AB 3

Assembly Member Bonta

Crimes: repeat offenders and recidivism reduction.

This bill would make any criminal act, except the crime of resisting, delaying, or obstructing an officer, committed in whole or in part because of the victim’s status as a peace officer, as defined, a hate crime.

Introduced date: 12/5/2016

Status: Senate Public Safety 9/15/17

AB 41

Assembly Member Chiu

DNA evidence.

Introduced Date: 12/5/2016

Status: Approved by Governor 10/12/17; Chapter 694.

AB 87

Assembly Member
Ting

Autonomous vehicles.

Introduction Date: 1/5/2017

AB 90

Assembly Member Weber

Criminal gangs.

This bill would make the Department of Justice responsible for administering and overseeing any shared gang database in which California law enforcement agencies participate, and would provide that commencing January 1, 2018, the CalGang Executive Board would no longer administer or oversee the CalGang database or the shared gang databases that participate in the CalGang database.

Introduced date: 1/9/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 10/12/17; Chapter 695.

AB 208

Deferred entry of judgment: pretrial diversion.

This bill would make the deferred entry of judgment program a pretrial diversion program. The bill would make that a defendant qualify for the pretrial diversion program if he or she has no prior conviction within 5 years prior to the alleged commission of the charged offense for any offense involving controlled substances other than the offense that qualifies him or her for diversion, the charged offense did not involve violence, there is no evidence within the past 5 years of a violation relating to narcotics or restricted dangerous drugs other than a violation that qualifies for the program, and the defendant has no prior conviction for a serious or violent felony within 5 years prior to the alleged commission of the charged offense.

Introduced Date: 1/23/2017

AB 210

Homeless multidisciplinary personnel team.

Introduced Date: 1/23/2017

AB 264

Protective orders.

Introduced Date: 1/31/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 09/25//17; Chapter 270.

AB 270

Assembly Member

Restraining orders: witness.

Introduced Date: 2/1/17

Status: Amended in Senate 7/3/17

AB 282

Assembly Members Jones-Sawyer and Bonta

Aiding, advising, or encouraging suicide: exemption from prosecution.

Introduced Date: 2/2/2017

Status: Amended in Assembly on 1/3/18; In Senate rules for assignment

AB 324

Assembly Member Kiley

Crimes: disorderly conduct.

Existing law provides that a person who uses a camera or similar device to photograph, film, or otherwise record an identifiable person under or through their clothing, for the purpose of viewing their body or undergarments for the purpose of sexual gratification, or to record an identifiable person who is in a state of full or partial undress in an area in which they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, without their consent, is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. This bill would eliminate the requirement that the recorded person in either of these circumstances be identifiable.

Introduced Date: 2/7/2017

AB 334

Assembly Member Cooper

Sexual assault.

Existing law provides that in a civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of domestic violence, the time for commencement of the action shall be the later of within 3 years from the date of the last act of domestic violence by the defendant against the plaintiff or within 3 years from the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered that an injury or illness resulted from an act of domestic violence by the defendant against the plaintiff. This bill would additionally make these provisions applicable to a civil action for damages suffered as a result of sexual assault, as defined. The bill would also increase the time for commencement of the action to the later of within 10 years from the date of the last act of domestic violence or sexual assault by the defendant against the plaintiff or within 10 years from the date the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered that an injury or illness resulted from an act of domestic violence or sexual assault by the defendant against the plaintiff.

Introduced Date: 2/7/2017

AB 372

Assembly Member Stone

Domestic violence: probation.

Existing law specifies that the terms of probation granted to a person who has been convicted of domestic violence are required to include, among other things, successful completion of a batterer’s program, as defined, or, if such a program is not available, another appropriate counseling program designated by the court, for a period of not less than one year. Existing law provides for the approval of batterer’s programs by the probation department and requires the goal of a batterer’s program to be stopping domestic violence. This bill would require the goal of a batterer’s program to be stopping domestic violence through the use of evidence-based or promising practice programs that reduce recidivism. The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that reforms the current 52-week domestic violence batterer intervention programs.

Introduced Date: 2/9/2017

AB 381

Assembly Member Calderon

Vehicle registration: Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program: establishment.

Existing law generally prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving upon a highway or in an offstreet public parking facility a vehicle, unless it is registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles and the appropriate fees have been paid. This bill would establish and require the department to administer the Voluntary Deaf or Hard of Hearing Notification Program. The program would allow a person at the time of the original or renewal of registration of a vehicle to voluntarily indicate that a driver of the vehicle may be deaf or hard of hearing and further allow a peace officer to access that information when accessing other information about the vehicle. The department would be prohibited from indicating, in any manner, the information provided pursuant to the program on a driver’s license, certificate of ownership, registration card, or license plate.

Introduced Date: 2/9/2017

AB 413

Assembly Member Eggman

Confidential communications: domestic violence.

Existing law makes it a crime, subject to specified exemptions, for a person to intentionally eavesdrop upon or record a confidential communication by means of an electronic amplifying or recording device without the consent of all parties to the confidential communication. Existing law exempts from the prohibition the recording of a confidential communication made for the purpose of obtaining evidence reasonably believed to relate to the commission by another party to the communication of certain crimes, including any felony involving violence against the person making the recording. Existing law also allows a judge to include a provision in a domestic violence restraining order permitting a victim of domestic violence to record any prohibited communication made to him or her by the perpetrator. This bill would allow a party to a confidential communication to record the communication for the purpose of obtaining evidence reasonably believed to relate to domestic violence, as specified.

Introduced Date: 2/9/2017

AB 424

Assembly Member McCarty

Possession of a firearm in a school zone.

Existing law makes it a crime to possess a firearm in a place that the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a school zone, unless it is with the written permission of the school district superintendent, his or her designee, or equivalent school authority. This bill would delete the authority of a school district superintendent, his or her designee, or equivalent school authority to provide written permission for a person to possess a firearm within a school zone. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/9/2017

AB 459

Assembly Member Chau

Public records: body-worn cameras.

This bill would exempt video and audio files from a body-worn camera created by a peace officer of a state or local law enforcement agency that depict any victim of rape, incest, domestic violence, or child abuse from disclosure pursuant to the act, unless the victim or victims depicted provide express written consent.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

AB 462

Assembly Member Thurmond

Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission: wage information data access.

