 | Topic | Supporters | Opponents | Bill number | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporations: director duties. | 10 | 9 | SB 917 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | |
| This bill creates a new private right of action against California corporations and corporate directors for causing material damage to the environment, human rights, public health and safety, the welfare of the communities in which the corporation operates, or the rights of the corporation's employees. This bill would also allow any person damaged by the action to sue. | |||||
| Sentencing: three strikes. | 6 | 6 | AB 112 (2003-2004) | Berg | |
| This bill revises the Three Strikes Law to apply only to serious or violent crimes. | |||||
| Unfair competition. | 3 | 4 | SB 889 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |
| Prohibits private actions under the Unfair Competition Law against businesses having fewer than 50 employees, unless the private plaintiff was individually harmed by the allegedly unfair act or practice. | |||||
| Police reports: confidentiality. | 4 | 2 | SB 58 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |
| This bill establishes a procedure to protect confidential information of a victim or witness in police reports. | |||||
| Unfair competition. | 2 | 4 | SB 890 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |
| Provides that in Unfair Competition Law action brought by a plaintiff that has not suffered a distinct and palpable injury from the alleged unlawful act 85 percent of the judgment or settlement shall be deposited in the State Restitution Fund for allocation to crime victims. | |||||
| Crimes: grand theft. | 4 | 2 | AB 2705 (2003-2004) | Berg | |
| This bill raises the threshold amounts for grand theft to reflect inflation since these amounts were set in 1982. | |||||
| Expert witnesses: professional negligence: health care. | 4 | 2 | AB 2819 (2003-2004) | Nation | |
| This bill, sponsored by the California Medical Association, would substantially alter the standards by which expert witness testimony in medical malpractice cases is admitted into evidence. | |||||
| Death penalty: mental retardation. | 3 | 2 | SB 51 (2003-2004) | Morrow | |
| This bill defines mental retardation in regards to the death penalty and structures the court proceedure when such a verdict is at stake. | |||||
| Corporations: Corporate Three Strikes Act. | 3 | 2 | SB 335 (2003-2004) | Romero | |
| This bill enacts the Corporate Three Strikes Act governing criminal offenses by corporations. | |||||
| Murder: special circumstances. | 2 | 3 | SB 880 (2003-2004) | Ashburn | |
| Makes the intentional murder of a child under the age of 14 a death penalty offense. | |||||
| Murder: special circumstances. | 2 | 3 | AB 1440 (2003-2004) | Houston | |
| This bill allows for the death penalty in murder cases where the victim was under 14 years of age, and the defendant should have reasonably know the victim was under 14. | |||||
| Victims of crime: work absences for judicial proceedings. | 5 | 1 | SB 478 (2003-2004) | Dunn | |
| This bill enables employees who are crime victims, the immediate family members of crime victims, the registered domestic partners of crime victims, and the children of the registered domestic partners of crime victims to be absent from work to attend scheduled judicial proceedings. | |||||
| Vehicles: peace officers: fleeing. | 2 | 2 | AB 140 (2003-2004) | Levine | |
| This bill increases the penalties and fines for attempting to flee from a peace officer in a vehicle. | |||||
| Sexually violent predators: definition. | 4 | 1 | AB 730 (2003-2004) | Spitzer | |
| This bill allows the commitment of a person as a sexually violent predator if he or she has been convicted of a single sex crime, as specified, against a minor under the age of 14. | |||||
| Privacy offenses: immunity. | 4 | 1 | AB 1884 (2003-2004) | Spitzer | |
| Adds city attorneys prosecuting misdemeanor cases to the list of law enforcement officers who are authorized to record or overhear communications. | |||||
| Public insurance adjusters: contracts. | 4 | 1 | AB 1953 (2003-2004) | Vargas | |
| Substantially increases fines for acting as an unlicensed public adjuster and places additional limitations on the solicitation practices of public adjusters. | |||||
| Identity theft. | 3 | 1 | SB 425 (2003-2004) | Poochigian | |
| This bill clarifies that the misdemeanor of possession of the identifying information of another with intent to defraud can be applied multiple times, so as to provide that each such possession constitutes a separate crime. | |||||
| Personal information. | 3 | 1 | SB 602 (2003-2004) | Figueroa | |
| This bill establishes the Identity Theft Prevention and Assistance Act that provides various protections and support for victims of identity theft. | |||||
| Child pornography. | 3 | 1 | SB 878 (2003-2004) | Knight | |
| Increases the penalties for possession of child pornography from a misdemeanor to an alternate felony-misdemeanor where the matter depicts a child or children under the age of 18, and makes the possession of child pornography depicting a child or children under the age of 14 a felony only. | |||||
