Bill Text: CA AB1607 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public housing authority program: fraud.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-21 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB1607 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1607-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1607	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Knight

                        JANUARY 7, 2010

   An act to amend Section 487i of the Penal Code, relating to
crimes.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1607, as introduced, Knight. Public housing authority program:
fraud.
   Existing law provides that anyone who defrauds a housing program
of a public housing authority of more than $400 is guilty of grand
theft.
   This bill would provide, in addition, that any public housing
authority may require that any application or document filed with the
public housing authority be signed and submitted under penalty of
perjury.
   By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 487i of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   487i.   (a)    Any person who defrauds a housing
program of a public housing authority of more than four hundred
dollars ($400) is guilty of grand theft. 
   (b) Any public housing authority may require that any application
or document filed with the public housing authority be signed and
submitted under penalty of perjury. 
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.