Bill Text: CA AB1439 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Juveniles: crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1439 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1439-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1439	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chiu

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 1700 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to juveniles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1439, as introduced, Chiu. Juveniles: crimes.
   Existing law, the Youth Authority Act, governs the commitment of
juvenile offenders to the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities. Existing law
provides that the purpose of those provisions is to protect society
from the consequences of criminal activity. Existing law requires
community restoration, victim restoration, and offender training and
treatment to be substituted for retributive punishment and to be
directed toward the correction and rehabilitation of young persons
who have committed public offenses.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1700 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   1700.  The purpose of this chapter is to protect society from the
consequences of criminal  activity and to  
activity. To  that purpose  ,  community restoration,
victim restoration, and offender training and treatment shall be
substituted for retributive punishment and shall be directed toward
the correction and rehabilitation of young persons who have committed
public offenses.