Bill Text: CA SB537 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Department of Justice: Bureau of Forensic Services.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB537 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB537-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 537

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Introduced by Senator Glazer

February 16, 2017

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An act relating to the Department of Justice.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 537, as introduced, Glazer. Department of Justice: Bureau of Forensic Services.

Existing law establishes the Department of Justice and establishes within the department’s Bureau of Forensic Services, the California Criminalistics Institute to, among other purposes, facilitate a comprehensive and coordinated approach to meet the high technology forensic science needs of crime laboratories.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact urgency legislation to provide a supplemental funding source for the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Forensic Services to sustain its operation of individualizing feature comparison programs.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact urgency legislation to provide a supplemental funding source for the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Forensic Services to sustain its operation of individualizing feature comparison programs.