BILL NUMBER: AB 1537	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1269a of the Penal Code, relating to bail.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1537, as introduced, Hagman. Bail.
   Existing law provides the procedure for the discharge of a
defendant from custody upon bail, as specified.
   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 1269a of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   1269a.  Except as otherwise provided by law, no defendant charged
in a warrant of arrest with any public offense shall be discharged
from custody upon bail except upon a written order of a competent
court or magistrate admitting the defendant to bail in the amount
specified in the indorsement referred to in Section 815a, and where
an undertaking is furnished, upon a written order of  such
  the  court or magistrate approving the
undertaking. All  such   of these  orders
must be signed by  such   the  court or
magistrate and delivered to the officer having custody of the
defendant before the defendant is released. Any officer releasing any
defendant upon bail otherwise than as herein provided shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.