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AB-2257 Gross vehicular manslaughter: credits.(2017-2018)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 2933.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

2933.1.
 (a) (1)  Notwithstanding any other law, any person who is convicted of a felony offense listed in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 shall accrue no more than 15 percent of worktime credit, as defined in Section 2933.
(2) Notwithstanding any other law, a person who is convicted of a violation of Section 191.5 shall not accrue more than 15 percent of the credit defined in Section 2933.
(b) The 15-percent limitation provided in subdivision (a) shall apply whether the defendant is sentenced under Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 1170) of Title 7 of Part 2 or sentenced under some other law. However, nothing in  subdivision (a) shall  does not  affect the requirement of any statute that the defendant serve a specified period of time prior to minimum parole eligibility, nor shall  and  any offender otherwise statutorily ineligible for credit shall not  be eligible for credit pursuant to this section.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 4019 or any other provision of law, the maximum credit that may be earned against a period of confinement in, or commitment to, a county jail, industrial farm, or road camp, or a city jail, industrial farm, or road camp, following arrest and prior to placement in the custody of the Director of Corrections,  Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation  shall not exceed 15 percent of the actual period of confinement for any person specified in subdivision (a).
(d) This section shall applies  only apply  to offenses listed in paragraph (1) of  subdivision (a) that are committed on or after the date on which this section becomes operative. September 21, 1994, and to offenses listed in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) that are committed on or after January 1, 2019.