Bill Text: CA AB353 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 353

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Bill Title: Incarcerated persons: access to showers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 429, Statutes of 2023. [AB353 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB353-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 353

Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

January 31, 2023

An act to add Section 2084.3 to the Penal Code, relating to corrections.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 353, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Incarcerated persons: access to showers.

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons. Existing law requires each incarcerated person to be provided with a bed, garments, and sufficient plain and wholesome food, as specified.

This bill would require incarcerated persons to be permitted to shower at least every other day. The bill would require, whenever a request for a shower is denied, the facility manager, or their designee, to approve the decision to prohibit an incarcerated person from showering, and would require the reasons for prohibiting the incarcerated person to shower to be documented.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 2084.3 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

2084.3.

(a) Incarcerated persons shall be permitted to shower at least every other day, unless access to a shower is prohibited as provided in subdivision (b).

(b) Whenever a request for a shower pursuant to subdivision (a), or a request for a shower at any other time, is denied, the decision to prohibit showering shall be approved by the facility manager or their designee, and the reason or reasons for prohibiting an incarcerated person to shower shall be documented.