BILL NUMBER: AB 2410	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 25, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 8, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 24, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuentes

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 20 to the Elections Code, relating to
elective office.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2410, as amended, Fuentes. Elective office: felony conviction.
   Existing law prescribes various eligibility and procedural
requirements for a person to become a candidate for elective office.
   This bill would prohibit the consideration of a person as a
candidate for, and would provide that the person is not eligible to
be elected to, any  state or local  elective office 
in this state  if the  election occurs within 20
years of the date upon which the person completes a sentence,
including probation, for conviction   person has been
convicted  of a felony involving accepting or giving, or
offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money,
extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit
any of those crimes. The bill would provide that "conviction of a
felony" includes a conviction of a felony in this state and a
conviction under the laws of any other state, the United States, or
any foreign government or country of a crime that, if committed in
this state, would be a felony, and for which the person has not
received a pardon from the Governor of this state, the governor or
other officer authorized to grant pardons in another state, the
President of the United States, or the officer of the foreign
government or country authorized to grant pardons in that foreign
jurisdiction.
   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 20 is added to the Elections Code, to read:
   20.  (a) A person shall not be considered a candidate for, and is
not eligible to be elected to, any  state or local  elective
office  in this state  if the  election
occurs within 20 years of the date upon which the person completes a
sentence, including probation, for conviction   person
has been convicted  of a felony involving accepting or giving,
or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money,
extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit
any of those crimes.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "conviction of a felony"
includes a conviction of a felony in this state and a conviction
under the laws of any other state, the United States, or any foreign
government or country of a crime that, if committed in this state,
would be a felony, and for which the person has not received a pardon
from the Governor of this state, the governor or other officer
authorized to grant pardons in another state, the President of the
United States, or the officer of the foreign government or country
authorized to grant pardons in that foreign jurisdiction.