Bill Text: CA AB2136 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Damages: lead-based paint.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-07-03 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2136 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2136-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2136

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Introduced by Assembly Member Bonta

February 12, 2018

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An act to add Section 13703 to the Penal Code, relating to domestic violence.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2136, as introduced, Bonta. Domestic violence: lethality assessment program.

Existing law requires each law enforcement agency in the state to develop, adopt, and implement written policies and standards for officers’ responses to domestic violence calls.

This bill would require the County of Alameda to develop a lethality assessment program to develop tools for first responders to assess the lethality of domestic violence perpetrators in order to inform the decisions made by those first responders.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Alameda.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 13703 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

13703.

 The County of Alameda shall develop a domestic violence lethality assessment program. The program shall develop tools for first responders to assess the lethality of domestic violence perpetrators in order to inform the decisions made by those first responders.

SEC. 2.

 The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique need to develop tools to respond to domestic violence in the County of Alameda.

SEC. 3.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.