This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to authorize the commission to receive information held by other state agencies, as it relates to outcomes established under the MHSA or adopted by the commission under the MHSA for the purposes of monitoring those outcomes and improving the mental health system. The bill would authorize the Director of Employment Development to share information to enable the commission to receive quarterly wage data to assist the commission in fulfilling its duties under the MHSA.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

AB 493

Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

Crime: victims and witnesses: immigration violations.

Existing law prohibits a peace officer from detaining an individual exclusively for any actual or suspected immigration violation or reporting or turning the individual over to federal immigration authorities whenever an individual who is a victim of or witness to a hate crime, as defined, or who otherwise can give evidence in a hate crime investigation, is not charged with or convicted of committing any crime under state law. This bill would enact a prohibition similar to the one described above that would be applicable whenever an individual is a victim of or witness to a crime, or otherwise can give evidence in a criminal investigation, without regard to whether the crime is a hate crime.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

AB 512

Assembly Member Rodriguez

Public employees’ retirement: safety members: industrial disability retirement.

The Public Employees’ Retirement Law, until January 1, 2018, provides a state safety member of the Public Employees’ Retirement System who retires for industrial disability a retirement benefit equal to the greatest amount resulting from 3 possible calculations. In this regard, the benefit amount is based on an actuarially reduced service retirement, a service retirement allowance, if the member is qualified, or 50% of his or her final compensation, plus an annuity purchased with his or her accumulated contributions, if any. Existing law establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which is appropriated continuously for various purposes, including the payment of benefits. This bill would delete the repeal of these provisions, thereby extending them indefinitely. By providing that a continuously appropriated fund may be spent for a new purpose, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would also make a statement of legislative findings.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

AB 530

Assembly Member Cooper

Public employment: collective bargaining: peace officers.

Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in state government as a means of resolving disputes and enforcing the statutory duties and rights of employers and employees under the Educational Employment Relations Act, the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, and the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act. Existing law includes within PERB’s jurisdiction resolving disputes alleging violation of rules and regulations adopted by a public agency, as defined, concerning unit determinations, representations, recognition, and elections, as specified. This bill would expand the jurisdiction of PERB to include resolving disputes and statutory duties and rights of persons who are peace officers, as defined.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

Status: Vetoed by Governor 10/14/17.

AB 533

Assembly Member Holden

Off-highway motor vehicles.

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, as specified, or by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, or by both that imprisonment and fine, to drive an off-highway motor vehicle with a willful and wanton disregard for the safety of other persons or property. This bill would change the potential fine amount applicable to this offense to not less than $145 nor more than $500.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

AB 539

Assembly Member Acosta

Search warrants.

Existing law defines the crime of disorderly conduct as including, among other things, actions involving the use of an instrumentality to view the interior of specified rooms with the intent to invade the privacy of individuals, the use of specified devices to secretly videotape film, photograph, or record an identifiable person either under or through their clothing, for purposes of viewing the body or undergarments, or in a state of full or partial undress, as specified, and the distribution of images of intimate body parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person engaged in specified acts, as specified. This bill would authorize a search warrant to be issued on the grounds that the property or things to be seized consist of evidence that tends to show that a violation of the above described crime of disorderly conduct has occurred or is occurring.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

AB 578

Assembly Member Reyes

Threatening a witness: threats to report immigration status.

This bill would include in the list of circumstances that make threatening a witness or victim a felony a threat to report the immigration status or suspected immigration status of a crime victim or witness, or of a victim’s or witness’ family member or relative. By increasing the penalty for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/14/2017

AB 585

Assembly Member Gipson

Public officers.

Existing law provides that a sheriff’s or police security officer is a public officer whose duties are limited to the physical security of properties owned, operated, controlled, or administered by the county or city, or any municipality or special district contracting for police services from the county or city, and other necessary duties, as specified. Existing law provides that a sheriff’s or police security officer is not a peace officer and may not exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer, but may issue citations for infractions and may carry or possess a firearm, baton, and other safety equipment and weapons authorized by the sheriff or police chief, as specified. Existing law requires each sheriff’s or police security officer to satisfactorily complete a specified course of training prior to being assigned to perform his or her duties. This bill would provide, for purposes of those provisions, that a police security officer includes an officer employed by a police division that is within a city department and that operates independently of the city police department commanded by the police chief of a city. By imposing additional training requirements for employees of local entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/14/2017

Status: Approved by Governor Chapter 107, 6/24/17

AB 623

Assembly Member Rodriguez

Autonomous vehicles: accident reporting.

This bill would also require the operator of an autonomous vehicle who is involved in an accident that results in damage to the property of any one person in excess of $1,000, or in bodily injury, or in the death of a person, to make that report. The bill would require a traffic collision report prepared by a member of the Department of the California Highway Patrol or any other peace officer to specify if an autonomous vehicle was involved in the traffic collision in any manner. Because a violation of the bill’s reporting requirement would be an infraction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced date: 2/14/2017

Status: In Senate Appropriations Committee 7/13/17

AB 693

Assembly Member Irwin

Firearms.

This bill would exempt the loan of a firearm from the requirement that the transaction be conducted through a dealer if the loan is made to a student enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, for purposes of participation in the course. This bill would make the prohibition on large-capacity magazines inapplicable to the sale, gift, or loan of a large-capacity magazine to a student enrolled in the course of basic training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or any other course certified by the commission, nor to the possession of, or purchase by, the student, for purposes of participation in the course during his or her period of enrollment.

Introduced Date: 2/15/2017

AB 702

Assembly Member Lackey

Driving under the influence: chemical tests.

This bill would increase, as specified, the additional penalties that a court is required to impose if the person convicted of violating specified DUI offenses who willfully refused to complete a breath test at the time of arrest has previously been convicted of specified DUI offenses. Because this bill would increase a person’s term in a county jail, as specified, if the person has previously been convicted of a specified DUI offense, it would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would change the provision described above to no longer require a court to consider a person’s refusal to take a chemical test as a special factor.

Introduced Date: 2/15/2017

AB 721

Assembly Member Bigelow

Firearms: prohibited firearms.

Existing law prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, or possession in the state of short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns, as defined. Existing law authorizes certain government entities and certain peace officers to purchase and possess these firearms under certain circumstances, as specified. This bill would add district attorney’s offices and peace officer members of these offices to the specified entities and persons authorized to purchase and possess these weapons under specified circumstances.

