Bill Text: CA AB2682 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Registered sex offenders: interactive video games: meeting with minors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2682 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2682-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2682	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 11, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 18, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chang

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section  38755 to the Vehicle Code, relating
to vehicles.   290.96 to the Penal Code, relating to
crimes, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2682, as amended, Chang.  Autonomous vehicles.
  Registered sex offenders: interactive video games:
meeting with minors.  
    Existing law, the Sex Offender Registration Act, last amended by
Proposition 35, as approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012,
statewide general election, requires a person convicted of certain
crimes, as specified, to register with law enforcement as a sex
offender for the rest of his or her life while residing in California
or while attending school or working in California, as specified.
 
   Existing law makes it a crime for a person who is motivated by an
unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in children to arrange a
meeting with a minor or a person he or she believes to be a minor for
the purpose of exposing his or her genitals or pubic or rectal area,
having the child expose his or her genitals or pubic or rectal area,
or engaging in lewd or lascivious behavior. Existing law makes the
crime punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000, by imprisonment in a
county jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and
imprisonment.  
   This bill would make it a crime, punishable by a fine not
exceeding $5,000, by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding one
year, or by both the fine and imprisonment, for a registered sex
offender to use an interactive video game to encourage another user
of the interactive video game who is a minor to physically travel to
a specified location for the purpose of meeting the minor.  

   By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated
local program.  
   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 no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.  
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.  
   Existing law authorizes the operation of an autonomous vehicle on
public roads for testing purposes by a driver who possesses the
proper class of license for the type of vehicle being operated if
specified requirements are satisfied. Existing law requires the
Department of Motor Vehicles to adopt regulations no later than
January 1, 2015, setting forth requirements for the submission of
evidence of insurance, surety bond, or self-insurance, and for the
submission and approval of an application to operate an autonomous
vehicle.  
   This bill would require the department, upon the development of a
model state policy on autonomous vehicles or operational guidance
related to the deployment and operation of autonomous vehicles by the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to hold public
hearings on the model policy and consider, to the extent authorized
by other law, conforming department regulations with that policy.

   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program:  no
  yes  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 290.96 is added to the 
 Penal Code   , to read:  
   290.96.  A person required to register under Section 290 who uses
an interactive video game to encourage another user of the
interactive video game who is a minor to physically travel to a
specified location for the purpose of meeting the minor shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), by
imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding one year, or by both the
fine and imprisonment. 
   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. 
   SEC. 3.    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 Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   In order to ensure the health and safety of minors across
California, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
 
  SECTION 1.    Section 38755 is added to the
Vehicle Code, to read:
   38755.  Upon the development of a model state policy on autonomous
vehicles or operational guidance related to the deployment and
operation of autonomous vehicles by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, the department shall hold public hearings on
the model policy and shall consider, to the extent authorized by
other law, conforming department regulations with the model policy
and operational guidance.