Bill Text: CA AB2454 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Law enforcement: electronic reports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-17 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2454 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2454-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2454	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pan

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 8.5 to the Penal Code, relating to law
enforcement.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2454, as introduced, Pan. Law enforcement: electronic reports.
   Existing law authorizes various reports, including reporting
missing persons, to be submitted to local law enforcement agencies by
mail.
   This bill would authorize, at the discretion of the local law
enforcement agency, a report that is required or authorized by the
Penal Code, which is required to be submitted to a local law
enforcement agency by mail, to be submitted by a secure electronic
mail message.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8.5 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   8.5.  A report that is required or authorized by this code, which
is required to be submitted to a local law enforcement agency by
mail, may, at the discretion of the local law enforcement agency, be
submitted by a secure electronic mail message.