| Recording fees: Elder and Dependent Adult Financial Abuse Prevention Trust Fund. | 3 | 1 | AB 2783 (2003-2004) | Berg | |
| This bill provides funds for the prosecution of financial abuse of elder and dependent adults in real estate transactions through a fee of up to $2 at the time of recording every real estate instrument, upon the adoption by a county's board of supervisors. | |||||
| Child pornography. | 3 | 1 | AB 39 (2003-2004) | Runner | |
| Increases the existing penalty for possession of material depicting sexual activity of persons under the age of 18 from a misdemeanor to a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison. | |||||
| Sexually violent predators: definition. | 2 | 1 | SB 876 (2003-2004) | Morrow | |
| Revises the definition of a "sexually violent predator" to include those with a single sex crime conviction if the crime was committed against someone under fourteen years old and included substantial sexual conduct. | |||||
| Crimes. | 2 | 1 | SB 884 (2003-2004) | Poochigian | |
| Increases the punishment to a life term in cases where a defendant commits "aggravated kidnapping" of a child for the purpose of forced lewd conduct, and makes it a felony or a wobbler, depending on the age of the child, for a defendant to solicit a minor to engage in a lewd act. | |||||
| Sex offenders. | 1 | 2 | SB 1780 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | |
| This bill stipulates that defendants charged with attempting to commit specified sex offenses are subject to an order requiring testing for specific infections diseases. | |||||
| Police vehicle pursuit: punishment. | 2 | 1 | AB 74 (2003-2004) | Mountjoy | |
| This bill would make it a misdemeanor or a felony, rather than only a misdemeanor, for a person while operating a motor vehicle to intentionally evade, willfully flee, or otherwise attempt to evade a pursuing peace officer's motor vehicle under certain conditions. | |||||
| Attempted murder: custodial officers. | 2 | 1 | AB 108 (2003-2004) | La Malfa | |
| This bill would make the penalties for attempted murder of a custodial officer the same as those of a police officer or firefighter. | |||||
| Criminal procedure: discovery. | 2 | 1 | AB 1439 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |
| This bill prohibits an attorney representing a person accused of obscenity-related offenses from receiving copies of the material in preparation of his or her defense. | |||||
| Disorderly conduct. | 1 | 2 | AB 2640 (2003-2004) | Cox | |
| Creates a new felony for loitering and peeking into inhabited dwellings. | |||||
| Money laundering: terrorism. | 1 | 2 | AB 34 (2003-2004) | Strickland | |
| Increases the penalties for money laundering associated with specified terrorist-related activities. | |||||
| Securities f raud: statute of limitations. | 1 | 1 | SB 325 (2003-2004) | Florez | |
| This bill extends the statute of limitations for fraud actions relating to corporate securities from three to five years. | |||||
| Involuntary detention: grave disability. | 1 | 1 | SB 372 (2003-2004) | Margett | |
| This measure revises the definition of "gravely disabled" for the purposes of involuntary detention to include those individuals against whom a complaint is pending. | |||||
| Criminal history information. | 1 | 1 | SB 873 (2003-2004) | McPherson | |
| Provides that requests made to the Department of Justice for federal-level criminal offender record information will be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | |||||
| Offenses against minors. | 1 | 1 | SB 882 (2003-2004) | Denham | |
| Enacts a new criminal statute for contacting or communicating with a minor with the intent to commit a sex offense. | |||||
| Peace officers. | 1 | 1 | SB 1167 (2003-2004) | Scott | |
| Requires that a peace officer who is convicted of a felony committed on or after January 1, 2005, be required to forfeit all money, compensation, wages, allowances, and bonuses paid to that officer by his or her employing agency from the date of the commission of the crime. | |||||
| Forensic DNA. | 1 | 1 | SB 1900 (2003-2004) | Burton | |
| This bill imposes an additional $1.50 surcharge for every $10 of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed for criminal offenses to fund specified DNA-related activities. | |||||
| Criminal procedure. | 1 | 1 | AB 99 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |
| This bill authorizes the department, in all cases in which the defendant is charged with a misdemeanor or a felony and is currently incarcerated in the state prison, to arrange for all court appearances, except for preliminary hearings, trials and certain other matters, to be conducted by two-way electronic audio-video communication between the defendant and the courtroom in lieu of the physical presence of the defendant in the courtroom. | |||||
| Identity theft: minors: sentence enhancements. | 1 | 1 | AB 239 (2003-2004) | Bates | |
| This bill increases the penalties for information theft if the victim is a minor. | |||||
| Criminal street gangs. | 1 | 1 | AB 963 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |
| This bill establishes that a qualified street gang expert may testify as to whether a pattern of criminal gang activity exists and as to the primary activities of a particular street gang. | |||||
| Nonviolent drug possession: GHB, rohypnol, and ketamine. | 1 | 1 | AB 1067 (2003-2004) | Shirley Horton | |
| Increases the criminality of possesion of flunitrazepam (rohypnol), a date rape drug. | |||||
| Crime. | 1 | 1 | AB 1446 (2003-2004) | Bates | |
| This bill creates an enhanced penalty and a mandatory minimum jail sentence for the stalking and telephone or online harassment of a minor. | |||||
| Loitering: transit facilities. | 1 | 1 | AB 1474 (2003-2004) | Runner | |
| This bill makes it a misdemeanor to loiter on or in any transit facility. | |||||
| Vehicles: seizures: exemptions. | 1 | 1 | AB 1837 (2003-2004) | Maze | |
| Requires that vehicles seized for forfeiture because of use in specified crimes shall be released to the legal owner in specified circumstances. | |||||
| Specialty crop funding. | 1 | 1 | SB 284 (2003-2004) | Brulte | |
| The purpose of this bill is to expand the DNA data bank to include samples from people who have committed any felony. | |||||
| Mandated reporters. | 0 | 3 | SB 250 (2003-2004) | Battin | |
| This bill provide that a mandated reporter who fails to report a known or reasonably suspected instance of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail. | |||||
| Death penalty: mental retardation. | 2 | 0 | SB 3 (2003-2004) | Burton | |
| This bill defines the term "mentally retarded" and provides that a defendant in any case in which the prosecution seeks the death penalty may apply for an order directing that a mental retardation hearing be held. | |||||
| Criminal/contracting | 1 | 0 | SB 443 (2003-2004) | Figueroa | |
| This bill requires a court of law to sentence repeat offenders of unlicensed contracting activity to the county jail for not less than 90 days. | |||||
| Criminal/kidnapping | 1 | 0 | SB 450 (2003-2004) | Poochigian | |
| This bill defines the element of force required for kidnapping an unresisting infant or child. | |||||
| Crimes: grand theft: diesel fuel. | 1 | 0 | SB 703 (2003-2004) | Florez | |
| This bill adds the theft from "agricultural property" of diesel fuel of a value exceeding $100 to the definition "grand theft," an alternate felony-misdemeanor. | |||||
| Identification. | 1 | 0 | SB 752 (2003-2004) | Alpert | |
| This bill creates a procedure where a person can contest a notice to appear in court on the basis that they were not the person who was issued the notice. | |||||
| State claims. | 1 | 0 | SB 753 (2003-2004) | Alpert | |
| This bill appropriates $1.2 million from various funds to the Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to pay equity claims. | |||||
| Bail services. | 2 | 0 | SB 761 (2003-2004) | McPherson | |
| This bill requires that an undertaking of bail include the bail agent license number of the owner of the issuing bail agency and other specified information. | |||||
| Trial courts: interpreters. | 1 | 0 | SB 818 (2003-2004) | Escutia | |
| This is a clean-up bill to the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act (TCIELRA), which was enacted in 2002. | |||||
| Criminal procedure: discovery. | 3 | 0 | SB 877 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | |
| Prohibits the disclosure of child pornography to a defendant unless specifically permitted to do so by the courts. | |||||
| Battery: code enforcement officers. | 2 | 0 | SB 919 (2003-2004) | Ortiz | |
| This bill increases the maximum county jail term for any misdemeanor assault or misdemeanor battery without injury on a code enforcement officer from six months to one year. | |||||
| Fingerprinting: criminal offender records. | 5 | 0 | SB 970 (2003-2004) | Ortiz | |
| This bill requires the State Department of Justice to accept fingerprint images and related information to process criminal offender record information only if those images are transmitted electronically. This bill also requires the Attorney General to establish a communications network to allow requests from private service providers relative to specified criminal offender record information. | |||||
| Motion picture theaters: unauthorized recordings. | 1 | 0 | SB 1032 (2003-2004) | Murray | |
| Increases the punishment for recording a motion picture in a theatre without appropriate consent. | |||||
| Sexual abuse. | 0 | 2 | SB 1803 (2003-2004) | Battin | |
| This bill states that it is a crime punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for persons within specified degrees of consanguinity who are 18 years of age or older to commit fornication or adultery with one another. | |||||
| California Commission for the Preservation of African-American History, Culture, and Institutions. | 1 | 0 | AB 59 (2003-2004) | Dymally | |
| This bill would provide that a person convicted of the commission of felony domestic violence, when the person knew that the violence was committed in the presence of any child under 18 years of age, shall receive an enhancement of one year in the state prison. | |||||
| Criminal procedure. | 1 | 0 | AB 155 (2003-2004) | Kehoe | |