Introduced Date: 2/15/2017

AB 748

Assembly Member Ting

Peace officers: body-worn cameras.

This bill would require each department or agency that employs peace officers and that elects to require those peace officers to wear body-worn cameras to develop a policy setting forth the procedures for, and limitations on, public access to recordings taken by body-worn cameras, as specified. The bill would require the department or agency to conspicuously post the policy on its Internet Website.

Introduced Date: 2/15/2017

AB 948

Assembly Member Bonta

Marijuana.

Existing law, the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, establishes a program for the licensing and regulation of medical cannabis. Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016, added by the approval of Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes the consumption of nonmedical marijuana by persons over 21 years of age and provides for the licensure and regulation of certain commercial nonmedical marijuana activities. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to marijuana.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

Status: In Senate Appropriations Committee 9/1/17

AB 953

Assembly Member Baker

Protective orders: personal information of minors.

This bill would authorize a minor or a minor’s guardian to petition the court to keep all information regarding the minor obtained when issuing a protective order under either of the above provisions, including, but not limited to, the minor’s name, address, and the circumstances surrounding the protective order with respect to that minor, in a confidential case file. The bill would authorize the court to order that information be kept confidential if the court expressly finds that, among other things, the minor’s right to privacy overcomes the right of public access to the information and no less restrictive means exist to protect the minor’s privacy. If the request is granted, the bill would prohibit that information from becoming part of the public file in that proceeding or any other civil proceeding. The bill would make it a contempt of court to disclose or misuse the confidential information and would require the notice served on the respondent to identify the specific information that is confidential and the penalty for disclosure or misuse of that information. The bill would authorize confidential information to be made available to law enforcement, as specified, to the extent necessary and only for the purpose of enforcing the order. By expanding the crime of contempt of court, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 09/30/14/17; Chapter 384.

AB 1024

Assembly Member Kiley

Grand juries: peace officers: proceedings.

Existing law permits a grand jury to inquire into all public offenses committed or triable within the county and present them to the court by indictment. If no indictment is returned, existing law allows the court that impaneled the grand jury to disclose all or part of the testimony of a witness before the grand jury to a defendant and the prosecutor in connection with any pending or subsequent criminal proceeding. This bill would require a court to disclose all or a part of a grand jury proceeding, excluding the grand jury’s private deliberations, if the grand jury does not return an indictment in a grand jury inquiry into an offense that involves a shooting or use of excessive force by a peace officer, as defined, that led to the death of a person being detained or arrested by the peace officer, except as specified.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

AB 1028

Assembly Member Bocanegra

Worker's compensation.

This bill would expand the coverage of the workers’ compensation provisions relating to specified compensable injuries to include peace officers employed by the police department of a school district. The bill would also make technical and clarifying changes. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature regarding those provisions.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

Status: Amended in Senate 6/19/17

AB 1029

Assembly Member Weber

Comprehensive school safety plans.

This bill would require the comprehensive school safety plan to be aligned with the school climate state priority and the local control and accountability plan. The bill would add to the list of members on the school safety planning committee one or more individuals with expertise in the social-emotional health of children and youth, as specified.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

AB 1034

Assembly Member Chau

Government interruption of communications.

The bill would require a government entity interrupting a communications service due to an extreme emergency situation to apply for a court order without delay, and if possible, to file the application within 6 hours after commencement of interruption. The bill would require the government entity, if it does not apply for an application within 6 hours, to apply within 24 hours after commencement of the interruption and include a declaration under penalty of perjury stating the reason for the delay. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

AB 1065

Assembly Members Jones-Sawyer, Cervantes, Ting, and Weber

Theft: aggregation: organized retail theft.

This bill would create the crime of organized retail theft and would make it a crime to act in concert with one or more persons to steal merchandise from one or more merchant’s premises or online marketplace with the intent to sell or return the merchandise for value, to act in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess merchandise knowing or believing it to have been stolen, or to recruit, coordinate, organize, supervise, direct, manage, or finance another to undertake acts of theft. The bill would make these crimes punishable as either misdemeanors or felonies, as specified. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would additionally establish the jurisdiction of a criminal action for theft, organized retail theft, or receipt of stolen property as including the county where an offense involving the theft or receipt of the stolen merchandise occurred, the county in which the merchandise was recovered, or the county where any act was done by the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, or aiding in the commission of the offense. The bill would also, if multiple offenses of theft or other specified crimes all involving the same defendant or defendants and the same merchandise or the same defendant or defendants and the scheme or substantially similar activity occur in multiple jurisdictions, establish that any of those jurisdictions is a proper jurisdiction for all of the offenses. This bill would allow a peace officer to retain a person arrested for a misdemeanor if there are unresolved failures to appear in court on previous misdemeanor citations or if he or she has been cited, arrested, or convicted for misdemeanor or felony theft from a store or from a vehicle 2 or more times in the last 180 days. By increasing the number of persons subject to detention at the county jail, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

Status: Amended in Senate 2/1/18

AB 1090

Assembly Member Cunningham

Marijuana use: location restrictions.

This bill would prohibit the possession, smoking, or ingesting of marijuana around a school, day care center, or youth center, as specified, regardless of whether children are present. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: In Senate Appropriations Committee 9/1/17

AB 1116

Assembly Member Grayson

Peer Support and Crisis Referral Services Act.

This bill would create the Peer Support and Crisis Referral Services Act. The bill would, for purposes of the act, define a “peer support team” as a local critical incident response team comprised of individuals from emergency services professions, emergency medical services, hospital staff, clergy, educators, and mental health professionals who have completed a peer support training course developed by the Office of Emergency Services, the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee, or the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training, as specified. The bill would provide that a communication made by emergency service personnel to a peer support team member while the emergency service personnel receives peer support services, as defined, is confidential and shall not be disclosed in a civil or administrative proceeding, except as specified. The bill would also provide that, except for an action for medical malpractice, a peer support team or a peer support team member providing peer support services is not liable for damages, as specified, relating to the team’s or team member’s act, error, or omission in performing peer support services, unless the act, error, or omission constitutes wanton, willful, or intentional misconduct. The bill would provide that a communication made by emergency service personnel to a crisis hotline or crisis referral service, as defined, is confidential and shall not be disclosed in a civil or administrative proceeding, except as specified.

