BILL NUMBER: AB 694	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gorell

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 733 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to juvenile offenders.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 694, as introduced, Gorell. Juvenile offenders.
   Existing law prohibits a person who has been or is adjudged a ward
of the juvenile court on the ground that he or she has violated a
law or ordinance defining a crime, other than a curfew based solely
on age, from being committed to the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities if that person's most
recent offense is not a specified serious or violent offense, or a
specified sex offense.
   This bill would expand the class of persons who may be committed
to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of
Juvenile Facilities to include a person described above if he or she
was previously the subject of a petition in which it was alleged and
was subsequently admitted or found to be true by the court that the
ward committed a specified serious or violent offense, or a specified
sex offense.
   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 733 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   733.   (a)    A ward of the juvenile court who
meets any condition described below shall not be committed to the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile
Facilities: 
   (a) 
    (1)  The ward is under 11 years of age. 
   (b) 
    (2)  The ward is suffering from any contagious,
infectious, or other disease that would probably endanger the lives
or health of the other inmates of any facility. 
   (c) 
    (3)  The ward has been or is adjudged a ward of the
court pursuant to Section 602, and  the most recent offense
alleged in   he or she is or was previously the subject
of  any petition  in which it was alleged  and  was
subsequently  admitted or found to be true by the court
 is not   that the ward committed an offense
that is  described in subdivision (b) of Section 707, 
unless the offense   or an offense that  is a sex
offense set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 290.008 of the Penal
Code. This subdivision shall be effective on and after September 1,
2007. 
   (b) The amendments to this section enacted by the act adding this
subdivision shall take effect on January 1, 2012.