| This bill allows the prosecution to request a continuance for good cause in a homicide or forcible sex crime case when DNA analysis, which was requested in a timely manner, is still pending at a laboratory. | |||||
| Crime. | 3 | 0 | AB 187 (2003-2004) | Runner | |
| This bill makes the penalty for either assault or battery of a member of the United States Armed Forces a fine of $2,000 and/or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year. | |||||
| Vandalism. | 2 | 0 | AB 207 (2003-2004) | Maze | |
| This bill would make vandalism of a veterans' memorial an alternate felony-misdemeanor, regardless of the amount of damages caused by the crime. | |||||
| Identity theft. | 0 | 1 | AB 215 (2003-2004) | Leslie | |
| This bill increases the penalty for the trafficking of personal information for purposes of fraud. | |||||
| Controlled substances: manufacture. | 1 | 0 | AB 233 (2003-2004) | Cogdill | |
| This bill makes it an aggravating factor in sentencing of someone convicted of manufacturing meth if a child lives in the residence where the meth was manufactured. | |||||
| Law enforcement: real estate fraud. | 1 | 0 | AB 241 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |
| This bill increases the membership of the Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Trust Fund Committee to include a fourth member from the law enforcement community. | |||||
| Crimes: professional sporting events. | 3 | 0 | AB 245 (2003-2004) | Cohn | |
| This bill penalizes individuals at professional sporting events who intentionally throw any object on the field with the intent to interfere and penalizes individuals at sporting events who enter upon the field without permission from an authorized person. | |||||
| Battery: anger management. | 2 | 0 | AB 259 (2003-2004) | Calderon | |
| This bill increases the penalty for battery at a sports event. | |||||
| Grand juries: final reports. | 0 | 3 | AB 312 (2003-2004) | Spitzer | |
| This bill changes minor rules relating to grand jury members. | |||||
| Shoplifting: booster bags. | 1 | 0 | AB 325 (2003-2004) | Cogdill | |
| This bill makes the manufacture, sale, or possession of a "booster bag" a misdemeanor. A booster bag is intended to shield stolen merchandise from theft detection devices. | |||||
| Department of Motor Vehicle records: access by city attorneys. | 1 | 0 | AB 365 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |
| This bill authorizes city attorneys prosecuting misdemeanor actions to have access to DMV records. | |||||
| Invasion of privacy: concealed cameras. | 0 | 1 | AB 495 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |
| This bill increases the penalties for the secret videotaping or photographing of a minor. | |||||
| Sexual assault victims: toxicology testing. | 4 | 0 | AB 506 (2003-2004) | Maze | |
| This bill requires that blood and urine samples be collected from sexual assault victims, depending on circumstances and the victims’ consent. | |||||
| Juries: peace officers. | 3 | 0 | AB 513 (2003-2004) | Matthews | |
| This bill establishes that criminal courts must give scheduling accommodations for jury duty to parole officers, probation officers, and correctional officers who are peace officers. | |||||
| Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements. | 0 | 1 | AB 567 (2003-2004) | Simitian | |
| This bill authorizes the recipient of unsolicited commercial e-mail to recover in court actual damage or $1,000, whichever is greater, for each violation. In addition, an email service provider may recover $100 per violation, to a maximum of $50,000. | |||||
| Crime. | 0 | 1 | AB 725 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |
| This bill establishes that an assault committed against a custodial officer is punishable by life imprisonment. | |||||
| Wireless telephones: destruction. | 1 | 0 | AB 836 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |
| This bill establishes that any person who unlawfully and maliciously removes, injures, destroys, or damages any wireless communication device with the intent to prevent the use of the device to summon assistance or notify law enforcement or any public safety agency of a crime is guilty of a misdemeanor. | |||||
| Violent felonies. | 4 | 0 | AB 863 (2003-2004) | Shirley Horton | |
| This bill expands the current list of "violent felonies" to include an alternate misdemeanor/felony offense of corporal punishment or injury of a child. | |||||
| Murder: special circumstances. | 2 | 0 | AB 874 (2003-2004) | Wyland | |
| This bill authorizes imposition of the death penalty or life without the possibility of parole for the intentional killing of a victim or his or her children, or both, who were protected under a restraining order. | |||||
| DNA evidence: Sexual Assault Victims' DNA Bill of Rights. | 3 | 0 | AB 898 (2003-2004) | Chu | |
| This bill establishes the "Sexual Assault Victim's" DNA Bill of Rights. | |||||
| Trespass. | 4 | 0 | AB 924 (2003-2004) | Maldonado | |
| This bill raises the penalty from $10 to $75 for a first offense of trespass and raises the penalty for a second offense of trespass from $100 to $250. | |||||
| Theft: vessels. | 2 | 0 | AB 928 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |
