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                                                                  AB 2767
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          Date of Hearing:   April 28, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

            AB 2767 (Committee on Judiciary) - As Amended:  April 27, 2010

          Policy Committee:                               
          JudiciaryVote:10-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes several technical and clarifying changes to  
          various civil statutes, including:

          1)Requiring any restitution collected on behalf of victims that  
            remains unclaimed for three years to be deposited either into  
            the State Restitution Fund, exclusively for providing victim  
            services, or into the general fund of a county that  
            administers a program exclusively for the provision of victim  
            services.

          2)Revising and updating code references made obsolete by trial  
            court restructuring, including clarifying whether the courts  
            or other entities are responsible for the compensation of  
            court appointed experts, interpreters and translators in  
            various court proceedings.

          3)Correcting a drafting error in AB 1046 (2009) that specifies  
            the wrong date by which the Judicial Council is first required  
            to submit to the Legislature (and every three years  
            thereafter) the amount by which the dollar amounts of  
            homestead exemptions in effect immediately before that date  
            may be increased, and take effect if subsequently approved by  
            the Legislature.  (The homestead exemption allows judgment  
            debtors to salvage at least a portion of any equity that they  
            may have built up in their house.)

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          These technical and clarifying changes will have no significant  
          fiscal impact on the courts.








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           COMMENTS  


           Purpose  .  This is the Assembly Judiciary Committee's omnibus  
          civil law bill. In order to be included in the bill, each  
          provision must be non-controversial and not so substantive as to  
          be more appropriate for a stand-alone bill. Furthermore,  
          according to the committee, if a non-controversial provision  
          later becomes controversial, that provision will be removed from  
          the bill.  The bill is supported by the Judicial Council. 


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081