offense requiring registration as a sex offender from living in multifamily housing, in a unit with any other person also required to register as a sex offender during the period of parole, unless those persons are related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 558 (Portantino-D) Sexual assault crimes
Requires law enforcement agencies that take or collect rape kit evidence to annually report specified information concerning the testing and destruction of that evidence to the Department of Justice.
Vetoed
AB 575 (Torres-D) Sex offenders: restrictions
Makes it a misdemeanor for a sex offender, except in limited instances, to be physically present and delay, linger, or idle about within 300 feet of a sensitive use site, as defined. Provides that for purposes of these provisions, a sensitive use site includes specified places where children gather, including arcades, bus stops, child care centers, children's retail stores, community centers, cultural centers, cyber cafes, health clubs providing childcare services, movie theaters, museums, sports centers, and schools.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 589 (Cook-R) Sex offenders: driver's licenses and identification cards
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue sex offenders distinctive driver's licenses or identification cards that specifically identify them as registered sex offenders and requires a registered sex offender to carry his/her driver's license or identification card at all times.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 731 (Villines-R) Child abuse sentencing
Makes it a felony, punishable by 15 years to life in state prison, for any person who, having the care and custody of a child under eight years of age, inflicts great bodily injury that causes the victim to become comatose due to brain injury or to suffer permanent paralysis.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 886 (Garrick-R) Mandated child abuse reporting
Includes employees in public libraries as mandated reporters, for purposes of reporting the use of computers in public libraries, discovered in the course of their duties, to access, on the Internet or from other sources, any material that would constitute depictions of sexual exploitation, as described.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 984 (Nava-D) Reporting of rape
Extends the current duty to report the commission of rape of a person under the age of 14 to a victim of any age.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 997 (Krekorian-D) Sex offenders: licensed residential facilities
Requires the Department of Justice, the Department of Social Services, and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to coordinate with one another to develop an approach that allows these departments to generate information identifying all sex offenders living in licensed residential, child care, or foster care facilities.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1170 (Charles Calderon-D) Sex offenders: rental housing
Requires the Department of Justice, in consultation with the Department of Consumer Affairs and public and private organizations, to develop, publish and make available to the public a consumer information booklet regarding federal and state laws relating to sex offender registration as it relates to the lease or rental of real property.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1261 (Audra Strickland-R) Sex offenders: child custody and visitation
Prohibits the court from granting a person physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child if the person is a registered sex offender or has been convicted of specified criminal offenses, and prohibits the court from placing the child in a home in which that person resides. Makes conforming changes.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1280 (Villines-R) Child abuse sentencing
Provides that where a person with care and custody of a child assaults the child through force likely to produce great bodily injury and the child becomes comatose due to brain injury or suffers permanent "paralysis", as defined, the person shall be punished by a prison term of life with the possibility of parole.
Chapter 300, Statutes of 2010
AB 1688 (Jeffries-R) Sex offenders: disorderly conduct
Requires a person convicted of concealing a camcorder, motion picture camera, or photographic camera of any type to secretly videotape, film, photograph, or record by electronic means, another, identifiable person under or through the person's clothing, without the person's consent or knowledge, with the intent to arouse, appeal to, or gratify the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person, and invade the privacy of that other person, under circumstances in which the other person has a reasonable expectation of privacy to register pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1844* (Fletcher-R) Sex offenders: punishment: parole
Changes numerous statutes governing sex offenses and sex offenders, as well as other crimes. Increases the punishment for various sex offenses, as specified. Prohibits a person on parole for specified sex offenses to enter any park where children regularly gather without express permission from his/her parole agent. Requires lifetime parole for certain habitual sex offenders, and increases the length of parole, as specified, for all sex offenders. Requires the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) Review Committee, on or before 1/1/12, to select an actuarial instrument that measures dynamic risk factors, and another that measures risk of future sexual violence to be administered as specified. Requires that with respect to persons convicted of specified sex offenses, the Department of Justice make available to the public via the department's Web site, the static SARATSO score and information on risk level based on the SARATSO future violence tool. Imposes specified conditions of probation, including participation in an approved sex offender management program, on persons released on formal supervised probation for an offense requiring registration as a sex offender, as specified. Similarly requires participation in an approved sex offender management program, as a condition of parole, for specified persons released on parole, and changes the punishment for certain existing "wobblers" that are not sex offenses.
Chapter 219, Statutes of 2010
AB 1850 (Galgiani-D) Sex offenders: parole
Requires specified conditions for parolees who are registered sex offenders who are deemed to be high-risk offenders.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1941 (Fletcher-R) Sex offenses: punishment: fines: use of funds
Increases the maximum percentage of sex offense fines that may be paid into the county treasury to 3%.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1946 (Fletcher-R) Sexual assault victims
Requires every county with a population of 50,000 or more to have specified professional personnel trained in the examination of victims of sexual assault, including child molestation, in either the county hospital or a general acute care hospital.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2015 (Arambula-IN) Child abuse: interdisciplinary and integrated services
Includes the tracking of child abuse as one of the specified objectives of the multidisciplinary teams using the computerized database system.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 2034 (Knight-R) Sex crimes: public school volunteers: prohibitions
Prohibits school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools that elect to fingerprint volunteers from allowing individuals who have been convicted of specific violent, sex, or drug offenses to volunteer in schools.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2054 (Miller-R) Sex offenses: rape: worktime credits
Adds rape accomplished by an intoxicating substance or rape of an unconscious person to the list of violent offenses for which the defendant may only receive 15% work time credit, rather than day-for-day credits pursuant to current law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2056 (Miller-R) Assault with intent to commit rape
Specifies that good cause to grant a continuance in a criminal proceeding includes cases involving assault with intent to commit a sexual offense, as specified, where the prosecuting attorney has another trial, hearing or motion to suppress in process.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2199 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Sexual deviation: research
Repeals a provision of law requiring the Department of Mental Health (DMH), acting through the superintendent of the Langley Porter Clinic, to plan, conduct, and cause to be conducted scientific research into the causes and cures of sexual deviation, including deviations conducive to sex crimes against children, and the causes and cures of homosexuality, and into methods of identifying potential sex offenders. Specifies that DMH shall research sex crimes against children and methods of identifying those who commit sexual offenses, in lieu of prevention methods.
Chapter 379, Statutes of 2010
AB 2208 (Torres-D) Sex offenders: social networking prohibition
Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months and/or a fine of up to $1,000, for a registered sex offender on parole or probation, whose victim was under the age of 18, or who used the Internet in the commission of the crime, to access an Internet social networking site. Requires the informational statement registered sex offenders must sign, to include a notice regarding the social networking site prohibition, if applicable.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2229 (Brownley-D) Mandated child abuse reporting
Establishes time-limited authority for counties to create two-person multidisciplinary personnel teams engaged in the investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect, as specified.
Chapter 464, Statutes of 2010
AB 2322* (Feuer-D) Abuse of children, elder, or dependent persons
Modifies statutes related to multidisciplinary personnel teams and broadens the scope of information that may be included in a county multidisciplinary personnel team computerized database to include information regarding nonrelatives living in the home of a child.
Chapter 551, Statutes of 2010
AB 2339 (Smyth-R) Child abuse reporting
Makes an essentially technical clarification to the mandatory child abuse reporting laws to expressly authorize the sharing of information from an agency investigating a report of alleged emotional abuse to an investigator, as specified.
Chapter 95, Statutes of 2010
AB 2380 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Child abuse reporting
Provides that a "reasonable suspicion" that a child has been a victim of child abuse or neglect does not require certainty that a child has been abused, nor does it require a specific medical condition for the purpose of making a report under the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.
Chapter 123, Statutes of 2010
AB 2410 (Fuller-R) Child abuse: drugs
Expands the list of drugs for which a joint investigation between law enforcement and social service agencies is triggered when a child is present at a crime scene.
Vetoed
ACR 134 (Adams-R) Child Abuse Prevention Month
Acknowledges the month of April 2010 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 12, Statutes of 2010
ACR 156 (Saldana-D) Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Denim Day California
Resolves that the month of April be designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, recognizes 4/12/10, as Denim Day California. Encourages everyone to wear jeans on that day to help communicate the message that there is no excuse for, and never an invitation to, rape.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
Controlled Substances
SB 157 (Runner-R) Controlled substance offenses: manufacturing
Provides that where a defendant is convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine or PCP, a sentence enhancement of two years shall be imposed for each child present during the crime. Provides that an enhancement of five years shall be imposed for each child who suffers great bodily injury in the offense.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 484 (Wright-D) Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
Provides that any person who obtains ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and specified related drugs without a prescription, as specified, shall be guilty of an infraction or misdemeanor.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 1071* (DeSaulnier-D) Controlled substances: taxation
Imposes a tax on every manufacturer and importer, or other person that makes the first sale in the state, of a Schedule II, III or IV controlled substance, at the rate of $0.0025 per pill. Creates a fund to support the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System. Authorizes a tax credit for medications for persons 55 years and older, as specified.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 1449 (Leno-D) Marijuana: possession of no more than an ounce
Specifically defines possession of not more than one ounce of marijuana as an infraction, an offense that under existing law is only punishable by a fine of up to $100, and not jail time.
Chapter 708, Statutes of 2010
SJR 14 (Leno-D) Medical marijuana
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to take specific actions relating to the use of medical marijuana, including ending federal raids, intimidation and interference with state medical cannabis laws, adopting policies and laws to encourage advanced clinical research trials into the therapeutic use of cannabis, establishing an affirmative defense to medical cannabis charges in federal court, and establishing a comprehensive federal medical cannabis policy that ensures safe and legal access for patients.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 390 (Ammiano-D) Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act
Removes marijuana and its derivatives from existing statutes defining and regulating controlled substances. Provides for regulation by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) of the possession, sale, cultivation, and other conduct relating to marijuana and its derivatives, not including medical marijuana, by persons 21 years of age and older, except for specified purposes. It would set up a wholesale and retail marijuana sales regulation program to be administered and enforced by the ABC.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
An identical bill was AB 2254 (Ammiano-D) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.
AB 640 (Huber-D) Methamphetamine: sale: mandatory sentence
Requires the court, in granting probation to any person convicted of the sale of methamphetamine, to order the defendant to serve a minimum term of 120 days in the county jail as a condition of probation unless the court finds that it is in the interest of justice not to impose such a term.
Vetoed
AB 858 (Gilmore-R) Controlled substances: sentencing
Increases the term of imprisonment for any person convicted of selling methamphetamine, or possessing methamphetamine for the purpose of sale.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1414 (Hill-D) Controlled substances
Removes apomorphine from Schedule II, as defined in the California Uniform Controlled Substance Act.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2010
AB 1455 (Hill-D) Ephedrine: retail sale
Provides that it is a misdemeanor, punishable as specified, for any retail distributor, except pursuant to a valid prescription from a licensed practitioner with prescriptive authority, to sell or distribute to a person specified amounts of nonprescription products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine within specified time limits, to sell or distribute any of those substances to a person whose information has generated an alert, or, except under specified conditions, to sell or distribute to any purchaser a nonprescription product containing any amount of those substances.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1811 (Ammiano-D) Drug paraphernalia
Clarifies that "drug paraphernalia" are defined as objects designed or marketed for use in ingesting or injecting unlawful controlled substances.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 1838 (Bill Berryhill-R) Controlled substances: unlawful detainer
Adds, until 1/1/12, the district attorney in San Joaquin County to two existing pilot projects that permit city attorneys or prosecutors to bring an unlawful detainer action against a tenant for unlawful activities regarding firearms, ammunition, and controlled substances.
Vetoed
AB 2034 (Knight-R) Drug offenses: public school volunteers
Prohibits school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools that elect to fingerprint volunteers from allowing individuals who have been convicted of specific violent, sex, or drug offenses to volunteer in schools.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2254 (Ammiano-D) Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act
Removes marijuana and its derivatives from existing statutes defining and regulating controlled substances. Instead provides for regulation by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the possession, sale, cultivation, and other conduct relating to marijuana and its derivatives, not including medical marijuana, by persons 21 years of age and older, for specified purposes. Sets up a wholesale and retail marijuana sales regulation program to be administered and enforced by the department.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
An identical bill was AB 390 (Ammiano-D) which died in Assembly Health Committee.
AB 2410 (Fuller-R) Controlled substances: law enforcement protocols
Expands a provision encouraging law enforcement agencies to develop policies and standards for responding to crime scenes involving narcotics to include crime scenes involving methamphetamine, cocaine, PCP, hallucinogens, and states that it is in the best interest of children if law enforcement and child protective agencies follow protocols encouraging a dependency investigation and removal of a child from a drug crime scene if there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of the child.
Vetoed
AB 2460 (Ammiano-D) Controlled substances: overdose: punishment
Provides that it is not a crime for a person to be under the influence of, or to possess for personal use, a controlled substance or its analog or drug paraphernalia, if the person, in good faith, seeks emergency assistance for a person suffering an overdose related to the drug or alcohol possession, sharing or furnishing by the person seeking assistance. Provides that it is not a crime for a person to be under the influence of, or to possess for personal use, a controlled substance or its analog or drug paraphernalia, if the person suffers an overdose, and one or more persons at the scene of the overdose, in good faith, seeks emergency assistance for the person suffering an overdose.
Vetoed
AB 2548 (Block-D) CURES: Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to enforce access requirements of its web-based Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) by conducting PDMP audits to protect against unauthorized use, such as sharing patient data with third parties, accessing information of patients not under the physician's care, and selling patient data. DOJ may establish by regulation a citation process, which may contain an abatement order and an administrative fine not to exceed $2,500.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2650 (Buchanan-D) Medical marijuana
Prohibits operation or establishment of a medical marijuana cooperative, collective, dispensary or provider within 600 feet of a school. Provides that ordinances adopted prior to the effective date 1/1/11 regulating the location or establishment of such a medical marijuana entity shall not be preempted by this bill. Authorizes a local entity to only adopt an ordinance that restricts the location or establishment of a medical marijuana entity "further" than those entities are restricted by this bill.
Chapter 603, Statutes of 2010
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 154 (Benoit-R) Drunk driving: vessels: operation
Requires drivers' license suspension for a conviction of boating under the influence (BUI) with a prior BUI or driving under the influence (DUI) offense within seven years. Requires, rather than authorizes, courts to impose, as a condition of probation, that every person convicted of BUI complete a licensed DUI program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 854* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) License plate reader systems
Places in statute the California Highway Patrol (CHP) internal policy for retaining information gathered from license plate reader (LPR) systems. Prohibits the retention of data for more than 72 hours for all instances when the data is not being used for legitimate law enforcement purposes. Additionally, prohibits the CHP from selling LPR data and requires that CHP monitor its use internally.
(Failed passage on Senate Unfinished Business)
SB 895* (Huff-R) Drunk driving: vehicles: driver's license: suspension
Corrects a drafting error in a law passed in 2009 to allow a person convicted of "driving under the influence" to get a restricted license after a specified period of time if he/she installs an ignition interlock device on his/her vehicle.
Chapter 30, Statutes of 2010
SB 1024 (Oropeza-D) Vehicles: tow trucks: illegal operation
Establishes procedures for the seizure and removal of a tow truck that is being operated in violation of local licensing requirements. Provides that a towing company owner, its agent, or a tow truck operator who violates licensing requirements adopted by a local authority is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a $5,000 fine.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1054 (Walters-R) Child passenger restraint systems
Exempts from specified prohibitions in existing law certain nonprofit organizations if, with respect to a used child passenger restraint system, the nonprofit organization determines, by visual inspection, that the manufacturer's expiration date for the child passenger restraint system has not passed and that the system is in safe, working condition.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1162 (Walters-R) Traffic violator schools: fees
Eliminates the $50 fee that a traffic violator school owner must pay to the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew the license for each of its branch or classroom locations.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1286 (Strickland-R) Driving under the influence: transdermal alcohol monitoring
Encourages any county that is using a continuous alcohol monitoring system, as defined, to monitor alcohol-related driving by persons convicted of driving under the influence to report specified information to the Department of Motor Vehicles, and requires any information provided to be included in the department's Annual Report of the California DUI Management System.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1362 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: automated traffic enforcement systems
Imposes additional requirements on the use of automated traffic enforcement systems.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1475 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: electronic wireless communications devices
Increases the penalties for using cell phone or texting while driving a motor vehicle, and prohibits the use of handheld cell phones for conversing or for texting while riding a bicycle.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 77 (Jeffries-R) Notice of delinquent parking violation
Requires a parking processing agency to verify that all notices of delinquent parking violations substantially match the corresponding information on the registration of the vehicle and to cancel the parking violation if the information is not a match. Deletes the requirement that a person provide a written request for cancellation of the parking violation to the parking processing agency.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 509 (Anderson-R) Fleeing from a peace officer
Rewrites the penalty provisions for evading a peace officer and causing damage to persons or property so that damage to persons could be found to be an inherently dangerous felony for the purposes of the second-degree felony murder.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 614 (Miller-R) Driving under the influence: field sobriety
Creates a crime against any person who refuses to submit to a chemical test as requested by an officer upon reasonable suspicion that he/she is driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs and or alcohol.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 766 (Krekorian-D) Vehicles: speed limits
Allows a local city or county to retain a prima facie speed limit on any street, other than a state highway, if it makes a finding after a public hearing and determines that a higher speed limit is not appropriate and does not promote safety.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 808 (Fuentes-D) Driving under the influence: hearing requests
Increases to 90 days, from the current 10-day allowance, the period of time during which a person arrested for driving with an unlawful blood alcohol content or for refusing to submit to alcohol screening may request a hearing to appeal his/her driver's license being suspended or revoked.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 909 (Hill-D) Vehicles: right turn violations
Clarifies that turning right on a red light without stopping is a violation punishable by a base fine of $35.
Vetoed
AB 986 (Mendoza-D) Motor vehicle speed contests
Requires that a motor vehicle involved in an illegal road speed contest be impounded and inspected by the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to determine whether the motor vehicle has been modified for speed enhancement beyond the manufacturer's original equipment specifications. Requires, beginning 7/1/10, that an additional registration fee of $30 be collected for a motor vehicle so seized and that the motor vehicle be designated as speed enhanced on the certificate of registration for that motor vehicle. Creates the Illegal Street Racing Abatement Account in the General Fund and requires that the monies in that account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated to the CHP and local law enforcement authorities to pay for the costs associated with the impoundment and inspection of motor vehicles seized as a result of illegal street racing.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1155 (Audra Strickland-R) Private parking facilities
Allows cities and counties to enforce additional traffic law in off-street private parking facilities.
Vetoed
AB 1275 (Anderson-R) Driving under the influence: undocumented drivers
Mandates an arresting authority to report to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement the presence of an arrestee when both of the following occur: (1) the arrestee is arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) or DUI causing bodily injury, and (2) the arrestee fails to provide the arresting authority with appropriate documentation demonstrating his/her legal presence in the United States.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1443 (Huffman-D) Driving under the influence: repeat offenders
Requires the permanent revocation of a person's driver's license after a third driving under the influence (DUI), with an ability to seek a restoration of the license after five years and to provide for a permanent revocation after the fourth DUI.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1492 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: wireless telephones
Prohibits a person from using a wireless telephone or other "communication device," as the bill defines that term, during a vehicle stop made by a law enforcement officer for a violation of the Vehicle Code, thereby creating a new infraction. Provides that if a law enforcement officer makes a vehicle stop for a violation of the Vehicle Code, it is an infraction for a person in the vehicle that is stopped to fail to comply with the officer's direction to stop using a wireless telephone or other communication device. Exempts from its provisions a person using a wireless telephone or other communication device for emergency purposes or to record, tape, or otherwise film anything that occurs during a traffic stop.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1601 (Hill-D) Driving under the influence: repeat offenders
Authorizes, beginning 1/1/12, the court to revoke a person's license for 10 years after a third or subsequent DUI [driving under the influence] conviction and to delay a license suspension or revocation until a person is no longer incarcerated.
Chapter 301, Statutes of 2010
AB 1614* (Assembly Budget Committee) Drunk driving checkpoints
Enacts the 2010 transportation budget trailer bill, which, among other provisions, amends statute to revise and better define the conditions under which a law enforcement entity can impound a vehicle at a sobriety checkpoint. In the case of a driver who is not suspected of drunk driving, but who is driving without a valid driver's license, the vehicle cannot be impounded unless the vehicle cannot be safely parked or no licensed driver can be found to drive the vehicle.
(Failed passage on the Senate Floor)
AB 1928 (Torlakson-D) Drunk driving: commercial driver's license
Clarifies that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall administratively review and uphold license suspensions when a person has been found to have been driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.01 percent or more while on probation for a driving under the influence, or driving a commercial vehicle with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.04 percent or more.
Chapter 244, Statutes of 2010
AB 1942 (Fletcher-R) Vehicles: video event recorder
Authorizes the placement of video event recorders in vehicles.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2010
AB 1951 (Ammiano-D) Vehicles: traffic offenses: punishment
Allows a Vehicle Code violation that causes an injury to another person to be prosecuted as an infraction or a misdemeanor.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2067 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Vehicles: parking
Allows the City of Long Beach, under specified conditions, to implement a three-year pilot program to permit parking on the left side of two-way local residential streets that dead-end with no cul-de-sac or other designated turnaround area.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2010
AB 2144 (Gilmore-R) Commercial motor vehicles: driver compliance
Amends various provisions of California state law to conform with the requirements of new federal law governing commercial vehicle drivers
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2010
AB 2228 (Lieu-D) Vehicles: overnight parking
Provides that the City of Los Angeles is not required to obtain a permit or approval from the California Coastal Commission to establish an overnight parking restriction on public streets by nonresidents between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. in the Venice coastal zone. Authorizes the City of Los Angeles to establish a system of permits for purposes of exempting residents of the Venice coastal zone from the parking restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2245 (Hill-D) Vehicles: aftermarket horns: decibel levels
Prohibits a vehicle from being equipped with an aftermarket horn that emits a sound greater than 110 decibels.
Vetoed
AB 2471 (John Perez-D) Vehicles: identification cards and driver's licenses
Changes the penalties for manufacturing a fake California driver's license or Identification card and clarifies that it is illegal to manufacture or sell a card that purports to confer the same privileges as a license or card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Chapter 684, Statutes of 2010
AB 2499 (Portantino-D) Vehicles: traffic violator school program
Consolidates the licensing of all traffic violator schools under the authority of the Department of Motor Vehicles and treats a violation as a conviction, rather than as a dismissal, if the person attends a traffic violator school.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2010
AB 2567 (Bradford-D) Vehicles: parking violations: digital photograph recordings
Allows a local public agency to issue parking citations for violation of street sweeping parking restrictions based on digital photographs collected by an automated parking enforcement system installed on street sweepers.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2010
AB 2710 (Blumenfield-D) Vehicles: signs: parking violations: removal
Authorizes a local authority, in lieu of posting signs that prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, or standing of vehicles, to provide notice by issuing a warning citation advising the registered owner of the vehicle that he/she may be subject to a notice of violation for a subsequent violation and that a subsequent violation may result in the impounding of the vehicle.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2729 (Ammiano-D) Vehicles: City and County of San Francisco
Authorizes, until 1/1/13, the City and County of San Francisco to use an automated traffic enforcement system (i.e., red light cameras) to enforce a prohibition against turning at a specified intersection.
Vetoed
Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 110 (Liu-D) Crimes against the disabled
Makes numerous technical and substantive changes regarding provisions of laws relating to crimes against individuals with disabilities.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2010
SB 185 (Benoit-R) Felony enhancements
Provides that a defendant shall receive a two-year sentence enhancement if he/she committed a felony while on release from custody in a prior matter, and the release was other than through bail or own recognizance.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 203 (Harman-R) Obscene matter
Broadens the definition of "distribution" with respect to obscene matter to include making available for Internet access or possession.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 268 (Harman-R) Correctional facilities: wireless communication devices
Provides that any inmate or ward who possesses any cellular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof, including, but not limited to, a subscriber identity module (SIM card) or memory storage device, or any person who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to an inmate or ward in the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation any cellular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof, including, but not limited to, a SIM card or memory storage device, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Similar bills were SB 434 (Harman-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee and SB 525 (Padilla-D) which was vetoed.
SB 344 (Strickland-R) Crimes against elders and dependent adults
Provides for specified penalties to knowingly engaging in exploitation of or exerting criminal undue influence upon an elder or dependent adult in order to acquire possession or control of an interest in funds or property of the elder or dependent adult.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 399 (Yee-D) Sentencing
Authorizes a prisoner who was under 18 years of age at the time of committing an offense for which the prisoner was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole to submit a petition for recall and re-sentencing to the sentencing court, as specified.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
SB 434 (Harman-R) Misdemeanor: cell phones in prisons
Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and/or by a loss of up to two months in sentence credits for an inmate or ward to possess a cell phone or other wireless communication device, or any component thereof, or for any person with intent to deliver the device to an inmate or ward. Provides that any person visiting an inmate or ward, who possesses a cell phone or other wireless communication device, may be required to forfeit the device. Notice of this provision must be posted in all areas where visitors are searched prior to visitation with an inmate in custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Similar bills were SB 268 (Harman-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee and SB 525 (Padilla-D) which was vetoed.
SB 440 (Denham-R) Sentencing: serious and violent felonies
Adds the crimes of child abuse likely to produce great bodily injury or death, physical child abuse, killing, mutilating, or torturing a domestic animal, elder abuse for which the defendant was incarcerated in state prison, and escape or attempted escape by force or violence to the lists of "serious felonies" as well as to the list of "violent felonies," as specified. Adds the crimes of human trafficking, stalking, solicitation to commit murder, fleeing or attempting to elude a pursuing peace officer, willful flight or attempting to elude a pursuing peace officer, and felon in possession of a firearm, to the list of "serious felonies," as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 525 (Padilla-D) Misdemeanor: cell phones in prison
Provides that, except as authorized, any person, except as provided, who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to an inmate or ward in the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, any cellular telephone or other wireless communication device, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed $5,000 for each such device.
