Bill Text: CA AB2035 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Sexually violent predators: conditional release.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 16-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-04-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2035 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2035-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
February 22, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2035
| Introduced by Assembly Member Joe Patterson (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Dixon, Essayli, Flora, Gallagher, and Wallis) (Coauthors: Senators Alvarado-Gil, Dahle, Jones, Niello, and Wilk) |
February 01, 2024 |
An act to add Section 6608.3 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to sexually violent predators.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2035, as amended, Joe Patterson.
Sexually violent predators: conditional release.
Existing law provides for the civil commitment of criminal offenders who have been determined to be sexually violent predators for treatment in a secure state hospital facility, as specified. Existing law authorizes the conditional release of a sexually violent predator under specified circumstances, and requires the State Department of State Hospitals to make the necessary placement arrangements to place the person in a community, as specified.
This bill would prohibit the department or its designee from placing a person who has been conditionally released in a community if the person does not have housing in a qualified dwelling, and would define “qualified dwelling” to mean a structure intended for human habitation by one person or a single family and that is not within 10 feet of another inhabited
dwelling.
Digest Key
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 6608.3 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:6608.3.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Department of State Hospitals or its designee shall not place a person who has been conditionally released in a community if the person does not have housing in a qualified dwelling.(b) For the purposes of this section, a “qualified dwelling” means a structure intended for human habitation by one person or a single family and that is not within 10 feet of another inhabited dwelling.
