BILL NUMBER: AB 1806	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Melendez

                        FEBRUARY 8, 2016

   An act relating to domestic violence.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1806, as introduced, Melendez. Domestic violence prevention.
   Existing law makes it a crime, punishable by a fine, by
imprisonment, or by both a fine and imprisonment, for a person to
willfully inflict corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition
upon a person with whom the defendant has been in a specified
domestic relationship. Existing law authorizes a court to issue an
order to restrain a person in order to prevent acts of domestic
violence, abuse, sexual abuse, and to provide for a separation of
persons involved in domestic violence.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to prevent domestic violence.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to prevent domestic violence.