Sen. Bill Dodd

Existing law, until January 1, 2017, requires that when a statute imposes 3 possible terms of imprisonment, the choice of the appropriate term to impose is within the court's discretion. Existing law authorizes a court, when sentencing a person to county jail for a felony, to commit the person to county jail for either the full term in custody, as specified, or to suspend the execution of a concluding portion of the term selected at the court's discretion. Under existing law, this period of suspended execution is supervised by the county probation officer and is known as mandatory supervision. Existing law prohibits any time period which is suspended because a person has absconded from being credited toward the period of supervision. This bill would revise those provisions to prohibit the period of time during any revocation, summary or otherwise, of mandatory supervision from bring credited toward any period of supervision, and would provide that a person not remain in custody for a period longer than the term of supervision. The bill would also provide that the period of the stay of the sentence would not extend beyond 5 years from the date of the last summary revocation of supervision, subject to exception, and in no event would the stay be extended beyond 10 years from the date of the last summary revocation of supervision. Existing law allows a probation officer, parole officer, or peace officer to arrest a person without warrant or other process during the period that a person is released on probation, conditional sentence or summary probation, or mandatory supervision, or when the person is subject to revocation of postrelease community supervision or parole supervision, if the officer has probable cause to believe that the supervised person is violating the terms of his or her supervision. Under existing law, the revocation of supervision, summary or otherwise, serves to toll the running of the period of supervision. This bill would instead prohibit the period of time during any revocation, summary or otherwise, from being credited toward any period of supervision. The bill would also provide that the period of the stay of the sentence would not extend beyond 5 years from the date of the last summary revocation of supervision, subject to exception, and in no event would the stay be extended beyond 10 years from the date of the last summary revocation of supervision. Existing law requires a county agency responsible for postrelease supervision to maintain postrelease supervision over a person subject to that supervision until one of several specified events occurs. Existing law prohibits the time during which a person on postrelease supervision is suspended because the person has absconded from being credited toward any period of postrelease supervision. This bill would revise that prohibition to prohibit the period of time during any revocation, summary or otherwise, from being credited toward any period of supervision, provided however, that the person subject to postrelease supervision would not remain in custody for a period longer than the authorized term of supervision. The bill would also provide that the period of the stay of the sentence would not extend beyond 5 years from the date of the last summary revocation of supervision, subject to exception, and in no event would the stay be extended beyond 10 years from the date of the last summary revocation of supervision. The bill would make additional technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Existing law establishes the State Court Facilities Construction Fund for the planning, design, construction, rehabilitation, renovation, replacement, leasing, or acquisition of court facilities. Existing law levies a state court construction penalty on every criminal offense, as specified, to be deposited into the fund. Existing law requires, with specified exceptions, that 25% of moneys collected from a county for the fund be designated for implementation of trial court projects in that county. Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors to establish in the county treasury a Courthouse Construction Fund into which shall be deposited the amounts specified in the resolutions adopted by the board of supervisors, for the purpose of rehabilitating existing courtrooms, an existing courtroom building or buildings, or court facilities, for other uses if a new courtroom, a courtroom building or buildings, or court facilities are acquired, constructed, or financed. Existing law requires that any amount in a county's courthouse construction fund be transferred to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund at the later of specified dates. This bill would transfer $844,000 of the amount that was held in the Courthouse Construction Fund for the County of Colusa on December 31, 2009, to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, and would appropriate that amount to the Judicial Council for the purpose of constructing or renovating facilities, as specified, located within the courthouse building in the County of Colusa that was transferred to state responsibility on March 24, 2009. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Colusa.

This measure would proclaim February 14, 2016, as V-Day to encourage all Californians to become more aware about and prevent violence against women.

This measure would declare May 18, 2016, as the 28th Annual State Scientist Day, as a tribute to the dedication and professionalism of the state scientists who work on behalf of all the residents of California.