BILL NUMBER: AB 1055	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 27, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Spitzer

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2003

   An act to amend Section 29404 of the Government Code, relating to
the district attorney.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1055, as amended, Spitzer.  District attorney:  special
appropriation.
   Existing law requires at the beginning of each fiscal year in
counties having a population of 90,000 or more that the board of
supervisors make available to the district attorney's special
appropriation the sum of $5,000, and in all other counties, the sum
of $2,500.  Existing law authorizes the district attorney to use this
special appropriation to pay for, among other things, expenses
incurred in criminal cases arising in the county, expenses in civil
actions, proceedings, or other matters in which the county is
interested, and expenses necessarily incurred in the detection of
crime, except as specified.
   This bill would revise these provisions to require that the
district attorney shall only use the special appropriation for
expenses that are  necessarily   lawfully 
incurred, as specified.
   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.  Section 29404 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   29404.  The district attorney shall only use the special
appropriation to pay:
   (a) Expenses  necessarily   lawfully 
incurred in criminal cases arising in the county.
   (b) Expenses  necessarily   lawfully 
incurred in the detection of crime, other than those declared to be
misdemeanors by the Vehicle Code.
   (c) Expenses  necessarily   lawfully 
incurred in civil actions or proceedings.