Bill Text: CA AB1272 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Criminal procedure: trial schedule conflicts.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-07-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 91, Statutes of 2016. [AB1272 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB1272-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1272 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 91
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 25, 2016
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR JULY 25, 2016
PASSED THE SENATE JUNE 30, 2016
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY JANUARY 28, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 13, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JANUARY 4, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 16, 2015
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 26, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Grove
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
An act to amend Section 1048.1 of the Penal Code, relating to
crimes.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1272, Grove. Criminal procedure: trial schedule conflicts.
Existing law requires a superior court to make reasonable efforts
to avoid setting a trial for murder, sexual assault, child abuse, or
a case being handled in the Career Criminal Prosecution Program on
the same day that another case is set for trial involving the same
prosecuting attorney.
This bill would expand this requirement to include a trial
involving an alleged offense against a person with a developmental
disability.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 1048.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
1048.1. (a) In scheduling a trial date at an arraignment in
superior court involving any of the following offenses, reasonable
efforts shall be made to avoid setting that trial, when that case is
assigned to a particular prosecuting attorney, on the same day that
another case is set for trial involving the same prosecuting
attorney:
(1) Murder, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 187.
(2) An alleged sexual assault offense, as described in
subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 11165.1.
(3) An alleged child abuse offense, as described in Section
11165.6.
(4) A case being handled in the Career Criminal Prosecution
Program pursuant to Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 999b).
(5) An alleged offense against a person with a developmental
disability.
(b) For purposes of this section, "developmental disability" has
the same meaning as found in Section 4512 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code.