Introduced date: 2/17/2017

Status: In Senate on inactive file.

AB 1136

Assembly Member Eggman

Health facilities: residential mental or substance use disorder treatment.

Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, provides for the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders for the protection of the persons so committed. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, he or she may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by a peace officer, a member of the attending staff of an evaluation facility, designated members of a mobile crisis team, or another designated professional person, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Social Services as a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: In Senate Health Committee 6/14/17

AB 1192

Assembly Member Lackey

Firearms: retired peace officers.

Existing law defines “honorably retired” for purposes of certain exceptions to the law involving the carrying of firearms by a retired peace officer. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: In Senate Public Safety Committee, 2nd hearing set 7/11/17, hearing canceled at request of author

AB 1227

Assembly Member Bonta

Human Trafficking Prevention Education and Training Act.

Existing law authorizes a school district to provide sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education, as described, and authorizes the periodic conducting of in-service training of school district personnel relating to sexual abuse and sex trafficking. This bill would recast those provisions to instead require a school district to provide abuse, including sexual abuse, and human trafficking prevention education, and require the availability and periodic conducting of continuation training of school district personnel relating to abuse, including sexual abuse, and human trafficking, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. This bill would amend the term “child abuse or neglect” to include human trafficking, as described. By increasing the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 10/7/17; Chapter 558.

AB 1254

Assembly Member Wood

Production or cultivation of a controlled substance: civil penalties.

Existing law, in certain circumstances, makes a person found to have violated specified provisions of law generally protecting fish and wildlife, water, or other natural resources in connection with the production or cultivation of a controlled substance liable for a civil penalty in addition to any penalties imposed by any other law. Existing law authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife to impose these civil penalties administratively in accordance with specified procedures. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

AB 1298

Assembly Member Santiago

Public safety officers: procedural rights.

The Pubic Safety Officers Procedural Bills of Rights requires that certain conditions be met when any public safety officer is under investigation and subjected to interrogation by his or her commanding officer, or any other member of the employing public safety department, that could lead to punitive action. Existing law also governs the admissibility of testimony and evidence in these actions. This bill would require, when any public safety officer is under investigation and subject to interrogation by his or her commanding officer, or any other member of the employing public safety department, on the allegation of making a false statement, that any administrative finding of the false statement shall require proof based on clear and convincing evidence, including corroborating evidence. The bill would also prohibit witness testimony regarding a disciplinary hearing against a public safety officer from being received by telephone or any other electronic means.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

AB 1312

Assembly Member Gonzalez Fletcher

Sexual assault victims: rights.

This bill would require a law enforcement authority or district attorney to also notify the victim that he or she has the right to request to be interviewed by a law enforcement official or district attorney of the same gender or opposite gender, unless one is not reasonably available. The bill would prohibit a law enforcement official from discouraging a victim from receiving a medical evidentiary or physical examination. The bill would require the Department of ______ to develop a document, as specified, that explains the rights of sexual assault victims, including, among other information, a clear statement that the victim is not required to participate in the criminal justice system or to receive a medical evidentiary or physical examination in order to retain his or her rights under law. The bill would require a law enforcement official or medical provider to provide this document to the victim upon the initial interaction. The bill would also require a law enforcement official, upon written request by the victim, to furnish a copy of all law enforcement reports related to the sexual assault, as specified. The bill would require a prosecutor, upon written request by the victim, to provide the defendant’s information on a sex offender registry, if any, to the victim.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

AB 1339

Assembly Member Cunningham

Public employment: background investigations.

The California Constitution provides for a right to privacy, and existing statutory law provides certain privacy protections for employment records. Existing law provides that a peace officer must be of good moral character, as determined by a thorough background investigation. Existing law requires, an employer to disclose employment information relating to a current or former employee who is an applicant for a peace officer position, and who is not currently employed as a peace officer, upon request of a law enforcement agency, if certain conditions are met. This bill would require that all applicants for employment within a law enforcement agency be of good moral character, as determined by a thorough background investigation. The bill would extend those employer disclosure requirements to information relating to a current or former employee who is an applicant for a position with a law enforcement agency.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

AB 1393

Assembly Member Friedman

Reckless driving: speed contests: vehicle impoundment.

This bill would specifically require, with respect to a conviction for reckless driving, when the person convicted is the registered owner of the vehicle, that the vehicle be impounded for 30 days, at the registered owner’s expense. The bill would allow the impoundment period to be reduced by the number of days, if any, that the vehicle was previously impounded, and would authorize the court to decline to impound the vehicle if it would cause undue hardship for the defendant’s family, as specified. The bill would authorize the release of the vehicle to the legal owner before the 30th day of impoundment, if specified conditions are met. This bill would revise the impoundment procedures for speed contests, to include the above provisions relating to reducing the period of impoundment by the number of previously impounded days, declining to impound the vehicle based on undue hardship, and early release of the vehicle to the legal owner. The bill would authorize an officer to issue a notice to correct for violation of a mechanical or safety requirement and require correction to be made within 30 days after the date upon which the vehicle was released from impound. The bill would require the violation to be dismissed upon correction, as specified.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

AB 1408

Assembly Member Calderon

Crimes: supervised release.

Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide specified information to local law enforcement agencies regarding an inmate released by the department to the agency’s jurisdiction on parole or postrelease community supervision, including a record of the offense for which the inmate was convicted that resulted in parole or postrelease community supervision. This bill would require the department to also provide the local law enforcement agency with copies of the record of supervision during any prior period of parole.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

AB 1428

Assembly Member Low

Peace officers: transparency.

Existing law requires a department or agency that employs peace officers or custodial officers to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against those officers. Existing law establishes retention requirements and access privileges, as specified, for those complaints and related reports or findings. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation on peace officer transparency.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: In Senate Appropriations Committee 9/1/17

AB 1459

Assembly Member Quirk-Silva

Murder: punishment.

This bill would make the murder of a peace officer, as defined, who was killed while engaged in the performance of his or her duties, and if the defendant knew, or reasonably should have known, that the victim was a peace officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties, murder of the first degree. The bill would make a person convicted of this type of murder of the first degree subject to punishment by death or life in prison without the possibility of parole if specified facts are charged and found true.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

AB 1518

Assembly Member Weber

Criminal justice: information.

