Bill Text: CA AB1960 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Sentencing enhancements: property loss.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-07-01 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [AB1960 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1960-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 30, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Senate
June 20, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 16, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Robert Rivas (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Stephanie Nguyen, Blanca Rubio, and Villapudua) |
January 29, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The bill would additionally make these provisions inoperative if a specified initiative is approved by the voters.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Digest Key
Vote:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 12022.6 is added to the Penal Code, to read:12022.6.
(a) If a person takes, damages, or destroys property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, or commits a felony in violation of Section 496, the court shall impose an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment as follows:(2)If the proposed initiative measure titled “The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act” (Initiative 23-0017A1) is approved by the voters at the statewide general election on November 5, 2024, this section shall become inoperative on the fifth day after the Secretary of State files the statement of the vote for the election, and shall be repealed on January 1, 2025.
SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
To address the increase in community-based crime and retail theft and to provide broader public safety, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.