Bill Text: CA AB2151 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2151 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Booking fees: crimes related to sex purchasing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2022-10-24 - From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB2151 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB2151-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2151

Introduced by Assembly Member Rodriguez

February 15, 2022

An act to add Section 29550.1 to the Government Code, relating to booking fees.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2151, as introduced, Rodriguez. Booking fees: crimes related to sex purchasing.

Existing law prohibits certain acts related to the exchange of money or other consideration for sex.

Existing law authorizes a county to impose a fee for the administrative costs of booking or otherwise processing an arrested person upon the arresting agency.

Prior law required a person convicted of a crime to be ordered to reimburse the arresting agency for these booking costs. Existing law makes a person who is driving under the influence and whose intoxicated driving proximately causes an incident liable for the cost of the emergency response to that incident, as specified.

This bill would make a person lawfully arrested for an offense as a sex purchaser, as defined, liable to the arresting agency for booking costs, as specified. The bill would authorize the arrest agency to collect booking costs, as specified, and would require the arresting agency to offer an administrative hearing to the arrested person.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 29550.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:

29550.1.

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person lawfully arrested for an offense including subdivision (b) of Section 647 of, or Section 653.22 of, the Penal Code, for acting as a sex purchaser, is liable to the arresting agency for booking costs incurred by or imposed upon the arresting agency.

(b) When the arresting law enforcement agency either directly incurs booking costs for an arrest described in subdivision (a), or is billed for booking costs by the law enforcement agency receiving custody of the arrested person, the arresting agency may bill the arrested person or take other collection actions authorized by law to collect any sum owed pursuant to subdivision (a).

(c) The arresting agency shall offer an administrative hearing to any person who wishes to contest their liability for these costs. A conviction or acquittal on the charge in criminal court shall be dispositive of the person’s liability for booking costs, however nonprosecution of the offense shall not necessarily render a person not liable.

(d) As used in this section:

(1) “Booking costs” has the same meaning as “actual administrative costs” defined in subdivision (c) of Section 29550.

(2) “Sex purchaser” means a person who has unlawfully paid money or other consideration in exchange for performance of a sex act with another person, or has attempted, offered, conspired to, or loitered for the purpose of doing so.