BILL NUMBER: AB 1312	CHAPTERED  10/07/01

	CHAPTER  566
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 7,2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 29, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 10, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 16, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 30, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nakano
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Chan, Chu, and Liu)
   (Coauthor:  Senator Machado)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to add and repeal Title 10.2 (commencing with Section
14125) to Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to hate crimes, and
making an appropriation therefor.

      (Approved by Governor October 5, 2001.  Filed with
Secretary of State October 7, 2001.)

   I am signing Assembly Bill 1312, which establishes an Asian
Pacific American Anti-Hate Program at the Department of Justice.
However, given the rapid decline of our economy and a budget
shortfall of $1.1 billion through the first three months of this
fiscal year alone, I am deleting the $250,000 General Fund
appropriation contained in this bill and requesting the DOJ to
conduct this important program using existing resources.

                                                 GRAY DAVIS, Governor


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1312, Nakano.  The Asian Pacific Islander Anti-Hate Crimes
Program.
   Existing law prohibits hate crimes and provides for specified
programs relating to hate crimes for students and law enforcement
agencies.  Existing law requires each principal of a school to
forward a completed report of crimes committed, including hate
motivated incidents and hate crimes, on school grounds to the
district superintendent or county superintendent of schools.
Existing law requires those superintendents to compile the school
data and submit the aggregated data to the State Department of
Education.  Existing law requires every law enforcement agency in the
state to make available a brochure on hate crimes to victims of
those crimes and the public.
   This bill would appropriate $250,000 from the General Fund to the
Department of Justice to establish the Asian Pacific Islander (API)
Anti-Hate Crimes Program, the functions of which would be to (1)
create hard copy brochures and workbooks to provide to Asian Pacific
Islander communities throughout the state that define what are hate
crimes, how to report a hate crime, how hate crimes impact a
community and community strategies on responding to hate crimes; and
(2) conduct training seminars for community organizations in order to
better train them to assist themselves or other Asian Pacific
Islander communities in dealing with hate crimes.
   The bill would require the Department of Justice to submit a
report to the Legislature by March 1, 2004, describing the operation
and accomplishments of the statewide API Anti-Hate Crimes Program.
   The bill's provisions would remain in effect only until January 1,
2005, on which date they would be repealed.
   Appropriation:  yes.


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


  SECTION 1.  Title 10.2 (commencing with Section 14125) is added to
Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:

      TITLE 10.2.  ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER ANTI-HATE CRIME PROGRAM

   14125.  (a) (1) The Asian Pacific Islander (API) Anti-Hate Crimes
Program is hereby established in the Department of Justice.
   (2) The Department of Justice shall designate, through a selection
process to be determined by the department, a community-based
organization to partner with to develop a statewide API Anti-Hate
Crimes Program.
   (b) The program shall do both of the following:
   (1) Create hard copy brochures and workbooks to provide to API
communities throughout the state that define what are hate crimes,
how to report a hate crime, how hate crimes impact a community, and
community strategies on responding to hate crimes.
   (2) Conduct training seminars for community organizations in order
to better train them to assist themselves or other API communities
in dealing with hate crimes.
   (c) For purposes of this title, Asian Pacific Islander includes,
but is not limited to, people of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean,
Vietnamese, Asian American, Hawaiian, Guamanian, Samoan, Laotian,
and Cambodian descent.
   14127.  The Department of Justice shall submit a report to the
Legislature by March 1, 2004, describing the operation and
accomplishments of the statewide API Anti-Hate Crimes Program.
   14129.  This title shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2005, and as of that date is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  (a) The sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars
($250,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the
Department of Justice for purposes of this act.
   (b) The Department of Justice may expend up to 5 percent of the
amount appropriated in subdivision (a) for administrative purposes in
connection with implementing the provisions of this act.