BILL NUMBER: AB 1405	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Judiciary (Feuer (Chair), Atkins,
Dickinson, Huber, Huffman, Monning, and Wieckowski)

                        MARCH 7, 2011

   An act to add Section 69614.4 to the Government Code, relating to
courts.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1405, as introduced, Committee on Judiciary. Courts:
judgeships.
   Existing law specifies the number of judges for the superior court
of each county and for each division of each district of the court
of appeal.
   This bill would authorize 50 additional judges, upon appropriation
by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, to be allocated to the
various county superior courts, pursuant to uniform criteria approved
by the Judicial Council. The bill would specify that the creation of
judgeships is contingent upon moneys being identified for that
purpose in the annual Budget Act.
   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 69614.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   69614.4.  Upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual
Budget Act of moneys expressly identified for the purpose of this
section, there shall be 50 additional judges allocated to the various
county superior courts, pursuant to the uniform criteria described
in subdivision (b) of Section 69614, as approved by the Judicial
Council on October 28, 2008. No judgeship shall be created pursuant
to this section unless funding for that purpose is provided in the
annual Budget Act.