Bill Text: CA AB1272 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Criminal procedure: trial schedule conflicts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 91, Statutes of 2016. [AB1272 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1272-Chaptered.html

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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.