BILL NUMBER: SB 504	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Runner

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to amend Section 3004 of the Penal Code, relating to sex
offenders.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 504, as introduced, Runner. Sex offenders: monitoring by global
positioning systems.
   Existing law requires every inmate who has been convicted for any
felony violation of a registerable sex offense or any attempt to
commit one of those offenses who is committed to prison and released
on parole, to be monitored by a global positioning system for life.
   This bill would replace the term "inmate" as used above with
"person."
   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 3004 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   3004.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the parole authority may
require, as a condition of release on parole or reinstatement on
parole, or as an intermediate sanction in lieu of return to prison,
that an inmate or parolee agree in writing to the use of electronic
monitoring or supervising devices for the purpose of helping to
verify his or her compliance with all other conditions of parole. The
devices shall not be used to eavesdrop or record any conversation,
except a conversation between the parolee and the agent supervising
the parolee which is to be used solely for the purposes of voice
identification.
   (b) Every  inmate   person  who has been
convicted for any felony violation of a "registerable sex offense"
described in subdivision (c) of Section 290 or any attempt to commit
any of the above-mentioned offenses and who is committed to prison
and released on parole pursuant to Section 3000 or 3000.1 shall be
monitored by a global positioning system for life.
   (c) Any inmate released on parole pursuant to this section shall
be required to pay for the costs associated with the monitoring by a
global positioning system. However, the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation shall waive any or all of that payment upon a finding
of an inability to pay. The department shall consider any remaining
amounts the inmate has been ordered to pay in fines, assessments and
restitution fines, fees, and orders, and shall give priority to the
payment of those items before requiring that the inmate pay for the
global positioning monitoring.