Vetoed
Similar bills were SB 268 (Harman-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee and SB 434 (Harman-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 566 (Hollingsworth-R) GPS/electronic monitoring: interference
Establishes a penalty scheme for persons who have been lawfully ordered to submit to a GPS or electronic monitoring device, and willfully interfere with the device, with penalties ranging from misdemeanors to felonies, depending upon the offense underlying the GPS sanction.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 625 (Wright-D) Bail or own recognizance release: custody holds
Requires courts to consider, as specified, the following factors in setting bail or releasing a person on his/her own recognizance: the defendant's ties to the community, his/her history of appearing in court, the sentence facing the defendant upon conviction, and whether bail or his/her own recognizance release provides reasonable assurance of the defendant's future appearance and public safety.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 657 (Steinberg-D) Human trafficking
Requires, beginning 1/1/12, every retailer and manufacturer doing business in California and having more than $100 million in annual gross receipts to disclose its efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from its supply chain. Requires the disclosure to be posted on the company's Web site and provided to consumers in writing if the company has no Web site.
Chapter 556, Statutes of 2010
SB 677 (Yee-D) Human trafficking
Provides that, upon a person being convicted of human trafficking, if real property was used to facilitate the offense, that property could be found to be a public nuisance and the remedies applicable under the nuisance or "Red Light Abatement" statutes, as specified, shall apply. (Those remedies include closing the property for one year and a civil fine of up to $25,000.)
Chapter 625, Statutes of 2010
SB 753 (Cedillo-D) Exotic animals: kangaroos
Makes the prohibition in existing law against importation for commercial purposes inapplicable to the dead body of any kangaroo.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 830 (Wright-D) Recording crimes
Expands the definition of a "recording" for the purposes of prosecution for failing to disclose the origin of a recording when utilizing the recording for financial gain, as specified. Specifies that "recordings" shall include memory cards, flash drives, hard-drives, or data storage devices.
Chapter 480, Statutes of 2010
SB 1049 (Harman-R) Bail and own recognizance release
Specifies that a peace officer, through a declaration of facts made under penalty of perjury establishing that an arrested person may not return to court or that a domestic violence victim or family member of such victim may be endangered by the person's release, may obtain an ex-parte order to raise bail or prevent own recognizance release of a defendant charged with a serious felony, spousal rape, stalking, inflicting corporal injury on a spouse, battery on a spouse, dissuading a witness, violation of a domestic violence restraining order, or criminal threats. Specifies that an arrested person may not obtain release through an ex-parte application if he/she has been charged with such a crime.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2010
SB 1060 (Cogdill-R) Prostitution
Defines pandering to include circumstances where a defendant, by promises, threats, violence or any device, induces, persuades, encourages or causes a person to prostitute himself/herself, regardless of whether or not the person has been or is a prostitute.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1062 (Strickland-R) Public safety omnibus bill
Makes technical and corrective changes to various code sections relating generally to criminal justice laws.
Chapter 709, Statutes of 2010
SB 1230 (DeSaulnier-D) Human trafficking: employment: posting requirements
Requires employers to post information related to human trafficking, including the phone number to two toll-free anti-human trafficking hotlines that provide services in support of the elimination of human trafficking.
Vetoed
SB 1249 (Cedillo-D) Counterfeit marks: donations
Provides that no person shall be liable for costs, damages, or other claims or expenses as a result of actions taken or omitted in good faith in the course of donating goods to a nonprofit organization pursuant to these provisions, and that no person shall be criminally prosecuted or be subjected to any criminal penalty as a result of any action taken or omitted in good faith in the course of donating those goods.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
SB 1277 (Florez-D) Animal abuse
Requires the Department of Justice to create a registry for people convicted of felony animal abuse offenses, as specified. Provides requirements for implementing and enforcing the bill's provisions, related to the creation, operation, and regulations of the registry, and establishes penalties for misuse of registry information. Requires specified individuals convicted of felony animal abuse to register for 10 years after the date of conviction; failure to register is punishable as a misdemeanor.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1320 (Hancock-D) Administrative penalties adjudication of transit
Allows specified local transit agencies to adopt an adjudication process and impose an administrative penalty for transit-related offenses committed by non-minors, and these local transit agencies from establishing administrative penalties that exceed the maximum criminal fine set forth in current law.
Chapter 493, Statutes of 2010
SB 1325 (Harman-R) Theft of agricultural products or equipment
Requires persons convicted of repeated thefts of agricultural commodities or equipment to pay enhanced fines, including a $5,000 fine for a second conviction and a $10,000 fine for a third conviction, in addition to any other punishment.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1338 (Harman-R) Grand theft: farm crops
Provides that in a grand theft prosecution, the value of specified agricultural products shall be determined as the wholesale value of the products on the day of the theft, just as the value of citrus fruits and avocados are determined under existing law. Double-jointed with AB 2372 (Ammiano-D), Chapter 693, Statutes of 2010.
Chapter 694, Statutes of 2010
SB 1345 (Calderon-D) Prohibited importation of dead animal parts
Requires the annual information provided by the Australian government to the Department of Fish Game, concerning the exception to the prohibited importation of dead kangaroo parts to be in writing, and this extends the sunset date of the exception from 1/1/11 to 1/1/16.
Chapter 412, Statutes of 2010
SB 1411 (Simitian-D) Impersonation: Internet
Creates a new misdemeanor for when a person knowingly and without consent credibly impersonates another actual person on the Internet, or other electronic means in order to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud another person. Provides that an aggrieved party may bring a civil action against the violator for compensatory damages and injunctive relief or equitable relief.
Chapter 335, Statutes of 2010
SCR 76 (Corbett-D) Human trafficking awareness
Proclaims the Legislature's support of human trafficking awareness events.
Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 2010
SJR 24 (Yee-D) Proposed federal International Violence Against Women Act
Urges the Congress of the United States to pass the International Violence Against Women Act, and establish the offices and policies therein.
Resolution Chapter 53, Statutes of 2010
AB 16 (Swanson-D) Human trafficking
Adds human trafficking to the list of serious and violent felonies for purposes of sentencing pursuant to the Three Strikes Law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 451 (De Leon-D) Trespass: unauthorized entry of event closed to the public
Defines a new form of trespass that is committed where a person, without authorization, knowingly enters or remains at an event that is closed to the public under circumstances where a reasonable notice of restricted access has been posted.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 461* (Gaines-R) Economic Crime Act of 1992: reenactment
Reenacts the Economic Crime Act of 1992, addressing felony theft restitution and probation grant limitations, with a sunset date of 1/1/19.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 491 (Garrick-R) Vandalism of political signs
Provides that any person who destroys, marks, tears down, or otherwise defaces a political sign without authorization from the campaign responsible for the production or creation of the sign is subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000, in addition to any other penalty provided by law.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 559 (Swanson-D) Human trafficking: minors
Expands the scope of depriving the personal liberty of another to provide that any person who causes, induces, or persuades, or attempts to cause, induce, or persuade, a person who is a minor at the time of the commission of the offense, to engage in a commercial sex act, as specified, or who obtains or attempts to obtain forced labor or services from a minor, is guilty of human trafficking.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 587 (Cook-R) Gang-related graffiti
Provides that if defacement, damage, or destruction is determined by the finder of fact to further criminal gang activity, the act of vandalism is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine of not more than $10,000, or both that fine and imprisonment. Authorizes a court to grant probation and, as a condition of probation, order the defendant to participate in a local intervention program and also order grant terms.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 668 (Lieu-D) Trespass
Expands the crime of trespass to include persons who, after having been convicted of crime on a particular property, go onto that property over the objections of the owner.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2010
AB 751 (Garrick-R) Theft: motor vehicles
Creates six new one-year enhancements for the theft of a vehicle under specified circumstances.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 768 (Torres-D) Elder abuse
Eliminates the requirement that a person "know or reasonably should know" a victim is an elder or dependent adult to be charged with elder abuse. Expands the definition of "abuse" to include willfully causing or permitting an elder or dependent adult to sustain any wound or physical or psychological injury.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 819* (Charles Calderon-D) Intellectual property piracy
Doubles the fines in existing law for violations related to piracy or counterfeiting of specified marks registered with the Secretary of State or registered on the Principal Register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Chapter 351, Statutes of 2010
AB 891 (Bill Berryhill-R) Gang abatement
Enacts the Gang Nuisance and Abatement Act, establishing a cause of action against the owner of property used by a criminal street gang as a congregating point. Authorizes the district attorney or city attorney to bring an abatement action against the property owner and authorizes the imposition of a fine not to exceed $1,000 for the first violation and a fine not to exceed $2,500 for a second violation. Authorizes, upon a third violation, the district attorney or the city attorney to file a petition with the court for the seizure and forfeiture of the property in question, in accordance with certain procedures. Provides that the proceeds from the fines and property forfeiture will be split between local law enforcement and the district attorney's office for the purpose of funding gang prevention activities.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 981 (Feuer-D) Robbery
Narrows the scope of first degree robbery providing that every robbery of any person depositing or withdrawing money from an automated teller machine or immediately after the person has used an automated teller machine for those purposes and is in the vicinity of the automated teller machine is robbery of the first degree.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 984 (Nava-D) Crimes
Provides that the duty to report the commission of a murder, rape or specified sex offense applies for a victim of any age.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1002 (Fong-D) Human trafficking
Creates the Human Trafficking Trust Fund, and provides that forfeiture proceeds from human trafficking, rather than being deposited into the state or local general fund, be deposited into that Fund for funding services, upon legislative appropriation, for human trafficking victims (90%) and for providing related training to law enforcement and prosecutorial personnel (10%).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1206 (Miller-R) Hate crimes
Adds "political affiliation" to the offense of "hate crimes," relative to actual or perceived characteristics.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1376 (Bass-D) Sentencing
Establishes an independent, multi-jurisdictional body to provide a non-partisan forum for statewide policy development, information development, research and planning concerning criminal sentences and their effect.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1392 (Tran-R) Graffiti and Gang Technology Fund
Creates a new $150 fine for graffiti-related offenses and a $300 fine if the offense is committed by a person determined to be an active member of a criminal street gang, as defined, and earmarks the fine revenue for specified purposes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1395* (Torrico-D) Inmates: incentive credit
Provides that prisoners sentenced to state prison, except for those required to register as sex offenders, committed for a serious felony, or with a previous conviction for a serious or violent felony, who are confined in a city or county jail, industrial farm, or road camp prior to and after the date of a sentence to state prison shall have one day deducted from his/her period of confinement for every day the prisoner served in a city or county jail, industrial farm, or road camp.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1417 (Smyth-R) Vandalism
Increases the penalties for violations of specified vandalism provisions on or within 100 feet of a highway or freeway.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1607 (Knight-R) Fraud: public housing authority program
Allows the housing authority to require any application or document filed with the public housing authority to be signed and submitted under penalty of perjury, which is punishable by two, three, or four years in the state prison.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1661 (Nielsen-R) Trespass: resisting a public officer
Creates an alternate felony-misdemeanor punishable by a term of 16 months, two or three years in state prison or up to one year in the county jail for any person who trespasses, as specified to willfully resist, delay, or obstruct any public or peace officer in the discharge of or attempted discharge of any duty of his/her employment.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1675 (Hagman-R) Trespass: zoo, circus, animal exhibit and aquarium
Defines a new form of trespass that would be committed where a person, without consent and contrary to a posted notice, enters an animal enclosure in a zoo, circus, aquarium or traveling animal exhibit. Provides that the offense shall be an alternate misdemeanor-infraction.
Chapter 536, Statutes of 2010
AB 1751 (Ammiano-D) Sentencing: three strikes
Deletes a prior juvenile adjudication from the definition of "prior felony conviction" for the purposes of sentencing under the Three Strikes Law.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 1753 (Hall-D) Slot machines
Increases the fines for repeat slot machine-related offenses.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2010
AB 1800 (Ma-D) Rental to another without consent of the owner
Increases the penalty from a misdemeanor with a maximum jail term of six months and a maximum fine of $1,000, to a maximum of one year and jail and a fine of up to $2,500, for purporting to rent a residential dwelling to another person under circumstances where the defendant did not have the consent of the owner or the owner's agent. States that prosecution for this act can proceed under any other applicable provision. States findings that such prosecutions have never been prohibited.
Chapter 580, Statutes of 2010
AB 1829 (Cook-R) Fraud: military decorations
Increases the penalty from an infraction to a misdemeanor, and moves it from the Military and Veterans Code to the Penal Code, for representing oneself as a recipient of any military decoration with the intent to defraud.
Chapter 366, Statutes of 2010
AB 1842 (Gilmore-R) Gangs: recruitment
Expands the definition of soliciting or recruiting another person to participate in a "criminal street gang" with the intent that the solicited person participates in a pattern of criminal street gang activity, as specified, by requiring only the intent that the person actively participate in a criminal street gang.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1848 (Garrick-R) Tools for stealing motorcycles
Defines a new misdemeanor that would be committed where a person possesses a tool or device with the specific intent of stealing a motorcycle.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2010
AB 1885 (Hill-D) Airport limousines
Allows an airport, such as San Francisco International Airport, that is not located in the county where the owning entity is located, to enforce state laws requiring limousine operators to transport passengers only through prior arrangement and to obtain consent to operate at the airport.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2010
AB 1972 (Carter-D) Crimes: offenses against public justice
Adds school security officers to the list of persons making it a crime to willfully resist, delay, or obstruct in the discharge or attempted discharge of any duty of his/her office or employment. Additionally states legislative intent to encourage school districts to inform students and their parents of the inclusion of school security officers in Penal Code Section 148.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1999 (Portantino-D) 911 calls in alcohol overdose cases: immunity
Provides that where a person under the age of 21 years calls 911 to obtain emergency medical assistance for another person who is suffering from alcohol overdose, the young person who sought assistance shall be immune from prosecution for purchasing alcohol or possessing alcohol in a public place if the young person was the first caller to 911, and the person remained at the scene and cooperated with medical personnel and law enforcement responders.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 2010
AB 2012 (Lieu-D) Cruelty to animals
Conforms the misdemeanor penalty for overloading, torturing, tormenting, etc, any animal to other subdivisions within the same section thus allowing for up to one year in jail for the misdemeanor portion of the existing wobbler.
Vetoed
AB 2068 (Hill-D) Expungement standards
Provides that a court, in its discretion and in the interest of justice, can determine that a defendant, who has been convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation, should be granted expungement relief after the lapse of one year from the date of pronouncement of the judgment.
Vetoed
AB 2076 (Salas-D) Unlawful business location misrepresentation
Makes it unlawful for a provider or vendor of "floral or ornamental products or services", as defined, to misrepresent the geographic location of its business, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2246 (Blakeslee-R) Battery: gassing
Specifies that every person confined in a state hospital who commits battery by gassing a peace officer, or any employee of the state hospital is guilty of aggravated battery, punishable by up to six months in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000 or by two, three, or four years in state prison. "Gassing" is defined as intentionally throwing, or causing to be placed upon the person of another, any human excrement or other bodily fluids or bodily substances that results in contact with a person's skin.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2258 (Bass-D) California Public Safety Commission
Declares the intent of the Legislature to create the California Public Safety Commission (CPSC), an independent, multi-jurisdictional body to work on issues related to the state's criminal justice system. Requires the CPSC to address issues ranging from the state's sentencing structure to addressing possible solutions to curtail the cycle of recidivism. Requires the CPSC shall review existing statutes, individual sentences, policies and programs that are successful or unsuccessful in other states, incarceration and alternatives, as well as rehabilitation and public safety.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2263 (Yamada-D) Sentencing: choice of term
Extends the provisions of SB 150 (Wright-D), Chapter 171, Statutes of 2009, and SB 1701 (Romero-D), Chapter 416, Statutes of 2008, to 1/1/12, allowing courts to select a lower, middle or upper term for both base term sentences and enhancements by exercise of the courts discretion.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2010
AB 2264 (De Leon-D) Truancy, loitering and curfew violations fines: debt collect
Prohibits courts from garnishing the wages or levying against bank accounts of a person under 25 years of age who has not paid a ticket for truancy, loitering, curfew violations or illegal lodging where, in the course of its routine efforts to collect fines, the court obtains information indicating that person is homeless.
Vetoed
AB 2276 (Fletcher-R) Arson
Requires the Department of Justice to make information from the arson registry, which consists of a signed statement by the convicted individual and that individual's photograph and fingerprint, available to all "chief fire officials of legally organized fire department or fire protection districts in the state."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2319 (Swanson-D) Human trafficking: minors
Expands the definition of "human trafficking" to include (1) causing or persuading a minor under the age of 18 to engage in a commercial sex act, as specified, with the intent to commit pimping, pandering, sexual exploitation of a child, enticement, use a minor in pornography, extortion, or solicitation of prostitution, or (2) obtaining forced labor or services from a minor.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2372 (Ammiano-D) Grand theft: property threshold
Raises the general value threshold for grand theft from $400, as that value was set in 1982, to $950. Double-jointed with SB 1338 (Harman-R), Chapter 694, Statutes of 2010.
Chapter 693, Statutes of 2010
AB 2435 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse
Requires psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors to have instruction and training in the recognition and reporting of suspected elder and dependent adult abuse as requirements for licensure.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2010
AB 2478 (Mendoza-D) Causing a disturbance at a school
Defines a new misdemeanor that would be committed where a person creates a disruption at preschool, kindergarten or grade school with the intent to threaten the physical safety of a pupil, as specified, arriving at, attending or leaving the school.
Vetoed
AB 2479 (Bass-D) Stalking: surveillance
Provides that a person who commits false imprisonment with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of a plaintiff is subject to liability under the civil invasion of privacy statute and, as such, liable for damages and remedies available pursuant to that statute.
Chapter 685, Statutes of 2010
AB 2580 (Logue-R) Felonies: deportation
Requires notification to the appropriate federal agency having charge of deportation matters upon the felony arrest of any person who may not be a citizen of the United States.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2582 (Adams-R) Infractions: dismissal of charge
Authorizes the court to expunge a former conviction for a non-vehicular infraction.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2010
AB 2619 (Block-D) Elder/dependent adult abuse: restitution: earnings withheld
Authorizes wage garnishments against defendants convicted of elder or dependent adult financial abuse.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2010
AB 2632 (Davis-D) Gang injunctions
Separately and specifically defines a "violation of a gang injunction" as contempt of court, instead of defining such conduct generally as violation of a court order, in order to allow statistical tracking of gang injunction violations and to allow prosecutors to fully review a defendant's background.
Chapter 677, Statutes of 2010
AB 2673 (Nielsen-R) Crimes and unlawful disclosure of information
States that parolees required to register as gang members are not eligible for non-revocable parole. Specifies that parolees who have been identified by the Department of Justice as being affiliated with a criminal street gang pursuant to the CALGANG program are ineligible for non-revocable parole. Provides that parolees who have been identified by a local law enforcement agency as being affiliated with a criminal street gang are ineligible for non-revocable parole.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2715 (Bass-D) Sentencing: Three Strikes
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to examine the Three Strikes Law and report its findings to the Legislature no later than 1/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 100 (Jones-D) Teen dating violence
Recognizes the month of February 2010 as National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month and encourages all Californians to observe the month with appropriate programs and activities that promote awareness and prevention of the crime of teen dating violence in their communities.
Resolution Chapter 3, Statutes of 2010
Procedural
SB 59 (Huff-R) Criminal procedure: trials: continuances
Requires the court to continue a gang trial or hearing date for up to 10 court days where the prosecutor assigned has another trial or hearing in progress.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1041 (Harman-R) Hearsay evidence: wills and revocable trusts
Allows evidence at a hearing or trial of a statement made by an unavailable declarant that he/she made or did not make a revocable trust.
Chapter 106, Statutes of 2010
AB 15 (Fuentes-D) Criminal procedure: pleas
Provides for an additional advisement when a noncitizen pleads guilty so that the person is aware that if he/she is deported and returns to the United States he/she will face harsh federal penalties for reentry.
Vetoed
AB 383 (Lieu-D) Criminal procedure: DNA evidence
Extends the limitation on the time period for testing DNA in specified sex crimes committed after 1/1/01, as specified, from two to five years.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 447 (Nestande-R) Trial counsel
Requires the court to have the defendant fill out the request form for a court appointed counsel. Requires the court to hold a hearing to determine whether a defendant has the ability to pay for assigned counsel, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 578 (Huber-D) Civil procedure: privilege log
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure to codify current case law, which provides that, if a party objects to a discovery demand on the grounds that the material is privileged, then the demanding party may ask (and the court may require) the objecting party to produce a "privilege log," in order to clarify the claim of privilege.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 674 (Salas-D) Criminal procedure: veterans
Allows a criminal defendant who is a veteran, if the defendant alleges that he or she committed the offense as a result of sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, or mental health problems stemming from military service in the United States military, requires the court to make a determination as to whether a defendant was, or currently is, a member of the United States military, and authorizes the court to request through the use of existing resources an assessment of whether the defendant may be suffering from any of those disorders. Provides that a county's obligation to provide mental health treatment services is contingent upon any resources for the implementation of mental health treatment services being appropriated by the state. Eliminates an existing requirement that an order be made referring the defendant to a county mental health agency only if the agency agreed to accept responsibility for treatment of the defendant.
Chapter 347, Statutes of 2010
AB 1596 (Hayashi-D) Protective orders: enforcement
Implements, effective 1/1/12, recommendations from the Judicial Council's Protective Orders Working Group, and makes various changes to protective order statutes.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2010
AB 1723 (Lieu-D) Evidence: admissibility of statements
Creates a new hearsay exception for forfeiture by wrongdoing and expands the definition of "unavailable" as a witness.
Chapter 537, Statutes of 2010
AB 1847 (Furutani-D) Restitution orders: criminal procedures
Grants authority to a prosecutor, upon court approval, to use lien procedures, including real property liens, against a defendant to enforce restitution orders, as specified. Provides that where there is no county agency responsible for collecting restitution, the district attorney or probation office may carry out those duties.
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2010
AB 2057 (Miller-R) Criminal procedure: preliminary examinations
Creates a new exception to the requirement that a defendant charged with a felony face a preliminary examination within 60 days to include instances where good cause for continuance is determined for a jointly charged co-defendant regardless of any waiver of time.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2068 (Hill-D) Expungement standards
Provides that a court, in its discretion and in the interest of justice, can determine that a defendant, who has been convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation, should be granted expungement relief after the lapse of one year from the date of pronouncement of the judgment.
Vetoed
AB 2102 (Lieu-D) Criminal procedure: court proceedings
Specifies that a defendant may appear in court by video conferencing in specified cases when the defendant consents so long as the matter does not involve the taking of testimony.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2119 (Tran-R) Civil procedure: deadlines: computation
Adds to the Code of Civil Procedure a definitive method of calculating specified action deadlines, including the service and court filing of specified motions, oppositions, and replies, as they pertain to court hearings.
Chapter 41, Statutes of 2010
AB 2582 (Adams-R) Infractions: dismissal of charge
Authorizes the court to expunge a former conviction for a non-vehicular infraction.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2010
AB 2632 (Davis-D) Gang injunctions: violations: contempt of court
Defines a violation of a gang injunction as contempt of court, instead of defining such conduct generally as violation of a court order, in order to allow statistical tracking of gang injunction violations and to allow prosecutors to fully review a defendant's background.
Chapter 677, Statutes of 2010
Juries
SB 1168 (Cedillo-D) Los Angeles: grand jury authority
Permits the city attorneys of specified municipalities within the County of Los Angeles to impanel an additional grand jury for the purpose of investigating misdemeanor offenses.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1906 (Cook-R) Additional grand juries: County of San Bernardino
Authorizes the presiding judge or judge appointed to supervise the grand jury in the County of San Bernardino to order and direct the impanelment of an additional civil grand jury.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2010
AB 2217 (Fuentes-D) Jurors: electronic communications
Makes it clear that admonishments by the court to juries regarding communications include communication by means of electronic and wireless devices to communicate, research, or disseminate information about an ongoing case.
Vetoed
AB 2284 (Evans-D) Jury trial: rules of court
Establishes, until 1/1/16, the Expedited Jury Trials Act, and thereunder provides procedures for expedited civil jury trials. Requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules and forms, on or before 1/1/11, to establish uniform procedures implementing the provisions of the expedited civil jury trial process.
Chapter 674, Statutes of 2010
Juvenile Justice
SB 134 (Liu-D) Juveniles: communications with children
Expands the list of people a confined juvenile may visit with to include contact with the other parent of a child, and the child's caregiver, social worker, teacher, physician, and other service providers involved in the upbringing and caregiving of the child. Requires local juvenile detention facilities to consider the well-being of the children of parents who are in the custody of those facilities, and for visitation policies to provide opportunities for meaningful contact between incarcerated parents and children. Provides that a juvenile who is a parent, who is involved in caring for his/her child, and who is authorized for telephone communication, shall be permitted to place telephone calls to his/her child, and to the child's other parent, caregiver, social worker, teacher, physician, other service providers for the child, and any other individuals who are involved in the upbringing and caregiving of the child, within the restriction policy for telephone use at the local juvenile detention facility.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 179 (Runner-R) Juvenile law: referee
Provides that a party who is present at the termination of rights hearing before a commissioner or referee may be served at the time with the findings, the order, and an explanation of the right to appeal the termination order.
Chapter 66, Statutes of 2010
SB 698 (Negrete McLeod-D) Juvenile court schools
Exempts funding for juvenile court school apportionments from the deficit factors established for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years and replaces average daily attendance with average daily enrollment as the basis for funding.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 945 (Liu-D) Juvenile court jurisdiction: services and benefits
Requires probation and parole officers to provide wards of the court, formerly in foster care, with notification regarding their eligibility for services and benefits available for former foster youth when the court terminates jurisdiction, or upon release of a ward from a non-foster care facility.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2010
SB 1067 (Oropeza-D) Juvenile justice: recidivism
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice to collect and post recidivism information on its Web site, annually.
Vetoed
SB 1317 (Leno-D) Truancy
Enacts a new misdemeanor for parents of K-8 children who are chronically truant, as specified; and authorizes courts to establish a deferred entry of judgment program to handle cases involving parents or guardians of elementary school pupils who are chronically truant, with specified features.
Chapter 647, Statutes of 2010
SB 1447 (Padilla-D) Local juvenile detention facilities: inspections
Assures compliance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 5601 et seq.) by requiring the Corrections Standards Authority to inspect and collect relevant data from any facility that may be used for the secure detention of minors.
Chapter 157, Statutes of 2010
SCR 40 (Yee-D) Juvenile justice
Acknowledges the role that substance abuse plays in the lives of juvenile offenders, sets forth the rights of all juveniles in the juvenile justice system, and urges each facility in the state that houses wards or is responsible for the oversight of wards to adopt these rights into the regulations and common practices of the facility.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2010
AB 61 (Nava-D) Juvenile crime: deferred entry of judgment
Excludes minors alleged to have committed specified sex offenses from eligibility for deferred entry of judgment, as enacted by Proposition 21 in 2001.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 114 (Carter-D) Juvenile offenders: restorative justice
Authorizes counties to adopt a restorative justice program for juvenile offenders.
