BILL NUMBER: AB 2599	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 2670 of the Penal Code, relating to
prisoners.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2599, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Prisoners: organic
therapies.
   Existing law declares that all persons, including all persons
involuntarily confined, have a fundamental right against enforced
interference with their thought processes, states of mind, and
patterns of mentation through the use of organic therapies and that
this fundamental right requires that no person with the capacity for
informed consent who refuses organic therapy shall be compelled to
undergo such therapy.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
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 2670 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   2670.  It is hereby recognized and declared that all persons,
including all persons involuntarily confined, have a fundamental
right against enforced interference with their thought processes,
states of mind, and patterns of mentation through the use of organic
therapies; that this fundamental right requires that no person with
the capacity for informed consent who refuses organic therapy shall
be compelled to undergo  such   that 
therapy; and that  ,  in order to justify the use of organic
therapy upon a person who lacks the capacity for informed consent,
other than psychosurgery as referred to in subdivision (c) of Section
2670.5 which is not to be administered to  such 
 those  persons, the state shall establish that the organic
therapy would be beneficial to the person, that there is a compelling
interest in administering  such   that 
therapy, and that there are no less onerous alternatives to 
such   that  therapy.