BILL NUMBER: AB 2527	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Swanson

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1203.5 of the Penal Code, relating to
probation.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2527, as introduced, Swanson. Probation officers.
   Existing law establishes the offices of adult probation officer,
assistant adult probation officer, and deputy adult probation
officer. Under existing law, probation officers, assistant probation
officers, and deputy probation officers appointed to the juvenile
court are ex officio adult probation officers, assistant adult
probation officers, and deputy adult probation officers except in a
county or city and county whose charter provides for separate offices
for adult and juvenile probation officers.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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 1203.5 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   1203.5.  The offices of adult probation officer, assistant adult
probation officer, and deputy adult probation officer are hereby
created. The probation officers, assistant probation officers, and
deputy probation officers appointed in accordance with Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 200) of Division 2 of Part 1 of the Welfare
and Institutions Code shall be ex officio adult probation officers,
assistant adult probation officers, and deputy adult probation
officers except in  any   a  county or city
and county whose charter provides for the separate office of adult
probation officer. When the separate office of adult probation
officer has been established  ,  he or she shall perform all
the duties of probation officers except for matters under the
jurisdiction of the juvenile court.  Any   An
 adult probation officer may accept appointment as member of the
Board of Corrections and serve in that capacity in addition to his
or her duties as adult probation officer and may receive the per diem
allowance authorized in Section 6025.1.