Bill Text: CA AB653 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Peace officers: marital privilege.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-14 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB653 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB653-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 653	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Feuer

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to relating to evidence.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 653, as introduced, Feuer. Evidence: marital privilege.
   Existing law provides that a spouse has a privilege during the
marital relationship and afterwards to refuse to disclose, and to
prevent another from disclosing, a communication if the spouse claims
the privilege and the communication was made in confidence between
the spouses while they were husband and wife.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to address the opinion of the Court of Appeal in
Riverside County Sheriff's Dept. v. Zigman (2008) 169 Cal.App.4th
763, regarding the loss of marital privilege in law enforcement
administrative investigations and hearings.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to address the opinion of the Court of Appeal in
Riverside County Sheriff's Dept. v. Zigman (2008) 169 Cal.App.4th 763
regarding the loss of marital privilege in law enforcement
administrative investigations and hearings.