Bill Text: CA AB2035 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2035

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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

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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 introduced, 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: NO  

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Bill 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.