BILL NUMBER: AB 87	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mark Stone

                        JANUARY 7, 2015

   An act to amend Section 231.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
relating to jurors.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 87, as introduced, Mark Stone. Jurors: peremptory challenge.
   Existing law prohibits a party from using a peremptory challenge
to remove a prospective juror on the basis of an assumption that the
prospective juror is biased merely because of his or her race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, or similar
grounds.
   This bill would also prohibit a party from using a peremptory
challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of ethnic group
identification, age, genetic information, or disability.
   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 231.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended
to read:
   231.5.  A party  may   shall  not use a
peremptory challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of an
assumption that the prospective juror is biased merely because of
 his or her race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
sexual orientation   a characteristic listed or defined
in subdivision (a) of Section 11135 of the Government Code  , or
similar grounds.