| This bill creates an alternate misdemeanor/felony for the theft of a vessel and law enforcement vessels. | |||||
| Trespass: maternity wards. | 3 | 0 | AB 936 (2003-2004) | Reyes | |
| This bill defines a specific new form of trespassing applicable to a maternity ward, birthing clinic or natal unit, and requires counseling as a condition of probation for this crime. | |||||
| Vehicles: motor vehicle speed contest: punishment. | 1 | 0 | AB 985 (2003-2004) | Vargas | |
| This bill increases the penalty for engaging in a speed contest if it results in great bodily injury to a person other than the defendant. | |||||
| Crimes: assault . | 2 | 0 | AB 1046 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | |
| Expands the scope of the existing penalty for assault upon a custodial officer to include public employees hired by law enforcement agencies to work in local detention facilities. | |||||
| Criminal proceedings. | 2 | 0 | AB 1050 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |
| Increases the penalties for attempting to evade a peace officer. | |||||
| Identity theft: limitations period. | 3 | 0 | AB 1105 (2003-2004) | Jackson | |
| Adds the crimes of identity theft and filing false documents to the list of offenses for which the statute of limitations does not begin to run until discovery of the offense. | |||||
| Justifiable homicide: defense of a fetus. | 0 | 3 | AB 1109 (2003-2004) | Maddox | |
| Adds a homicide committed in defense of a fetus to the situations in which a homicide is justifiable. | |||||
| Crime. | 3 | 0 | AB 1153 (2003-2004) | Bermudez | |
| Provides that any person who makes or sells any badge which falsely purports to be that of an officer or member of a fire department, or any person who exhibits, uses, or sells an identification card of a city, county, or state employee, is guilty of a misdemeanor. | |||||
| Criminal procedure: subpoenas. | 1 | 0 | AB 1249 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |
| Prohibits attorneys in criminal matters from directing custodians of records to make the subpoenaed records available for inspection or copying at the custodian's business address and requires, instead, that subpoenaed records be delivered directly to the court for inspection by the court and the parties. | |||||
| Alcoholic beverages and controlled substances: minors. | 1 | 0 | AB 1301 (2003-2004) | Simitian | |
| This bill makes it a misdemeanor to permit a minor to consume alcohol or a controlled substance at the home of the adult or legal guardian. | |||||
| Criminal law: public officials: threats. | 1 | 0 | AB 1433 (2003-2004) | Spitzer | |
| This bill includes the "immediate family of staff" in the Penal Code section pertaining to threats against public officials. | |||||
| Criminal proceedings: sanctions. | 0 | 2 | AB 1435 (2003-2004) | Koretz | |
| This bill authorizes the court in a criminal case to impose monetary sanctions up to $1,500 for violation of a lawful court order and to award attorney's fees and costs as a sanction for discovery violations. | |||||
| SAFE teams. | 2 | 0 | AB 1441 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |
| This bill appropriates $15 million from the General Fund to the State Controller for distribution to local law enforcement to support local Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team programs, as established under current law to reduce violent sexual assault offenses. | |||||
| Human remains: sexual contact. | 3 | 0 | AB 1493 (2003-2004) | Runner | |
| This bill criminalizes necrophilia. | |||||
| Child pornography. | 1 | 0 | AB 1499 (2003-2004) | Liu | |
| This bill adds specified child pornography offenses to the list of offenses for which a computer may be subject to forfeiture. | |||||
| Administration of taxes: tax shelters: penalties. | 4 | 0 | AB 1601 (2003-2004) | Frommer | |
| This bill enacts a comprehensive set of changes that increase the penalties for investors, promoters, and organizers of abusive tax shelters, and allows those who voluntarily come forward to avoid the increased penalties. | |||||
| Appeals: attorneys: contempt. | 1 | 0 | AB 1653 (2003-2004) | Mullin | |
| This bill provides a right of appeal from judgments of contempt and orders monetary sanctions or award of attorney's fees for attorneys in criminal actions. | |||||
| Criminal procedure. | 2 | 0 | AB 1667 (2003-2004) | Kehoe | |
| This bill repeals provisions in existing law relative to statutes of limitations on various sex offenses that have been held to be unconstitutional and makes other non-substantive changes to existing law. | |||||
| Crime. | 3 | 0 | AB 1692 (2003-2004) | Shirley Horton | |
| This bill expands the scope of the crime of misdemeanor sexual battery. | |||||
| Courts. | 2 | 0 | AB 1710 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill is intended to address problems the courts have encountered in issuing and serving restraining orders where a ward of the court is involved, as well as make some technical corrections. | |||||
| Identity theft. | 3 | 0 | AB 1772 (2003-2004) | ||
| Allows an identity theft victim to obtain information about unauthorized mail receipt and forwarding services, or office rental applications, made in the name of the identity theft victim. | |||||
