Bill Text: CA AB2985 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Courts: mental health advisement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-08-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 204, Statutes of 2024. [AB2985 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2985-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 21, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Hart |
February 16, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law authorizes a party to a civil action to obtain discovery by inspecting, copying, testing, or sampling documents, tangible things, land or other property, and electronically stored information in the possession, custody, or control of any other party to the action, as specified.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 242 is added to the Code of Civil Procedure, to read:242.
(a) Following the receipt of a verdict and prior to discharging the jury in a criminal action or proceeding alleging a violent felony, the court shall provide written information to the trial jurors about mental health awareness regarding vicarious trauma that may occur as a result of participation in the trial and the symptoms and methods for stress relief.(a)A party may obtain discovery within the scope delimited by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 2017.010), and subject to the restrictions set forth in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2019.010), by inspecting, copying, testing, or sampling documents, tangible things, land or other property, and electronically stored information in the possession, custody, or control of any other party to the action.
(b)A party may demand that any other party produce and
permit the party making the demand, or someone acting on the demanding party’s behalf, to inspect and to copy a document that is in the possession, custody, or control of the party on whom the demand is made.
(c)A party may demand that any other party produce and permit the party making the demand, or someone acting on the demanding party’s behalf, to inspect and to photograph, test, or sample any tangible things that are in the possession, custody, or control of the party on whom the demand is made.
(d)A party may demand that any other party allow the party making the demand, or someone acting on the demanding party’s behalf, to enter on any land or other property that is in the possession, custody, or control of the party on whom the demand is made, and to inspect and to measure, survey, photograph, test, or sample the land or other property, or any designated object or
operation on it.
(e)A party may demand that any other party produce and permit the party making the demand, or someone acting on the demanding party’s behalf, to inspect, copy, test, or sample electronically stored information in the possession, custody, or control of the party on whom demand is made.