BILL NUMBER: SB 588	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Public Safety (Senators Leno (Chair),
Benoit, Cedillo, Hancock, Huff, Steinberg, and Wright)

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to repeal Section 9003 of the Penal Code, relating to sex
offenders.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 588, as introduced, Committee on Public Safety. Sex Offender
Management Board.
   Existing law establishes the Sex Offender Management Board, as
specified, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation. The purpose of the board is to address issues,
concerns, and problems related to the community management of the
state's adult sex offenders, with a goal of safer communities and
reduced victimization. Existing law requires the board to conduct a
thorough assessment of current management practices for adult sex
offenders and to submit a report to the Legislature on that
assessment. Under existing law, the board is also required to develop
recommendations to improve management practices for those offenders,
as specified, and the provisions creating the board remain effective
only until January 1, 2010.
   This bill would delete the repeal date of January 1, 2010, thereby
making those provisions operative indefinitely.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9003 of the Penal Code is repealed. 
   9003.  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2010, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2010, deletes or extends
that date.