BILL NUMBER: AB 766	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beth Gaines

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to add Section 12532 to the Government Code, relating to
the Attorney General.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 766, as introduced, Beth Gaines. Attorney General:
investigations.
   Existing law provides that each officer of the state, or of any
county, city, town, or district of this state, and every other person
charged with the receipt, safekeeping, transfer, or disbursement of
public moneys who takes certain actions concerning those moneys is
guilty of a felony. Existing law deems it the duty of the Attorney
General to see that the laws of the state are adequately enforced.
   This bill would prohibit the Attorney General from offering a
promise of use immunity during the course of an investigation into
the misuse of public funds.
   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 12532 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   12532.  The Attorney General may not offer a promise of use
immunity during the course of an investigation into the misuse of
public funds.