Bill Text: CA AB1708 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1708 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Jurors: peace officer exemption.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-29 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1708 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1708-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1708	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 9, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2014

   An act to amend Section 219 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
relating to jurors.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1708, as amended, Alejo. Jurors: peace officer exemption.
   Existing law excludes certain peace officers from voir dire in
civil and criminal matters, and other specified peace officers from
voir dire in criminal matters.
   This bill would exclude additional peace officers, including
certain parole officers, probation officers, deputy probation
officers, board coordinating parole agents, correctional officers,
transportation officers of a probation department, and other
employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the
State Department of  Mental Health   State
Hospitals  , and the Board of Parole Hearings, from voir dire in
 civil and  criminal matters.
   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 219 of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended
to read:
   219.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the jury
commissioner shall randomly select jurors for jury panels to be sent
to courtrooms for voir dire.
   (b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a peace officer, as
defined in Section 830.1, subdivision (a) of Section 830.2,  or
 subdivision (a) of Section 830.33  , or subdivision (a)
or (b) of Section 830.5  of the Penal Code, shall not be
selected for voir dire in civil or criminal matters.
   (2) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a peace officer, as defined
in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section  830.2  
830.2, or subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 830.5 of the Penal
Code, shall not be selected for voir dire in criminal matters.