BILL NUMBER: AB 186 CHAPTERED 09/30/08 CHAPTER 755 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 AMENDED IN SENATE SEPTEMBER 15, 2008 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Maze and Galgiani JANUARY 25, 2007 An act to amend Section 14175 of the Penal Code, relating to crime prevention, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 186, Maze. Crime prevention. Existing law, until January 1, 2009, authorizes specified counties to develop within their respective jurisdictions a Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program, as specified. In order to receive funds for this program, each county must agree to participate in the Central Valley Rural Crime Task Force which shall develop a system for reporting rural crimes that enables swift recovery of stolen goods and the apprehension of criminal suspects for prosecution, as specified. This bill would provide that these provisions shall remain in effect until January 1, 2012. The 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 14175 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 14175. This title shall become inoperative on July 1, 2012, and is repealed as of January 1, 2013, unless a later enacted statute, which is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends that date. 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: In order to avoid a lapse in the Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.