BILL NUMBER: AB 1993	CHAPTERED  09/26/00

	CHAPTER   620
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 26, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 24, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 22, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 18, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 25, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 6, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Romero, Villaraigosa, and Washington

   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aroner, Dickerson, Firebaugh,
Keeley, Knox, and Kuehl)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2000

   An act to add Section 141 to the Penal Code, relating to peace
officers.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1993, Romero.  Peace officers:  false evidence.
   Existing law makes it a felony for a peace officer to file a
report with the agency that employs him or her regarding the
commission of a crime or investigation of a crime, if he or she knows
and intentionally makes any statement in the report that the officer
knows to be false.
   This bill would make it a misdemeanor for any person to, or a
felony for a peace officer to, knowingly, willfully, and
intentionally alter, modify, plant, place, manufacture, conceal, or
move any physical matter, with the specific intent that the action
will result in a person being charged with a crime or with specific
intent that the physical matter will be wrongfully produced as
genuine or true at trial or any other specified proceedings.  By
defining a new 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.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 141 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   141.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who
knowingly, willfully, and intentionally alters, modifies, plants,
places, manufactures, conceals, or moves any physical matter, with
specific intent that the action will result in a person being charged
with a crime or with the specific intent that the physical matter
will be wrongfully produced as genuine or true upon any trial,
proceeding, or inquiry whatever, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
   (b) Any peace officer who knowingly, willfully, and intentionally
alters, modifies, plants, places, manufactures, conceals, or moves
any physical matter, with specific intent that the action will result
in a person being charged with a crime or with the specific intent
that the physical matter will be wrongfully produced as genuine or
true upon any trial, proceeding, or inquiry whatever, is guilty of a
felony punishable by two, three, or five years in the state prison.
   (c) Nothing in this section shall preclude prosecution under both
this section and any other provision of law.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIIIB 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 XIIIB of the California Constitution.