BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 842
Author: Criminal Procedure Committee
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 27 - Urgency
SENATE RULES COMMITTEE:, 4-0, 4/17/95
AYES: Ayala, Petris, Beverly, Lockyer
NOT VOTING: Lewis
SUBJECT: Senate Committee on Criminal Procedure:
statute revisions to reflect creation of new committee
SOURCE: Committee on Criminal Procedure
DIGEST: This measure would revise various relevant
statutes to reflect the current jurisdiction of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and the creation of the Senate
Committee on Criminal Procedure. (See analysis for
details).
ANALYSIS: Senate Rule 12, of the Temporary Standing Rules
of the Senate, establishes the standing committees of the
Senate, their numerical composition, and their general
subject matter jurisdictions.
Senate Resolution 58, of last year, amended Senate Rule 12
to create the Senate Committee on Criminal Procedure.
Senate Resolution 12, of this year, amended Senate Rule 12
to add Evidence Code relating to criminal procedure to the
jurisdiction of the Criminal Procedure Committee and add
Evidence Code, except matters relating to criminal
procedure and Family Code to the jurisdiction of the
Judiciary Committee.
Previously, those bills now assigned to the Criminal
Procedure Committee amending the Evidence Code, the Penal
Code and statutes of a penal nature along with those bills
relating to the Youth and Adult Corrections Agency were
assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
This bill would revise various relevant statutes to reflect
the current jurisdiction of the Senate Judiciary Committee
and the creation of the Senate Committee on Criminal
Procedure.
Specifically:
Section 9144 of the Government Code is amended to add the
Senate Criminal Procedure Committee to those committees in
which the Legislative Analyst may request the Legislative
Analyst Office to prepare a judicial impact analysis, with
the assistance of the Department of Finance and the
Judicial Council on selected measures with the greatest
apparent potential impact on court manpower and costs.
Section 15819.8 of the Government Code is amended to
replace the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee with
the Chairman of the Senate Criminal Procedure Committee to
be notified of certain specified information at least 20
days prior to marketing bonds by the Department of
Corrections.
Section 999j of the Penal Code is amended to name the
Chairpersons of the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and
the Senate Committee on Criminal Procedure to receive a
draft of the guidelines developed by the Office of Criminal
Justice Planning for the provision of grant awards to
proposed and existing programs relating to the Repeat
Sexual Offender Prosecution Program prior to the allocation
of funds.
Section 4415 and 6029.1 of the Penal Code are amended to
replace the Subcommittee on Corrections of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on County Jails of
the Assembly Criminal Justice Committee with the
appropriate subcommittees of the Senate Committee on
Criminal Procedure and the Assembly Committee on Public
Safety. These subcommittees, along with the Board of
Corrections, would re-examine certain factors concerning
the County Jail Capital Expenditure Fund before
distribution of the proceeds of the authorized bonds. The
subcommittees would make recommendations to the Board of
Corrections on the use of the funds in assisting counties
to finance jail construction.
Section 5010 of the Penal Code is amended to replace the
Senate Judiciary Committee with the Senate Criminal
Procedure Committee
to receive the report adopted by the Department of
Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority
governing inmate access to weight lifting and weight
training equipment in state prison and California Youth
Authority facilities.
Section 13752 of the Penal Code is amended to replace the
Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, or his or her
designee, with the Chair of the Senate Criminal Procedure
Committee, or his or her designee, to be a member of the
California Task Force to Review Juvenile Crime and the
Juvenile Justice Response.
Section 13810 of the Penal Code is amended to replace a
member of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Criminal
Justice Committees with a member of the Senate Criminal
Procedure and Assembly Public Safety Committees in the
Senate Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly's specified
categories appointments to the California Council on
Criminal Justice.
Section 13881 of the Penal Code is amended to replace the
Senate Judiciary Committee with the Senate Criminal
Procedure Committee to receive guidelines and procedures
for the California Major Narcotic Vendors Prosecution
Program from the Office of Criminal Justice Planning.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
RR:jk 4/18/95 Senate Floor Analyses
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