BILL NUMBER: SB 666	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Stone

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 4571 of the Penal Code, relating to
felons.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 666, as introduced, Stone. Felons: coming upon prison property.

   Existing law makes it a felony for a person who was previously
convicted of a felony and confined in the state prison to come upon
the grounds of a prison, prison camp, prison farm, jail, or other
place where prisoners are located under the custody of prison
officials, or lands belonging or adjacent thereto, without the
consent of the warden or other officer in charge.
   This bill would expand the application of the above felony to a
person who was previously convicted of a felony under the laws of the
United States or any other state and who was confined in a federal
prison or a prison of another state. The bill would also expand
application of the crime to a person who was convicted of a felony
and confined in a county jail. By expanding the application of a
crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 4571 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   4571.  Every person who, having been previously convicted of a
felony  under the laws of the United States, the St  
ate of California, or any other state,  and confined in 
any State prison in this State,   the state prison, a
prison of any other state, a federal prison, or a county jail
pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170,  without the
consent of the warden or other officer in charge of  any
State   the state  prison or prison road camp, or
prison forestry camp, or other prison camp or prison farm or any
other place where prisoners of the  State  
state  prison are located under the custody of prison officials,
officers or employees, or  any   a  jail
or any   a  county road camp in this
 State,   state,  comes upon the grounds of
any  such institution,   of those institutions,
 or lands belonging or adjacent thereto, is guilty of a felony.

  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.