California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2188

Introduced by Assembly Member Grove

February 18, 2016

An act to amend Section 290 of the Penal Code, relating to sex offenders.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2188, as introduced, Grove. Sex offenders.

Existing law, the Sex Offender Registration Act, last amended by Proposition 35, as approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, requires a person convicted of certain crimes, as specified, to register with law enforcement as a sex offender for the rest of his or her life while residing in California or while attending school or working in California, as specified. A willful failure to register, as required by the act, is a misdemeanor, or felony, depending on the underlying offense.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those 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 290 of the Penal Code is amended to
read:

290.  

(a) Sections 290 to 290.024, inclusive, shall be begin delete known end delete
begin insert known, end insert and may be begin delete cited end delete begin insert cited, end insert as the Sex Offender Registration
Act. All references to “the Act” in those sections are to the Sex
Offender Registration Act.

(b)  begin delete Every end delete begin insert Any end insert person described in subdivision (c), for the rest
of his or her life while residing in California, or while attending
school or working in California, as described in Sections 290.002
and 290.01, shall be required to register with the chief of police
of the city in which he or she is residing, or the sheriff of the county
if he or she is residing in an unincorporated area or city that has
no police department, and, additionally, with the chief of police
of a campus of the University of California, the California State
University, or community college if he or she is residing upon the
campus or in any of its facilities, within five working days of
coming into, or changing his or her residence within, any city,
county, or city and county, or campus in which he or she
temporarily resides, and shall be required to register thereafter in
accordance with the Act.

(c) The following persons shall be required to register:

Any person who, since July 1, 1944, has been or is hereafter
convicted in any court in this state or in any federal or military
court of a violation of Section 187 committed in the perpetration,
or an attempt to perpetrate, rape or any act punishable under
Section 286, 288, 288a, or 289, Section 207 or 209 committed
with intent to violate Section 261, 286, 288, 288a, or 289, Section
220, except assault to commit mayhem, subdivision (b) and (c) of
Section 236.1, Section 243.4, paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), or (6) of
subdivision (a) of Section 261, paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of
Section 262 involving the use of force or violence for which the
person is sentenced to the state prison, Section 264.1, 266, or 266c,
subdivision (b) of Section 266h, subdivision (b) of Section 266i,
Section 266j, 267, 269, 285, 286, 288, 288a, 288.3, 288.4, 288.5,
288.7, 289, or 311.1, subdivision (b), (c), or (d) of Section 311.2,
Section 311.3, 311.4, 311.10, 311.11, or 647.6, former Section
647a, subdivision (c) of Section 653f, subdivision 1 or 2 of Section
314, any offense involving lewd or lascivious conduct under
Section 272, or any felony violation of Section 288.2; any statutory
predecessor that includes all elements of one of the
above-mentioned offenses; or any person who since that date has
been or is hereafter convicted of the attempt or conspiracy to
commit any of the above-mentioned offenses.