BILL NUMBER: AB 1405	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 11, 2012

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.   An act to amend Section 51. 
 7 of the Civil Code, and to repeal Section 1 of Chapter 1293 of
the Statutes of 1976, relating to civil rights. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1405, as amended, Committee on Judiciary.  Courts:
judgeships.   Civil rights.  
   The Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976 provides, in part, that all
persons within the jurisdiction of this state have the right to be
free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, on
account of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national
origin, disability, medical condition, marital status, or sexual
orientation.  
   This bill would repeal the provision entitling the act the Ralph
Civil Rights Act of 1976, and would instead state the findings of the
Legislature that the above-described provision was enacted as part
of the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976.  
   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
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 51.7 of the   Civil
Code   is amended to read: 
   51.7.  (a) All persons within the jurisdiction of this state have
the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of
violence, committed against their persons or property because of
political affiliation, or on account of any characteristic listed or
defined in subdivision (b) or (e) of Section 51, or position in a
labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one
or more of those characteristics. The identification in this
subdivision of particular bases of discrimination is illustrative
rather than restrictive.
   (b) This section does not apply to statements concerning positions
in a labor dispute which are made during otherwise lawful labor
picketing. 
   (c) The Legislature finds and declares that this section was
enacted as part of the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976, in Chapter
1293 of the Statutes of 1976. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 1 of Chapter 1293 of the Statutes
of 1976 is repealed.  
  SECTION 1.    This act shall be known, and may be
cited, as the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976.  
  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.