BILL NUMBER: AB 2460	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 878 of the Penal Code, relating to
criminal procedure.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2460, as introduced, Ammiano. Witnesses: appearance before
trial court: written undertakings.
   Existing law allows the magistrate or judge to require a material
witness in a case to appear and testify and to require the witness to
sign a written undertaking that he or she will appear and testify or
forfeit $500.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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 878 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   878.  On holding the defendant to answer or on a plea of guilty
where permitted by law, the magistrate may take from each of the
material witnesses examined before him or her  on the part
of the people a written undertaking, to the effect that  he
  the witness  will appear and testify at the court
to which the depositions and statements or case are to be sent, or
that he  or she  will forfeit the sum of five hundred
dollars  $500  .