BILL NUMBER: AB 1276	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 3051 to the Penal Code, relating to parole.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1276, as introduced, Bloom. Parole: juvenile offenders.
   Existing law generally regulates the granting and conditioning of
parole, and places the duty to monitor parolees on the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Adult Parole Operations.
Existing law specifies the procedures that the Board of Parole
Hearings must follow in granting, denying, or revoking parole.
   This bill would require, except as otherwise provided by law, a
person who was convicted of a nonhomicide offense that was committed
before the person had attained 18 years of age to be given a
meaningful opportunity for parole or other form of supervised release
after having served 25 years in state prison.
   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 3051 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   3051.  Except as otherwise provided by law, a person who was
convicted of a nonhomicide offense that was committed before the
person had attained 18 years of age shall be given, not less than
once, after having served 25 years in state prison, and thereafter as
specified in Section 3041.5, a meaningful opportunity for parole or
other form of supervised release. This section does not prohibit the
imposition of a life sentence for juveniles convicted of homicide and
does not prohibit or modify the parole procedures for adult
offenders. This section does not limit the access of juvenile
offenders to other programs and appeals that they were eligible for
prior to the enactment of this section.