Phil Ting
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 19
Author
Existing law authorizes a county to establish a pretrial diversion program for defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor offense and authorizes other diversion programs, including for defendants with cognitive developmental disabilities, defendants in nonviolent drug cases, and traffic violations. This bill would authorize a judge in the superior court in which a misdemeanor is being prosecuted to offer misdemeanor diversion to a defendant over the objection of a prosecuting attorney, except as specified. The bill would authorize the judge to continue a diverted case for a period not to exceed 24 months and order the defendant to comply with the terms, conditions, and programs the judge deems appropriate based on the defendant's specific situation. The bill would require the judge, at the end of the diversion period and if the defendant complies with all required terms, conditions, and programs, to dismiss the action against the defendant, and would deem the arrest upon which diversion was imposed to have never occurred, as specified. The bill would authorize the court to end the diversion and order resumption of the criminal proceedings if the court finds that the defendant is not complying with the terms and conditions of diversion. Existing law establishes the Elderly Parole Program for the purpose of reviewing the parole suitability of inmates who are 60 years of age or older and who have served a minimum of 25 years of continuous incarceration on their sentence. This bill would modify the minimum age limitation for that program to 50 years of age and instead require the inmate to have served a minimum of 20 years of continuous incarceration in order to be eligible for that program.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 334, Statutes of 2020.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10.).
Withdrawn from committee.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Ordered to second reading.
(Ayes 29. Noes 10.)
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5165.)
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 43. Noes 26. Page 5183.)
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 12. Page 5181.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (August 5).
Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
Assembly Rule 78 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5059.)
From inactive file.
Ordered to third reading.
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5059.)
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 40. Noes 18. Page 5067.)
Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 48. Noes 25. Page 5069.)
From Consent Calendar.
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Gloria.
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2).
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 12).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
Read first time.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
Introduced. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB3234 | HTML |
| 02/21/20 - Introduced | |
| 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/18/20 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/03/20 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/11/20 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/24/20 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/04/20 - Enrolled | |
| 09/30/20 - Chaptered |
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