Vetoed
AB 168 (Nava-D) Juvenile case files: sexually violent predators
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Mental Health, and the district attorney to obtain records of sustained juvenile petitions for specified sex offenses committed by a person 14 years or older in a sexually violent predator law proceeding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 270 (De La Torre-D) Dependent children
Specifies additional responsibilities for the county welfare department before a foster youth reaches the age of 18 and before a non-minor dependent exits foster care. Requires the juvenile court to continue jurisdiction over a non-minor until specified requirements have been met.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 455 (Huffman-D) California Conservation Corps: gang members
Requires that a minimum of 5% of selected participants for the California Conservation Corps represent young adults at risk of gang involvement, current gang members, or former gang members.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 616 (Blumenfield-D) Youth violence prosecution
Requires the Office of Gang and Youth Violence Policy, within the Office of Emergency Services (now the California Emergency Management Agency), to provide grants of up to $500,000 from funds received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to local conservation corps for programs for at-risk young adults.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 973 (Audra Strickland-R) Minors: temporary custody
Prohibits a peace officer from taking into custody, without a warrant, a newborn who is the subject of a proposed adoption, before an adoption petition has been signed. Allows the Health Facility Minor Release Report to be signed by the adoptive parent's attorney or authorized representative, or by a licensed adoption agency, and allows the release of the minor to the adoptive parent's attorney, authorized representative, or a licensed adoptive agency, when it does not pose an immediate danger to the minor.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2010
AB 999 (Skinner-D) Division of Juvenile Facilities
Prohibits the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) from extending a ward's parole consideration date, and requires CDCR to promulgate regulations to establish a process for granting a ward whose parole consideration hearing date was delayed due to disciplinary sanctions prior to 1/1/11, a reduction of up to 100% of any time acquired for disciplinary matters.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1229 (Evans-D) Juvenile court costs
Authorizes the court to designate a court financial evaluation officer to make evaluations of liability for reimbursement for the costs of legal services rendered to a minor in dependency proceedings. Requires both the court financial evaluation officer and the county financial evaluation officer to follow the specific procedures set fourth for county financial evaluation officers.
Chapter 569, Statutes of 2010
AB 1655 (Evans-D) Dependent children: psychotropic medications
Establishes a pilot in three counties to add requirements to the court approval process for the administration of psychotropic medications to foster children and increase oversight following approval.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1751 (Ammiano-D) Juvenile adjudication: prior felony convictions
Deletes a prior juvenile adjudication from the definition of "prior felony conviction" for the purposes of sentencing under the "Three Strikes" law.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 1852 (Portantino-D) Dependent children: locating extended family members
Increases the courts' oversight efforts in the area of connecting foster children with appropriate relatives in order to form permanent family connections.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2094 (Torrico-D) Juvenile justice
Establishes the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) within the California Health and Human Services Agency, and removes DJJ from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2141 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Minors: deferred entry of judgment: misdemeanor offenses
Expands the scope of the deferred entry of judgment procedure to include minors who have committed a misdemeanor offense.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2212 (Fuentes-D) Minors: mental competency
Enacts a statutory provision consistent with case law describing the process and standards for handling incompetent minors before the juvenile court.
Chapter 671, Statutes of 2010
AB 2350 (Hill-D) Juvenile justice: status offenders
Provides that status offenders cannot be held in custody for more than 24 hours except pursuant to the Interstate Juvenile Compact, as specified, to assure compliance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 2010
AB 2459 (Caballero-D) Juvenile offenders: probation
Authorizes counties to establish a Community Juvenile Probation Performance Incentives Fund to support supervision and rehabilitative services for juvenile offenders subject to probation. All programs receiving funding shall be spent on evidence-based practices.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Corrections
SB 28 (Denham-R) Decommissioning San Quentin State Prison
Requires the decommissioning of San Quentin State Prison. Allows the Governor to select a new site for housing inmates condemned to death and for a new execution site. Exempts the building of a new prison to house condemned inmates from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Requires the sale of the property on which San Quentin State Prison now stands. Requires the buyer of the property to demolish the prison. Exempts the demolition of the prison from CEQA. Prohibits industrial development on the site where the prison now stands. Exempts any new residential or commercial development at the site from CEQA.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 76* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Inmates: incentive credits
Reduces good-time/work-time credits from one-half to one-third for persons convicted of misdemeanors while confined in a county jail.
Chapter 426, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 1487 (Senate Public Safety Committee) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
SB 125 (Benoit-R) Undocumented criminal aliens
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to bill the federal government for the incarceration of all undocumented inmates in California prisons. Requires the Attorney General to use all legal means to obtain compliance with the request for reimbursement. Requires the Department of Justice to collect data on the number of incarcerated undocumented aliens in California and publish that data on their Web site.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
Similar bills were SJR 12 (Benoit-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee, and AB 713 (Gaines-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 153 (Liu-D) Jails: discharge of prisoners
Requires a sheriff to discharge a prisoner upon the completion of his/her sentence between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., with certain exceptions. Specifies this requirement shall not be construed to allow jails to retain a prisoner any longer than otherwise required or to prevent the early release of prisoners.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 265 (Runner-R) Parole: house arrest
Enacts a "house arrest" alternative to returning parole violators to prison, with specified features, requirements and limitations. Appropriates $20 million to a new Parole Reentry Fund for offender reentry management and services.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 268 (Harman-R) Correctional facilities: wireless communication devices
Provides that any inmate or ward who possesses any cellular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof, including, but not limited to, a subscriber identity module (SIM card) or memory storage device, or any person who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to an inmate or ward in the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation any cellular telephone or other wireless communication device or any component thereof, including, but not limited to, a SIM card or memory storage device, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Similar bills were SB 434 (Harman-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee and SB 525 (Padilla-D) which was vetoed.
SB 292 (Hancock-D) Prisoners: alternative incarceration
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to contract with an Alternative Incarceration Facility, as specified, and requires CDCR to adopt regulations to implement contracts with Alternative Incarceration Facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 434 (Harman-R) Correctional facilities: wireless communications
Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and/or by a loss of up to two months in sentence credits, for an inmate or ward to possess a cell phone or other wireless communication device, or any component thereof, or for any person to possess with intent to deliver the device to an inmate or ward. Provides that any person visiting an inmate or ward, who possesses a cell phone or other wireless communication device, may be required to forfeit the device. Notice of this provision must be posted in all areas where visitors are searched prior to visitation with an inmate in custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Similar bills were SB 268 (Harman-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee and SB 525 (Padilla-D) which was vetoed.
SB 441 (Ducheny-D) Board of Community Corrections
Replaces the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Corrections Standards Authority with a new, independent entity, the Board of Community Corrections, effective 7/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 467 (Dutton-R) Prison Industry Authority: public contracts
Authorizes agencies and departments to award contracts of less than $25,000 for goods or services to California certified small businesses, microbusinesses, or disabled veteran business enterprises without seeking an exemption of the Prison Industry Authority mandate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 487 (Ashburn-R) Wardens: Senate confirmation
Makes all wardens appointed to state prisons subject to Senate confirmation.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 525 (Padilla-D) Prisons: cell phones and wireless communications devices
Provides that except as authorized, any person, except as provided, who possesses with the intent to deliver, or delivers, to an inmate or ward in the custody of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), any cellular telephone or other wireless communication device, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed $5,000 for each such device. Provides that notwithstanding the provisions stated above, when any person visiting an inmate in the custody of CDCR who, upon being searched or subjected to a metal detector, is found to be in possession of a cellular telephone or other wireless communication device, that device shall be subject to confiscation.
Vetoed
Similar bills were SB 268 (Harman-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee and SB 434 (Harman-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 574 (Hancock-D) Inmate education programs: community colleges
Waives "open course" provisions for community college courses offered in state correctional facilities and allows attendance hours generated by credit courses at all correctional facilities to be funded at the full credit rate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 631 (Walters-R) Felons: voting
Provides that a person on probation for conviction of a felony is ineligible to register to vote in California and, commencing in 2011, requires county elections officials to cancel the voter registration for these probationers upon notice from the clerk of the superior court.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
SB 704 (Denham-R) Corrections: state budget
Halts two different appropriations that, under current law, are authorized to construct a new condemned inmate complex at San Quentin State Prison. Rescinds the authority to sell lease-revenue bonds, totaling up to $336 million.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 724 (Cogdill-R) Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation: hospital services
Requires the State Controller to transfer one-third of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR's) annual payments to hospitals into a newly-created "Hospital Interim Payment Fund" created in the State Treasury, from which hospitals that have provided services to CDCR would be paid when the annual state budget is late.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 731 (Ashburn-R) Probation: multidisciplinary teams
Authorizes the members of multidisciplinary teams engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of adult crime to share certain information with each other.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 738 (Hancock-D) Prison inmate education
Recasts the existing, statutorily required advisory committee for prison education as the "Robert E. Burton Correctional Education Committee," with identified membership, duties and powers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 756 (Ashburn-R) Parolees: drug, alcohol and anger-management programs
Creates parole diversion pilot projects in three cities, for certain individuals who violate parole, which provide substance abuse and anger management treatment. Provides that the programs be run by service provider contractors, overseen and evaluated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, for 24 months. Mandates that a parolee who is assigned to one of the pilot programs and fails to successfully complete it will be incarcerated for nine months.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 881 (Harman-R) Incarcerated plaintiffs: Government tort claims
Exempts from liability a public entity and its officers, employees, and agents acting within the course and scope of their employment or duties for a claim for injury arising out of an act or omission within the course and scope of employment, if the claimant, at the time the claim arises, is an inmate, ward, or prisoner at the state prison, a county jail, or any detention center, juvenile correctional center, adult or juvenile conservation camp, or other similar institution, or a parolee, regardless of when the claim is filed, unless the officer, employee, or agent acted with wanton and willful misconduct.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 962 (Liu-D) Prisoners: adjudication of parental rights: participation
Allows for the use of video or teleconference technology for prisoners to participate in judicial proceedings involving their parental rights or a dependency petition for their child.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2010
SB 973 (Negrete McLeod-D) Imprisonment: parole: programs
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to operate a parole reentry program at an existing Day Reporting Center in San Bernardino County that would, in partnership with local law enforcement and service agencies, provide specified services to parolees.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1027 (Wyland-R) Parole: sex offenders
Provides that prisoners who are required to register pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act and who are sentenced to an indeterminate sentence shall be ineligible for parole unless the prisoner has been evaluated by two practicing psychiatrists or practicing licensed psychologists, or one practicing psychiatrist and one practicing licensed psychologist, appointed as specified, and both of these professionals have determined that the prisoner poses no danger to society based on an interview and the administration of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1032 (Wright-D) Office of the Inspector General
Provides that the enforcement provisions contained in subdivision (a) to (d) inclusive of Section 3309.5 of the Government Code, pertaining to violations of the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, will apply to the Inspector General.
Chapter 484, Statutes of 2010
SB 1066 (Oropeza-D) Corrections: Inspector General
Requires that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) oversee and conduct periodic and random searches of employees and vendors entering the secure perimeter of state prisons under CDCR's jurisdiction for contraband.
Vetoed
SB 1078 (Denham-R) Out-of-state prisoner transfers
Provides, among other things, that no inmate be committed or transferred to an institution outside of this State by any court or other agency or officer of this State unless the Governor personally approves the transfer.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1130 (Aanestad-R) Prison Industry Authority
Allows the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), notwithstanding the current requirement for state agencies to make maximum use of Prison Industry Authority (PIA) products, to enter into contracts with private entities or public agencies for "locally produced perishable goods" provided at a lower price than the price available from PIA. Provides that this exception applies only to CDCR facilities located in counties with a population of 50,000 or less, which means Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, and High Desert Sate Prison, and the CA Correctional Center near Susanville.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1248* (Dutton-R) Corrections: stationary electricity generating bicycles
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), until 1/1/12, to create and administer a pilot program at a facility with a low-risk inmate population for testing one or more stationary electricity generating bicycles to create additional, renewable energy to mitigate the facility's electricity use by powering one or more television monitors for viewing by inmates, as specified. Requires CDCR to report the results of the program to the chairs of the Senate Public Safety Committee, and the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1266 (Liu-D) Inmates: alternative custody
Establishes an alternative custody program within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under which eligible female inmates, pregnant inmates, or inmates who were the primary caregivers of dependent children would be allowed to participate in lieu of their confinement in state prison.
Chapter 644, Statutes of 2010
SB 1364 (Harman-R) Inmates: fees
Authorizes a Sheriff, Chief or Director of Corrections, Chief of Police or the Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to assess fees upon inmates for discretionary services, as specified, or a per diem fee for room and board, or both.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1399 (Leno-D) Medical parole
Provides that, except as specified, any prisoner who the head physician for the institution where the prisoner is located determines, as provided, is permanently medically incapacitated with a medical condition that renders the prisoner permanently unable to perform activities of basic daily living, and results in the prisoner requiring 24-hour care, and that incapacitation did not exist at the time of sentencing, shall be granted medical parole, if the Board of Parole Hearings determines that the conditions under which the prisoner would be released would not reasonably pose a threat to public safety. These provisions would not apply to any prisoner sentenced to death or life in prison without possibility of parole or to any inmate who is serving a sentence for which parole pursuant to this bill is prohibited by any initiative statute. Provides that these provisions shall not be construed to alter or diminish the rights conferred under the Victim's Bill of Rights Act of 2008: Marsy's Law. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to, among other things, seek to enter into memoranda of understanding with the Social Security Administration and the State Department of Health Care Services, in addition to certain other entities, to facilitate prerelease agreements to help inmates initiate benefits claims, as specified. Requires the department to reimburse county public hospitals on a quarterly basis for the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal costs incurred by the county for individuals who have been granted medical parole and the county costs for providing health care services that are not allowable under Medi-Cal but are required by the state to be furnished to eligible persons who have been granted medical parole, including public guardianship health care services. Requires the department to provide, or provide reimbursement for, services associated with public guardianship of medical parolees, as specified.
Chapter 405, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 2071 (Lowenthal-D) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.
SB 1452 (Runner-R) Parole: electronic monitoring
Permits local law enforcement agencies to place global positioning system technology on nonrevocable parolees.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 1487* (Assembly Public Safety Committee) County jail custody credits
Revises the amount of sentencing credits that county jail inmates may earn to a maximum of one-third of their sentence.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill is SB 76 (Senate Public Safety Committee), Chapter 426, Statutes of 2010.
SB 21X3 (Denham-R) State budget: San Quentin
Eliminates appropriations for the Condemned Inmate Complex at San Quentin.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 31X4 (Dutton-R) Prisoners: medical care
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation provide inmates with medical care that meets the community standard of care.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SJR 12 (Benoit-R) Undocumented criminals
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to adequately fund the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program to fully reimburse the states for the full cost of incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
A similar bill was SB 125 (Benoit-R) which died in Senate Public Safety Committee.
AB 552* (Furutani-D) Correctional facilities: AB 900 revisions
Makes technical and substantive changes to the requirements of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation construction projects authorized by AB 900 (Solorio-D), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007. Specifically, (1) expressly includes the development of medical and mental health beds and treatment space, as specified, and expressly states that these beds will be supported with rehabilitative programming, (2) authorizes the renovation of existing buildings for approved beds and reentry program facilities, (3) expressly includes ancillary improvements to provide dental, medical and mental health treatment, in specified construction authority, and (4) changes Phase II conditional language requiring that at least 4,000 beds from Phase I be "under construction" to instead require that at least 4,000 beds be "established by the by State Public Works Board."
Chapter 22, Statutes of 2010
AB 633 (Ammiano-D) Corrections: classification of inmates and wards
Amends existing law to require the inmate classification and housing assignment procedures of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to take into account risk factors that can lead to inmates and wards becoming the target of victimization or of being "abusive" toward others, and amends the current relevant factors to be considered in this regard, as specified. Provides that inmates and wards at high risk for victimization may be placed in segregated housing "only as a last resort," as specified. Prohibits CDCR from requiring any inmate or ward to disclose or report his/her sexual orientation or gender identity at any time, as specified. Prohibits CDCR from disciplining or otherwise punishing an inmate or ward for failing to disclose or report his/her sexual orientation or gender identity during all or part of his/her term of commitment. Provides that the new requirements not be construed to require or justify expansion or construction of CDCR facilities.
Vetoed
AB 713 (Gaines-R) Undocumented criminal aliens
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to annually bill the federal government, in writing, for the full costs of incarcerating "undocumented criminal aliens" in California's correctional system. Requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to collect data on the total number and percentage of undocumented immigrant inmates in all state and local correctional institutions in California and publish this data on DOJ's Web site.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Similar bills were SB 125 (Benoit-R) which failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee, and SJR 12 (Benoit-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.
AB 777 (Bass-D) Inmates: identification cards
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), beginning 1/1/11, to establish pilot programs at Folsom State Prison and at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, to provide inmates a California identification card, issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Requires DMV to make biannual visits to these two CDCR facilities to provide identification cards to inmates scheduled to be released within six months.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 785 (Bass-D) Parole violators: community sanctions
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, no later than 1/1/10, to implement a "parole violation decision-making instrument" designed to provide guidelines for use by parole agents and the Board of Parole Hearings to determine the most appropriate sanctions for parolees who violate parole.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 908 (Tom Berryhill-R) Probation
Requires the court to order the payment of specified probation costs as a condition of probation.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1013 (Block-D) Corrections: veteran inmates
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, by 1/1/10, to conduct interdisciplinary assessments of new inmates who are veterans with combat experience and develop a specialized treatment protocol for these offenders.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1198 (Swanson-D) Drug felonies: food stamps: eligibility
Eliminates California's lifetime disqualification from federal food stamps benefits for individuals who have been convicted of drug-related felonies. Allows individuals who have been convicted of drug-related felonies to receive federal food stamps benefits if they provide proof of one of specified criteria.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1756 (Swanson-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1208 (Logue-R) Illegal alien inmates
Provides that, except as otherwise provided by law, if a nonviolent, illegal alien inmate agrees to waive his/her right to appeal his/her conviction and agrees not to contest a final order of removal, the inmate may qualify for immediate deportation, provided, however, that any waiver expressly provides that the inmate agrees to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and that, if the inmate returns to California without authorization, the inmate shall be subject to incarceration for the remainder of any sentence previously imposed. Provides that an inmate agreeing to the waiver would also be required to promise not to enter the state illegally. Violation of this promise will be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 10 years.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1211 (Torrico-D) Parole: conditions
Requires that any person being released on parole who was not committed to prison for a registerable sex offense, a serious felony, a violent felony, or any felony that directly or indirectly involved violence or the threat of violence, and who does not have a prior conviction for a serious or violent felony, be released on parole with only one condition. Provides that the one condition imposed on an eligible parolee will be that he/she agree in writing to be subject to search or seizure by a parole officer or other peace officer at any time of the day or night, with or without a search warrant and with or without cause. Provides that any eligible inmate who does not agree in writing to that condition shall lose worktime credit earned pursuant to Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2930) of Chapter 7 of the Penal Code on a day-for-day basis and shall not be released until he/she either agrees in writing to that condition or has no remaining worktime credit, whichever occurs first. Provides that a parolee's refusal to submit to a search or seizure while on parole is not grounds to revoke his/her parole.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1236 (Fletcher-R) Corrections: United Through Reading Transitions Program
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to the extent existing resources designated to family service or community partnership programs are available or additional resources are appropriated, to establish a pilot program of unspecified duration in an unspecified number of state prisons that implements the United Through Reading Transitions Program, the purpose of which is to foster emotional bonding between inmates and their children and provide the children of inmates with a chance to see their parents in a positive light by enabling the inmates to read books aloud on DVD and send the books and recordings home.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1239 (Solorio-D) Prison education programs
Requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement any funding adjustments to inmate academic and vocational education programs, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 1273 (Hagman-R) California Institution for Men at Chino
Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services to lease real property adjacent to the California Institute for Men at Chino to a private or public entity under terms he/she deems are in the best interest of the state, and requires, notwithstanding other law, any monies paid to the state as a result of a lease to be deposited in the General Fund.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2438 (Hagman-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1289 (Galgiani-D) Prisoners: telemedicine
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to establish guidelines and use telemedicine for specified medical consultations. Requires CDCR to establish annual performance targets for medical specialty appointments to be conducted by telemedicine rather than at community medical facilities, and to report to the Legislature on its plans and performance each year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1785 (Galgiani-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1359 (Huffman-D) Prisoners: death penalty
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house death row inmates (currently there are 641; design capacity is 636) in any Level IV security prison, rather than solely at San Quentin, though executions will continue to take place only at San Quentin.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1362 (Solorio-D) California Rehabilitation Oversight Board
Creates the 10-member California Rehabilitation Oversight Board Advisory Committee to provide assistance and advice on strategies for accomplishing the rehabilitation goals of the various mental health, substance abuse, educational, and employment programs for inmates and parolees operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1369 (Davis-D) County jails: electronic monitoring on home detention
Enacts home detention programs for qualified persons held in county jail in lieu of bail.
Vetoed
AB 1395* (Torrico-D) Inmates: incentive credits
Provides that prisoners sentenced to state prison, except for those required to register as sex offenders, committed for a serious felony, or with a previous conviction for a serious or violent felony, who are confined in a city or county jail, industrial farm, or road camp prior to and after the date of a sentence to state prison shall have one day deducted from his/her period of confinement for every day the prisoner served in a city or county jail, industrial farm, or road camp.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1434 (Torrico-D) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: appointments
Creates the Corrections and Rehabilitation Board, consisting of the Governor, the State Controller and the Attorney General and shifts, from the Governor to the Board, the authority to appoint the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and 21 specified CDCR leadership positions that report to the Secretary of CDCR. Provides that these positions will still require Senate confirmation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1628* (Assembly Budget Committee) Corrections Budget Trailer Bill
Enacts the 2010 Corrections Budget Trailer Bill permitting the use of design-build by local governments in the construction of jail and juvenile justice rehabilitation facility projects, requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to provide the Legislature with an annual report on the operations it performs related to each of its budgeted programs, allows CDCR to maintain a comprehensive pharmacy services program for state prisons that is cost-effective and efficient, requires CDCR to maintain a statewide utilization management program to contain costs associated with inmate health service, allows AB 900 (Solorio-D, Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007) funds to be used for site evaluations for state reentry facilities and prison dental facility modifications, requires on a prospective basis, county probation departments to be responsible for the supervision of offenders released from state juvenile facilities and provides monies for constructing and renovating local juvenile justice rehabilitation facilities.
Chapter 729, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was SB 868 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee) which died on the Senate Third Reading File.
AB 1678 (Lieu-D) Prisoners: parole
Rolls back provisions of the 2009-10 Budget Act that authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to place persons who have completed prison terms for non-serious, non-violent, non-sex offenses, who have no serious, violent or sex offense priors, who are not validated gang members, and who have passed a validated risk assessment, on non-revocable parole.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1695 (Beall-D) Custodial officers: Santa Clara County
Extends the authority of custodial officers in Santa Clara County to perform specified duties not only at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, but at other health care facilities in the County of Santa Clara, as needed and only as they directly relate to guarding in-custody inmates.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2010
AB 1725 (Swanson-D) Inmates: HIV testing
Requires the chief medical officer in every state prison, and the medical director of each state hospital housing patients sentenced pursuant to the Penal Code, for each inmate or patient to be incarcerated in or committed to that facility for more than one year, to offer testing for HIV at admission to the prison or facility and at least annually while the inmate or patient is incarcerated or committed.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1756 (Swanson-D) Drug felonies: food stamp eligibility
Provides that a conviction for a drug felony does not make an individual ineligible to receive food stamp benefits, if otherwise eligible.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1198 (Swanson-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1768 (Solorio-D) County jails
Modifies local government eligibility and competition for county jail construction bond funding under phase II of the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007 (AB 900), to give equal consideration to counties providing county jail beds for use as state reentry beds as to counties providing stand-alone sites for new state reentry facilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1771 (Mendoza-D) Prison Industry Authority: public contracts
Changes the provision that requires state agencies purchase California Prison Industry Authority products by limiting the requirement to only those contracts or purchase orders that exceed $25,000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1785 (Galgiani-D) Prisons: telemedicine systems
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a telemedicine program at all state prisons by 1/1/15.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1289 (Galgiani-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1817 (Arambula-IN) Corrections: inmate health care
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to maintain a statewide utilization management program with respect to inmate health care, as specified. Requires CDCR to develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that all prisons employ that program and require that a copy of these policies and procedures be provided to specified legislative committees by 7/1/11. Requires CDCR to establish annual quantitative utilization management performance objectives, as specified, and, on 7/1/11, report the objectives it intends to accomplish in each adult prison during the next 12 months to specified legislative committees.
Vetoed
AB 1828 (Cook-R) Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training
Re-establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to reclaim responsibility for developing and monitoring training for correctional peace officers from the Corrections Standards Authority, which assumed this responsibility following the reorganization of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2005.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1900 (Skinner-D) Pregnant inmates and wards: restraints
Extends the current prohibitions on shackling pregnant inmates during labor and childbirth to also limit the use of restraints on pregnant inmates while they are being transferred. Requires The Corrections Standards Authority to establish minimum standards for state and local correctional facilities to ensure that inmates or wards known to be pregnant are never shackled by the wrists, ankles, or both, during labor, deliver, recovery or during transport to or from a state or local correctional facility, unless specific security needs dictate otherwise.
Vetoed
AB 1961 (Gilmore-R) California Rehabilitation Oversight Board: reports
Requires the California Rehabilitative Oversight Board within the Office of the Inspector General, to recommend elimination of any rehabilitation or treatment program operated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that the Board finds is not cost effective or successful, and explicitly authorizes the Board to recommend redirecting funding to more effective programs. The Board will be required to complete its evaluation of all programs by 1/1/21, completing 10% of the evaluations each year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1985 (Galgiani-D) Corrections: contract health care providers
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), by 1/1/11, to adopt industry standard claim forms for use by contract health care providers, to be able to accept electronic submissions of claims from contract health care providers, to perform periodic audits of claims paid to contract health care providers, and to provide remote electronic access to claim status information to contract health care providers. Authorizes CDCR to adopt policies and procedures for enabling electronic health care claims management and processing, and would exempt the adoption, amendment, and repeal of policies and procedures for this limited purpose from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act.
