BILL NUMBER: SB 227	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mitchell

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2015

   An act to amend Section 891 of the Penal Code, relating to grand
juries.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 227, as introduced, Mitchell. Grand juries.
   Existing law makes it a crime for a person who, by any means
whatsoever, willfully and knowingly, and without knowledge and
consent of the grand jury, records, or attempts to record, all or
part of the proceedings of any grand jury while it is deliberating or
voting, or listens to or observes, or attempts to listen to or
observe, the proceedings of any grand jury of which he or she is not
a member while that jury is deliberating or voting.
   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 891 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   891.   Every   A  person who, by any
means whatsoever, willfully and knowingly, and without knowledge and
consent of the grand jury, records, or attempts to record, all or
part of the proceedings of any grand jury while it is deliberating or
voting, or listens to or observes, or attempts to listen to or
observe, the proceedings of any grand jury of which he  or she
 is not a member while  such   that 
jury is deliberating or voting is guilty of a misdemeanor.
   This section is not intended to prohibit the taking of notes by a
grand juror in connection with and solely for the purpose of
assisting him  or her  in the performance of his  or her
 duties as  such   a  juror.