BILL NUMBER: AB 524	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin
   (  Coauthor:   Assembly Member 
 Ting   Coauthors:   Assembly Members
  Alejo,   Ting,   and Wieckowski  )
   (  Coauthor:   Senator  
Yee   Coauthors:   Senators   Padilla
  and Yee  )

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to amend Section 519 of the Penal Code, relating to
immigrants.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 524, as amended, Mullin. Immigrants: extortion.
   Existing law defines extortion as the obtaining of property from
another, with consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a
public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under
color of official right. Existing law further provides that fear
sufficient to constitute extortion may be induced by certain threats,
including a threat to accuse the threatened individual, or his or
her relative or family, of a crime.
   This bill would provide that a threat to report the immigration
status or suspected immigration status of the threatened individual,
or his or her relative or a member of his or her family, may also
induce fear sufficient to constitute extortion.  The bill would
also specify that its provisions are intended to clarify existing
law.  By broadening the acts that constitute a crime, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 519 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   519.  Fear, such as will constitute extortion, may be induced by a
threat, either:
   1. To do an unlawful injury to the person or property of the
individual threatened or of a third person; or,
   2. To accuse the individual threatened, or a relative of his or
her, or member of his or her family, of a crime; or,
   3. To expose, or to impute to him, her, or them a deformity,
disgrace, or crime; or,
   4. To expose a secret affecting him, her, or them; or,
   5. To report his, her, or their immigration status or suspected
immigration status.
   SEC. 2.    The Legislature finds and declares that
the amendments to Section 519 of the Penal Code made by this act are
intended to clarify existing law. 
   SEC. 2.   SEC. 3.   No reimbursement is
required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred
by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this
act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or
infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within
the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the
definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII
B of the California Constitution.