BILL NUMBER: AB 2415	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cook

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 193 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2415, as introduced, Cook. Crimes: manslaughter.
   Existing law provides various punishments for voluntary
manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and vehicular manslaughter.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   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 193 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   193.  (a) Voluntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in
the state prison for 3, 6, or 11 years.
   (b) Involuntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment in the
state prison for two, three, or four years.
   (c) Vehicular manslaughter is punishable as follows:
   (1) A violation of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 192
is punishable either by imprisonment in the county jail for
not   no  more than one year or by imprisonment in
the state prison for two, four, or six years.
   (2) A violation of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 192
is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for  not
  no  more than one year.
   (3) A violation of paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 192
is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 4, 6, or 10
years.