| Search warrants: identity theft. | 1 | 0 | AB 1773 (2003-2004) | ||
| Provides that when property to be seized under a warrant shows evidence of identity theft a new search warrant may be issued in a different county. | |||||
| Guide dogs. | 2 | 0 | AB 1801 (2003-2004) | Pavley | |
| Increases the penalties for interference with, or injury or death to, a guide, signal or service dog or mobility aid. | |||||
| Grand theft. | 2 | 0 | AB 1814 (2003-2004) | Oropeza | |
| Separately defines the crime of cargo theft in order to track the number of cases where the property taken fits this category. | |||||
| Professional and trade licenses. | 6 | 0 | AB 1826 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |
| Includes a professional or trade license number in the definition of "personal identifying information" for purposes of the crime of identity theft. | |||||
| Civil rights: interference. | 2 | 0 | AB 1920 (2003-2004) | La Malfa | |
| Allows those prosecuted under misdemeanor hate crime laws to also be prosecuted under felony laws that ban cross burning. | |||||
| Criminal procedure. | 6 | 0 | AB 1941 (2003-2004) | Chan | |
| Permits arrested persons who are custodial parents to place three phone calls during the booking process in order to make arrangements for the care of their minor children. | |||||
| Diversion: developmentally disabled defendants. | 2 | 0 | AB 1956 (2003-2004) | Wolk | |
| Broadens the application of the current statute authorizing diversion (special services) for mentally ill defendants in certain misdemeanor cases to apply to persons with a cognitive developmental disability. | |||||
| Person committed to mental hospital: release: testimony of victim. | 4 | 0 | AB 2191 (2003-2004) | Chu | |
| Allows the victim of a person who was found not guilty by reason of insanity to make a written statement as to whether or not the patient would be a danger to self or others if released. | |||||
| Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act. | 3 | 0 | AB 2238 (2003-2004) | Spitzer | |
| Extends the sunset on the Bail Fugitive Recovery Persons Act (Act) from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2010. | |||||
| Hate crimes. | 2 | 0 | AB 2288 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |
| Lowers the threshold amount of damage in a "hate-motivated" crime against the property of another person from $500 to $400 for the crime to be a felony. | |||||
| Crime. | 1 | 0 | AB 2321 (2003-2004) | Dutton | |
| Expands the felony provision for corruptly influencing a juror to include judges. | |||||
| Crime. | 1 | 0 | AB 2403 (2003-2004) | Jackson | |
| Creates a new misdemeanor offense of installing any image recording device in a non-commercial dwelling house without the knowledge or consent of the person in lawful possession. | |||||
| Invasion of privacy. | 1 | 0 | AB 2553 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |
| Increases the penalty from a misdemeanor to an alternate misdemeanor/felony for a first offense of secret videotaping or recording a person under the age of 18. | |||||
| Rape: evidence: sexual conduct. | 1 | 0 | AB 2829 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |
| This bill requires support of a motion to introduce evidence of sexual conduct of the complaining witness be filed under seal. | |||||
| Sentencing. | 2 | 0 | AB 3042 (2003-2004) | Chavez | |
| Increases penalties for specified sex offenses involving a minor if the act was committed for money or other consideration. | |||||
| Crimes. | 2 | 0 | AB 49 (2003-2004) | Simitian | |
| Creates the California Cyber Crimes Task Force comprised of each regional task force participating in the High Technology Theft Apprehension and Prosecution Program. | |||||
| Wire taps. | SB 32 (2003-2004) | McPherson | |||
| This bill removes from the definition of "wire communication" any electronic storage of specified communications. | |||||
| Limitations of time. | SB 337 (2003-2004) | Romero | |||
| This bill adds the crime of the unauthorized practice of law to the list of offenses for which the statute of limitations does not commence until discovery of the offense. | |||||
| Securities fraud. | SB 355 (2003-2004) | Florez | |||
| This bill increases crimes associated with securities fraud. | |||||
| Corporations: fraud. | SB 395 (2003-2004) | Florez | |||
| This bill increases the severity of certain fraudulent corporate activities. | |||||
| Legal/witness | SB 401 (2003-2004) | Florez | |||
| This bill changes the procedures relative to granting immunity to witnesses compelled to give testimony in a legislative proceeding despite the witness' assertion of the privilege against self-incrimination. | |||||
| Private property: trespass. | SB 483 (2003-2004) | Aanestad | |||
| This bill declares the Legislature's intent to enact legislation that would require state agencies that have adopted policies regarding trespassing, privacy, and notification to the public, to incorporate safeguards that ensure respect for residents and private property and would subject agencies to the appropriate legal ramifications when that agency trespasses on private property. | |||||
