BILL NUMBER: AB 2106	CHAPTERED  06/21/02

	CHAPTER  64
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 21, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 20, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 10, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 16, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 30, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Bogh and Rod Pacheco
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Bates, Briggs, Bill
Campbell, John Campbell, Cogdill, Cox, Daucher, Dickerson, Harman,
Hollingsworth, La Suer, Leach, Leslie, Maddox, Maldonado, Mountjoy,
Robert Pacheco, Pescetti, Runner, Strickland, Wyland, Wyman, and
Zettel)
   (Coauthor:  Senator Ackerman)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2002

   An act to add Section 787 to the Penal Code, relating to
jurisdiction, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2106, Bogh.  Jurisdiction.
   Generally, jurisdiction over an offense is in the jurisdictional
territory where it occurs.  Existing law provides that the
jurisdiction for an offense committed in part in 2 different
jurisdictional territories is in any competent court of either
jurisdictional territory.  For certain specified theft-related crimes
involving property moved among jurisdictions territories,
jurisdiction lies in any of those territories.  For crimes of
domestic and sexual abuse, where the defendant and victim are the
same and the offenses occur in several jurisdictional territories,
jurisdiction lies in each of those territories.  Existing law
provides for other special jurisdictional determinations involving
treason, incest, bigamy, and other offenses without clear territorial
connection, or with connections to multiple territories.
   This bill would provide for territorial jurisdiction over charged
violations of  specified provisions relating to weapons of mass
destruction in the courts of any of the territories in which any one
of the offenses occurred, if the offenses are part of a single scheme
or terrorist attack.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 787 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   787.  When multiple offenses punishable under one or more of
Sections 11418, 11418.5,  and 11419 occur in more than one
jurisdictional territory, and the offenses are part of a single
scheme or terrorist attack, the jurisdiction of any of those offenses
is in any jurisdiction where at least one of those offenses
occurred.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   To properly prosecute terrorism, which poses an immediate and
ongoing threat to the safety of this state and its citizens, it is
necessary that this act go into immediate effect.