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                                                                  AB 2657
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          Date of Hearing:   May 9, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                  AB 2657 (Calderon) - As Amended:  April 10, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                              
          JudiciaryVote:10-0 (Consent)

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires a transcript derived from an electronic 
          recording of a court proceeding to include a designation of 
          "inaudible" or "unintelligible" for those portions of the 
          recording that contain no audible sound or are not discernible.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible fiscal impact.

           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . According to the author, "When inaudible noises and/or 
          unintelligible sounds occur and are not designated within 
          transcripts from electronic recordings, the transcripts do not 
          reflect the true proceeding, potentially harming litigants by 
          representing inaccurate transcripts as true, correct, and 
          complete copies of proceedings."
               
          "In order to ensure the integrity of the record and to alert 
          consumers as to any ambiguity in the record that arises from an 
          inaudible or unintelligible section of an audio recording - a 
          designation of "inaudible" or "unintelligible" should be 
          required in each instance it occurs in transcripts prepared from 
          audio recordings."

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












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