BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    �



                                                                  AB 2612
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          Date of Hearing:   May 16, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                  AB 2612 (Achadjian) - As Amended:  April 30, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                              
          JudiciaryVote:10-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill increases, from $150 to $275, the amount that must be 
          deposited with a public entity for each day that one of the 
          public entity's employees, as specified, is required to be in 
          court in response to a subpoena in a civil matter.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          No direct fiscal impact, as the bill only modifies the amount of 
          the deposit. Pursuant to current law, differences between actual 
          costs for an employee's appearance and any amounts deposited 
          must be settled up by the public entity and the party who 
          requested the subpoena.

           COMMENTS 

           Purpose  . Current law, first enacted in 1963, requires, if a 
          peace officer, firefighter, state employee, trial court 
          employee, or county employee is subpoenaed in a civil matter, 
          the party requesting the subpoena must deposit $150 with the 
          employer for each day the employee must be in court. The deposit 
          amount was initially established at $25 per day, and through 
          subsequent legislation was raised incrementally to $150 in 1986. 
          This bill, therefore, provides the first increase in the deposit 
          amount in 26 years.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081 












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