Chapter 669, Statutes of 2010
AB 2062 (Galgiani-D) Prisons: healthcare: telemedicine
Authorizes the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to use "store and forward" telemedicine technology, as defined, in state prisons and requires CDCR to notify a patient receiving this treatment of the right to receive specified interactive communication with a distant physician or specialist, upon request.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2071 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Inmates: medical parole
Provides for release to parole to a medical facility by the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, if those prisoners are eligible for certain levels of care, as specified, and would not pose a threat to public safety. Provides that these provisions would not apply to a condemned inmate, or any inmate who is serving a sentence for which medical parole is prohibited by the Three-Strikes initiative statute or by any other initiative statute. Directs wardens or their representatives to undertake certain actions in conjunction with these releases to medical parole.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
A similar bill is SB 1399 (Leno-D), Chapter 405, Statutes of 2010.
AB 2152 (Nielsen-R) Parole: conditions
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations Division of Adult Parole Operations to report to the Board of Parole Hearings any parolee whose commitment offense was a "serious" or "violent" felony, as specified, who has engaged in any "criminal conduct", as defined, or who has violated any condition of parole.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2180 (Bill Berryhill-R) Prisons: medical treatment facilities
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to engage in certain activities prior to designing, constructing, or establishing one of these new medical, dental, or mental health treatment facilities, including, but not limited to, identifying and analyzing all possible social and economic impacts that may result from the construction and operation of the facility and fully mitigating those impacts to the extent possible, preparation of a social and economic impact report to address the possible impacts resulting from the construction and operation of the facility, and meeting and conferring in good faith with county and city representatives to reach mutually satisfactory resolution of all disputes relating to the social and economic impacts reasonably arising from or related to the facility and the sufficiency of proposed mitigation measures.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2200 (Solorio-D) Corrections: Rebuilding Communities and Lives Act of 2010
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a three-year reentry program to assist up to 200 state or county youths between the ages of 16 and 23, who are economically disadvantaged, with community reintegration upon parole or discharge. Provides that gang-affiliated youth shall have program enrollment priority.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2222 (Galgiani-D) Prisons: telemedicine
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to install telemedicine fixtures and broadband infrastructure in new or existing buildings authorized pursuant to phase II of AB 900 (Solorio-D), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007 which has the effect of authorizing lease-revenue bond financing for this purpose.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2232 (Nielsen-R) Inmates: inmate-initiated medical and dental visits
Requires that a $5 fee be charged by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for each inmate-initiated medical visit of an inmate confined in the state prison, rather than merely authorizing the fee, extends the fee to dental visits, and requires that inmates be charged for medically directed follow-up visits.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2233 (Nielsen-R) Inmates: health care
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in cooperation with the University of California, Office of the President, and in consultation with the Federal Receiver for the California Prison Health Care Receivership Corporation, to engage in a study to assess and evaluate the concept of involving the University of California system in the delivery of inmate health care.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2239 (Hagman-R) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: administration
Exempts from the Administrative Procedures Act, as specified, rules related to the procedures, training of staff, staffing levels, design and layout of an execution chamber, or related processes for the administration of the death penalty, as specified. Provides that this exemption shall not be deemed to alter or otherwise apply to habeas corpus or appellate procedures in capital cases.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2247 (Niello-R) Local inmates: workers' compensation
Revises the workers' compensation benefits that may be received by a city or county jail inmate who is injured on a work assignment. Provides that an inmate of a city or county jail, industrial farm, or road camp shall be entitled to the workers' compensation benefits for an injury or death arising during the course of assigned employment, subject to specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)
AB 2262 (Bass-D) Inmates: identification card numbers
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide each inmate, prior to his/her release, with the inmate's driver's license number or state identification card number if one is in the inmate's central file.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2290 (Bradford-D) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: inmates
Requires that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) provide local law enforcement with the date of a "non-revocable" parolee's scheduled release not less than 45 days prior to the inmate's release, or as soon as practicable, if available. Provides that information from CDCR to local law enforcement be made via CDCR's "LEADS" system. Enacts non-codified legislative intent language concerning the provision of local services for parolees released from prison who are not subject to revocation, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2295 (De La Torre-D) Parole: retention of records
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to retain all files prepared by the Division of Adult Parole Operations regarding any person who is required to register as a sex offender.
Vetoed
AB 2326 (Bass-D) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: reentry
Extends the sunset of the Reentry Advisory Committee (RAC) to 1/1/16. Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in consultation with RAC, to immediately seek and apply for specified federal grant funding. Adds seven new members to the RAC, as specified. Authorizes meetings upon call of the Secretary, in addition to quarterly meetings. Revises topic areas upon which the RAC shall advise the Secretary. Provides that RAC members shall serve without compensation.
Vetoed
AB 2333 (Emmerson-R) County detention facilities: release of inmates
Prohibits county probation officers from placing an individual under his/her supervision, who is believed to be undocumented, in a residential facility in another county.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2384 (Gilmore-R) Correctional officers: peace officers: parole agents
Grants Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) parole agents whose duties are the same as members of the Office of Correctional Safety of CDCR peace officer status that extends to any place in California.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2387 (Miller-R) County jails: inmate emergency health care
Defines "local law enforcement patient" as any person seeking medical treatment or examination while in the custody of law enforcement and removes the sunset date on state law that allows law enforcement agencies to contract for emergency health services for inmates and prohibits the release of inmates from custody for the purpose of seeking medical care, with the intent to re-arrest.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2391 (Torrico-D) Parole
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to classify each parolee in one of five tiers.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2392 (Torrico-D) Inmates: incentive credits
Limits state prison inmates' day-to-day sentence credits to inmates actively participating, or willing to participate, in work, education, or substance abuse programs rather than from the time of sentence to state prison.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2438 (Hagman-R) California Institute for Men at Chino
Authorizes the Department of General Services to lease state-owned property adjacent to the California Institute for Men at Chino under terms deemed in the best interest of the state. Directs 50% of the lease revenues to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1273 (Hagman-R) which died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee.
AB 2440 (Tom Berryhill-R) Prison inmates: Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Requires an inmate to complete an organ and tissue donor consent form upon admittance to a state prison.
(Failed passage in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2547 (Galgiani-D) Prisons: medical supplies: demonstration contracts
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to enter into demonstration contracts with manufacturers of medical supplies for the purpose of establishing rebate programs or other cost-saving mechanisms and achieving demonstrated cost savings in the purchase of medical supplies. Requires CDCR to maintain a list of supplies for which contracts have been executed pursuant to these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2673 (Nielsen-R) Parolees: crimes: unlawful disclosure of information
Prevents parolees from being released on non-revocable parole if they have been identified as gang members, as specified. States that parolees required to register as gang members are not eligible for non-revocable parole. Specifies that parolees who have been identified by the Department of Justice as being affiliated with a criminal street gang pursuant to the CALGANG program are ineligible for non-revocable parole. Provides that parolees who have been identified by a local law enforcement agency as being affiliated with a criminal street gang are ineligible for non-revocable parole.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2747 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: pharmacy
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to maintain and operate a comprehensive pharmacy services program, as specified. Authorizes CDCR to operate and maintain a centralized pharmacy distribution center, as specified. Authorizes CDCR to investigate and initiate potential systematic improvements within the department's statewide pharmacy administration system, as specified. Requires CDCR to ensure that there is a program providing for the regular inspection of all department pharmacies and documentation of compliance. Requires that, on 3/1/12, and each March 1 thereafter, CDCR report specified information regarding pharmaceutical services to specified legislative committees.
Vetoed
AB 3X8 (Assembly Budget Committee) Corrections: rehabilitation
Provides the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations with direction on implementing cuts to rehabilitation programs.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009-10, 8th Extraordinary Session
ACR 140 (Adams-R) Incarceration: undocumented foreign nationals
Urges the Governor to demand the Bureau of Justice Assistance reimburse the State of California for all costs of incarcerating undocumented foreign nationals.
Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2010
Victims of Crime
SB 5 (Hollingsworth-R) Deceased Child Victims' Protection and Privacy Act
Enacts the Deceased Child Victims' Protection and Privacy Act, requiring, upon the request of a biological or adoptive parent, spouse, or legal guardian of a deceased minor, the sealing of the autopsy report and evidence associated with the examination of that minor victim when the minor was a victim of a crime that caused his/her death and a person has been convicted and sentenced for committing that crime. Contains specified exceptions and also provides that a coroner or medical examiner shall not be liable for damages in a civil action for any reasonable act or omission taken in good faith compliance with the bill.
Chapter 302, Statutes of 2010
An identical bill was SB 982 (Hollingsworth-R) which died at the Assembly Desk.
SB 50 (Corbett-D) Victims of sexual assault
Provides that victims of sexual assault are not required to participate in the criminal justice system or cooperate with law enforcement in order to be provided with a forensic medical exam.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 110 (Liu-D) Victims of crimes: people with disabilities
Makes numerous technical and substantive changes regarding provisions of laws relating to crimes against individuals with disabilities.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2010
SB 586 (Yee-D) Restitution fines
Increases the victim restitution fine assessed in felony cases from $200 to $300.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 662 (Yee-D) Domestic violence: shelters
Permits a county board of supervisors to increase the marriage license fees used to fund domestic violence shelters by $10 and clarifies when such shelters may receive these funds.
Vetoed
SB 733 (Leno-D) Victims of violent crime: trauma recovery centers
Authorizes the California Victims Compensation and Government Claims Board to evaluate applications, and upon an appropriation by the Legislature, award grants totaling up to $2 million per year- to multi-disciplinary trauma recovery centers that provide the following services to and resources for crime victims: (1) mental health; (2) community outreach; and (3) coordination among medical personnel, mental health care providers, law enforcement and social services. Makes codified legislative declarations and findings regarding the importance of providing treatment and services to victims of crime.
Vetoed
SB 982* (Hollingsworth-R) Deceased Child Victims' Protection and Privacy Act
Enacts the Deceased Child Victims Protection and Privacy Act, requiring, upon the request of a biological or adoptive parent, spouse, or legal guardian of a deceased minor, the sealing of the autopsy report and evidence associated with the examination of that minor victim when the minor was a victim of a crime that caused his/her death and a person has been convicted and sentenced for committing that crime. Contains specified exceptions and also provides that a coroner or medical examiner shall not be liable for damages in a civil action for any reasonable act or omission taken in good faith compliance with the bill.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
An identical bill was SB 5 (Hollingsworth-R), Chapter 302, Statutes of 2010.
SB 1233 (Oropeza-D) Victims anonymity: confidential address programs
Removes the 1/13/10 sunset date on the Safe at Home project a confidential address program that offers victim anonymity.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2010
AB 984 (Nava-D) Victims of crime
Provides that the duty to report the commission of a murder, rape or specified sex offense applies for a victim of any age.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1710 (Nava-D) Victims: restitution
Provides that no offset from or reduction of the amount the court finds to be the victim's full restitution, as specified, shall be made due to any claim of comparative negligence or other fault, intentional or otherwise on the part of the victim and states legislative intent to abrogate the holding of People vs. Millard (2009) 175 Cal.App.4th 7.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1714* (Fuentes-D) Victims of crime: claims
Appropriates $21,490,000 to the Department of Justice to pay settlements to victims of crime including $20 million to Jaycee Lee Dugard who was kidnapped and sexually abused by Philip and Nancy Garrido for 18 years.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2010
AB 1715* (Fuentes-D) State claims
Appropriates $998,029.73 from various funds to the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to pay claims accepted by the Board.
Chapter 576, Statutes of 2010
AB 1847 (Furutani-D) Restitution orders
Grants authority to a prosecutor, upon court approval, to use lien procedures, including real property liens, against a defendant to enforce restitution orders, as specified. Provides that where there is no county agency responsible for collecting restitution, the district attorney or probation office may carry out those duties.
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2010
AB 1941 (Fletcher-R) Victim-Witness Assistance Fund
Increases from 2% to 3% the amount that may be deposited in a county treasury from fines collected in the Victim-Witness Assistance Fund.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1946 (Fletcher-R) Victims of sexual assault: child molestation
Requires each county with a population of more than 50,000 to arrange to have professional personnel trained in the examination of victims of sexual assault, including child molestation, in either the county hospital or a general acute care hospital.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2218 (Fuentes-D) Restitution centers
States legislative intent to reduce recidivism and assist in collection of restitution through the use of restitution centers in which inmates can maintain employment in the community to earn money to pay restitution, restitution fines and other fines. Broadens eligibility for restitution center placement to inmates with a sentence of up to 60 months or who have not had a conviction for sale of a controlled substance for five years - if the defendant meets the other eligibility rules. Gives priority in placement for defendants who owe direct restitution to victims.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2010
AB 2619 (Block-D) Restitution: elder and dependent adult abuse
Authorizes wage garnishments against defendants convicted of elder or dependent adult financial abuse.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2010
ACR 153 (Nielsen-R) Crime Victims' Rights Week
Recognizes the week of 4/18/10 through 4/24/10, as Crime Victims' Rights Week.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Weapons
SB 282 (Wright-D) Deadly weapons transaction records
Provides that, commencing 2/1/11, a handgun ammunition vendor shall not provide handgun ammunition purchaser or transferee information to any third party, or use the information for any purpose other than what is required or authorized by statute or regulation without the written consent of the purchaser or transferee.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 408* (Padilla-D) Body armor
Deletes the existing definition of "body armor" and instead defines "body armor" as "any bullet-resistant material intended to provide ballistic and trauma protection for the person wearing the armor" for purposes of the prohibition on possession of body armor by persons convicted of a violent felony.
Chapter 21, Statutes of 2010
SB 697 (DeSaulnier-D) Firearms: owner authorized handguns
Provides that, commencing 18 months following the Attorney General's reporting that owner-authorized handguns are available for retail sale, as specified, a handgun will be unsafe if it was not owner-authorized, as defined, and provides an exception to these provisions for the sale, loan, or transfer of handguns manufactured in or imported into this state prior to that date. Specifies requirements that owner-authorized handguns will be required to meet in order for the Attorney General to determine that owner-authorized handguns are available for retail sale, and in order to comply with certain safety standards, as specified. Requires the Attorney General, commencing 7/1/10, and every July 1 thereafter through 2015, to report to the Governor and the Legislature regarding the progress made on the availability for retail sale of owner-authorized handguns, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 776 (Hancock-D) Firearms: large-capacity magazines
Makes various revisions relative to large-capacity magazines including registration with the Department of Justice, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1080 (Senate Public Safety Committee) Nonsubstantive deadly weapons reorganization
Codifies, in conjunction with companion bill SB 1115 (Senate Public Safety Committee), Chapter 178, Statutes of 2010, the nonsubstantive revision of deadly weapon statutes prepared by the California Law Revision Commission, as directed by ACR 73 (McCarthy-R), Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2006.
Chapter 711, Statutes of 2010
SB 1115 (Senate Public Safety Committee) Nonsubstantive deadly weapons reorganization
Codifies, in conjunction with its companion bill, SB 1080 (Senate Public Safety Committee), the nonsubstantive reorganization of deadly weapon statutes prepared by the California Law Revision Commission, as directed by ACR 73 (McCarthy), Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2006.
Chapter 178, Statutes of 2010
SB 1165 (Aanestad-R) Firearms
Exempts from existing requirements the sale, delivery, loan, or transfer of a firearm that is a "curio" or "relic", as defined, by a firearms dealer to a federally licensed firearms collector.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1312 (Maldonado-R) Firearms: loans: private guard companies
Provides, exceptions to existing law relative to transfers of firearms to private patrol operators under specified circumstances, and for loans of firearms by private patrol operators to their employees for purposes of use by the employee while acting within the scope and course of the employee's employment. Provides that transfers of multiple firearms to private patrol operators under specified circumstances would be subject to the single transaction fee.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1347 (Leno-D) Electronic control weapons: peace officers
Makes specified findings and declarations, and codifies the ruling in Bryan v. McPherson, 590 F.3d 767, 780 (9th Cir. 2009), relative to the use of electronic control weapons.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 302 (Beall-D) Firearms: reports of prohibited persons
Requires that by 7/1/12, specified mental health facilities shall report to the Department of Justice exclusively by electronic means when a person is admitted to that facility either because that person was found to be a danger to themselves or others, or was certified for intensive treatment for a mental disorder.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2010
AB 357 (Knight-R) License to carry a concealed weapon
Deletes the "good cause" requirement from provisions of law that authorize a sheriff of a county, or a chief of a municipal police department to issue a license for a person to carry a concealed handgun, and requires that the sheriff issue the license upon proof that the person applying is of good moral character and meets other criteria relating to residency and firearms training.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 937 (Smyth-R) Destructive devices
Creates a lifetime registration requirement for persons convicted of specified offenses involving destructive devices.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1167 (Nielsen-R) Concealed firearm licenses: reciprocity
Deems persons who have a valid permit or license to carry a concealed handgun issued by another state or a political subdivision of another state, be authorized to carry a concealed handgun pursuant to provisions of California law.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1498 (De Leon-D) Firearms: possession
Expands the existing list of misdemeanor offenses that prohibit a person from possessing a gun for 10 years to include carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle, carrying a loaded gun, as specified, possessing an assault weapon, and any misdemeanor committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1663 (Hagman-R) Ammunition
Repeals specified provisions of AB 962 (De Leon-D), Chapter 628, Statutes of 2009, relating to the sale and delivery of handgun ammunition.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1810 (Feuer-D) Long gun transfer records
Provides that firearms reporting and record retention requirements that currently apply only to handguns also apply to long guns.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1838 (Bill Berryhill-R) Firearms: unlawful detainer
Adds, until 1/1/12, the district attorney in San Joaquin County to two existing pilot projects that permit city attorneys or prosecutors to bring an unlawful detainer action against a tenant for unlawful activities regarding firearms, ammunition, and controlled substances.
Vetoed
AB 1934 (Saldana-D) Open carrying of unloaded handguns
Prohibits the open carrying of unloaded handguns in public.
(Died on Assembly Floor awaiting concurrence)
AB 2053 (Miller-R) Concealed firearms licenses
Defines "good cause" for the issuance of a concealed weapons license to carry a handgun to include, but not limited to, self-defense, defending the life of another, or preventing crime in which human life is threatened.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2115 (Knight-R) Concealed firearms license: veterans
Requires the sheriff of a county or the chief of a municipal police department to issue a license to carry a concealed weapon if the person seeking the license is a veteran without a showing of "good cause" for the issuance of the license.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2155 (Logue-R) Firearms: voluntary surrender
Requires that a private individual who surrenders, gives, or transfers a firearm to a law enforcement agency or government entity pursuant to a voluntary program shall deliver a completed form, as specified, to the law enforcement agency or government entity at the time the firearm is surrendered. Requires the law enforcement agency or government entity to take the individual's thumbprint and to complete an online check of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) lost or stolen firearms registry at the time of surrender to determine if the surrendered firearm is lost or stolen and to file the completed form with DOJ.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2157 (Logue-R) Firearms: probation officers: qualifications
Allows a probation officer, deputy probation officer, or any superintendent, supervisor, or employee having custodial responsibilities in an institution operated by a probation department, or any transportation officer of a probation department, who is permitted to carry firearms, either on or off duty, to qualify with a firearm every six months rather than quarterly.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2186 (De Leon-D) Firearms: prohibited possession: prior convictions
Creates a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in the county jail and/or a fine not more than $1,000 for any person convicted of a misdemeanor offense of carrying a concealed firearm and who, within 10 years of the conviction, owns, purchases, receives, or has in his/her possession or under his/her custody or control, any firearm. Requires the court, on forms prescribed by the Department of Justice (DOJ), to notify DOJ of persons subject to this requirement.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2358 (De Leon-D) Ammunition sales: record retention
Requires that copies of handgun ammunition sales records be transmitted to the county sheriff or chief of police if required by local law. Prohibits, except as specified, vendors providing ammunition sales information to any third party without the written consent of the purchaser or transferee, and require that records of ammunition sales, as specified, that are no longer required to be maintained shall be destroyed in a manner that protects the privacy of the purchaser or transferee who is the subject of the record. Provides that law enforcement officials authorized to inspect ammunition sales records may copy those records for investigatory or enforcement purposes. Requires vendors to provide written notice to the local police chief or county sheriff of the vendor's intent to conduct business in the jurisdiction, and obtain any regulatory or business license required by the jurisdiction for ammunition sellers. Provides that handgun ammunition may be purchased over the Internet or through other means of remote ordering if a handgun ammunition vendor, as defined, in California initially receives the ammunition and processes the transfer in compliance with specified requirements.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2413 (Norby-R) Concealed firearm license
States that any person holding a valid permit or license to carry a concealed handgun from Arizona, Nevada, or Oregon, or a political subdivision of any of those states, shall be deemed to have a valid concealed weapons license under the State of California.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2546 (Hagman-R) Firearms
Exempts from existing provisions in law relative to defined unsafe handguns, those handguns for which production ceased prior to 1/1/00, and for which production has not resumed, and handguns that are commemorative or custom-made, and for which production was or is limited to 1,000 or fewer firearms.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2609 (Anderson-R) Handgun safety certificate: exemptions
Exempts honorably discharged members of the United States military from being required to obtain a handgun safety certificate in order to purchase a handgun.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2668 (Galgiani-D) Weapons: possession: State Capitol/Legislative Office Bldg
Makes it a misdemeanor to possess specified weapons, including unloaded firearms, in or on the grounds of the State Capitol Building or the Legislative Office Building.
Chapter 689, Statutes of 2010
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 55* (Corbett-D) State Bar Act
Continues the State Bar's authority to assess and collect dues from licensed attorneys in California in order to support the State Bar's operations, including discipline.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2010
An identical bill was SB 641 (Corbett-D, 2009), which was vetoed, with two exceptions -- it contained an urgency clause and the due date for the State Bar dues changed from February 1 to March 1.
SB 151 (Ducheny-D) Reentry courts: pilot program
Requires the Judicial Council to develop a pilot program for up to 10 parole reentry courts for parolees who would benefit from community drug treatment or mental health treatment. Specifies that the program use key components used by drug and collaborative courts using a highly structured model, including close supervision by a judicial officer, dedicated calendars, non-adversarial proceedings, frequent drug and alcohol testing, and close collaboration between the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the courts, and treatment programs. Requires reentry courts to supervise specified parolees who would otherwise be subject to parole revocation. Requires the Judicial Council to submit a preliminary program plan to the Governor and the Legislature by 3/1/10.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 269 (Harman-R) Attorney's fees
Provides for the award of attorney's fees to a successful party in any action that has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest only if judgment has been entered in favor of the successful party against one or more opposing parties in the action.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 377 (Corbett-D) Judgeships
Authorizes, upon legislative appropriation in the Budget Act, 50 new superior court judgeships.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 857* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Judicial Budget Trailer Bill of 2010
Revises various court fees, fee collection process, and other provisions of law relating to court construction and court administration functions and duties.
Chapter 720, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 1617 (Assembly Budget Committee) which died on the Senate Floor.
SB 877 (Harman-R) Arbitration: legal representation
Extends the sunset provision, until 1/1/13, for the out-of-state attorney arbitration counsel program.
Chapter 277, Statutes of 2010
SB 1025 (Harman-R) Courts: habeas corpus
Provides that the Supreme Court shall develop necessary rules and procedures for initiating habeas corpus proceedings in the superior court arising out of a judgment of death, including, but not limited to, establishing timeframes and standards for ordering a hearing, providing for appointment and compensation of counsel, and detailing appellate procedures.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1062 (Strickland-R) Court facilities
Among other provisions, repeals provisions establishing the Transitional State Courts Facilities Construction fund, and deletes provisions providing for a reduction in court construction penalties for amounts collected for transmission to that fund.
Chapter 709, Statutes of 2010
SB 1181 (Cedillo-D) Shorthand reporters: Transcript Reimbursement Fund
Extends the sunset on the Transcript Reimbursement Fund administered by the Court Reporters Board of California from 1/1/11 to 1/1/13. Expands the applicants authorized to obtain reimbursement from the Fund to include indigent pro se litigants, as specified, up to a maximum of $30,000 annually and $1,500 per case, and requires the Board to report to the Legislature no later than 3/1/12, on expenditures and claims by such litigants.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2010
SB 1274 (Senate Judiciary Committee) Electronic service of process
Amends Section 1010.6 of the Government Code, which authorizes electronic service of documents, to redefine electronic service to include both methods of electronic transmission and electronic notification. Parties may only consent to electronic service for documents which are not currently required to be served personally.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2010
SCR 126 (Corbett-D) Chief Justice Ronald M. George
Honors the service of Ronald M. George as the Chief Justice of California by designating the Civic Center Complex, comprised of the Earl Warren Building and the Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building, located at the Civic Center Plaza in the City and County of San Francisco, as the Ronald M. George Justice Center.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SR 53 (Corbett-D) Chief Justice Ronald M. George
Designates the Civic Center Complex, comprised of the Earl Warren Building and the Hiram W. Johnson State Office Building, located at the Civic Center Plaza in the City and County of San Francisco, as the Ronald M. George Justice Center, while maintaining the existing names of the buildings, in deep and lasting honor to the extraordinary and exemplary service of Chief Justice Ronald M. George as California's 27th Chief Justice.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 273 (Anderson-R) Courts: collections
Requires superior courts to refer all delinquent fines, state and local penalties, forfeitures, restitution fines and orders, regardless of amount to the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) for collection. Permits the FTB to collect the actual and reasonable costs of such collection.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 471 (Nava-D) Legal services
Makes revisions to various Government Code sections regarding Attorney General oversight of the use of legal counsel by state agencies.
