BILL NUMBER: SB 583	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Jackson

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 214 of the Family Code, relating to family
law.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 583, as introduced, Jackson. Family law.
   Existing law authorizes, except as otherwise provided, the court
to direct the trial of an issue of fact joined in a family law
proceeding to be private, and to exclude all persons except the
officers of the court, the parties, their witnesses, and counsel,
when the court considers it necessary in the interests of justice.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change 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 214 of the Family Code is amended to read:
   214.  Except as otherwise provided in this code or by court rule,
the court may, when it considers it necessary in the interests of
justice and the persons involved, direct the trial of  any
  an  issue of fact joined in a proceeding under
this code to be private, and may exclude all persons except the
officers of the court, the parties, their witnesses, and counsel.