| Crime. | SB 514 (2003-2004) | Dunn | |||
| This bill changes the definition of criminal gang activity to mean the commission of, attempted commission of, conspiracy to commit, solicitation of, sustained juvenile petition for, or conviction of, certain enumerate offenses committed on separate occasions and by two or more persons. | |||||
| Local government finance. | SB 592 (2003-2004) | Vasconcellos | |||
| This bill provides that funds appropriated by the Budget Act of 2004 shall be available for reimbursement of 100% of the allowable costs incurred by the County of Stanislaus for the homicide investigation and prosecution of Scott Peterson. | |||||
| Investigative subpoenas: violent felonies. | SB 609 (2003-2004) | Dunn | |||
| This bill authorizes the chief executive officer of a law enforcement agency to issue subpoenas for the production of certain records from a public utility, bank, credit union, savings association, or other provider of electronic communication services when investigating a violent felony. | |||||
| Civil rights: hate crimes. | SB 872 (2003-2004) | Alarcon | |||
| Makes a proven hate crime conviction to be considered proof of a violation of hate crime law. | |||||
| Sex offenses: statute of limitations. | SB 929 (2003-2004) | Speier | |||
| This bill adds certain sexual offenses to the list of crimes for which there is no statute of limitations. | |||||
| Criminal actions: televised broadcasting. | SB 977 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |||
| This bill prohibits the live or delayed broadcasting of any criminal action until a verdict is rendered. | |||||
| Battery: sports official: punishment. | SB 1019 (2003-2004) | Florez | |||
| Increases the penalties for battery against a sports official. | |||||
| Crime. | SB 1203 (2003-2004) | Margett | |||
| This bill states that a person that is convicted of petty theft or financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult, and has previously served a term in an institution for theft, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail or state prison. | |||||
| Automatic external defibrillator: vandalism. | SB 1205 (2003-2004) | Margett | |||
| This bill would prohibit the vandalism of automated or automatic external defibrillators. | |||||
| Disorderly conduct. | SB 1484 (2003-2004) | Ackerman | |||
| This bill creates a new disorderly conduct misdemeanor for concealed filming or photographing of a person for the purpose of recording the person in a state of undress, including where a roommate or cohabitant filmed, photographed or recorded the victim. | |||||
| Sentencing enhancements. | SB 1669 (2003-2004) | Karnette | |||
| This bill imposes enhanced prison penalties for use of, or being armed with, a deadly weapon or causing great bodily injury during the attempt or commission of certain sex offenses. | |||||
| Plea bargaining: police vehicle pursuits. | SB 1710 (2003-2004) | Knight | |||
| This bill prohibits plea-bargaining in cases where the charge is evading a peace officer. | |||||
| Candidates for President: felons. | AB 84 (2003-2004) | Cogdill | |||
| This bill prohibits felons, in prison or on parole, from being recognized as candidates for the presidency, or from being included by the Secretary of State as candidates upon the presidential primary ballot for any party. | |||||
| Commercial and political cyberfraud. | AB 277 (2003-2004) | Dutra | |||
| This bill prohibits political cyberfraud, which is the registering of a domain name of a candidate or public official with the intent to defraud the public. | |||||
| Vehicles: official traffic control signals: interruptive devices. | AB 340 (2003-2004) | Frommer | |||
| This bill criminalizes mobile infrared transmitters (except for emergency vehicle use), which are devices intended to disrupt traffic lights. | |||||
| Jurisdiction. | AB 543 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |||
| This bill changes the jurisdiction rules for identity theft crimes. | |||||
| Crime. | AB 549 (2003-2004) | Cohn | |||
| This bill changes the penalties for throwing objects at sporting events. | |||||
| Vehicles: illegal devices. | AB 551 (2003-2004) | Cohn | |||
| This bill makes it a crime to sell a device that interrupts traffic signals. | |||||
| Crimes: school employees. | AB 608 (2003-2004) | Daucher | |||
| This bill requires that the Commissioner of the State Department of the California Highway Patrol must notify schools if a school employee is arrested for a drug or sex related offense. | |||||
| Crimes. | AB 633 (2003-2004) | Maze | |||
| This bill adds to the list of sex offenses certain offenses against minors. | |||||
| Sexual assault. | AB 727 (2003-2004) | Leslie | |||
| This bill requires sex offenders to pay a fee which will go towards examinations of sexual assault victims. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's license: suspension or revocation. | AB 755 (2003-2004) | Samuelian | |||
| This bill creates a new alternate felony-misdemeanor offense of driving on a suspended or revoked driver's license where the driving results in the death of or great bodily injury to any person other than the defendant, and specifies punishments. | |||||
