Bill Text: CA SB1108 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Shoplifting: increased penalties for prior crimes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-29 - March 29 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 4. Page 3256.) Reconsideration granted. [SB1108 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB1108-Introduced.html
Introduced by Senator Bates |
February 16, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 459.5 of the Penal Code is amended to read:459.5.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 459, shoplifting is defined as entering a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny while that establishment is open during regular business hours, where the value of the property that is taken or intended to be taken does not exceed nine hundred fifty dollars ($950). Any other entry into a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny is burglary. Shoplifting shall be punished as a misdemeanor, exceptSEC. 2.
Section 490.2 of the Penal Code is amended to read:490.2.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 487 or any other provision of law defining grand theft, obtaining any property by theft where the value of the money, labor, real or personal property taken does not exceed nine hundred fifty dollars ($950) shall be considered petty theft and shall be punished as a misdemeanor, except as follows:(a)Notwithstanding Section 487 or any other provision of law defining grand theft, obtaining any property by theft where the value of the money, labor, real or personal property taken does not exceed nine hundred fifty dollars ($950) shall be considered petty theft and shall be punished as a misdemeanor, except that such
SEC. 3.
Section 666 of the Penal Code is amended to read:666.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 490, every person who, having been convicted three or more times of petty theft, shoplifting, grand theft, a conviction pursuant to subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 368, auto theft under Section 10851 of the Vehicle Code, burglary, carjacking, robbery, or a felony conviction of Section 496 and having served a term thereof in any penal institution or having been imprisoned therein as a condition of probation for that offense, and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft or shoplifting is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.(a)
(b)