BILL NUMBER: AB 1387	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Solorio

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 271 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1387, as introduced, Solorio. Crimes: child abandonment.
   Existing law provides that every parent of any child under the age
of 14 years, and every person to whom that child has been confided
for nurture, or education, who deserts that child in any place
whatever with intent to abandon that child, is punishable by
imprisonment in the state prison or in the county jail not exceeding
one year or by fine not exceeding $1,000 or by both that fine and
imprisonment.
   This bill would increase the fine specified above to a fine not
exceeding $1,500.
   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 271 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   271.  Every parent of any child under the age of 14 years, and
every person to whom  any such   that 
child has been confided for nurture, or education, who deserts
 such   that  child in any place whatever
with intent to abandon  it   that child  ,
is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison or in the county
jail not exceeding one year or by  a  fine not exceeding one
thousand  dollars ($1,000)   five hundred
dollars ($1,500)  or by both  that fine and imprisonment
 .