Vetoed
AB 663 (Jones-D) Legal aid: court interpreters: appearances by telephone
Prohibits the use of the term "legal aid" unless the entity is a bona fide nonprofit organization that provides civil legal services for the poor without charge. Defines "legal aid organization" to mean a nonprofit organization that provides civil legal services to the poor without charge, and prohibits any person or organization to use the term "legal aid," "legal aide," or any variant or similar name unless the person or organization is a legal aid organization. Provides that any consumer injured by a violation of its provisions with respect to legal aid organizations may file a complaint and seek injunctive relief, restitution, and damages in superior court.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 942 (Feuer-D) Judgeships
Authorizes the Judicial Council to convert up to an additional 10 subordinate judicial officer positions to judgeships each year, upon vacancy, if the conversion of these additional positions will result in a judge being assigned to a family or juvenile law assignment previously presided over by a subordinate judicial officer. Requires the Judicial Council to provide the Legislature with a special assessment of the need for new judgeships in the family and juvenile law assignments for each superior court and a report on the effectiveness of the additional subordinate judicial officer conversions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 982 (Tran-R) Court facilities
Requires the State Controller to calculate the interest on the delinquent payments on specified fines and penalties destined for the State Court Facilities Construction Fund and revises the formula for calculating the penalty. Requires a county, city and county, or court to pay the interest or penalty amounts calculated pursuant to these provisions, as specified, to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund. Requires that payment be made by the entity responsible for the error or other action that caused the failure to pay, as determined by the State Controller in notice given to that party by the State Controller.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 996 (Anderson-R) Courts: continuous hours of operation
Authorizes the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the presiding justice of a court of appeal, or the presiding judge of a superior court to order the court to operate on a continuous and ongoing basis, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1229 (Evans-D) Juvenile court costs
Authorizes the court to designate a court financial evaluation officer to make evaluations of liability for reimbursement for the costs of legal services rendered to a minor in dependency proceedings. Requires both the court financial evaluation officer and the county financial evaluation officer to follow the specific procedures set fourth for county financial evaluation officers.
Chapter 569, Statutes of 2010
AB 1264 (Audra Strickland-R) Attorney's fees: objectors
Requires that any award of attorney's fees paid in settlement to a professional objector or an objector's counsel shall be approved by the court prior to payment.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1338 (Anderson-R) Arraignment courts
Authorizes the presiding judge of a superior court, or a judge designated by the presiding judge, together with the district attorney and the public defender, to agree to establish and conduct an "arraignment court program." States that the presiding judge of the superior court may establish extended hours for the operation of an "arraignment court program."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1461 (Ruskin-D) Shorthand reporting
Prohibits a firm, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other business entity providing or arranging for shorthand reporting services from conducting themselves unprofessionally under any statute, rule or regulation -- current or prospective -- that pertains to shorthand reporters or shorthand reporting. Specifies that these entities shall observe and be bound by the same statutes, rules and regulations that bind a person holding a shorthand reporting license.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1697 (Hall-D) Court security
Extends, until 7/1/13, the $10 increase in court security fees, so that the total security fees imposed on every conviction for a criminal offense, including traffic offenses, but excluding parking offenses, increases from $20 to $30. Establishes the Court Security Account within the Trial Court Trust Fund, directs all court security funds from whatever source, including the court security fee, into the Account, and requires that funds in the Account can only be expended for court security services.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1749 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Judicial branch: whistleblower protection
Expands existing whistleblower protections under the California Whistleblower Protection Act to include employees of the judicial branch.
Chapter 160, Statutes of 2010
AB 1894 (Monning-D) Judges: disqualification
Extends, for civil cases only, the time period for moving to disqualify a judge for prejudice from 10 to 15 days and requires the party challenging the judge to notify all other parties not later than five days after of making the motion.
Chapter 131, Statutes of 2010
AB 1925 (Salas-D) Veterans courts
Authorizes superior courts to develop and implement veterans courts for eligible veterans of the United States military with the objective of, among other things, creation of a dedicated calendar or a locally developed collaborative court-supervised veterans mental health program or system that leads to the placement of as many mentally ill offenders who are veterans of the United States military, including those with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma, substance abuse, or any mental health problem stemming from military service, in community treatment as is feasible and consistent with public safety.
Vetoed
AB 1926 (Evans-D) Court records: preservation guidelines
Provides that trial courts could create, maintain, and preserve court records in any form of communication, as specified, if the form satisfies rules adopted by the Judicial Council, as specified. Requires the Judicial Council to establish standards and guidelines for the creation, maintenance, reproduction, or preservation of court records. Provides that documents electronically signed, subscribed, or verified would have the same validity and legal force and effect as paper documents.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2010
AB 2116 (Evans-D) Subordinate judicial officers: gifts and honoraria
Extends existing gift limitations and honoraria restrictions currently applicable to superior court judges and justices of the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court to also apply to subordinate judicial officers.
Chapter 206, Statutes of 2010
AB 2485 (Feuer-D) Courts: civil actions
Extends the sunset to 7/1/17 for provisions regulating actions filed in superior court by a common interest development association against a builder, developer, or general contractor for design or construction defects. Increases the court application fee for out-of-state attorneys appearing in California superior courts from $250 to $500. Designates $250 of these fees to be deposited in the Trial Court Trust Fund.
Vetoed
AB 2487 (Feuer-D) Judges: disqualification
Requires that a judge be disqualified when he/she has received a contribution of more than $1,500 from a party or lawyer in a proceeding and either the contribution was received in support of the judge's last election, if the last election was within the prior six years, or the contribution was received in anticipation of an upcoming election. Requires the judge to disclose campaign contributions if those amounts are reportable under the Political Reform Act.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2010
AB 2521 (Torrico-D) Courts: budget and fiscal management
Authorizes the Judicial Council or its representatives to inspect, review, and perform comprehensive oversight and analysis of court financial records wherever they may be located, and to investigate allegations of financial impropriety or mismanagement. Requires the State Controller, on or before 12/15/12, to establish a pilot program to audit six trial courts, as specified, and, on or before 12/15/13, to commence an audit of the trial courts, including a review of all funds within the trial court's control. Requires the audit of each trial court at least once every four years. Requires the State Controller to compile the trial court audit findings and report the results of these audits to the Legislature, the Judicial Council, and the Department of Finance no later than April 1 of each year. Provides that the audit be paid for from funds of the local trial court being audited. Requires the State Controller, on or before 12/15/13, and biennially thereafter, to perform an audit of the Administrative Office of the Courts, including a review of all funds under the jurisdiction and control of the Administrative Office of the Courts. Requires the State Controller to provide a copy of the final audit report to the Legislature, the Judicial Council, and the Department of Finance upon issuance. Provides that the costs of the audit be reimbursed by the Administrative Office of the Courts.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2763 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Subordinate judicial officer conversions
Authorizes the Judicial Council to convert, in eligible superior courts, up to an additional 10 subordinate judicial officer positions (SJOs) to judgeships each year, upon vacancy, if the conversion of these additional positions will result in a judge being assigned to a family or juvenile law assignment previously presided over by an SJO. Requires the Judicial Council to provide the Legislature with a new special assessment of the need for new judgeships in the family and juvenile law assignments for each superior court and a report on the effectiveness of the additional SJO conversions authorized by this bill.
Chapter 690, Statutes of 2010
AB 2764 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) State Bar Act: fees
Authorizes the State Bar of California to collect active membership dues of up to $410 for the year 2011, which would continue the current active dues amount of $410. Provides that those dues would fund only mandatory programs of the State Bar, and members can deduct $5 if they did not wish to support lobbying and other legislative activities. Provides that members may also deduct an additional $5 if they did not wish to fund access and elimination of bias programs.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2010
AB 2766 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Attorneys
Corrects a technical error in existing law concerning lawyer trust accounts by replacing the word "in" with the word "on" with respect to interest-bearing lawyer trust fund accounts.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 5X8* (Assembly Budget Committee) Trial courts: cashflow deferral
Permits up to three deferrals of payments for non-payroll-related trial court operations in 2010-11.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2009-10, Eighth Extraordinary Session
Law Enforcement
SB 38* (Alquist-D) Emergency services: seniors
Requires the California Highway Patrol in consultation with local law enforcement officials, to develop a uniform system for addressing situations involving missing persons who are elderly and have an impaired mental state. Provides that implementation of any new duties to local law enforcement will be contingent upon receiving federal funding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 156 (Wright-D) Insurance fraud prevention and detection.
Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to convene meetings with representatives of insurers to discuss suspected or completed acts of insurance fraud.
Chapter 305, Statutes of 2010
SB 246 (Benoit-R) Criminal background checks: in-home supportive services
Requires a person to obtain a criminal background check in order to be employed as a provider of in-home supportive services.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 389 (Negrete McLeod-D) Criminal history information: professions and vocations
Adds specified licensees to the existing list of licensees required to furnish to the licensing agency a full set of fingerprints for purposes of conducting criminal history record checks, and imposes these requirements on a petitioner for reinstatement of a revoked or cancelled license.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 439 (Wyland-R) Forensic data: DNA
Requires that all DNA samples or specimens collected in criminal investigations be processed and analyzed for identification purposes within 30 days of collection.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 495 (Benoit-R) Law enforcement: telephone service providers
Requires cell phone companies to provide call location information to a law enforcement agency in order for the law enforcement agency to respond to a call for emergency services or in an emergency situation that involves the risk of death or serious physical harm. Provides that a cell phone company shall not be subject to liability when it acts in good faith in complying with this provision.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
SB 774 (Ashburn-R) Criminal history: information: social workers
Requires county welfare departments to obtain background clearances for employment applicants or transferees within the county welfare department who have frequent contact with children, and requires the county welfare director to determine whether or not there is convincing evidence that the person is of good character and should be allowed frequent and direct contact with children.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 828 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) Public safety communication
Makes various minor, technical and nonsubstantive changes to the Public Safety Communications Act of 2002.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 839 (Runner-R) Emergency services: blue alert system
Creates a blue alert system similar to the Amber Alert system to notify the public when a law enforcement officer has been attacked.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2010
SB 938 (Huff-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality
Exempts from the enhanced Department of Motor Vehicles confidentiality provisions the spouse or child of a listed person if that spouse or child has been convicted of a crime and is on active probation or parole.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2010
SB 1055 (Ashburn-R) Criminal history information : Chief Information Officer
Requires criminal background checks by the State Chief Information Officer for specified employees, contractors, volunteers and vendors whose duties include working on data centers, telecommunication, or network operation, engineering a security with access to confidential or sensitive information.
Chapter 282, Statutes of 2010
SB 1116* (Huff-R) Criminal history information: heritage schools
Requires heritage school employees to be fingerprinted.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2010
SB 1147 (DeSaulnier-D) Master Plan for California Public Safety
Requires the Legislature and the Governor to develop a "Master Plan for California Public Safety", as specified. Requires the Little Hoover Commission, by 3/31/11, to identify and compile relevant public safety reports and make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor for the purpose of developing the Master Plan. Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that the Master Plan be codified by 12/31/11.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1190 (Cedillo-D) Animal control and illegal dumping enforcement officers
Provides that the baton training course for animal control officers and illegal dumping enforcement officers, be the course approved by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and not a course certified by the Department of Consumer Affairs. Permits the training institution to charge a fee covering the cost of the training.
Chapter 109, Statutes of 2010
SB 1265 (Dutton-R) Conditional release: forensic mental patients
Authorizes a conditional release program providing outpatient treatment to forensic mental health patients (generally, mentally disordered persons placed in treatment from the criminal justice system) to inform local law enforcement of the identity and address of a person in a conditional release program.
Chapter 50, Statutes of 2010
SB 1277 (Florez-D) Animal abuse: registry: Internet publication
Requires the Department of Justice to create a registry for people convicted of felony animal abuse offenses, as specified. Provides requirements for implementing and enforcing the bill's provisions, related to the creation, operation, and regulations of the registry, and establishes penalties for misuse of registry information. Requires specified individuals convicted of felony animal abuse to register for 10 years after the date of conviction; failure to register is punishable as a misdemeanor.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1296 (Correa-D) Peace officer training: traumatic brain injury
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to meet with the Department of Veterans Affairs and other organizations, as specified, that have expertise in the area of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder to assess the training needed by peace officers, who are first responders in emergency situations, on the topic of returning veterans or other persons suffering from traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Chapter 490, Statutes of 2010
SB 1313 (Maldonado-R) Crime prevention
Provides that, on and after 1/1/11, no funds shall be provided under the California Gang, Crime, and Violence Prevention Partnership Program to a community-based organization or nonprofit agency to provide gang intervention services, unless the organization or agency enters into a contract with each person providing gang intervention services, as specified, expressly providing that the conviction of the person for an offense on or after 1/1/11, must be reported, as specified, and constitutes a breach of contract for which funds received after the conviction must be repaid.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1356 (Denham-R) Homicide trials: reimbursement
Exempts a county that is responsible for the cost of a trial(s) or any hearing of a person for the offense of homicide, in which the homicide victim was a peace officer, from having to comply with any statutory cost threshold when applying to the State Controller for reimbursement.
(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 1419 (Runner-R) Peace officers: gassing
Expands the crime of gassing to apply to any person who throws bodily fluids at a peace officer, as specified, whether or not that person is incarcerated. Provides that this new felony would be punishable by two, three, or four years in state prison.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1428 (Pavley-D) Criminal investigation: interception of communications
Amends the existing wiretap provisions to include the interception of modern types of contemporaneous two-way electronic communications and to make other changes to the intercept law.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2010
SCR 50 (Cox-R) CHP Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange
Designates the Rocklin Road Interchange on State Highway Route 80 in Placer County as the "California Highway Patrol Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange," to honor the memory of Officer Carpenter who, in 1970, after 13 years with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, died after being shot by the driver of a vehicle he had stopped.
Resolution Chapter 64, Statutes of 2010
SCR 63 (Yee-D) Secondhand goods
Urges the Department of Justice to ensure compliance with a requirement to develop a standard format to be used statewide for purposes of electronically reporting secondhand dealer transactions.
Resolution Chapter 16, Statutes of 2010
SCR 69 (Runner-R) Memorial highway: Duvall (SR 15)
Designates the segment of State Route (SR) 15 between Exit D and the SR 395 interchange in the City of Victorville as the "California Highway Patrol Officer Richard D. Duvall Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2010
SCR 83 (Negrete McLeod-D) Memorial highways: Miller (SR 60): Sanchez (SR 83)
Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 60 as the "Officer Russell M. Miller, Sr. Memorial Highway" and a segment of SR 83 as the "Correctional Officer Jesus 'Jesse' Sanchez Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2010
SCR 88 (DeSaulnier-D) Memorial overcrossing: Lasater (SR 4)
Designates the Harbor Avenue Overcrossing over State Highway Route 4 in Contra Costa County as the "Officer Larry Lasater Memorial Overcrossing."
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2010
SCR 96 (Correa-D) California Peace Officers' Memorial Day
Designates Friday, 5/7/10, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day, and urges all Californians to use that day to honor California's peace officers.
Resolution Chapter 27, Statutes of 2010
SCR 106 (Wright-D) Deputy Chief Kenneth O. Garner Memorial Exit
Designates a particular exit on State Highway Route 110 in Los Angeles County as the "Deputy Chief Kenneth O. Garner Memorial Exit".
Resolution Chapter 124, Statutes of 2010
SCR 118 (Denham-R) Correctional Officer Jose Rivera Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 99 in Atwater as the "Correctional Officer Jose Rivera Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2010
SCR 120 (Denham-R) CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 99 in Stanislaus County as the "CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2010
AB 33 (Nava-D) Violent Crime Information Center
Requires the Violent Crime Information Center make available within two hours of a reported stranger abduction of a child list of persons required to register as sex offenders based on the method of operation of the sex offenders or the specified geographical location from which the child was taken.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2010
AB 34 (Nava-D) Reports of missing persons: law enforcement sharing
Improves the state's mechanisms for facilitating swift searches for missing persons by requiring (1) the state's Violent Crime Information Center (VCIC) to release information regarding missing or unidentified persons to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, and (2) local law enforcement to submit reports of missing persons under the age of 21 or persons believed to be at risk to the Department of Justice for inclusion in the VCIC and the National Crime Information Center databases within two hours, instead of the current four hours, after the receipt of the report, as specified.
Chapter 225, Statutes of 2010
AB 126 (Jeffries-R) Criminal offender: CAL Fire
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL Fire) to conduct a state and federal level criminal offender record information search through the Department of Justice prior to hiring an applicant for a position with CAL Fire or the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, with exceptions.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 312 (Ammiano-D) San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit: police department
Creates an Office of Citizen Complaints to review and investigate allegations of misconduct filed against peace officers in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 387 (Hagman-R) Peace officer volunteer: training
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to establish training standards and develop a course of instruction for peace officer volunteers. Specifies that the local governmental entity utilizing the peace officer volunteers shall be responsible for the costs associated with their training. Requires POST to adopt rules establishing the minimum standards for training peace officer volunteers in accordance with specified rulemaking provisions.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 458 (Cook-R) Peace officer vehicles: windows tinting
Exempts a vehicle operated and owned or leased by a federal, state, or local agency, department, or district, that employs peace officers, for use by those peace officers in the performance of their duties, from California law prohibiting or limiting materials that may be placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied to the windshield or side or rear windows, commonly referred to as window tinting or glazing.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 509 (Anderson-R) Fleeing from a peace officer
Rewrites the penalty provisions for evading a peace officer and causing damage to persons or property so that damage to persons could be found to be an inherently dangerous felony for the purpose of second-degree felony murder.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 586* (Ma-D) San Francisco peace officers: workers' compensation
Corrects an inadvertent drafting error that excluded San Francisco deputy sheriffs, probation officers, institutional police, and certain members of the district attorney's office from receiving workers' compensation benefits for work-related injuries or illnesses.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2010
AB 658 (Hayashi-D) California Police Activities League: income tax
Allows taxpayers to make voluntary contributions to the California Police Activities League Fund on their personal income tax returns.
Chapter 346, Statutes of 2010
AB 680 (Hall-D) Law enforcement: process fees
Increases, by amounts ranging from $5 to $20, various fees for serving, executing, and processing required court notices, writs, orders, and other services provided by county sheriffs and marshals, generally effective 2011.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2010
AB 709 (Lieu-D) Criminal background check: charter drivers
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt and enforce rules requiring drivers for charter party carriers serving airports to undergo critical background checks.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 891 (Bill Berryhill-R) Gang abatement
Enacts the Gang Nuisance and Abatement Act, establishing a cause of action against the owner of property used by a criminal street gang as a congregating point. Authorizes a district attorney or city attorney to bring an abatement action against the property owner and authorizes the imposition of a fine not to exceed $1,000 for the first violation and a fine not to exceed $2,500 for a second violation. Authorizes, upon a third violation, the district attorney or the city attorney to file a petition with the court for the seizure and forfeiture of the property in question, in accordance with certain procedures. Provides that the proceeds from the fines and property forfeiture will be split between local law enforcement and the district attorney's office for the purpose of funding gang prevention activities.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1022 (Nava-D) Law enforcement: missing children
Establishes, within the Department of Justice, a director position for the purposes of assisting law enforcement agencies with the timely search and recovery of at-risk abducted children, maintaining up-to-date knowledge and expertise of those protocols, best practices, and technologies that are most effective for recovering missing children, maintaining relationships with law enforcement agencies and other entities responsible for the investigation of missing persons, and providing oversight and maintenance of the state's Child Abduction First Responder List.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2010
AB 1048 (Torrico-D) Child protection: safe surrender
Extends the period during which a person may safely surrender a baby at designated sites as long as the proper procedures under the Safely Surrendered Baby Law are followed.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2010
AB 1369 (Davis-D) Electronic monitoring on home detention
Enacts home detention programs for qualified persons held in county jail in lieu of bail.
Vetoed
AB 1428 (John Perez-D) Coroner: autopsy
Prohibits a coroner from performing specified procedures on the body of a decedent, if the deceased is under the age of 18 and the coroner is informed by a person with the right to control the remains and the postmortem anatomical dissection or that specified procedure would be contrary to that person's religious belief.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1532* (Lieu-D) Code enforcement officers
Creates a stand-alone section of the Penal Code defining a "code enforcement officer".
Chapter 117, Statutes of 2010
AB 1586 (Swanson-D) Bay Area Rapid Transit independent police auditor
Authorizes the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to establish an office of independent police auditor to investigate complaints against district police personnel. Requires that, if the BART Board does establish a police auditor's office, the powers and duties of the auditor would be, as specified.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2010
AB 1669 (Jeffries-R) Criminal background checks: firefighter applicants
Subjects, from 1/1/12 through 1/1/14, a firefighter applicant for employment with Department of Forestry and Fire Protection or the Board of Forestry to criminal background checks to determine whether the applicant is eligible for employment. Requires, after 1/1/14, background checks of both permanent and seasonal firefighter applicants.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1679 (Torres-D) Public Safety Telecommunicators Week
Designates the second full week of April of each year as California Public Safety Telecommunicators Week for the purpose of heightening citizen awareness of the great importance of 911 service and its role in keeping the public safe. Requires the Governor and the Legislature to annually issue proclamations and resolutions, as specified, that draw public attention to the week in order to encourage the private sector and state and local agencies to initiate activities recognizing public safety telecommunicators.
Vetoed
AB 1682 (Torres-D) Police reports: confidential information
Authorizes the board of supervisors or a city council to authorize the sheriff or the chief of police to establish a procedure to protect confidential personal information contained in a police report, arrest report, or investigative report regarding a victim or alleged victim, and said victim or alleged victim has requested the information to be kept confidential.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1691 (Ammiano-D) Crime laboratories: oversight
Requires the Crime Laboratory Review Task Force to submit to the Legislature a supplemental report, by 7/1/11, that includes a proposal to establish a statewide body to oversee crime laboratories.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1813 (Lieu-D) Peace officers: public officials: personal information
Includes the information provided to cellular phone applications in the information that a public official may ask to be removed from the Internet, and expands the definition of "peace officer" within the definition of "public official."
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2010
AB 1828 (Cook-R) Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training
Re-establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to reclaim responsibility for developing and monitoring training for correctional peace officers from the Corrections Standards Authority, which assumed this responsibility following the reorganization of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2005.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1972 (Carter-D) School security officers
Adds school security officers to the list of persons making it a crime to willfully resist, delay, or obstruct in the discharge or attempted discharge of any duty of his/her office or employment. Additionally, states legislative intent to encourage school districts to inform students and their parents of the inclusion of school security officers in Penal Code Section 148.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2009 (Logue-R) DNA analysis funding
Permits county board of supervisors to authorize the use of excess funds from the state's DNA Identification Fund to reimburse law enforcement and district attorneys for use of an independent laboratory, other than the Department of Justice, to expedite the analysis of samples.
Vetoed
AB 2097 (Miller-R) Confidential home addresses: citations
Requires specified persons who have requested confidentiality of their home address in Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) records to provide DMV with a current employment address, and makes specified changes to improve the collections of traffic, parking, and toll road violations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2140 (Solorio-D) Crime prevention: criminal gangs
Establishes the High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas Task Force to formulate a comprehensive strategy for addressing high intensity gang activity throughout California and to advise the Emergency Management Agency on the appropriate disbursement of funds to regional high activity gang areas.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2157 (Logue-R) Probation officers: firearms: qualifications
Allows probation officers authorized to carry guns to qualify with the gun at least every six months instead of every three months.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2210 (Fuentes-D) Intercepted communications: hostage taking and barricading
Allows law enforcement to eavesdrop in a barricade or hostage situation.
Chapter 380, Statutes of 2010
AB 2243 (Smyth-R) Search and rescue dogs
Clarifies the emergency service law to ensure that the protections for emergency services dogs, including protections appropriately prohibiting discrimination against the dogs' handlers, apply during non-declared disasters, and extends these protections to search and rescue dogs handled by volunteers legally registered with government agencies.
Chapter 92, Statutes of 2010
AB 2250 (Harkey-R) Safety members of PERS
Provides that final compensation for a person who becomes a state member of the Public Employees' Retirement System on or after 1/1/11, and who is represented by State Bargaining Unit 5, 6, 8, 9, or is a peace officer/firefighter member of State Bargaining Unit 7, means the highest annual average compensation earnable by the member during a designated 36-month period. Applies the definition of "final compensation" to a state employee who is excepted from the definition of "state employee" for purposes of state labor relations, as specified, or an officer or employee of the executive branch of state government who is not a member of the civil service, who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state member of the system on or after 1/1/11.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2258 (Bass-D) California Public Safety Commission
Declares the intent of the Legislature to create the California Public Safety Commission, an independent, multi-jurisdictional body to work on issues related to the state's criminal justice system.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2384 (Gilmore-R) Peace officers: correctional officers: parole agents
Grants Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) parole agents whose duties are the same as members of the Office of Correctional Safety of CDCR peace officer status that extends to any place in California.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2505 (Audra Strickland-R) Warrants: electronic signature
Allows a warrant to be signed electronically when the magistrate receives the request for the warrant electronically.
Chapter 98, Statutes of 2010
AB 2626 (Jones-D) Sheriff security officers: Sacramento County
Authorizes the Sheriff of Sacramento County or municipality with law enforcement jurisdiction in the County of Sacramento to assign "sheriff's security officers", as defined, to provide physical security and protection to properties owned, operated, or administered by any public agency, privately-owned company, or nonprofit entity, as specified, whose primary business supports national defense, or whose facility is qualified as national critical infrastructure under federal law or by a federal agency, or who stores or manufactures material which, if stolen, vandalized, or otherwise compromised, may compromise national security or may pose a danger to residents of the County of Sacramento.
Vetoed
AB 2631 (Logue-R) Law enforcement: communication with federal immigration
Declares that any ordinance or policy of a city, county, city and county, or law enforcement agency that prevents or limits a law enforcement agency, or an employee of a law enforcement agency, from notifying federal authorities that a person may be within the country illegally is void and not of any force or effect. Allows a resident of the local jurisdiction to apply for a writ of mandate to compel the entity to comply with these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2685 (De La Torre-D) Criminal background checks: charter schools
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to make available to each private school, a listing of all credential holders who have had final adverse action taken against their credential.
Chapter 169, Statutes of 2010
AB 2727 (Bradford-D) Criminal history information: employment applicant
Prohibits an employer from denying an application for employment based on the individual's prior conviction for a criminal offense, unless the employer determines that (1) there is a direct relationship between the criminal offense and the employment sought, or (2) the granting of employment would involve an unreasonable risk to property or the safety of welfare of specific persons or the general public.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3X8 (Assembly Budget Committee) DNA laboratories
Authorizes a DNA penalty assessment to cover the costs of the Department of Justice's DNA laboratories.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009-10, 8th Extraordinary Session
ACR 103 (John Perez-D) Memorial highway: Escalante (SR 101)
Names a portion of State Highway Route 101 in Los Angeles as the "Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Juan Abel Escalante Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 117, Statutes of 2010
ACR 107 (Torres-D) National Night Out
Proclaims 8/3/10, as National Night Out in California, and urges the people of California to observe and participate in National Night Out.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2010
ACR 124 (Bass-D) Lieutenant Curtis Massey Memorial Overpass
Designates the eastbound portion of the National Boulevard overpass on State Highway Route 10 as the "Culver City Police Lieutenant Curtis Massey Memorial Overpass."
Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2010
ACR 127 (Adams-R) Memorial highway: Wetterling/Stewart (SR 15)
Names a segment of State Highway Route 15 as the "CHP Officer Larry L. Wetterling and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2010
ACR 146 (Hayashi-D) Memorial bridge: Dunakin/Romans/Hege: City of Oakland
Designates the Keller Avenue Bridge in the City of Oakland as the "Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans, and Officer John Hege Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2010
ACR 159 (Eng-D) Memorial highway: Martinez (Interstate 10)
Designates a short segment of Interstate 10 in the City of Alhambra as the "CHP Officer Johnny R. Martinez Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2010
ACR 164 (Villines-R) Memorial highway: Wahlenmaier (SR 168)
Designates a segment of State Route 168 as the "Deputy Sheriff Joel B. Wahlenmaier Memorial Highway."
Resolution Chapter 152, Statutes of 2010
ACR 175 (Anderson-R) Memorial bridge: Collier (SR 52)
Designates a bridge on State Route 52 as the "Deputy Sheriff Kenneth James Collier Memorial Bridge."
Resolution Chapter 157, Statutes of 2010
ACR 176 (Conway-R) Memorial highway: Conley/Landin (SR 198/216)
Designates, as the "Detective Monty L. Conley and Detective Joe R. Landin Memorial Highway," the portion of State Route (SR) 198 between Road 204 East and SR 216 in Tulare County.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 187 (Torres-D) Red Ribbon Week
Proclaims 10/23/10 to 10/31/10, inclusive, as Red Ribbon Week, and encourages all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.
Resolution Chapter 172, Statutes of 2010
AJR 40 (Huffman-D) Gang violence prevention
Encourages the Congress and the President of the United States to establish more effective mechanisms by which the federal government may encourage comprehensive local gang violence reduction plans.
Resolution Chapter 42, Statutes of 2010
Family Law
SB 494 (Maldonado-R) Department of Child Support Services
Requires the Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) to provide any notice form, information, or document, without limitation, that is required or authorized to be given, distributed, or provided to an individual, a customer, or a member of the public to be given, distributed, or provided in a digitized form, and by any means DCSS determines is feasible, including, but not limited to, e-mail or by means of an Internet Web site, except as specified. Provides that this provision does not take effect until DCSS makes a specified determination.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 543 (Leno-D) Minors: consent to mental health services
Authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis or to residential shelter services, if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2010
SB 578 (Wright-D) Child support: interest
Allows certain non-custodial parents who owe child support to have the interest waived on the past-due child support if they pay their current month's support payment in full.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 580 (Wright-D) Child support: health insurance
Defines the terms "reasonable cost" and "accessible" as they pertain to medical support orders in order to meet federal regulation requirements.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2010
SB 662 (Yee-D) Marriage license fees
Permits a county board of supervisors to increase the marriage license fees used to fund domestic violence shelters by $10 and clarifies when such shelters may receive these funds.
Vetoed
SB 696 (Wright-D) Child support: compromise of arrears
Provides that acceptance of an offer in compromise is deemed to be in the best interest of the state with regard to arrears that accrued as a result of a decrease in income when the obligor failed to modify the support order to reflect the reduction in income when an obligor was a reservist or member of the National Guard activated to United States military service, when the obligor was incarcerated for more than 90 days and does not have other sources of income, when the obligor's sole income was based on specified forms of public assistance, or when the obligor was receiving inpatient services in a medical facility for more than 90 days and does not have other sources of income.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 906 (Leno-D) Marriage
Distinguishes between civil and religious marriage by clarifying that a civil marriage is established pursuant to a State of California marriage license, to which the consent of the parties capable of making that contract is necessary. Specifies that no priest, minister, rabbi, or authorized person of any religious denomination would be required to solemnize a marriage that is contrary to the tenets of his/her faith. Additionally states that any refusal to solemnize a marriage under that provision shall not affect the tax exempt status of any entity.
Vetoed
SB 1030 (Strickland-R) Child support: reimbursement
Specifies that provisions in existing law shall not prevent a parent, guardian, or relative caregiver from receiving Title IV-D child support services.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1188 (Wright-D) Child custody: disabled parent
States the intent of the Legislature to codify the decision of the California Supreme Court in In re Marriage of Carney (1979) 24 Cal.3d 725, with respect to custody and visitation determinations by the court involving a disabled parent.
Chapter 179, Statutes of 2010
SB 1292 (Walters-R) Child support: vocational examination
Authorizes a court, in a proceeding in which child support is an issue, to order a party to submit to an examination by a vocational training counselor.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1355 (Wright-D) Child support: suspension of support order
Provides, until 7/1/15, that the obligation of a person to pay child support pursuant to an order that is being enforced by a local child support agency is suspended for the period of time in which the obligor is incarcerated or involuntarily institutionalized, any period exceeding 90 days, except as specified. Provides that, upon the release of the obligor, the obligation to pay child support would immediately resume in the amount specified in the child support order prior to the suspension of that obligation.
Chapter 495, Statutes of 2010
SB 1482 (Wright-D) Spousal support: modification: change of circumstances
Extends by three years, the sunset date on the provision regarding change of circumstances that may be the basis for a request for modification of spousal support. Enumerates specified circumstances in which termination of the child support order does not constitute a change of circumstances.
Chapter 297, Statutes of 2010
AB 47 (Ma-D) Adoption costs: income taxes
Increases, from $2,500 to $5,000, the maximum adoption credit allowed for families that adopt a foster child who is over 12-years-old or has lived in a group home for six of the 18 months prior to their adoption. Provides that the increased credit sunsets on 1/1/15.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 372 (Ma-D) Adoption: vital records
Allows an adoptee, under certain conditions, to have access to his/her original and unredacted birth certificate.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 375 (Nielsen-R) Child custody: sexual abuse
Limits the ability of the court to grant an ex parte request to modify a child custody order in cases of domestic violence or child sexual abuse.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 612 (Beall-D) Child custody and visitation: nonscientific theories
Provides that allegations of physical or sexual abuse against a child are to be investigated using specified methods of data collection and analysis. Provides that the rules of evidence applicable in criminal proceedings shall apply whenever the court considers an allegation of physical or sexual abuse against a child in a custody proceeding. Provides that unproven, nonscientific theories, including, but not limited to, alienation theories, are not consistent with generally accepted clinical, forensic, scientific, diagnostic, or medical standards. Prohibits a court from relying upon an unproven, unscientific theory and from accepting into evidence any finding provided by an expert witness or court appointed professional who has relied on an unproven, nonscientific theory that is a basis for that finding. Requires the Judicial Council to provide training consistent with these provisions.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 939 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Family law proceedings
Makes various changes to family law proceedings thereby implementing a number of the legislative recommendations issued by the Elkins Family Law Task Force.
Chapter 352, Statutes of 2010
AB 967 (Ma-D) Marriages
Authorizes an elected mayor of a charter city to solemnize a marriage ceremony while that person holds office.
Vetoed
A similar bill was AB 2600 (Ma-D), Chapter 268, Statutes of 2010
AB 1048 (Torrico-D) Child safe surrender
Extends the period during which a person may safely surrender a baby at designated sites as long as the proper procedures under the Safely Surrendered Baby Law are followed.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2010
AB 1050 (Ma-D) Child custody: preferences of child
Requires the family court to permit a child who is 14 years of age or older to address the court regarding custody or visitation unless the court determines that doing so is not in the childs best interest, in which case the court will be required to make that finding on the record.
Chapter 187, Statutes of 2010
AB 1261 (Audra Strickland-R) Child custody and visitation: registered sex offenders
Prohibits the court from granting a person physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child if the person is a registered sex offender or has been convicted of specified criminal offenses, and prohibits the court from placing the child in a home in which that person resides.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1402 (Bass-D) Family connection grants
Requires the Department of Social Services to support California-based applications for the federal matching family connection grant in order to connect foster children with family members.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1596 (Hayashi-D) Protective orders: enforcement priority
Implements recommendations from the Judicial Council's Protective Orders Working Group, and makes various changes to protective order statutes. Takes effect on 1/1/12.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2010
AB 2020 (Fletcher-R) Family law: adoption
Makes several changes to adoption processes and adoptive placement considerations.
Chapter 588, Statutes of 2010
AB 2055 (De La Torre-D) Domestic partners: unemployment insurance
Permits the Employment Development Department to award unemployment insurance benefits to a person for whom a registered domestic partnership is imminent, and must move due to a partner's relocation.
Chapter 590, Statutes of 2010
AB 2348 (Yamada-D) Marriage licenses: fees: domestic violence
Provides, until 1/1/16, authorization to increase fees for certain vital records to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Yolo to fund local domestic violence programs.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2416 (Cook-R) Child custody: parent on active duty
Establishes procedures for the modification of child custody and visitation orders for active duty military personnel.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2010
AB 2417 (Cook-R) Tribal customary adoption
Makes several clarifications regarding how a background check must be completed for the purposes of a tribal customary adoption.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2010
AB 2418 (Cook-R) Child custody: Indian children
Revises the definition of Indian child for purposes of an "Indian child" custody proceeding.
Chapter 468, Statutes of 2010
AB 2426 (Bradford-D) Surrogacy facilitators
Regulates nonattorney surrogacy facilitators by requiring them to direct a client to deposit all client funds into either an independent, bonded escrow account or a trust account maintained by an attorney. Provides that those funds could only be disbursed by the attorney or escrow agent as provided in the agreements between the parties.
Chapter 138, Statutes of 2010
AB 2475 (Beall-D) Family law: complaints
Establishes a statewide complaint process regarding family law experts employed or appointed by the courts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2600* (Ma-D) Marriage: solemnization
Authorizes elected mayors to solemnize marriages while that person holds office, and requires that the mayor obtain and review from the county clerk all available instructions for marriage solemnization before the mayor first solemnizes a marriage.
Chapter 268, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 967 (Ma-D) which was vetoed.
AB 2674 (Block-D) Family law: exemplary damages
Provides that, when a spouse is convicted of soliciting the murder of another spouse, the injured spouse shall be entitled to an award of 100% of the community property interest in the retirement and pension benefits, and a prohibition of any awards for spousal support or medical, life, or other insurance benefits or payments from the injured spouse to the convicted spouse.
Chapter 65, Statutes of 2010
AB 2700 (Ma-D) Domestic partner registration: termination
Permits couples that are both married and registered domestic partners to dissolve both unions in a single court proceeding. Clarifies that, in a dissolution proceeding, courts may dissolve out-of-state, same-sex marriages recognized in California.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2010
ACR 183 (Fletcher-R) California Adoption Month
Declares November 2010 as California Adoption Month.
Resolution Chapter 170, Statues of 2010
AJR 15 (De Leon-D) Uniting American Families Act
Urges the Congress of the United States to include the Reuniting Families Act and the Uniting American Families Act in comprehensive immigration reform or to pass, and President Obama to sign, the Uniting American Families Act as stand-alone legislation and support the removal of legal barriers to immigration by permanent same-sex partners.
Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2010
AJR 18 (Lieu-D) Same-sex couples: benefits: social security
Supports federal legislative efforts to reduce or eliminate discrimination against same-sex couples in social security benefits.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AJR 19 (Brownley-D) Marriage
Calls upon the Congress and the President of the United States to repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.
Resolution Chapter 120, Statutes of 2010
AJR 29 (Feuer-D) Federal income tax: same-sex marriage
Asks the Internal Revenue Service to issue a new ruling with respect to the federal revenue tax treatment of registered domestic partners and same-sex married couples.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2010
Civil Law
SB 105 (Harman-R) Donative transfer restrictions
Repeals current provisions related to restrictions on donative transfers to specified persons. Establishes, instead, an express presumption of fraud or undue influence if the donative instrument makes a gift to the person who drafted or who transcribed the instrument or to their family members, or makes a gift to certain other disqualified persons, including a caregiver or care custodian, and provides exceptions to the operation of this presumption. Provides that the presumption may be rebutted by preponderance of the evidence. Defines "degree of kinship" or consanguinity for the Probate Code.
Chapter 620, Statutes of 2010
SB 108 (Walters-R) Government tort claims: charter schools
Provides that no joint powers authority for risk-pooling shall refuse to admit to membership or provide coverage to a charter school, including a charter school organized pursuant to Section 47604 of the Education Code, or a school district which operates a charter school, solely on the basis that it operates as a charter school.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 127 (Calderon-D) Automatic external defibrillators: health studios: immunity
Creates a waiver of the "Good Samaritan" immunities for those health studios that allow its members access to its facilities during operating hours when employees trained in the use of automatic external defibrillators are not present, and further waives the affirmative defense of primary assumption of the risk, whether expressed or implied, as to a claim arising out of the absence of trained staff.
Chapter 500, Statutes of 2010
SB 189 (Lowenthal-D) Mechanics liens
Revises and recasts existing law relative to mechanics liens. Authorizes the submission of notices by means of electronic communication with respect to mechanics liens. Sets forth additional requirements governing the form of security for bonds and sets forth the security required for large projects with a contract price of greater than $1 million for the owner of a less than fee interest in property or $5 million for the owner of the fee interest in the property.
Chapter 697, Statutes of 2010
SB 202 (Harman-R) Trustees: duties
Seeks to reduce disputes by bringing clarity and certainty to the law describing the parties' rights and obligations in the area of trustee accountability. Makes a number of relatively minor changes to trust administration to make the law of trusts more workable for trustees and to help ensure that the interests of beneficiaries are properly protected, including closing a loophole that may permit evasion of the required notice of trust administration, providing that late service of notice is nonetheless effective to trigger the 120-day statute of limitations to file a trust contest, and increasing the amount of a trust that a trustee may terminate without court permission from $20,000 to $40,000. Declares that it is against public policy for a trust instrument to waive the beneficiary's right to information and access to records.
Chapter 621, Statutes of 2010
SB 269 (Harman-R) Attorney's fees
Provides for the award of attorney's fees in specified cases only if judgment has been entered in favor of the successful party against one or more opposing parties in the action.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 393 (Harman-R) Judgments: interest
Provides that interest accrues at the federal short-term rate plus 2%, except as otherwise provided in a written contract, not to exceed 10% per annum on those judgments, as specified. Requires the State Controller to annually establish the interest rate, as specified, and notify the auditor in each county of that rate.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 617 (Harman-R) Intervention: initiatives
Provides that the official proponent of a state initiative statute or constitutional amendment, that has been approved by the voters, would have the right to intervene and participate in any court action challenging the constitutionality of the initiative statute or constitutional amendment.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 629 (Liu-D) Private works of improvement
Prohibits, applicable to all contracts entered into on or after 1/1/10, retention proceeds withheld from any payment made by an owner to the original contract from exceeding 5% of the amount otherwise due under the contract. Prohibits the percentage of the retention proceed withheld from any payment made by the original contractor to any subcontractor, or by a subcontractor to another subcontractor, from exceeding 5% of the amount otherwise due under the contract, or the percentage of each payment that may be withheld under the contractor, whichever is less.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 782 (Yee-D) Residential tenancies: unlawful detainer
Prohibits a landlord from terminating a tenancy based upon an act(s) of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking against the tenant or tenant's household member, if the act(s) can be appropriately documented and the perpetrator is not a tenant of the same dwelling unit as the tenant. Permits a tenant to change the locks of the dwelling unit, or request the landlord to do so, as specified, if the tenant has a restraining order against another person based on that other person's acts of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking against the tenant.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 2010
SB 877 (Harman-R) Arbitration: legal representation
Extends the sunset provision until 1/1/13, for the out-of-state attorney arbitration counsel program.
Chapter 277, Statutes of 2010
SB 909 (Wright-D) Investigative consumer reporting agencies: disclosures
Requires a person (i.e., a prospective employer) who procures an investigative consumer report for employment purposes to disclose to the consumer (i.e., an applicant) the Internet Web site of the investigative consumer reporting agency. Requires the agency to conspicuously post on its Internet Web site its privacy policy, including information on whether reports are prepared or processed outside of the United States or its territories.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2010
SB 931 (Ducheny-D) Mortgages: deficiency judgments
Requires the holder of a first mortgage or deed of trust that is secured by residential real property to accept, as full payment, the proceeds of a short sale to which it agrees in writing, and obligates that note holder to fully discharge the remaining amount of the borrower's indebtedness on the deed of trust or mortgage following the sale.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2010
SB 972 (Wolk-D) Indemnity: design professionals
Revises the existing indemnity statute regarding public works contracts with design professionals to clarify that the duty to indemnify, including the duty and the cost to defend, is regulated by the statute. Requires that all contracts and all solicitation documents, including requests for proposals, invitations for bid, and other solicitation documents between a public agency and a design professional are deemed to incorporate the foregoing statute by reference. Expressly applies only prospectively to services offered pursuant to a design professional contract or amendment entered into on or after 1/1/11, and does not abrogate the provisions of Section 1104 of the Public Contract Code.
Chapter 510, Statutes of 2010
SB 984* (Hollingsworth-R) Service of process: time
Requires, until 1/1/14, the first attempt to personally serve a summons and complaint initiating an action to be made between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 1038 (Harman-R) Powers of attorney: duties
Deletes existing law exemptions providing that an attorney-in-fact is not liable for losses to the principals' property when the attorney-in-fact is not compensated. Provides the circumstances under which an attorney-in-fact is chargeable with breaches of duty.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2010
SB 1117 (Walters-R) Judgments: interest
Provides that the interest that accrues on the principal amount of a judgment remaining unsatisfied would be limited to the federal short-term rate, as determined by the State Controller, plus 2%. Specifies that, if the plaintiff makes an offer to compromise that the defendant does not accept prior to trial or within 30 days, whichever occurs first, and the plaintiff obtains a more favorable judgment, the interest on the portion of the judgment awarded as compensatory damages for personal injury would be limited to the federal short-term rate plus 2%. Provides that judgments against local governmental entities would have an interest accrual rate limited to the federal short-term rate plus 2%.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1149 (Corbett-D) Residential tenancies: foreclosure
Prohibits the release of court records in a foreclosure-related eviction unless the plaintiff landlord prevails and requires that a prescribed cover sheet, notifying a tenant of his/her rights and responsibilities, be attached to any eviction notice that is served within one year after a foreclosure.
Chapter 641, Statutes of 2010
SB 1178 (Corbett-D) Real property: deficiency judgments
Preserves a borrowers protection from a deficiency judgment when loans are refinanced, but only to the extent that the refinance is used to pay debt incurred to purchase the real property. Becomes operative on 6/1/11.
Vetoed
SB 1274 (Senate Judiciary Committee) Electronic service of process
Amends Section 1010.6 of the Government Code, which authorizes electronic service of documents, to re-define "electronic service" to include both methods of electronic transmission and electronic notification. Provides that parties may only consent to electronic service for documents which are not currently required to be served personally.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2010
SB 1276 (Cox-R) Liens: public utility
Requires the trustee or mortgagee of a defaulted deed of trust mortgage on real property to satisfy any existing judgment liens, as provided, filed by a public utility of any city, county, or city and county against the judgment debtor prior to sale of the real property.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1330 (Senate Judiciary Committee) Maintenance of the codes
Makes numerous technical changes in the California codes that have been recommended by the Legislative Counsel's Office.
Chapter 328, Statutes of 2010
SCR 52 (Lowenthal-D) Iranian persecution: Baha'i
Condemns the government of Iran for its state-sponsored persecution of Baha'is, calls on the government of Iran to immediately cease activities aimed at the repression of the Iranian Baha'i community, and holds the government of Iran responsible for upholding all the rights of its nationals, including members of the Baha'i community.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SJR 9 (Kehoe-D) Military: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to adopt the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009 (H.R. 1283) and the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2010 (S.3065) that institutes a policy of nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation, and to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Resolution Chapter 29, Statutes of 2010
SR 51 (Leno-D) Sexual orientation discrimination
Makes a correlation between some United States based religion and sexual orientation discrimination directed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Uganda, and commends the work of Right Reverend Christopher Senyonjo.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 229 (Charles Calderon-D) Uniform Principal and Income Act
Clarifies that when a separate fund payer does not provide the value of the internal income of the separate fund to the trustee and the trustee cannot otherwise determine the value of the separate fund, the internal income of the separate fund is deemed to equal the product of the interest rate and the present value of the expected future payments.
Chapter 71, Statutes of 2010
AB 353 (Charles Calderon-D) Civil actions
Provides that a civil action for relief on the ground of libel or slander shall be commenced within three years, rather than one year, as in current law.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 355 (Ammiano-D) Decedent's estates
Establishes a procedure for the personal representative of a decedent who died a resident of a sister state to collect the decedent's personal property in this state valued in excess of $100,000. (The procedure is substantially similar to the existing simplified affidavit procedure for the transfer of a nonresident decedent's personal property valued at less than $100,000 to the decedent's personal representative from the sister state).
(Died In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 578 (Huber-D) Civil procedure
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure to codify current case law, which provides that, if a party objects to a discovery demand on the grounds that the material is privileged, then the demanding party may ask (and the court may require) the objecting party to produce a "privilege log," in order to clarify the claim of privilege.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 585 (Duvall-R) Deceased personalities
Amends the definition of a "deceased personality" to include a person whose name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness has commercial value because of his/her death.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2010
AB 621 (Saldana-D) Civil actions: minors: anti-SLAPP
Provides that specified provisions in Section 425.16 of the Code of Civil Procedure do not apply to specified civil rights actions if the person bringing the action, or the person on whose behalf is brought, was a minor at the time the activity that gave rise to the civil action occurred. Provides that a court may set aside an arbitration agreement in a civil action that is based on a violation of certain civil rights provisions if a party to the arbitration was a minor at the time the agreement was entered, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 634 (Harkey-R) Liability: hazardous recreational activities
Adds self-contained underwater breathing apparatus diving to the list of hazardous recreational activities and, as a result, provides a qualified immunity for public entities and public employees from damages for injuries sustained by those divers on public property.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2010
AB 724 (DeVore-R) Nonprobate transfers
Creates two new nonprobate property transfer instruments, the "Simple Revocable Transfer on Death Deed" and the "Revocable Transfer on Death Deed With Life Estate," which would be effective upon death of the transferor.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 898 (Lieu-D) Notaries public
Authorizes the Secretary of State to refuse to process (authenticate) documents that are clearly intended for fraudulent purposes. Prohibits the use of a subscribing witness when establishing a power of attorney, just as a subscribing witness cannot now be used for real property documents that must be recorded. Eliminates the duty of a notary public to process antiquated documents (i.e., "protests" of nonpayment of negotiable instruments), unless the notary public works for a financial institution.
Vetoed
AB 1040 (Audra Strickland-R) Appeals: class action settlements
Requires an appellant, upon filing a notice of appeal, to state if the appeal is from a lower court's approval of a class action settlement. If so, then the appeal shall be entitled to expedited briefing and preference in setting the date for oral argument within 120 days after the notice of appeal has been filed.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1263 (Audra Strickland-R) Unlawful detainer: service of notice
Revises the process for serving commercial tenants with a notice of unlawful detainer by tailoring the procedure to the commercial context.
Chapter 144, Statues of 2010
AB 1264 (Audra Strickland-R) Attorney's fees: objectors
Requires that any award of attorney's fees paid in settlement to a professional objector or an objector's counsel shall be approved by the court prior to payment.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1502 (Eng-D) Nuisance abatement: civil action
Authorizes the county counsel to bring a civil action to abate a public nuisance, a controlled substances nuisance, or a gambling or prostitution nuisance.
Chapter 570, Statues of 2010
AB 1680 (Saldana-D) Civil rights: waiver of rights
Imposes specified restrictions on the future contractual waivers of rights under the Ralph Civil Rights Act and the Bane Civil Rights Act.
Vetoed
AB 1684 (Jeffries-R) Civil actions: adverse possession
Requires the timely payment of specified taxes relative to an action for adverse possession and provides that payment shall be established by certified records of the county tax collector.
Chapter 55, Statutes of 2010
AB 1730 (Emmerson-R) Personal rights: monetary liability
Clarifies that the peer review liability exemption applies to review of psychotherapy services and marriage and family therapists.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2010
AB 1775 (Furutani-D) Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution
Requires the Governor to annually proclaim January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution and designates that day as a day having special significance in which public schools and educational institutions are encouraged to conduct exercises remembering the life of Fred Korematsu.
Chapter 241, Statutes of 2010
AB 1838 (Bill Berryhill-R) Unlawful detainer: controlled substances and firearms
Adds, until 1/1/12, the district attorney in San Joaquin County to two existing pilot projects that permit city attorneys or prosecutors to bring an unlawful detainer action against a tenant for unlawful activities regarding firearms, ammunition, and controlled substances.
Vetoed
AB 1922 (Davis-D) Civil rights: education advisory committee
Establishes the California Civil Rights Education Advisory Committee within the California Department of Education for the purpose of advising the State Board of Education and Curriculum Commission on the inclusion of civil rights education in the history-social science framework and criteria for evaluating instructional materials.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1986 (Silva-R) Statutory wills: form
Conforms the requirements of the California statutory will form to the provisions of statutory law whereby witnesses to a will are not required to sign the will in each other's presence. Makes technical revisions to the statutory will form by removing language providing that notarization alone is not sufficient and modifying the form regarding nomination of a guardian for a child under age 18.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2010
AB 2024 (Blumenfield-D) Loan modification
Provides that any lender or servicer that rejects a loan modification request shall respond to the borrower making the request within seven days via certified mail with the specific reasons why the request was rejected. Requires that the response must comply with certain language translation requirements.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2028 (Hernandez-D) Confidentiality of medical information: disclosure
Amends the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act to expressly authorize mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect and elder and dependent adult abuse to subsequently disclose requested information to the agency investigating the report of abuse or neglect. Exempts information disclosed by a psychotherapist who is required to make a report from existing law's requirement that the entity requesting the information meet certain request and notification requirements. Makes a technical correction to last year's AB 681 (Hernandez-D), Chapter 464, Statutes of 2009.
Chapter 540, Statutes of 2010
AB 2117 (Niello-R) Unclaimed property
Makes three fundamental changes to California's Unclaimed Property Law (UPL): (1) eliminates the regular transfer of unclaimed property funds from the Abandoned Property Fund to the General Fund, a figure estimated by the State Controller to be in excess of $270 million per year, (2) requires the State Controller to add an interest payment to any claim for unclaimed property that the State Controller pays to an owner, (3) seeks to extend the escheat period for most types of unclaimed property from three years to five years without a provision improving notice requirements for holders of unclaimed property.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2119 (Tran-R) Civil procedure: deadlines: computation
Adds to the Code of Civil Procedure a definitive method of calculating specified action deadlines, including the service and court filing of specified motions, oppositions, and replies, as they pertain to court hearings.
