Bill Text: CA AB1496 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public offenses: detention.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1496 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB1496-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1496

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Introduced by Assembly Member Gomez

February 17, 2017

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An act to amend Section 688 of the Penal Code, relating to crime.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1496, as introduced, Gomez. Public offenses: detention.

Existing law provides that a person charged with a public offense may not be subjected, before conviction, to any more restraint than is necessary for his or her detention to answer the charge.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 688 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

688.

 No A person charged with a public offense may shall not be subjected, before conviction, to any more restraint than is necessary for his or her detention to answer the charge.