This bill would set dates for the various law enforcement agencies to begin collecting the required data and would make law enforcement agencies solely responsible for ensuring that personally identifiable information of the individual stopped or any other information that is exempt from disclosure is not transmitted to the Attorney General in an open text field. The bill would extend the date by which the Attorney General is required to issue regulations for the collection and reporting of data to January 1, 2018. By expanding the duties of local law enforcement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 09/27/17; Chapter 328.

AB 1749

Assembly Member Daly

Workers’ compensation: off-duty peace officer.

This bill would provide that whenever any peace officer is injured, dies, or is disabled from performing his duties as a peace officer by reason of engaging in the apprehension or attempted apprehension of law violators or suspected law violators within or out of the state, or protection or preservation of life or property within or out of the state, or the preservation of the peace anywhere in this state, but is not at the time acting under the immediate direction of his employer, he or his dependents shall be accorded by his employer all of the same benefits the peace officer or his dependants would have received had that peace officer been acting under the immediate direction of his employer. The bill would provide that this provision is declaratory of existing law.
 

Introduced Date:  1/3/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Insurance 1/16/18

AB 1757

Assembly Member Chu

Peace officers: hate crime reporting guidelines.

This bill would require specified reports of law enforcement agencies to include a check box and specified question that indicate whether an incident was bias-related. The bill would require law enforcement agencies to implement the provisions of the bill on or before July 1, 2019. By imposing requirements on local law enforcement agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
 

Introduced Date: 1/4/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 1/16/18

AB 1776

Assembly Member Steinorth

Emergency medical transportation: transport of police dogs.

This bill would authorize an EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P to transport a police dog, as defined, injured in the line of duty to a facility that is capable of providing veterinary medical services to the injured police dog if there is not a person requiring medical attention or medical transportation at the time the decision is made to transport the police dog. The bill would also exempt an EMT-I, EMT-II, EMT-P who provides emergency medical transportation for a police dog, or the EMT’s employer, from liability for civil damages resulting from an act or omission relating to the transport of the police dog, unless the act or omission constitutes gross negligence or is performed in bad faith.

Introduced Date: 1/4/2018

Status: Referred to Committees on Health and Judiciary 1/22/18

AB 1793

Assembly Member Bonta

Cannabis convictions.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to allow automatic expungement or reduction of a prior cannabis conviction, as specified.

Introduced Date: 1/9/2018

Status: Introduced

AB 1872

Assembly Member Voepel

Introduced Date: 1/16/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 1/29/18

AB 1888

Assembly Member Salas

Peace officers: basic training requirements.

Introduced Date: 1/18/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/5/18

AB 1920

Assembly Member Grayson

Impersonation: search and rescue personnel.

This bill would make it a misdemeanor for a person who is not an officer or member of a government agency managed or affiliated search and rescue unit or team, with the intent of fraudulently impersonating an officer or member of a government agency managed or affiliated search and rescue unit or team, to willfully wear, exhibit, or use the badge, authorized uniform, insignia, emblem, device, label, certificate, card, or writing of a government agency managed or affiliated search and rescue unit or team, as specified. The bill would make it a misdemeanor and willfully make, sell, loan, give or transfer to another person any of the above referenced items that falsely purport, or that would decieve a reasonable person to believe, to be authorized for the use of a member of a government agency managed or affiliated search and rescue unit or team.
 

Introduced Date: 1/24/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/5/18

AB 1931

Assembly Member Fong

Firearms: licenses to carry concealed firearms.

Introduced Date: 1/24/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/5/18

AB 1934

Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

Dependent persons: offenses.

Introduced Date: 1/24/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/5/18

AB 1958

Assembly Member Quirk-Silva

Firearms: silencers.

Introduced Date: 1/30/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/8/18

AB 1985

Assembly Member Ting

Hate crimes: law enforcement officers.

This bill would clarify that a disability is protected under the law regardless of whether it is temporary, permanent, congenital, or acquired by heredity, accident, injury, advanced age, or illness. The bill would also require any local law enforcement agency that adopts a hate crime policy to include, among other things, the model policy framework developed by POST and information regarding bias motivation.

Introduced Date: 1/31/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Public Safety 2/8/18

ACR 2

Assembly Member Mayes

Police Officer Jose “Gil” Vega and Police Officer Lesley Zerebny Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway 111 in the County of Riverside as the Police Officer Jose “Gil” Vega and Police Officer Lesley Zerebny Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 12/6/2016

Status: Chapter 125, 8/30/17

ACR 9

Officer Jonathan M. De Guzman Memorial Bridge.

Introduced Date: 1/13/2017

ACR 22

Assembly Member Baker

Detective Sergeant Thomas A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of Interstate 680 in the City of San Ramon in the County of Contra Costa as the Detective Sergeant Thomas A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Highway. The measure would also request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 2/14/2017

Status: Chapter 127, 8/30/17

ACR 29

Assembly Member Dahle

Deputy Sheriff Jack Hopkins Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 395 in the County of Modoc as the Deputy Sheriff Jack Hopkins Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 2/27/2017

Status: Chapter 130, 8/30/17

ACR 46

Assembly Member Gray

The Modesto Police Officer Leo Volk, Jr., and Modesto Police Sergeant Steve May Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 132 in the City of Modesto as the Modesto Police Officer Leo Volk, Jr., and Modesto Police Sergeant Steve May Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 3/28/2017

Status: Chapter 136, 8/31/17

ACR 49

Assembly Member Frazier

Police Sergeant Scott Lunger Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway 4 in the County of Contra Costa as the Police Sergeant Scott Lunger Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 3/29/2017

Status: Chapter 133, 8/30/17

ACR 76

Assembly Member Calderon

Officer Keith Boyer Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of Interstate 605 in the County of Los Angeles as the Officer Keith Boyer Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 4/25/2017

Status: Chapter 137, 8/31/17

ACR 149

Assembly Member Choi

Officer and Medal of Valor Recipient Waldron G. Karp Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of Interstate 5 in the City of Tustin as the Officer and Medal of Valor Recipient Waldron G. Karp Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 1/9/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Transportation

ACR 169

Assembly Member Mathis

Deputy Sheriff Scott Ballantyne and Sheriff’s Pilot James Chavez Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of California State Highway Route 190 in the County of Tulare as the Deputy Sheriff Scott Ballantyne and Sheriff’s Pilot James Chavez Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing that special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 1/31/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Transportation

SB 8

Diversion: mental disorders

Introduced Date: 12/5/2016

SB 10

Bail: pretrial release.