Chapter 41, Statutes of 2010
AB 2145 (Ammiano-D) Drug overdose treatment: liability
Expands a seven county pilot program that provides licensed health care providers with a qualified immunity from civil liability or criminal prosecution when they prescribed naloxone (a prescription drug to counteract an opiate overdose). Removes the restriction to only those seven counties. Adds a new qualified immunity for unlicensed trained persons that administer an opioid antagonist in emergency situations where they believe, in good faith, that the other person is experiencing a drug overdose. Extends the sunset date from 1/1/11 to 1/1/16.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2010
AB 2216 (Fuentes-D) Works of improvement
Requires that for private and public works of improvement, a prime contractor or subcontractor pay to any subcontractor, not later than seven days (currently 10 days) after receipt of each progress payment, the respective amount allowed the contractor on account of the work performed by the subcontractors. Requires, with regard to a contract entered into on or after 1/1/11, that written notice given to the surety and the bond principal be given prior to the completion of the project, or recordation of a notice of completion. Prohibits retention proceeds from exceeding 5% of the payment for those contracts entered into on or after 1/1/11, between a "public entity", as defined, and an original contractor, between an original contractor and a subcontractor, and between all subcontractors. Repeals this section as of 1/1/15. Prohibits progress payments upon public works contracts from being made in excess of 100% (currently 95%) of the percentage of actual work completed, and requires the Department of General Services to withhold not more than 5% (currently not less) of the contract price until final completion and acceptance of the project. Returns this section to current law after 1/1/15.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
Similar legislation was AB 396 (Fuentes-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee and AB 2390 (Torrico-D) which died on the Senate Floor.
AB 2237 (Eng-D) Contracts: consideration
Provides that a promise to make a gift, bequest, or devise of cash or other property to a tax-exempt charitable organization is an enforceable contract without consideration, if the promisor indicated in writing an intent that the promise is a binding legal obligation.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2243 (Smyth-R) Civil law: search and rescue dogs
Clarifies the emergency service law to ensure that the protections for emergency services dogs, including protections appropriately prohibiting discrimination against the dogs' handlers, apply during non-declared disasters, and extends these protections to search and rescue dogs handled by volunteers legally registered with government agencies.
Chapter 92, Statutes of 2010
AB 2271 (Silva-R) Probate: appeals
Authorizes a trial court to appoint a temporary trustee to exercise powers over a trust during the appeal of certain judgments and orders.
Chapter 94, Statutes of 2010
AB 2282 (Miller-R) Electronic transactions: notarized signatures
Defines "electronic signature" for purposes of the signature of a notary public.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2284 (Evans-D) Jury trial: rules of court
Establishes the Expedited Jury Trials Act, and thereunder provides procedures for expedited civil jury trials. Requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules and forms, on or before 1/1/11, to establish uniform procedures implementing the provisions of the expedited civil jury trial process. Sunsets on 1/1/16.
Chapter 674, Statutes of 2010
AB 2291 (Fletcher-R) Mortgages: impound accounts
Expands existing law, requiring financial institutions that make specified mortgage loans to pay at least 2% interest on amounts received in advance for payment of taxes and assessments on the property, insurance, or other purposes related to the property to include insurance proceeds received by the lender for payment for repairs or rebuilding of the property after a catastrophic loss.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
AB 2315 (Conway-R) Injured persons: personal identifying information
Amends the pre-suit government claims presentment rule to require that sensitive personal information be provided to the government by crime victims, businesses, and others who have claims for injury against state and local government agencies.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2390 (Torrico-D) Works of improvement: progress payments
Requires that for private and public works of improvement, a prime contractor or subcontractor pay to any subcontractor, not later than seven days (currently 10 days) after receipt of each progress payment, the respective amount allowed the contractor on account of the work performed by the subcontractors. Requires, with regard to a contract entered into on or after 1/1/11, that written notice given to the surety and the bond principal be given prior to the completion of the project, or recordation of a notice of completion, as specified. Prohibits retention proceeds from exceeding five percent of the payment for those contracts entered into on or after 1/1/11, between a public entity, as defined, and an original contractor, between an original contractor and a subcontractor, and between all subcontractors. This section would be repealed as of 1/1/15. Prohibits progress payments upon public works contracts from being made in excess of 100% (currently 95%) of the percentage of actual work completed, and would require the Department of General Services to withhold not more than five percent (currently not less) of the contract price until final completion and acceptance of the project.
(Died on Senate Floor)
Similar legislation was AB 396 (Fuentes-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee and AB 2216 (Fuentes-D) which failed passage on the Senate Floor.
AB 2394 (Brownley-D) Civil process and notices: ministerial officers
Establishes the Levying Officer Electronic Transactions Act, whereby a levying officer could use electronic methods to create, generate, send, receive, store, display, retrieve, or process information, electronic records, and documents, as specified. Authorizes an earnings withholding order to be served by first class mail rather than certified mail on an employer. Requires the employer to execute the "employer's return" form within 15 days of receipt of the first class mail service. Makes clarifying amendments to various provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure as it pertains to levying officers and execution of writs for the enforcement of money judgments. Makes technical revisions regarding the provision for the issuance of a warrant for failure to appear pursuant to a subpoena.
Chapter 680, Statutes of 2010
AB 2479 (Bass-D) Stalking: surveillance
Provides that a person who commits "false imprisonment" with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of a plaintiff is subject to liability under the civil invasion of privacy statute and, as such, liable for damages and remedies available pursuant to that statute.
Chapter 685, Statutes of 2010
AB 2486 (Feuer-D) Social host liability: underage drinkers
Provides that provisions of law concerning social hosts who serve alcohol would not preclude a claim against a parent, guardian, or other adult to be held liable if he/she knowingly furnishes alcoholic beverages at his/her residence to a person under 21 years of age, in which case the furnishing of alcoholic beverage may be found to be the proximate cause of resulting injuries or death.
Chapter 154, Statutes of 2010
AB 2491 (Adams-R) Medical liens
Provides that the provider of any medical care or services to an injured party shall have an implied lien upon any damages recovered by that person by judgment, settlement, or compromise in the amount of the reasonable charges of the provider for that care or services, if the attorney for the injured party submits a claim for settlement purposes to an insurance company for that medical care or services on behalf of the injured party. Provides that an implied lien would be limited in application to only the attorney, and would not apply to the insurance company.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2493 (Fuller-R) Conservators: photograph of missing conservatee
Requires that, upon establishing a conservatorship and each year thereafter, a conservator shall maintain a photograph of the conservatee for identification purposes.
Chapter 97, Statutes of 2010
AB 2557 (Salas-D) Government tort claims: dentists
Provides that "licensed dentists", as defined, is entitled to all of the immunities from liability provided a public employee when treating or diagnosing a patient at no cost to the patient. Provides, instead, that the state may be held liable for any injury or damages resulting from that treatment or diagnosis.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2588 (Audra Strickland-R) Class action cases
Repeals and significantly revises the established rules by which class action cases are certified and administered in California courts.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2594 (Jones-D) Works of authorship: residual benefits
Authorizes a person who is entitled to residual benefits from the proceeds generated by an original work of authorship, who has suffered economic harm as a result of the unauthorized distribution of that original work of authorship by a user of a network controlled or operated by an Internet service provider, and who provides written notification to the Internet service provider to request a superior court to issue a subpoena to the Internet service provider, if within the jurisdiction of that court, for identification of the user of the Internet service provider's network who is responsible for the unauthorized distribution of the original work of authorship. Requires an Internet service provider, upon the written request of the person entitled to residual benefits, to prevent the further use of its network for unauthorized distribution of the original work of authorship.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2706 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Civil rights: homeless people
Adds "homeless people", as defined, to the list of individuals protected from violence and intimidation under the Ralph Civil Rights Act, thereby providing civil remedies to homeless persons who are injured as a result of such violence.
Vetoed
AB 2740 (Niello-R) Civil actions: damages
Restricts the current authority of a judge or jury to determine the appropriate amount of punitive damages needed to deter future misconduct and to punish defendants for fraud, malice, or oppression, by arbitrarily capping punitive damages at three times the amount of compensatory damages.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2743 (Nava-D) Real property: rentals: animals
Prohibits a landlord that allows tenants or occupants to have animals on the premises from doing any of the following: (1) advertising the property in a way that discourages an individual from applying because their animal is not declawed or devocalized, (2) refusing to allow, negotiate, or make the property available for occupancy because of a person's refusal to declaw or devocalize an animal, (3) requiring a tenant or occupant to declaw or devocalize an animal that is allowed on the premises.
Vetoed
AB 2760 (Tran-R) False Claims Act
Requires, in a civil action relative to certain claims arising from a public works contract, a court to award a prevailing defendant its reasonable attorney's fees and expenses against the state or a political subdivision that prosecuted the action.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2765 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Civil actions: statutes of limitation: theft
Extends the statute of limitations from three to six years for actions against a museum, gallery, auctioneer, or dealer for specific recovery of an article of historical, interpretive, scientific, cultural, or artistic significance. Provides that the statute of limitations for these types of actions begins to accrue at the time of the actual discovery of the whereabouts of the article and the facts constituting the cause of action. Applies these provisions to actions based on property taken by theft prior to 1983.
Chapter 691, Statutes 2010
AB 2767 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Civil law: omnibus bill
Enacts assorted changes in various provisions of law. Specifically, those assorted changes, among other things, correct a drafting error relating to a Judicial Council report on homestead exemptions; clarify the treatment of unclaimed restitution money by a court; correct a drafting error relating to nonprofit religious corporations; clarify the ability to copy paternity files under certain circumstances; and make various changes necessitated by trial court restructuring.
Chapter 212, Statutes of 2010
AB 2773 (Swanson-D) Civil actions: costs
Exempts civil actions brought pursuant to the Fair Employment and Housing Act from the statute that provides discretion to judges to determine costs, in a case other than a limited civil case, if the prevailing party recovers a judgment that could have been rendered in a limited civil case.
Vetoed
ACR 87 (Huffman-D) Human rights: Iran
Describes recent protests in Iran concerning their presidential election and proclaims the Legislature's support for all Iranian American citizens of California, their families in Iran, and for all people of Iran who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, and civil liberties.
(Died being unassigned to a committee)
AJR 16 (Evans-D) Journalism shield laws
Urges the Congress of the United States to enact a shield law for America's journalists.
Resolution Chapter 50, Statutes of 2010
AJR 32 (Monning-D) Gender discrimination
Requests that the Congress of the United States ratify, and the President sign, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Requests that the Congress and the President of the United States enact appropriate legislation that addresses the concerns expressed in this resolution.
Resolution Chapter 61, Statutes of 2010
AJR 47 (Saldana-D) Women's Equality Day
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on 8/26/10, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
HR 30 (Ammiano-D) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month
Proclaims June 2010 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. Urges all residents to join in celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and encourages the people of California to work to help advance the cause of equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
Adopted by the Assembly
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 5 | Hollingsworth-R Deceased Child Victims' Protection and Privacy Act | Victims of Crime |
| SB 28 | Denham-R Decommissioning San Quentin State Prison | Corrections |
| SB 38* | Alquist-D Emergency services: seniors | Law Enforcement |
| SB 46 | Alquist-D Sex offenders: statutes of limitations | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 50 | Corbett-D Victims of sexual assault | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Victims of Crime |
| SB 55* | Corbett-D State Bar Act | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 59 | Huff-R Criminal procedure: trials: continuances | Procedural |
| SB 76* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Inmates: incentive credits | Corrections |
| SB 105 | Harman-R Donative transfer restrictions | Civil Law |
| SB 108 | Walters-R Government tort claims: charter schools | Civil Law |
| SB 110 | Liu-D Crimes against the disabled | Other Crimes and Sentencing Victims of Crime |
| SB 125 | Benoit-R Undocumented criminal aliens | Corrections |
| SB 127 | Calderon-D Automatic external defibrillators: health studios: immunity | Civil Law |
| SB 134 | Liu-D Juveniles: communications with children | Juvenile Justice |
| SB 151 | Ducheny-D Reentry courts: pilot program | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 153 | Liu-D Jails: discharge of prisoners | Corrections |
| SB 154 | Benoit-R Drunk driving: vessels: operation | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 156 | Wright-D Insurance fraud prevention and detection. | Law Enforcement |
| SB 157 | Runner-R Controlled substance offenses: manufacturing | Controlled Substances |
| SB 179 | Runner-R Juvenile law: referee | Juvenile Justice |
| SB 185 | Benoit-R Felony enhancements | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 189 | Lowenthal-D Mechanics liens | Civil Law |
| SB 202 | Harman-R Trustees: duties | Civil Law |
| SB 203 | Harman-R Obscene matter | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 246 | Benoit-R Criminal background checks: in-home supportive services | Law Enforcement |
| SB 265 | Runner-R Parole: house arrest | Corrections |
| SB 268 | Harman-R Correctional facilities: wireless communication devices | Other Crimes and Sentencing Corrections |
| SB 269 | Harman-R Attorney's fees | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| SB 282 | Wright-D Deadly weapons transaction records | Weapons |
| SB 292 | Hancock-D Prisoners: alternative incarceration | Corrections |
| SB 344 | Strickland-R Crimes against elders and dependent adults | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 377 | Corbett-D Judgeships | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 389 | Negrete McLeod-D Criminal history information: professions and vocations | Law Enforcement |
| SB 393 | Harman-R Judgments: interest | Civil Law |
| SB 399 | Yee-D Sentencing | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 408* | Padilla-D Body armor | Weapons |
| SB 434 | Harman-R Misdemeanor: cell phones in prisons | Other Crimes and Sentencing Corrections |
| SB 439 | Wyland-R Forensic data: DNA | Law Enforcement |
| SB 440 | Denham-R Sentencing: serious and violent felonies | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 441 | Ducheny-D Board of Community Corrections | Corrections |
| SB 461 | Correa-D Identification documents: Matricula Consular | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| SB 467 | Dutton-R Prison Industry Authority: public contracts | Corrections |
| SB 484 | Wright-D Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine | Controlled Substances |
| SB 487 | Ashburn-R Wardens: Senate confirmation | Corrections |
| SB 494 | Maldonado-R Department of Child Support Services | Family Law |
| SB 495 | Benoit-R Law enforcement: telephone service providers | Law Enforcement |
| SB 496 | Maldonado-R Sex offenders: real estate license | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 504 | Runner-R Registered sex offenders: GPS | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 525 | Padilla-D Misdemeanor: cell phones in prison | Other Crimes and Sentencing Corrections |
| SB 543 | Leno-D Minors: consent to mental health services | Family Law |
| SB 564 | Hollingsworth-R Sexually violent predators | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 566 | Hollingsworth-R GPS/electronic monitoring: interference | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 574 | Hancock-D Inmate education programs: community colleges | Corrections |
| SB 578 | Wright-D Child support: interest | Family Law |
| SB 580 | Wright-D Child support: health insurance | Family Law |
| SB 584 | Hollingsworth-R Computer access by registered sex offenders | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 586 | Yee-D Restitution fines | Victims of Crime |
| SB 617 | Harman-R Intervention: initiatives | Civil Law |
| SB 625 | Wright-D Bail or own recognizance release: custody holds | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 629 | Liu-D Private works of improvement | Civil Law |
| SB 631 | Walters-R Felons: voting | Corrections |
| SB 657 | Steinberg-D Human trafficking | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 662 | Yee-D Domestic violence: marriage license fees | Domestic Violence Victims of Crime Family Law |
| SB 677 | Yee-D Human trafficking | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 689 | Hollingsworth-R Sexually violent predators | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 696 | Wright-D Child support: compromise of arrears | Family Law |
| SB 697 | DeSaulnier-D Firearms: owner authorized handguns | Weapons |
| SB 698 | Negrete McLeod-D Juvenile court schools | Juvenile Justice |
| SB 704 | Denham-R Corrections: state budget | Corrections |
| SB 724 | Cogdill-R Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation: hospital services | Corrections |
| SB 731 | Ashburn-R Probation: multidisciplinary teams | Corrections |
| SB 733 | Leno-D Victims of violent crime: trauma recovery centers | Victims of Crime |
| SB 738 | Hancock-D Prison inmate education | Corrections |
| SB 753 | Cedillo-D Exotic animals: kangaroos | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 756 | Ashburn-R Parolees: drug, alcohol and anger-management programs | Corrections |
| SB 774 | Ashburn-R Criminal history: information: social workers | Law Enforcement |
| SB 776 | Hancock-D Firearms: large-capacity magazines | Weapons |
| SB 782 | Yee-D Domestic violence: residential tenancies | Domestic Violence Civil Law |
| SB 828 | Senate Governmental Organization Committee Public safety communication | Law Enforcement |
| SB 830 | Wright-D Recording crimes | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 834 | Florez-D Sexual offenses: court orders: minor victims | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 839 | Runner-R Emergency services: blue alert system | Law Enforcement |
| SB 840 | Yee-D Sexual assault: reporting crimes | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 854* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee License plate reader systems | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 857* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Judicial Budget Trailer Bill of 2010 | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 877 | Harman-R Arbitration: legal representation | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| SB 881 | Harman-R Incarcerated plaintiffs: Government tort claims | Corrections |
| SB 895* | Huff-R Drunk driving: vehicles: driver's license: suspension | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 906 | Leno-D Marriage | Family Law |
| SB 909 | Wright-D Investigative consumer reporting agencies: disclosures | Civil Law |
| SB 931 | Ducheny-D Mortgages: deficiency judgments | Civil Law |
| SB 938 | Huff-R Department of Motor Vehicles: records: confidentiality | Law Enforcement |
| SB 945 | Liu-D Juvenile court jurisdiction: services and benefits | Juvenile Justice |
| SB 962 | Liu-D Prisoners: adjudication of parental rights: participation | Corrections |
| SB 972 | Wolk-D Indemnity: design professionals | Civil Law |
| SB 973 | Negrete McLeod-D Imprisonment: parole: programs | Corrections |
| SB 982* | Hollingsworth-R Deceased Child Victims' Protection and Privacy Act | Victims of Crime |
| SB 984* | Hollingsworth-R Service of process: time | Civil Law |
| SB 1018 | Harman-R Death penalty: lethal injection protocol | Death Penalty |
| SB 1024 | Oropeza-D Vehicles: tow trucks: illegal operation | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1025 | Harman-R Courts: habeas corpus | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 1026 | Wyland-R Sex offenses: conditional exam of minor victims | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1027 | Wyland-R Sex offenders: parole | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Corrections |
| SB 1030 | Strickland-R Child support: reimbursement | Family Law |
| SB 1032 | Wright-D Office of the Inspector General | Corrections |
| SB 1037 | Correa-D Sex crime sentencing | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1038 | Harman-R Powers of attorney: duties | Civil Law |
| SB 1041 | Harman-R Hearsay evidence: wills and revocable trusts | Procedural |
| SB 1049 | Harman-R Bail and own recognizance release | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1054 | Walters-R Child passenger restraint systems | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1055 | Ashburn-R Criminal history information : Chief Information Officer | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1060 | Cogdill-R Prostitution | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1062 | Strickland-R Sex offenders: terminology | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Other Crimes and Sentencing Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 1066 | Oropeza-D Corrections: Inspector General | Corrections |
| SB 1067 | Oropeza-D Juvenile justice: recidivism | Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1071* | DeSaulnier-D Controlled substances: taxation | Controlled Substances |
| SB 1078 | Denham-R Out-of-state prisoner transfers | Corrections |
| SB 1080 | Senate Public Safety Committee Nonsubstantive deadly weapons reorganization | Weapons |
| SB 1087 | Alquist-D Identity theft: restitution | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| SB 1115 | Senate Public Safety Committee Nonsubstantive deadly weapons reorganization | Weapons |
| SB 1116* | Huff-R Criminal history information: heritage schools | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1117 | Walters-R Judgments: interest | Civil Law |
| SB 1130 | Aanestad-R Prison Industry Authority | Corrections |
| SB 1147 | DeSaulnier-D Master Plan for California Public Safety | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1149 | Corbett-D Residential tenancies: foreclosure | Civil Law |
| SB 1162 | Walters-R Traffic violator schools: fees | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1165 | Aanestad-R Firearms | Weapons |
| SB 1166 | Simitian-D Privacy: security breach information | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| SB 1168 | Cedillo-D Los Angeles: grand jury authority | Juries |
| SB 1178 | Corbett-D Real property: deficiency judgments | Civil Law |
| SB 1181 | Cedillo-D Shorthand reporters: Transcript Reimbursement Fund | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 1183 | Maldonado-R Teachers: child abuse reporting | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1188 | Wright-D Child custody: disabled parent | Family Law |
| SB 1190 | Cedillo-D Animal control and illegal dumping enforcement officers | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1195 | Wyland-R Sex offenders: punishment | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1201 | DeSaulnier-D Sex offenders: assessments | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1204 | Runner-R Sex offenders: social networking prohibition: online address | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1222 | Wolk-D Domestic violence: marriage licenses: vital records | Domestic Violence |
| SB 1230 | DeSaulnier-D Human trafficking: employment: posting requirements | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1233 | Oropeza-D Domestic violence: confidential address programs | Domestic Violence Victims of Crime |
| SB 1248* | Dutton-R Corrections: stationary electricity generating bicycles | Corrections |
| SB 1249 | Cedillo-D Counterfeit marks: donations | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1253 | Strickland-R Sex offenders: probation | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1265 | Dutton-R Conditional release: forensic mental patients | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1266 | Liu-D Inmates: alternative custody | Corrections |
| SB 1268 | Simitian-D Disclosure of personal information | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| SB 1274 | Senate Judiciary Committee Electronic service of process | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| SB 1276 | Cox-R Liens: public utility | Civil Law |
| SB 1277 | Florez-D Animal abuse | Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement |
| SB 1279 | Pavley-D Sexually exploited minors pilot project: Los Angeles County | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1286 | Strickland-R Driving under the influence: transdermal alcohol monitoring | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1292 | Walters-R Child support: vocational examination | Family Law |
| SB 1296 | Correa-D Peace officer training: traumatic brain injury | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1312 | Maldonado-R Firearms: loans: private guard companies | Weapons |
| SB 1313 | Maldonado-R Crime prevention | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1317 | Leno-D Truancy | Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1320 | Hancock-D Administrative penalties adjudication of transit | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1325 | Harman-R Theft of agricultural products or equipment | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1330 | Senate Judiciary Committee Maintenance of the codes | Civil Law |
| SB 1331 | Cedillo-D Death penalty: California Racial Justice Act | Death Penalty |
| SB 1338 | Harman-R Grand theft: farm crops | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1345 | Calderon-D Prohibited importation of dead animal parts | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1347 | Leno-D Electronic control weapons: peace officers | Weapons |
| SB 1352 | Wyland-R Rape kits | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| SB 1355 | Wright-D Child support: suspension of support order | Family Law |
| SB 1356 | Denham-R Homicide trials: reimbursement | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1361 | Corbett-D Privacy: social networking Internet Web sites: minors | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| SB 1362 | Simitian-D Vehicles: automated traffic enforcement systems | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1364 | Harman-R Inmates: fees | Corrections |
| SB 1399 | Leno-D Medical parole | Corrections |
| SB 1411 | Simitian-D Impersonation: Internet | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1419 | Runner-R Peace officers: gassing | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1428 | Pavley-D Criminal investigation: interception of communications | Law Enforcement |
| SB 1447 | Padilla-D Local juvenile detention facilities: inspections | Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1449 | Leno-D Marijuana: possession of no more than an ounce | Controlled Substances |
| SB 1452 | Runner-R Parole: electronic monitoring | Corrections |
| SB 1475 | Simitian-D Vehicles: electronic wireless communications devices | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1476 | Padilla-D Data information: consumers | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| SB 1482 | Wright-D Spousal support: modification: change of circumstances | Family Law |
| SB 1487* | Assembly Public Safety Committee County jail custody credits | Corrections |
| SCA 27 | Harman-R Death penalty appeals: transfer | Death Penalty |
| SCR 40 | Yee-D Juvenile justice | Juvenile Justice |
| SCR 50 | Cox-R CHP Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial Interchange | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 52 | Lowenthal-D Iranian persecution: Baha'i | Civil Law |
| SCR 63 | Yee-D Secondhand goods | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 69 | Runner-R Memorial highway: Duvall (SR 15) | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 76 | Corbett-D Human trafficking awareness | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SCR 83 | Negrete McLeod-D Memorial highways: Miller (SR 60): Sanchez (SR 83) | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 88 | DeSaulnier-D Memorial overcrossing: Lasater (SR 4) | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 96 | Correa-D California Peace Officers' Memorial Day | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 106 | Wright-D Deputy Chief Kenneth O. Garner Memorial Exit | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 118 | Denham-R Correctional Officer Jose Rivera Memorial Highway | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 120 | Denham-R CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway | Law Enforcement |
| SCR 126 | Corbett-D Chief Justice Ronald M. George | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SJR 9 | Kehoe-D Military: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy | Civil Law |
| SJR 12 | Benoit-R Undocumented criminals | Corrections |
| SJR 14 | Leno-D Medical marijuana | Controlled Substances |
| SJR 24 | Yee-D Proposed federal International Violence Against Women Act | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SR 51 | Leno-D Sexual orientation discrimination | Civil Law |
| SR 53 | Corbett-D Chief Justice Ronald M. George | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 21X3 | Denham-R State budget: San Quentin | Corrections |
| SB 31X4 | Dutton-R Prisoners: medical care | Corrections |
| AB 15 | Fuentes-D Criminal procedure: pleas | Procedural |
