Bill Text: CA AB2515 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Controlled substances: sentencing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-02 - Reconsideration granted. (Page 5396.) Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Donnelly. [AB2515 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2515-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2515	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Donnelly

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 11500 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to controlled substances.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2515, as introduced, Donnelly. Controlled substances:
prosecutions for violations.
   Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act,
classifies controlled substances into 5 designated schedules, with
the most restrictive limitations generally placed on controlled
substances classified in Schedule I, and the least restrictive
limitations generally placed on controlled substances classified in
Schedule V. Existing law generally provides punishment for the
unauthorized use, possession, and sale of controlled substances.
Existing law requires, except as provided, the district attorney, or
his or her designee, of the county in which a violation is committed
to conduct all actions and prosecutions for the violation.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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 11500 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   11500.   The   (a)    
Subject to subdivision (b),   the  district attorney,
or  any person designated by him   his or her
designee  , of the county in which any violation of this
division is committed shall conduct all actions and prosecutions for
the violation. 
   However, the 
    (b)     The  Attorney General, or
special counsel employed by the Attorney General for that purpose,
may take complete charge of the conduct of such actions or
prosecutions. The Attorney General may fix the compensation to be
paid for the service and may incur  such other expense
  other expenses  in connection with the conduct of
the actions or prosecutions as he  or   she  may
deem necessary.  No   An  attorney employed
as special counsel shall  not  receive as compensation more
than three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) in any one year.