This bill would require the court to release a defendant being held for a misdemeanor offense on his or her own recognizance unless the court makes an additional finding on the record that there is no condition or combination of conditions that would reasonably ensure public safety and the appearance of the defendant if the defendant is released on his or her own recognizance.

Introduced Date: 12/5/2017

Status: Amended in Assembly on 7/05/17;  Re-referred to Appropriations Committee  7/12/17

SB 21

Law enforcement agencies: surveillance: policies.

This bill would, beginning July 1, 2018, require each law enforcement agency, as defined, to submit to its governing body at a noticed hearing, open to the public, a proposed plan for the use of all surveillance technology and the information collected, as specified. The bill would require that the law enforcement agency submit an amendment to the surveillance plan, pursuant to the same open meeting requirements, for each new type of surveillance technology sought to be used.

Introduced Date: 12/5/2016

SB 29

Law enforcement: immigration.

Introduced Date: 12/5/2016

SB 40

Domestic violence.

This bill would recognize state law to separately establish the felony offense of domestic violence where the corporal injury is caused by strangulation or suffocation, as specified.

Introduced Date: 12/5/2016

SB 54

Law enforcement: sharing data.

Existing law provides that when there is reason to believe that a person arrested for a violation of specified controlled substance provisions may not be a citizen of the United States, the arresting agency shall notify the appropriate agency of the United States having charge of deportation matters. This bill would repeal those provisions. This bill would, among other things, prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies and school police and security departments from using resources to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes, or to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of any federal program requiring registration of individuals on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or national or ethnic origin, as specified.

Introduced Date: 12/5/2017

SB 65

Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties.

Existing law makes it an infraction to drink any alcoholic beverage while driving a motor vehicle upon any highway or on other specified lands. This bill would instead make driving or operating a vehicle upon any highway or specified lands, or driving or operating a boat, vessel, or aircraft while drinking any alcoholic beverage, punishable as either an infraction or a misdemeanor. The bill would also make driving or operating a vehicle, boat, vessel, or aircraft while smoking or ingesting marijuana or marijuana products an offense punishable as an infraction or a misdemeanor. The bill would authorize a court to order a defendant to attend drug or alcohol education and counseling classes in addition to those penalties.

Introduced Date: 12/29/2016

SB 179

Gender identity: female, male, or nonbinary.

Introduced Date: 1/24/2017

SB 190

Juveniles.

Introduced Date: 1/26/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 10/11/17; Chapter 678.

SB 204

Domestic violence: protective orders.

Introduced Date: 1/31/2017 

Status: Approved by Governor 7/21/17; Chapter 98

SB 215

Senator Beall

Incarcerated persons: victim advocates.

This would require an inmate in the state prison or a county jail to provide inmates with reasonable access to outside victim advocates for emotional support services related to sexual abuse, domestic violence, and suicide prevention by allowing inmates to call the toll-free hotlines of organizations that provide mental health crisis support. The bill would require that reasonable communication between an inmate and those organizations is confidential and that calls to the toll-free hotlines are free of cost to inmates. By imposing additional duties on county jails, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 1/31/2017 

Status: Amended in Senate on 3/6/17, pulled from hearing agenda at the request of the author 4/4/17

SB 237

Senator Hertzberg

Criminal procedure: arrest.

Existing law requires that a person arrested without a warrant be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay. Existing law also provides certain circumstances under which a person arrested without a warrant may be released from custody before being taken before a magistrate, including, among others, when the arresting officer believes that insufficient grounds exist to make a criminal complaint against the person arrested or when the person is arrested for intoxication only and no further proceedings are desirable. This bill would authorize an arresting officer to release an arrested person from custody without taking him or her before a magistrate if the person is delivered, subsequent to being arrested, to a specified facility for the purpose of mental health evaluation and treatment and no further criminal proceedings are desirable.

Introduced Date: 2/6/2017 

Status: Assembly Floor Process - Third Reading 6/15/17

SB 239

Senator Wiener

Infectious and communicable diseases: HIV and AIDS: criminal penalties.

Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 3, 5, or 8 years in the state prison to expose another person to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by engaging in unprotected sexual activity when the infected person knows at the time of the unprotected sex that he or she is infected with HIV, has not disclosed his or her HIV-positive status, and acts with the specific intent to infect the other person with HIV. Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for 2, 4, or 6 years for any person to donate blood, body organs or other tissue, or, under specified circumstances, semen or breast milk, if the person knows that he or she has acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), or that he or she has tested reactive to HIV. Existing law provides that a person who is afflicted with a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease who willfully exposes himself or herself to another person, or any person who willfully exposes another person afflicted with the disease to someone else, is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would repeal those provisions. The bill would instead make the intentional transmission of an infectious or communicable disease, as defined, a misdemeanor, if certain circumstances apply, including that the defendant knows he or she is afflicted with the disease, that the defendant acts with the specific intent to transmit the disease to another person, that the defendant engages in conduct that poses a substantial risk of transmission, as defined, and that the defendant transmits the disease to the other person. The bill would impose various requirements upon the court in order to prevent the public disclosure of the identifying characteristics, as defined, of the complainant and the defendant. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Introduced Date: 2/6/2017 

Status: Approved by Governor 10/6/17; Chapter 537.

SB 244

Senator Lara

Privacy: agencies: personal information.

Existing law requires that each application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license contain specified information. Under existing law, any document provided by the applicant to the department for purposes of proving his or her identity, true, full name, California residency, or that the applicant’s presence in the United States is authorized under federal law, is not a public record and prohibits the department from disclosing this information except when requested by a law enforcement agency as part of an investigation. This bill would instead prohibit the department from disclosing this information except in response to a warrant issued by a state or federal court in an individual criminal prosecution.

Introduced Date: 2/6/2017

Status: Assembly inactive file.

SB 324

Senator Roth

Public officers: custodial officers.

Existing law defines who is a peace officer and specifies the powers of peace officers. Existing law specifies that a custodial officer is a public officer, not a peace officer, employed by a law enforcement agency of a city or county who has the authority and responsibility for maintaining custody of prisoners and performs tasks related to the operation of a local detention facility used for the detention of persons usually pending arraignment or upon court order, as specified. Existing law provides that a custodial officer does not have the right to carry or possess firearms in the performance of his or her prescribed duties. Existing law also describes the powers and duties of custodial officers. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the provisions relating to custodial officers.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 7/17/17; Chapter 73

SB 331

Senator Jackson

Evidentiary privileges: domestic violence counselor-victim privilege.

