BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ó



                                                                  AB 176
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          Date of Hearing:   May 1, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                    AB 176 (Campos) - As Amended:  April 8, 2013 

          Policy Committee:                              JudiciaryVote:10  
          - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires police officers to enforce no-contact  
          restraining orders when there are multiple restraining orders  
          involving the same parties, and one of those orders is a  
          no-contact order.   

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          There are no significant costs associated with this legislation.  


           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . According to the author, this bill seeks to provide the  
          greatest protection to victims by requiring that in cases where  
          there are multiple and conflicting protective orders regarding  
          the same parties and one of those orders is a no-contact order,  
          a law enforcement officer must enforce the no-contact order.  
          This should help ensure that victims of domestic violence, who  
          are protected by multiple protective orders, receive the  
          protections ordered by the court.  If none of the orders forbid  
          contact, then enforcement priority continues as under current  
          law.
           

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081 












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