| AB 16 | Swanson-D Human trafficking | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 33 | Nava-D Sex offenders: information data | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Law Enforcement |
| AB 34 | Nava-D Reports of missing persons: law enforcement sharing | Law Enforcement |
| AB 47 | Ma-D Adoption costs: income taxes | Family Law |
| AB 61 | Nava-D Sex offenses: minors: deferred entry of judgment | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Juvenile Justice |
| AB 77 | Jeffries-R Notice of delinquent parking violation | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 114 | Carter-D Juvenile offenders: restorative justice | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 126 | Jeffries-R Criminal offender: CAL Fire | Law Enforcement |
| AB 168 | Nava-D Sexually violent predator proceedings: juvenile case files | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Juvenile Justice |
| AB 229 | Charles Calderon-D Uniform Principal and Income Act | Civil Law |
| AB 270 | De La Torre-D Dependent children | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 273 | Anderson-R Courts: collections | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 302 | Beall-D Firearms: reports of prohibited persons | Weapons |
| AB 312 | Ammiano-D San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit: police department | Law Enforcement |
| AB 353 | Charles Calderon-D Civil actions | Civil Law |
| AB 355 | Ammiano-D Decedent's estates | Civil Law |
| AB 357 | Knight-R License to carry a concealed weapon | Weapons |
| AB 372 | Ma-D Adoption: vital records | Family Law |
| AB 375 | Nielsen-R Domestic violence: child custody: child sexual abuse | Domestic Violence Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Family Law |
| AB 383 | Lieu-D Sex crimes: DNA evidence | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Procedural |
| AB 387 | Hagman-R Peace officer volunteer: training | Law Enforcement |
| AB 390 | Ammiano-D Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act | Controlled Substances |
| AB 442 | Arambula-IN Identification documents: Matricula Consular | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| AB 447 | Nestande-R Trial counsel | Procedural |
| AB 451 | De Leon-D Trespass: unauthorized entry of event closed to the public | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 455 | Huffman-D California Conservation Corps: gang members | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 458 | Cook-R Peace officer vehicles: windows tinting | Law Enforcement |
| AB 461* | Gaines-R Economic Crime Act of 1992: reenactment | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 471 | Nava-D Legal services | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 491 | Garrick-R Vandalism of political signs | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 505 | Furutani-D Sex offenders: housing | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 509 | Anderson-R Fleeing from a peace officer | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement |
| AB 552* | Furutani-D Correctional facilities: AB 900 revisions | Corrections |
| AB 558 | Portantino-D Sexual assault crimes | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 559 | Swanson-D Human trafficking: minors | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 575 | Torres-D Sex offenders: restrictions | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 578 | Huber-D Civil procedure: privilege log | Procedural Civil Law |
| AB 585 | Duvall-R Deceased personalities | Civil Law |
| AB 586* | Ma-D San Francisco peace officers: workers' compensation | Law Enforcement |
| AB 587 | Cook-R Gang-related graffiti | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 589 | Cook-R Sex offenders: driver's licenses and identification cards | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 612 | Beall-D Child custody and visitation: nonscientific theories | Family Law |
| AB 614 | Miller-R Driving under the influence: field sobriety | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 616 | Blumenfield-D Youth violence prosecution | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 621 | Saldana-D Civil actions: minors: anti-SLAPP | Civil Law |
| AB 633 | Ammiano-D Corrections: classification of inmates and wards | Corrections |
| AB 634 | Harkey-R Liability: hazardous recreational activities | Civil Law |
| AB 640 | Huber-D Methamphetamine: sale: mandatory sentence | Controlled Substances |
| AB 658 | Hayashi-D California Police Activities League: income tax | Law Enforcement |
| AB 663 | Jones-D Legal aid: court interpreters: appearances by telephone | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 668 | Lieu-D Trespass | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 674 | Salas-D Criminal procedure: veterans | Procedural |
| AB 680 | Hall-D Law enforcement: process fees | Law Enforcement |
| AB 709 | Lieu-D Criminal background check: charter drivers | Law Enforcement |
| AB 713 | Gaines-R Undocumented criminal aliens | Corrections |
| AB 724 | DeVore-R Nonprobate transfers | Civil Law |
| AB 731 | Villines-R Child abuse sentencing | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 751 | Garrick-R Theft: motor vehicles | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 766 | Krekorian-D Vehicles: speed limits | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 768 | Torres-D Elder abuse | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 777 | Bass-D Inmates: identification cards | Corrections |
| AB 785 | Bass-D Parole violators: community sanctions | Corrections |
| AB 808 | Fuentes-D Driving under the influence: hearing requests | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 819* | Charles Calderon-D Intellectual property piracy | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 858 | Gilmore-R Controlled substances: sentencing | Controlled Substances |
| AB 886 | Garrick-R Mandated child abuse reporting | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 891 | Bill Berryhill-R Gang abatement | Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement |
| AB 898 | Lieu-D Notaries public | Civil Law |
| AB 908 | Tom Berryhill-R Probation | Corrections |
| AB 909 | Hill-D Vehicles: right turn violations | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 937 | Smyth-R Destructive devices | Weapons |
| AB 939 | Assembly Judiciary Committee Family law proceedings | Family Law |
| AB 942 | Feuer-D Judgeships | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 967 | Ma-D Marriages | Family Law |
| AB 973 | Audra Strickland-R Minors: temporary custody | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 981 | Feuer-D Robbery | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 982 | Tran-R Court facilities | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 984 | Nava-D Reporting of rape | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Other Crimes and Sentencing Victims of Crime |
| AB 986 | Mendoza-D Motor vehicle speed contests | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 996 | Anderson-R Courts: continuous hours of operation | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 997 | Krekorian-D Sex offenders: licensed residential facilities | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 999 | Skinner-D Division of Juvenile Facilities | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 1002 | Fong-D Human trafficking | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1013 | Block-D Corrections: veteran inmates | Corrections |
| AB 1022 | Nava-D Law enforcement: missing children | Law Enforcement |
| AB 1040 | Audra Strickland-R Appeals: class action settlements | Civil Law |
| AB 1048 | Torrico-D Child protection: safe surrender | Law Enforcement Family Law |
| AB 1050 | Ma-D Child custody: preferences of child | Family Law |
| AB 1081 | Torrico-D Domestic violence: electronic monitoring surveillance | Domestic Violence |
| AB 1082* | Torrico-D Domestic Violence Prevention and Sexual Abuse Fund | Domestic Violence |
| AB 1155 | Audra Strickland-R Private parking facilities | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1167 | Nielsen-R Concealed firearm licenses: reciprocity | Weapons |
| AB 1170 | Charles Calderon-D Sex offenders: rental housing | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 1198 | Swanson-D Drug felonies: food stamps: eligibility | Corrections |
| AB 1206 | Miller-R Hate crimes | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1208 | Logue-R Illegal alien inmates | Corrections |
| AB 1211 | Torrico-D Parole: conditions | Corrections |
| AB 1229 | Evans-D Juvenile court costs | Juvenile Justice Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1236 | Fletcher-R Corrections: United Through Reading Transitions Program | Corrections |
| AB 1239 | Solorio-D Prison education programs | Corrections |
| AB 1248 | Emmerson-R Domestic violence: refusal to testify | Domestic Violence |
| AB 1261 | Audra Strickland-R Sex offenders: child custody and visitation | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Family Law |
| AB 1263 | Audra Strickland-R Unlawful detainer: service of notice | Civil Law |
| AB 1264 | Audra Strickland-R Attorney's fees: objectors | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| AB 1273 | Hagman-R California Institution for Men at Chino | Corrections |
| AB 1275 | Anderson-R Driving under the influence: undocumented drivers | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1280 | Villines-R Child abuse sentencing | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 1289 | Galgiani-D Prisoners: telemedicine | Corrections |
| AB 1338 | Anderson-R Arraignment courts | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1359 | Huffman-D Death penalty prisoners | Death Penalty Corrections |
| AB 1360 | John Perez-D Felony domestic violence | Domestic Violence |
| AB 1362 | Solorio-D California Rehabilitation Oversight Board | Corrections |
| AB 1369 | Davis-D County jails: electronic monitoring on home detention | Corrections Law Enforcement |
| AB 1376 | Bass-D Sentencing | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1392 | Tran-R Graffiti and Gang Technology Fund | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1395* | Torrico-D Inmates: incentive credit | Other Crimes and Sentencing Corrections |
| AB 1402 | Bass-D Family connection grants | Family Law |
| AB 1414 | Hill-D Controlled substances | Controlled Substances |
| AB 1417 | Smyth-R Vandalism | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1428 | John Perez-D Coroner: autopsy | Law Enforcement |
| AB 1434 | Torrico-D Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: appointments | Corrections |
| AB 1443 | Huffman-D Driving under the influence: repeat offenders | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1455 | Hill-D Ephedrine: retail sale | Controlled Substances |
| AB 1461 | Ruskin-D Shorthand reporting | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1492 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Vehicles: wireless telephones | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1498 | De Leon-D Firearms: possession | Weapons |
| AB 1502 | Eng-D Nuisance abatement: civil action | Civil Law |
| AB 1532* | Lieu-D Code enforcement officers | Law Enforcement |
| AB 1586 | Swanson-D Bay Area Rapid Transit independent police auditor | Law Enforcement |
| AB 1596 | Hayashi-D Protective orders: enforcement | Procedural Family Law |
| AB 1601 | Hill-D Driving under the influence: repeat offenders | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1607 | Knight-R Fraud: public housing authority program | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1614* | Assembly Budget Committee Drunk driving checkpoints | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1628* | Assembly Budget Committee Corrections Budget Trailer Bill | Corrections |
| AB 1655 | Evans-D Dependent children: psychotropic medications | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 1661 | Nielsen-R Trespass: resisting a public officer | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1663 | Hagman-R Ammunition | Weapons |
| AB 1669 | Jeffries-R Criminal background checks: firefighter applicants | Law Enforcement |
| AB 1675 | Hagman-R Trespass: zoo, circus, animal exhibit and aquarium | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1678 | Lieu-D Prisoners: parole | Corrections |
| AB 1679 | Torres-D Public Safety Telecommunicators Week | Law Enforcement |
| AB 1680 | Saldana-D Civil rights: waiver of rights | Civil Law |
| AB 1682 | Torres-D Police reports: confidential information | Law Enforcement |
| AB 1684 | Jeffries-R Civil actions: adverse possession | Civil Law |
| AB 1688 | Jeffries-R Sex offenders: disorderly conduct | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 1691 | Ammiano-D Crime laboratories: oversight | Law Enforcement |
| AB 1695 | Beall-D Custodial officers: Santa Clara County | Corrections |
| AB 1697 | Hall-D Court security | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1710 | Nava-D Victims: restitution | Victims of Crime |
| AB 1714* | Fuentes-D Victims of crime: claims | Victims of Crime |
| AB 1715* | Fuentes-D State claims | Victims of Crime |
| AB 1723 | Lieu-D Evidence: admissibility of statements | Procedural |
| AB 1725 | Swanson-D Inmates: HIV testing | Corrections |
| AB 1730 | Emmerson-R Personal rights: monetary liability | Civil Law |
| AB 1738 | Tran-R Domestic violence: incident report | Domestic Violence |
| AB 1749 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Judicial branch: whistleblower protection | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1751 | Ammiano-D Sentencing: three strikes | Other Crimes and Sentencing Juvenile Justice |
| AB 1753 | Hall-D Slot machines | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1756 | Swanson-D Drug felonies: food stamp eligibility | Corrections |
| AB 1768 | Solorio-D County jails | Corrections |
| AB 1770 | Galgiani-D Domestic violence: Stanislaus County | Domestic Violence |
| AB 1771 | Mendoza-D Prison Industry Authority: public contracts | Corrections |
| AB 1775 | Furutani-D Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution | Civil Law |
| AB 1785 | Galgiani-D Prisons: telemedicine systems | Corrections |
| AB 1800 | Ma-D Rental to another without consent of the owner | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1810 | Feuer-D Long gun transfer records | Weapons |
| AB 1811 | Ammiano-D Drug paraphernalia | Controlled Substances |
| AB 1813 | Lieu-D Personal information: public official | Privacy/Identity Theft Law Enforcement |
| AB 1817 | Arambula-IN Corrections: inmate health care | Corrections |
| AB 1828 | Cook-R Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training | Corrections Law Enforcement |
| AB 1829 | Cook-R Fraud: military decorations | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1838 | Bill Berryhill-R Controlled substances: unlawful detainer | Controlled Substances Weapons Civil Law |
| AB 1842 | Gilmore-R Gangs: recruitment | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1844* | Fletcher-R Sex offenders: punishment: parole | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 1847 | Furutani-D Restitution orders: criminal procedures | Procedural Victims of Crime |
| AB 1848 | Garrick-R Tools for stealing motorcycles | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1850 | Galgiani-D Sex offenders: parole | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 1852 | Portantino-D Dependent children: locating extended family members | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 1883 | Evans-D Domestic violence: county fees | Domestic Violence |
| AB 1885 | Hill-D Airport limousines | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1894 | Monning-D Judges: disqualification | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1900 | Skinner-D Pregnant inmates and wards: restraints | Corrections |
| AB 1906 | Cook-R Additional grand juries: County of San Bernardino | Juries |
| AB 1922 | Davis-D Civil rights: education advisory committee | Civil Law |
| AB 1925 | Salas-D Veterans courts | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1926 | Evans-D Court records: preservation guidelines | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1928 | Torlakson-D Drunk driving: commercial driver's license | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1934 | Saldana-D Open carrying of unloaded handguns | Weapons |
| AB 1941 | Fletcher-R Sex offenses: punishment: fines: use of funds | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Victims of Crime |
| AB 1942 | Fletcher-R Vehicles: video event recorder | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1946 | Fletcher-R Sexual assault victims | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Victims of Crime |
| AB 1951 | Ammiano-D Vehicles: traffic offenses: punishment | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1961 | Gilmore-R California Rehabilitation Oversight Board: reports | Corrections |
| AB 1972 | Carter-D Crimes: offenses against public justice | Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement |
| AB 1985 | Galgiani-D Corrections: contract health care providers | Corrections |
| AB 1986 | Silva-R Statutory wills: form | Civil Law |
| AB 1999 | Portantino-D 911 calls in alcohol overdose cases: immunity | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2009 | Logue-R DNA analysis funding | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2011* | Arambula-IN Domestic violence probationer | Domestic Violence |
| AB 2012 | Lieu-D Cruelty to animals | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2015 | Arambula-IN Child abuse: interdisciplinary and integrated services | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2020 | Fletcher-R Family law: adoption | Family Law |
| AB 2024 | Blumenfield-D Loan modification | Civil Law |
| AB 2028 | Hernandez-D Confidentiality of medical information: disclosure | Civil Law |
| AB 2034 | Knight-R Sex crimes: public school volunteers: prohibitions | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Controlled Substances |
| AB 2053 | Miller-R Concealed firearms licenses | Weapons |
| AB 2054 | Miller-R Sex offenses: rape: worktime credits | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2055 | De La Torre-D Domestic partners: unemployment insurance | Family Law |
| AB 2056 | Miller-R Assault with intent to commit rape | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2057 | Miller-R Criminal procedure: preliminary examinations | Procedural |
| AB 2062 | Galgiani-D Prisons: healthcare: telemedicine | Corrections |
| AB 2067 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Vehicles: parking | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2068 | Hill-D Expungement standards | Other Crimes and Sentencing Procedural |
| AB 2071 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Inmates: medical parole | Corrections |
| AB 2076 | Salas-D Unlawful business location misrepresentation | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2094 | Torrico-D Juvenile justice | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2097 | Miller-R Confidential home addresses: citations | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2102 | Lieu-D Criminal procedure: court proceedings | Procedural |
| AB 2112 | Monning-D Prescription Record Privacy Act | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| AB 2115 | Knight-R Concealed firearms license: veterans | Weapons |
| AB 2116 | Evans-D Subordinate judicial officers: gifts and honoraria | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2117 | Niello-R Unclaimed property | Civil Law |
| AB 2119 | Tran-R Civil procedure: deadlines: computation | Procedural Civil Law |
| AB 2140 | Solorio-D Crime prevention: criminal gangs | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2141 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Minors: deferred entry of judgment: misdemeanor offenses | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2144 | Gilmore-R Commercial motor vehicles: driver compliance | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2145 | Ammiano-D Drug overdose treatment: liability | Civil Law |
| AB 2152 | Nielsen-R Parole: conditions | Corrections |
| AB 2155 | Logue-R Firearms: voluntary surrender | Weapons |
| AB 2157 | Logue-R Firearms: probation officers: qualifications | Weapons Law Enforcement |
| AB 2180 | Bill Berryhill-R Prisons: medical treatment facilities | Corrections |
| AB 2186 | De Leon-D Firearms: prohibited possession: prior convictions | Weapons |
| AB 2199 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Sexual deviation: research | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2200 | Solorio-D Corrections: Rebuilding Communities and Lives Act of 2010 | Corrections |
| AB 2208 | Torres-D Sex offenders: social networking prohibition | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2210 | Fuentes-D Intercepted communications: hostage taking and barricading | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2212 | Fuentes-D Minors: mental competency | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2216 | Fuentes-D Works of improvement | Civil Law |
| AB 2217 | Fuentes-D Jurors: electronic communications | Juries |
| AB 2218 | Fuentes-D Restitution centers | Victims of Crime |
| AB 2222 | Galgiani-D Prisons: telemedicine | Corrections |
| AB 2228 | Lieu-D Vehicles: overnight parking | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2229 | Brownley-D Mandated child abuse reporting | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2232 | Nielsen-R Inmates: inmate-initiated medical and dental visits | Corrections |
| AB 2233 | Nielsen-R Inmates: health care | Corrections |
| AB 2237 | Eng-D Contracts: consideration | Civil Law |
| AB 2239 | Hagman-R Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: administration | Corrections |
| AB 2243 | Smyth-R Search and rescue dogs | Law Enforcement Civil Law |
| AB 2245 | Hill-D Vehicles: aftermarket horns: decibel levels | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2246 | Blakeslee-R Battery: gassing | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2247 | Niello-R Local inmates: workers' compensation | Corrections |
| AB 2250 | Harkey-R Safety members of PERS | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2254 | Ammiano-D Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act | Controlled Substances |
| AB 2258 | Bass-D California Public Safety Commission | Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement |
| AB 2262 | Bass-D Inmates: identification card numbers | Corrections |
| AB 2263 | Yamada-D Sentencing: choice of term | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2264 | De Leon-D Truancy, loitering and curfew violations fines: debt collect | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2271 | Silva-R Probate: appeals | Civil Law |
| AB 2276 | Fletcher-R Arson | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2282 | Miller-R Electronic transactions: notarized signatures | Civil Law |
| AB 2284 | Evans-D Jury trial: rules of court | Juries Civil Law |
| AB 2290 | Bradford-D Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: inmates | Corrections |
| AB 2291 | Fletcher-R Mortgages: impound accounts | Civil Law |
| AB 2295 | De La Torre-D Parole: retention of records | Corrections |
| AB 2315 | Conway-R Injured persons: personal identifying information | Civil Law |
| AB 2319 | Swanson-D Human trafficking: minors | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2322* | Feuer-D Abuse of children, elder, or dependent persons | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2326 | Bass-D Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: reentry | Corrections |
| AB 2333 | Emmerson-R County detention facilities: release of inmates | Corrections |
| AB 2339 | Smyth-R Child abuse reporting | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2348 | Yamada-D Domestic violence: marriage license fees | Domestic Violence Family Law |
| AB 2350 | Hill-D Juvenile justice: status offenders | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2358 | De Leon-D Ammunition sales: record retention | Weapons |
| AB 2364 | Nava-D Domestic violence: unemployment insurance | Domestic Violence |
| AB 2372 | Ammiano-D Grand theft: property threshold | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2380 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Child abuse reporting | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| AB 2384 | Gilmore-R Correctional officers: peace officers: parole agents | Corrections Law Enforcement |
| AB 2387 | Miller-R County jails: inmate emergency health care | Corrections |
| AB 2390 | Torrico-D Works of improvement: progress payments | Civil Law |
| AB 2391 | Torrico-D Parole | Corrections |
| AB 2392 | Torrico-D Inmates: incentive credits | Corrections |
| AB 2394 | Brownley-D Civil process and notices: ministerial officers | Civil Law |
| AB 2410 | Fuller-R Child abuse: drugs | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse Controlled Substances |
| AB 2413 | Norby-R Concealed firearm license | Weapons |
| AB 2416 | Cook-R Child custody: parent on active duty | Family Law |
| AB 2417 | Cook-R Tribal customary adoption | Family Law |
| AB 2418 | Cook-R Child custody: Indian children | Family Law |
| AB 2426 | Bradford-D Surrogacy facilitators | Family Law |
| AB 2435 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Elder and dependent adult abuse | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2438 | Hagman-R California Institute for Men at Chino | Corrections |
| AB 2440 | Tom Berryhill-R Prison inmates: Uniform Anatomical Gift Act | Corrections |
| AB 2459 | Caballero-D Juvenile offenders: probation | Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2460 | Ammiano-D Controlled substances: overdose: punishment | Controlled Substances |
| AB 2471 | John Perez-D Vehicles: identification cards and driver's licenses | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2475 | Beall-D Family law: complaints | Family Law |
| AB 2478 | Mendoza-D Causing a disturbance at a school | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2479 | Bass-D Stalking: surveillance | Other Crimes and Sentencing Civil Law |
| AB 2480 | Bass-D Privacy: commercial use of minor's photograph | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| AB 2485 | Feuer-D Courts: civil actions | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2486 | Feuer-D Social host liability: underage drinkers | Civil Law |
| AB 2487 | Feuer-D Judges: disqualification | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2491 | Adams-R Medical liens | Civil Law |
| AB 2493 | Fuller-R Conservators: photograph of missing conservatee | Civil Law |
| AB 2499 | Portantino-D Vehicles: traffic violator school program | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2505 | Audra Strickland-R Warrants: electronic signature | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2521 | Torrico-D Courts: budget and fiscal management | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2546 | Hagman-R Firearms | Weapons |
| AB 2547 | Galgiani-D Prisons: medical supplies: demonstration contracts | Corrections |
| AB 2548 | Block-D CURES: Prescription Drug Monitoring Program | Controlled Substances |
| AB 2557 | Salas-D Government tort claims: dentists | Civil Law |
| AB 2559 | John Perez-D Social security numbers | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| AB 2567 | Bradford-D Vehicles: parking violations: digital photograph recordings | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2580 | Logue-R Felonies: deportation | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2582 | Adams-R Infractions: dismissal of charge | Other Crimes and Sentencing Procedural |
| AB 2588 | Audra Strickland-R Class action cases | Civil Law |
| AB 2594 | Jones-D Works of authorship: residual benefits | Civil Law |
| AB 2600* | Ma-D Marriage: solemnization | Family Law |
| AB 2609 | Anderson-R Handgun safety certificate: exemptions | Weapons |
| AB 2619 | Block-D Elder/dependent adult abuse: restitution: earnings withheld | Other Crimes and Sentencing Victims of Crime |
| AB 2626 | Jones-D Sheriff security officers: Sacramento County | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2631 | Logue-R Law enforcement: communication with federal immigration | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2632 | Davis-D Gang injunctions | Other Crimes and Sentencing Procedural |
| AB 2650 | Buchanan-D Medical marijuana | Controlled Substances |
| AB 2668 | Galgiani-D Weapons: possession: State Capitol/Legislative Office Bldg | Weapons |
| AB 2673 | Nielsen-R Crimes and unlawful disclosure of information | Other Crimes and Sentencing Corrections |
| AB 2674 | Block-D Family law: exemplary damages | Family Law |
| AB 2685 | De La Torre-D Criminal background checks: charter schools | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2698 | Block-D Identity theft: foster youth | Privacy/Identity Theft |
| AB 2700 | Ma-D Domestic partner registration: termination | Family Law |
| AB 2706 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Civil rights: homeless people | Civil Law |
| AB 2710 | Blumenfield-D Vehicles: signs: parking violations: removal | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2715 | Bass-D Sentencing: Three Strikes | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2727 | Bradford-D Criminal history information: employment applicant | Law Enforcement |
| AB 2729 | Ammiano-D Vehicles: City and County of San Francisco | Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2740 | Niello-R Civil actions: damages | Civil Law |
| AB 2743 | Nava-D Real property: rentals: animals | Civil Law |
| AB 2747 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: pharmacy | Corrections |
| AB 2760 | Tran-R False Claims Act | Civil Law |
| AB 2762 | Assembly Housing And Community Development Committee Domestic violence: 2010 housing omnibus bill | Domestic Violence |
| AB 2763 | Assembly Judiciary Committee Subordinate judicial officer conversions | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2764 | Assembly Judiciary Committee State Bar Act: fees | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2765 | Assembly Judiciary Committee Civil actions: statutes of limitation: theft | Civil Law |
| AB 2766 | Assembly Judiciary Committee Attorneys | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2767 | Assembly Judiciary Committee Civil law: omnibus bill | Civil Law |
| AB 2773 | Swanson-D Civil actions: costs | Civil Law |
| ACR 87 | Huffman-D Human rights: Iran | Civil Law |
| ACR 100 | Jones-D Teen dating violence | Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| ACR 103 | John Perez-D Memorial highway: Escalante (SR 101) | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 107 | Torres-D National Night Out | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 124 | Bass-D Lieutenant Curtis Massey Memorial Overpass | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 127 | Adams-R Memorial highway: Wetterling/Stewart (SR 15) | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 134 | Adams-R Child Abuse Prevention Month | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| ACR 140 | Adams-R Incarceration: undocumented foreign nationals | Corrections |
| ACR 146 | Hayashi-D Memorial bridge: Dunakin/Romans/Hege: City of Oakland | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 153 | Nielsen-R Crime Victims' Rights Week | Victims of Crime |
| ACR 156 | Saldana-D Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Denim Day California | Sex Offenders/Child Abuse |
| ACR 159 | Eng-D Memorial highway: Martinez (Interstate 10) | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 164 | Villines-R Memorial highway: Wahlenmaier (SR 168) | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 175 | Anderson-R Memorial bridge: Collier (SR 52) | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 176 | Conway-R Memorial highway: Conley/Landin (SR 198/216) | Law Enforcement |
| ACR 183 | Fletcher-R California Adoption Month | Family Law |
| ACR 187 | Torres-D Red Ribbon Week | Law Enforcement |
| AJR 15 | De Leon-D Uniting American Families Act | Family Law |
| AJR 16 | Evans-D Journalism shield laws | Civil Law |
| AJR 18 | Lieu-D Same-sex couples: benefits: social security | Family Law |
| AJR 19 | Brownley-D Marriage | Family Law |
| AJR 29 | Feuer-D Federal income tax: same-sex marriage | Family Law |
| AJR 32 | Monning-D Gender discrimination | Civil Law |
| AJR 40 | Huffman-D Gang violence prevention | Law Enforcement |
| AJR 47 | Saldana-D Women's Equality Day | Civil Law |
| HR 30 | Ammiano-D Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month | Civil Law |
| AB 3X8 | Assembly Budget Committee Corrections: rehabilitation | Corrections Law Enforcement |
| AB 5X8* | Assembly Budget Committee Trial courts: cashflow deferral | Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |