BILL NUMBER: AB 2473 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to amend Section 701 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2473, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Information of threatened offense. Existing law authorizes an information to be laid before a magistrate, as specified, that a person has threatened to commit an offense against the person or property of another. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision. 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 701 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 701.An informationInformation that a person has threatened to commit an offense against the person or property of another may belaidbrought before any of the magistrates mentioned in Section808, that a person has threatened to commit an offense against the person or property of another.808.