Bill Text: CA AB324 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Trial jurors: eligibility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB324 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB324-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 324	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2015

   An act to amend Section 203 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
relating to trial jurors.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 324, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Trial jurors: eligibility.
   Existing law excludes from jury service a person who has been
convicted of malfeasance in office. Existing law also excludes from
jury service a felon whose civil rights have not been restored.
   This bill would  eliminate the exclusion of  
instead exclude  a felon  whose civil rights have not
been restored and would instead   who has not completed
probation, parole, post-release community supervision, or mandatory
supervision. This bill would also categorically  exclude a
 felon   person  who has been convicted of
bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes.
   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 203 of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended
to read:
   203.  (a) All persons are eligible and qualified to be prospective
trial jurors, except the following:
   (1) Persons who are not citizens of the United States.
   (2) Persons who are less than 18 years of age.
   (3) Persons who are not domiciliaries of the State of California,
as determined pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 2020) of
Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Elections Code.
   (4) Persons who are not residents of the jurisdiction wherein they
are summoned to serve.
   (5) Persons who have been convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery,
malfeasance in office, or other high crimes. 
   (6) Persons who have not completed probation, parole, post-release
community supervision, or mandatory supervision for the conviction
of a felony.  
   (6) 
    (7)  Persons who are not possessed of sufficient
knowledge of the English language, provided that no person shall be
deemed incompetent solely because of the loss of sight or hearing in
any degree or other disability which impedes the person's ability to
communicate or which impairs or interferes with the person's
mobility. 
   (7) 
    (8)  Persons who are serving as grand or trial jurors in
any court of this state. 
   (8) 
    (9)  Persons who are the subject of conservatorship.
   (b) A person shall not be excluded from eligibility for jury
service in the State of California, for any reason other than those
reasons provided by this section.