Existing law relating to legal proceedings generally provides that a person does not have a privilege to refuse to disclose any matter or produce any writing, object, or other thing. However, a victim of domestic violence has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication between the victim and a domestic violence counselor. Existing law requires the domestic violence counselor who received or made a communication subject to this privilege to claim the privilege whenever he or she is present when the communication is sought to be disclosed. Existing law defines “domestic violence counselor” to mean a specified person who is employed at a domestic violence victim service organization. Existing law defines “domestic violence victim service organization” to mean a nongovernmental organization or entity that provides shelter, programs, or services to victims of domestic violence and their children, as specified. This bill would expand the definition “domestic violence victim service organization” to include a public or private institution of higher education, as specified, thereby expanding the scope of the privilege.

Introduced Date: 2/13/2017

Status: Approved by Governor, Chapter 178, 8/7/17

SB 345

Senator Bradford

Public records: disclosure on Internet Websites.

The California Public Records Act generally requires every state and local agency to make its public records available for inspection by a member of the public, unless the public record is specifically exempted from disclosure. The act further requires every state and local agency to duplicate discloseable public records, either on paper or in an electronic format, if so requested by a member of the public and he or she has paid certain costs of the duplication. The act specifically requires the California Environmental Protection Agency and certain entities within that agency to post its final enforcement orders on its Internet Websites, if the final enforcement order is a public record that is not exempt from disclosure. This bill would require, on and after July 1, 2018, each state and local law enforcement agency to post on its Internet Website, in a text searchable format, all of its manuals and policies not exempt from disclosure pursuant to the act.

Introduced Date: 2/14/2017

Status: Senate floor-unfinished business.

SB 395

Senator Lara

Custodial interrogation: juveniles.

Existing law authorizes a peace officer to take a minor into temporary custody when that officer has reasonable cause to believe that the minor has committed a crime or violated an order of the juvenile court. In these circumstances, existing law requires the peace officer to advise the minor that anything he or she says can be used against him or her, that he or she has the right to remain silent, that he or she has a right to have counsel present during any interrogation, and that he or she has a right to have counsel appointed if he or she is unable to afford counsel. This bill would require that a youth under 18 years of age consult with legal counsel in person, by telephone, or by video conference prior to a custodial interrogation and before waiving any of the above-specified rights. The bill would provide that consultation with legal counsel cannot be waived. The bill would require the court to consider the effect of the failure to comply with the above-specified requirement in adjudicating the admissibility of statements of a youth under 18 years of age made during or after a custodial interrogation. The bill also clarifies that these provisions do not apply to the admissibility of statements of a youth under 18 years of age if certain criteria are met.

Introduced Date: 2/15/2017

Status:Approved by Governor 10/11/17; Chapter 681.

SB 432

Senator Pan

Emergency medical services.

Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority. The authority is responsible for the coordination and integration of all statewide activities concerning emergency medical services. The act requires all health facilities to notify prehospital emergency care personnel who have provided emergency medical or rescue services and have been exposed to a person afflicted with a disease or condition that they have been exposed and should contact the county health officer under specified conditions. This bill would require that notice to be given immediately.

Introduced Date: 2/15/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 10/2/17; Chapter 426.

SB 462

Senator Atkins

Juveniles: case files: access.

This bill would similarly allow records contained in juvenile case files to be accessed by a law enforcement agency, probation department, court, the Department of Justice, or other state or local agency that has custody of the case file record for the limited purpose of complying with data collection or data reporting. The bill would allow the juvenile court, upon the request of the chief probation officer, to authorize a program evaluator, researcher, or research organization to access information contained in juvenile case files for the purpose of conducting research on juvenile justice populations, as specified.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 10/3/17; Chapter 462.

SB 497

Senator Portantino

Firearms.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from making more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30-day period. Violation of that prohibition is a crime. Existing law prohibits a firearms dealer from delivering a handgun to a person whenever the dealer is notified by the Department of Justice that within the preceding 30-day period the purchaser has made another application to purchase a handgun that does not fall within an exception to the 30-day prohibition. A violation of that delivery prohibition by the dealer is a crime. This bill would make the 30-day prohibition and the dealer delivery prohibition described above applicable to all types of firearms. The bill would also except from that prohibition the purchase of a firearm, other than a handgun, by a person who possesses a valid, unexpired hunting license, and the acquisition of a firearm, other than a handgun, at specified charity fundraising events. The bill would make additional conforming changes and technical, nonsubstantive changes.

Introduced Date: 2/16/2017

SB 587

Senator Atkins

Emergency vehicles: blue warning lights.

This bill would also authorize probation officers to display the blue warning light from their emergency vehicles. The bill would require a probation officer to complete a a 4-hour classroom training course certified by the Standards and Training for Corrections division of the Board of State and Community Corrections before operating an emergency vehicle with a blue warning light.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

SB 597

Senator Leyva

Human trafficking: victim confidentiality.

Existing law authorizes victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant’s residence address contained in any public record and otherwise provide for confidentiality of identity for that person, subject to specified conditions. Any person who makes a false statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would make this program available to a victim of human trafficking, as defined.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

SB 599

Senator Portantino

Public Employees’ Retirement System.

Existing law, the Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL), establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS), which provides a defined benefit to members of the system, based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. PERL defines various member categories for the purposes of PERS, including state safety member, which includes members of a state college police department, with specified exceptions, including parking officers. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition of state safety member, as described above.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

SB 620

Senator Bradford

Firearms: crimes: enhancements.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 10/11/17; Chapter 682.

SB 630

Senator Skinner

Jails: financing bonds.

This bill would require a county that plans to use certain of these funds for an adult local criminal justice facility proposal that is approved by the Board of State and Community Corrections on or after January 1, 2018, to certify in writing that it is not and will not for a period of 10 years following the completion of facility, lease housing capacity to any private or public entity, except for leases with the state or another county.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: In Assembly, ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Calderon 6/15/17

SB 644

Senator Stone

Vessels: forfeiture.

