Bill Text: CA SB690 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Senate Bill 690 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Domestic violence.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 653, Statutes of 2024. [SB690 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB690-Chaptered.html

Senate Bill No. 690

CHAPTER 653

An act to amend Section 803.7 of the Penal Code, relating to domestic violence.

[ Approved by Governor September 27, 2024. Filed with Secretary of State September 27, 2024. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 690, Rubio. Domestic violence.

Existing law makes the infliction of corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition upon specified victims, including the offender’s spouse or former spouse, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, or in a county jail for not more than one year, or a fine of up to $6,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law authorizes prosecution for that criminal act to be commenced within 5 years, and applies this provision to criminal acts that are committed on or after January 1, 2020, and to criminal acts for which the statute of limitations that was in effect prior to January 1, 2020, has not run as of January 1, 2020.

This bill would authorize prosecution for that crime to be commenced within 7 years. The bill would apply to crimes that are committed on or after January 1, 2025, and to crimes for which the statute of limitations that was in effect prior to January 1, 2025, has not run as of January 1, 2025.

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

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

SECTION 1.

This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Phoenix Act.

SEC. 2.

Section 803.7 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

803.7.

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, prosecution for a violation of Section 273.5 may be commenced within seven years of the crime.

(b) This section applies to crimes that are committed on or after January 1, 2025, and to crimes for which the statute of limitations that was in effect prior to January 1, 2025, has not elapsed as of January 1, 2025.