| Rape: withdrawal of consent. | AB 814 (2003-2004) | Chu | |||
| This bill codifies the ruling that a defendant may be found guilty of rape if the victim, having consented, withdraws that consent during intercourse and communicates that withdrawal. | |||||
| Evidence: hearsay: kidnapping. | AB 837 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |||
| This bill exempts kidnapping from the hearsay rules of criminal prosecution. | |||||
| Criminal street gangs. | AB 861 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |||
| This bill makes minor changes to the laws criminalizing street gangs. | |||||
| Records: admissible hearsay. | AB 883 (2003-2004) | Runner | |||
| This bill allows reproductions of files, records, writings, photographs, or other instruments in the official custody of a criminal justice agency to be admissible to the same extent as the original. | |||||
| Kidnapping. | AB 916 (2003-2004) | Samuelian | |||
| This bill increases the punishments for kidnappings of persons under 18. | |||||
| Crime. | AB 1037 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |||
| Technical changes to criminal law. | |||||
| Housing: standards: enforcement. | AB 1257 (2003-2004) | Koretz | |||
| This bill specifies that in criminal prosecutions involving housing, building, or fire code violations, the people have the burden of proof of the violation and the defendant has the burden of proving any defense or mitigating circumstance. | |||||
| Offenses against minors. | AB 1443 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |||
| This bill provides that every person who communicates with a minor, or attempts to communicate, who knows or reasonably should know that the person is a minor, with the intent to commit a specified offense with that minor shall be punished as if that person attempted to commit the crime. | |||||
| Bail: real property. | AB 1561 (2003-2004) | Cox | |||
| This bill allows a bail permittee to post a deed of trust with the county in which the relevant property is located as security for the posting of a real property bail draft, which would cause the release of the defendant. | |||||
| Appeals: nuisance. | AB 1639 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | |||
| This bill establishes that a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction will be enforceable during the pendency of an appeal if it has been issued pursuant to government efforts to abate a narcotics or vice nuisance. | |||||
| Peace officers: hate crimes and hate incidences training. | AB 1673 (2003-2004) | Chu | |||
| This bill expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require local law enforcement agencies to track and report hate crimes and hate incidences to the Attorney General. | |||||
| Murder. | AB 1835 (2003-2004) | La Malfa | |||
| Makes technical changes to the laws that determine the penalties for murder. | |||||
| Budget: insurance fraud. | AB 1867 (2003-2004) | Vargas | |||
| Allows local district attorneys to access $5 million in funds for investigating and prosecuting auto fraud locally. | |||||
| Criminal gangs. | AB 1882 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |||
| Extends the felony crime of threatening or coercing a person to join a gang to preventing a person from leaving a gang. | |||||
| Arson. | AB 1907 (2003-2004) | Pacheco | |||
| Extends the sunset date for the crime of aggravated arson. | |||||
| Homicide trial costs. | AB 1989 (2003-2004) | Mullin | |||
| Authorizes a county to be reimbursed by the state for 100% of its costs associated with a homicide trial if the trial is moved to a location more than 60 miles away from the county seat of that county. | |||||
| Criminal procedure: release on bail. | AB 2011 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | |||
| Allows courts to determine if defendants should be admitted to or remain out on bail after a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. | |||||
| State computers: prohibited use: obscene matter. | AB 2046 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |||
| This bill would make it illegal for any person to use a state-owned or state-leased computer to access, view, download, or otherwise obtain obscene matter. | |||||
| State agencies: computers: security. | AB 2700 (2003-2004) | Plescia | |||
| This bill would make findings about the risks to the security of state government computers and networks posed by use of peer-to-peer file sharing technology and would require each state agency to develop and implement a plan to protect itself. | |||||
| Internet piracy. | AB 2735 (2003-2004) | McCarthy | |||
| This bill would it a crime for a person who is not the copyright owner to knowingly electronically distribute a recording or audiovisual work without disclosing his or her true name and address, and the title of the recording or audiovisual work. | |||||
| Workers' compensation: fraud. | AB 2866 (2003-2004) | Nunez | |||
| This bill requires the posting of specified fraud information on the State Department of Insurance Web site for each person convicted of fraud. | |||||
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