 | Topic | Supporters | Opponents | Bill number | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peace officers records. | 2 | 3 | AB 834 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |
| This bill requires law enforcement agencies to destroy after five years all citizen complaints, or portions of complaints, determined by a law enforcement agency to be "frivolous," "unfounded" or "exonerated." | |||||
| Criminal justice administrative fees. | 3 | 2 | AB 2468 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |
| Collects criminal justice administrative fees from specified criminal defendants prior to conviction. | |||||
| Jury service: peace officer exemption. | 2 | 1 | AB 270 (2003-2004) | Bates | |
| This bill exempts harbor and port police officers from jury duty, adding them to the list including sheriffs, police officers, DA's, etc. | |||||
| Peace officers: records. | 1 | 1 | AB 1198 (2003-2004) | Dutton | |
| Requires that the confidentiality protection and discovery procedures relative to peace officer and custodial officer personnel records also apply to records maintained by the Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training. | |||||
| Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program. | 4 | 0 | SB 44 (2003-2004) | Denham | |
| This bill allows the Counties of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Benito to develop Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Programs modeled on Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Programs. | |||||
| SAFE teams. | 4 | 0 | SB 52 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | |
| This bill appropriates $15 million from the General Fund for distribution to county sheriffs for county and regional "Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement" Team programs. | |||||
| Vehicles: driver's license : violation points: penalty charge. | 3 | 0 | SB 1209 (2003-2004) | Scott | |
| This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to review driver's license records to identify persons that have accumulated four or more violation points. The DMV would then be required to impose a $250 fee to any driver with four points, and an additional $50 per point exceeding four. | |||||
| Statewide Registry: trustees. | 1 | 0 | SB 1248 (2003-2004) | Bowen | |
| This bill would require the Department of Justice to disclose, upon request, whether an individual is registered as a trustee with the Statewide Registry, his or her educational background as well as additional information. | |||||
| Laboratories: licensing and accreditation. | 2 | 0 | SB 1623 (2003-2004) | Johnson | |
| This bill eliminates the licensing and regulatory authority of the Department of Health Services (DHS) over laboratories that perform blood, urine, tissue or breath testing by or for law enforcement agencies for determining the concentration of ethyl alcohol in the blood of individuals involved in traffic accidents (forensic alcohol analysis). | |||||
| Bail services. | 1 | 0 | SB 1744 (2003-2004) | Dunn | |
| This bill establishes a new procedure by which a surety or depositor or bail may obtain an additional 180 days following expiration of the original 180-day period following forfeiture. | |||||
| Public safety: omnibus bill. | 2 | 0 | SB 1797 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill makes technical changes and corrections to specified Penal Code provisions. | |||||
| Law enforcement funding. | 2 | 0 | AB 172 (2003-2004) | Nakanishi | |
| This bill gives county boards of supervisors flexibility when they conduct a public hearing concerning the Citizens Option for Public Safety program. | |||||
| Death certificates: peace officers. | 1 | 0 | AB 540 (2003-2004) | Bogh | |
| This bill establishes that a certificate of death of a peace officer who was killed in the line of duty must be processed immediately upon acceptance for filing and be issued no later than 10 business days later. | |||||
| Public safety officer-peer supporter privilege. | 1 | 0 | AB 960 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |
| This bill establishes an evidentiary privilege for communications between a public safety officer and his or her peer supporter. | |||||
| Peace officers. | 2 | 0 | AB 1081 (2003-2004) | Maddox | |
| Provides peace officers access to their personnel files containing unfounded complaints by members of the public and requires peace officers to be notified in writing when discovery or disclosure is sought in connection with an investigative report resulting from a complaint against a peace officer. | |||||
| Peace officers: confidential records. | 2 | 0 | AB 1106 (2003-2004) | Jerome Horton | |
| Clarifies the rules exempting investigations by a grand jury or public prosecutor from the usual rules requiring confidentiality of law enforcement personnel records. | |||||
| State Bar of California. | 1 | 0 | AB 1708 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill revises the State Bar's dues requirements. | |||||
| Law enforcement fees. | 6 | 0 | AB 2137 (2003-2004) | Steinberg | |
| Increase law enforcement fees and adjust them annually according to the Consumer Price Index. | |||||
| Safety in employment: conveyances. | 1 | 0 | AB 2350 (2003-2004) | Chavez | |
| Makes technical changes to laws governing elevators, escalators and other conveyances. | |||||
| Public safety: state mandates. | 0 | 3 | AB 2852 (2003-2004) | Laird | |
| Makes several local public safety programs required by the state mandatory. | |||||
| Budget Act of 2003. | SB 23 (2003-2004) | Sher | |||
| This bill amends the Budget Act of 2003 by reappropriating to the Office of Emergency Services the balance of certain appropriations, previously made to the former Office of Criminal Justice Planning, which has since been abolished. | |||||
| Deadly weapons. | SB 1202 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | |||
| This bill makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to the regulation of deadly weapons. | |||||
| Court officers. | SB 1225 (2003-2004) | Morrow | |||
| This bill would revise the duties of the court commissioner. | |||||
| Crimes: civil rights. | SB 1234 (2003-2004) | Kuehl | |||
| This bill would revise and recast the provisions relating to hate crimes. | |||||
| Legal System | SB 1490 (2003-2004) | ||||
| This bill authorizes the State Bar of California to continue to collect up to $310 as annual Bar membership dues for the year 2005. | |||||
| Youth Authority. | SB 1668 (2003-2004) | Romero | |||
| This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the Department of the Youth Authority. | |||||
| Public safety: communication system. | AB 563 (2003-2004) | Spitzer | |||
| This bill removes "digital" from the equipment requirements for the Public Safety Committee in buying communication equipment. | |||||
| Judicial Council: trial courts. | AB 759 (2003-2004) | Nakanishi | |||
| This bill requires the Judicial Council to adopt rules providing for the public to attend any meeting of a board, committee, or multimember body of a trial court on matters related to administrative functions of the court. | |||||
| Court facilities: Sacramento County. | AB 819 (2003-2004) | Nakanishi | |||
| This bill declares the intent of the Legislature to ensure that residents of southern Sacramento County have access to local court facilities. | |||||
| Public safety finance agencies. | AB 1690 (2003-2004) | Leno | |||
| This bill authorizes any county or city to form a public safety finance agency for the purpose of financing supplemental fire, police and sheriff protection, and specified medical services. | |||||
| Recorded documents. | AB 1943 (2003-2004) | Leslie | |||
| Authorizes the county recorder of Placer County to accept, in lieu of a written paper document, a digitized image under certain conditions. | |||||
| Booking fees. | AB 2467 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |||
| Requires the State Auditor, in conjunction with the Judicial Council, to study booking fees, including an evaluation of the fiscal concerns of local law enforcement. | |||||
| Habeas corpus. | SB 294 (2003-2004) | Soto | |||
| This bill requires all trustees to register in the Statewide Registry maintained by the State Department of Justice. | |||||
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