BILL NUMBER: AB 2094	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torrico

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend Section 13711 of the Penal Code, relating to
domestic violence.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2094, as introduced, Torrico. Domestic violence: restraining
order.
   Existing law requires that whenever a protection order with
respect to domestic violence incidents is applied for or issued, it
shall be the responsibility of the clerk of the superior court to
distribute a pamphlet to the person who is to be protected by the
order that includes the specified elements.
   This bill would require the clerk to deliver the pamphlet to the
person who is to be protected by the order.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 13711 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   13711.  Whenever a protection order with respect to domestic
violence incidents, including orders issued pursuant to Section 136.2
and restraining orders, is applied for or issued, it shall be the
responsibility of the clerk of the superior court to 
distribute   deliver  a pamphlet to the person who
is to be protected by the order that includes the following:
   (a) Information as specified in  paragraph (9) of 
subdivision  (i)   (c)  of Section 13701.
   (b) Notice that it is the responsibility of the victim to request
notification of an inmate's release.
   (c) Notice that the terms and conditions of the protection order
remain enforceable, notwithstanding any acts of the parties, and may
be changed only by order of the court.
   (d) Notice that the protection order is enforceable in any state,
in a commonwealth, territory, or insular possession subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States, or on a reservation, and general
information about agencies in other jurisdictions that may be
contacted regarding enforcement of a protective order issued by a
court of this state.