This bill would authorize a peace officer to remove and seize a vessel upon arresting a person for operating the vessel while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, any drug, or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and any drug, if his or her operation of the vessel resulted in the unlawful killing of a person. The bill would prohibit impounding the vessel for more than 30 days, require the registered and legal owner of the vessel be provided the opportunity for a storage hearing, as specified, and require the impounding agency to release the vessel to the registered owner before the conclusion of the impoundment period under certain circumstances. The bill would make the registered owner or his or her agent responsible for all towing and storage charges related to the impoundment, except as specified, and would make the impounding agency responsible for the actual costs incurred by the towing agency if the registered owner is absolved of liability for those charges, as specified.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

SB 684

Senator Bates

Incompetence to stand trial: conservatorship: treatment.

This bill would also allow the initiation of conservatorship proceedings on the basis that person is gravely disabled due to a condition in which the person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is unable to provide for his or her basic personal needs for food, clothing, or shelter. This bill would allow, if the action is on a complaint charging a felony involving death, great bodily harm, or a serious threat to the physical well-being of another person, the prosecuting attorney, at any time before or after a defendant is determined incompetent to stand trial, to request a determination of probable cause to believe the defendant committed the offense or offenses alleged in the complaint, solely for the purpose of establishing that the defendant is gravely disabled, and would grant the defendant a new determination of probable cause after restoration of competency. The bill would allow for the initiation of a conservatorship upon a criminal complaint if there has been a finding of probable cause on the complaint.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 09/11/17; Chapter 246.

SB 699

Senator Galgiani

Vehicles: removal and impoundment.

This bill would also authorize a magistrate to issue a warrant or court order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle when the magistrate is presented with the affidavit of a peace officer establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was used in a motor vehicle speed contest, reckless driving on a highway, reckless driving in an offstreet parking facility, or an exhibition of speed on a highway, based on evidence witnessed by, delivered to, or developed by the peace officer within 120 days of the violation. The bill would prohibit the magistrate from issuing a warrant or order authorizing the impound if he or she determines that the vehicle to be impounded is necessary for a person to get to work, school, or medical appointments and impounding the vehicle would cause a hardship on the owner or the owner’s family.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

SB 725

Senator Jackson

Veterans: pretrial diversion: driving privileges.

Existing law makes it unlawful for a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug to drive a vehicle, or to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law which causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver. In any case in which a person is charged with a violation of these provisions, existing law prohibits a court from suspending or staying the proceedings prior to acquittal or conviction or from dismissing the proceedings because the accused person attends or participates in a treatment program. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, including the above-described provision, specify that a misdemeanor offense for which a defendant may be placed in a pretrial diversion program in accordance with the above-described program includes a misdemeanor violation of driving under the influence or driving under the influence and causing bodily injury. The bill would not limit the authority of the Department of Motor Vehicles to take administrative action concerning the driving privileges of a person arrested for a violation of those provisions.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

SB 784

Senator Galgiani

Crimes: disorderly conduct: invasion of privacy.

Existing law provides that a person who uses a concealed 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 clothing being worn by that other person, for the purpose of viewing the body of, or the undergarments worn by, that other person, without the consent or knowledge of that other person, 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, is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. This bill would additionally make it a crime to intentionally distribute or disseminate, or to make available or viewable, any image obtained pursuant to the provisions described above, including through publication, posting through electronic media, or by any other means.

Introduced Date: 2/17/2017

SB 911

Senator Gaines

Criminal law.

Introduced Date: 1/18/2018

SB 811

Committee on Public Safety

Public safety: omnibus.

Existing law provides that, in a criminal action, expert testimony is admissible by either the prosecution or the defense regarding the effects of human trafficking on human trafficking victims. Existing law defines the term “human trafficking” pursuant to a specified provision of the Penal Code. This bill would clarify that the term “human trafficking victim” is defined as a victim of an offense as described in that provision of the Penal Code. Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by his or her attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for a drug prescribed pursuant to these provisions for the purpose of ending his or her life. Existing law makes a violation of certain provisions of the act a felony, as specified, and provides that the application of those penalties does not preclude the application of any other criminal penalties under any other law for conduct inconsistent with the provisions of that section. This bill would clarify that the application of those penalties does not preclude the application of any other criminal penalties for conduct inconsistent with the act. Existing law provides that it is a crime, punishable by a fine or imprisonment in county jail, as specified, for any person to possess specified controlled substances, unless upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or veterinarian licensed to practice in this state. Existing law creates an exemption from the prohibitions for possession of those controlled substances by a person other than the prescription holder if the possession of the controlled substance is at the direction or with the express authorization of the prescription holder, as specified. Existing law, as amended by the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act (Proposition 47), an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, generally makes the possession of those controlled substances a misdemeanor, as specified. Existing law codifies these provisions in separate but identically numbered sections. This bill would reorganize these provisions by incorporating all of these nonconflicting provisions into the section as amended by Proposition 47 and would repeal the other section as obsolete.

Introduced Date: 3/15/2017

Status: Approved by Governor 09/23/17; Chapter 269.

SCR 45

Senator Galgiani

California Peace Officers’ Memorial Day.

This measure would designate Monday, May 8, 2017, as California Peace Officers’ Memorial Day, urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers, and recognize specified California peace officers who were killed in defense of their communities.

Introduced Date: 4/25/2017

Status: Chaptered 5/15/17

SCR 48

Senator Skinner

Criminal sentencing.

This measure would recognize the need for statutory changes to more equitably sentence offenders in accordance with their involvement in the crime.

Introduced Date: 4/27/2017

Status: Chaptered 9/22/17

SCR 92

Senator McGuire

Deputy Sheriff Robert Rumfelt Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 29 in the County of Lake as the Deputy Sheriff Robert Rumfelt Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Introduced Date: 1/25/2018

Status: Referred to Committee on Transportation & Housing 2/8/18

SJR 5

Senator Stone

Federal rescheduling of marijuana from a Schedule I drug.

This measure would request that the Congress of the United States pass a law to reschedule marijuana or cannabis and its derivatives from a Schedule I drug to an alternative schedule and that the President of the United States sign such legislation.

Introduced Date: 2/21/2017

SR 22

Senator De León

Introduced Date: 3/6/2017

Status: Enrolled 3/7/2017

SR 40

Senator Morrell

Introduced Date: 5/9/2017

Status: Enrolled 7/20/17