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AB-89 Parole hearings: attorney notice.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 3043.4 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

3043.4.
 (a) The district attorney’s office or the Attorney General’s office that prosecuted the case shall provide no less than 45 days’ notice to the board and to the crime victim, the victim’s next of kin, or members of the victim’s family that they will not be sending a representative to a parole suitability hearing, pursuant to Section 3041.
(b) For the purposes of this section, “parole suitability hearing” includes a youth offender parole hearing, elderly parole hearing, or a hearing pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 32 of Article I of the California Constitution.
(c) A parole suitability hearing shall not be postponed, canceled, or continued as a result of the district attorney’s office or the Attorney General’s failure to provide notice pursuant to this section.
SEC. 2.
 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.