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          Date of Hearing:   July 6, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                   SB 182 (Corbett) - As Amended:  April 12, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              JudiciaryVote:7-3

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill adds gender identity and sexual orientation to the 
          list of demographic data, provided by judicial applicants, 
          nominees, appointees, justices, and judges, and required to be 
          collected and released annually by the Governor, the Commission 
          on Judicial Nominees Evaluation (JNE Commission) of the State 
          Bar, and the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC). The bill 
          also requires any data disclosed or released to indicate the 
          percentage of respondents who declined to respond.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          The AOC will incur General Fund costs of about $100,000 in 
          2011-12 to collect the additional information from 1,700 
          justices and judges and to compile and release this information. 
          Ongoing costs to seek the data from new judges and from those 
          judges who have not previously responded would be about $30,000 
          annually. Costs for the Governor's Office would be minor and 
          absorbable. 

           COMMENTS  

           1)Background  . Under current law, the Governor, the JNE 
            Commission, and the AOC annually collect and release 
            demographic data provided by judicial applicants, nominees, 
            appointees, justices, and judges relative to these 
            individuals' ethnicity, race, and gender. Providing this 
            information is voluntary, and the disclosure or release of any 
            demographic data must be done only on an aggregated 
            statistical basis.

           2)Purpose  . The author argues that the current reporting 








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            requirements provide no way of knowing to what extent the LGBT 
            community is represented in the judiciary and that this bill 
            will help to identify diversity of gender identity and sexual 
            orientation within the judiciary, or lack thereof.

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