Bill Text: CA AB955 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Bribery.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB955 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB955-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
April 04, 2017 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 955 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer |
February 16, 2017 |
An act to amend Sections 85 and 86 of the Penal Code, relating to body-worn cameras. bribery.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 955, as amended, Jones-Sawyer.
Body-worn cameras: peace officers. Bribery.
Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years to give or offer to give a bribe to a Member of the Legislature, to a member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district, or to another person for the member, or to attempt by menace, deceit, suppression of truth, or any corrupt means, to influence a member in giving or withholding his or her vote, or in not attending the house or any committee of which he or she is a member. Existing law also makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years and subject to a specified fine, for those members to ask, receive, or agree to receive, any bribe, as specified, or to give, or offer or promise to give, any official vote
in consideration that another member shall give this vote either upon the same or another question.
This bill would increase the term of imprisonment in the state prison to 5, 6, or 7 years for those crimes.
Existing law requires law enforcement agencies, departments, or entities to consider specified best practices regarding the downloading and storage of body-worn camera data when establishing policies and procedures for the implementation and operation of a body-worn camera system, as specified.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish policies and procedures to address issues related to body-worn cameras.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 85 of the Penal Code is amended to read:85.
Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe toSEC. 2.
Section 86 of the Penal Code is amended to read:86.
Every Member of either house of the Legislature, or any member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district, who asks, receives, or agrees to receive, any bribe, upon any understanding that his or her official vote, opinion, judgment, or action shall be influenced thereby, or shall give, in any particular manner, or upon any particular side of any question or matter upon which he or she may be required to act in his or her official capacity, or gives, or offers or promises to give, any official vote in consideration that another Member of the Legislature, or another member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district shall give this vote either upon the same or another question, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison forIn imposing a fine under this section, the court shall consider the defendant’s ability to pay the
fine.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish policies and procedures to address issues related to a body-worn camera worn by a peace officer.
