BILL NUMBER: AB 2684	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bock

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2000

   An act to add Section 3608 to the Penal Code, relating to the
death penalty.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2684, as introduced, Bock.  Death penalty: cost savings
formula.
   Existing law provides specified procedures for executing the death
penalty.
   This bill would require the Judicial Council in consultation with
specified people and agencies, to develop a formula that will
determine the cost saving to counties when life without parole is
sought in a homicide case instead of the death penalty.  The bill
would require the state to give back to the counties 75% of the cost
savings determined by the formula, in any year in which the state has
a specified budget surplus.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 3608 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   3608.  (a) The Judicial Council, in consultation with county
representatives, district attorneys, county probation departments,
and local law enforcement agencies, shall develop a formula to
determine the cost savings to counties when life without parole is
sought in a homicide case instead of the death penalty. The formula
shall cover a 10-year period and shall be adjusted annually.
   (b) Using the formula developed in subdivision (a), the Judicial
Counsel shall determine for each county whether the county has
realized a savings.
   (c) Based upon the cost savings determined in subdivision (b), the
state shall give back to counties 75 percent of the cost savings
realized by that county, because life without parole is sought in
homicide cases instead of the death penalty, in any fiscal year in
which the state has a budget surplus of $1,000,000,000 or more.