BILL NUMBER: AB 2655	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 18.5 of the Penal Code, relating to
misdemeanors.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2655, as introduced, Weber. Misdemeanors: maximum sentence.
   Existing law defines a crime or public offense as an act committed
or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it. Under
existing law, a crime that is punishable by imprisonment in a county
jail for a period not to exceed a year is a misdemeanor. Existing law
provides that every offense punishable by imprisonment in a county
jail up to or not exceeding one year is punishable by imprisonment
not to exceed 364 days.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   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 18.5 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   18.5.  Every offense  which   that  is
prescribed by  any   a  law of the state to
be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail up to or not
exceeding one year shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county
jail for a period not  to exceed   exceeding
 364 days.