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AB-2035 Sexually violent predators: conditional release.(2023-2024)

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Date Published: 02/22/2024 09:00 PM
AB2035:v98#DOCUMENT

Revised  March 12, 2024
Amended  IN  Assembly  February 22, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2035

Introduced by Assembly Member Joe Patterson Members Joe Patterson and Alanis
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Dixon, Essayli, Flora, Gallagher, and Wallis) Wallis, Chen, Hoover, Lackey, Sanchez, and Waldron)
(Coauthors: Senators Alvarado-Gil, Dahle, Jones, Niello, and Wilk)

February 01, 2024

An act to add Section 6608.3 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to sexually violent predators.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2035, as amended, Joe Patterson. Sexually violent predators: conditional release.
Existing law provides for the civil commitment of criminal offenders who have been determined to be sexually violent predators for treatment in a secure state hospital facility, as specified. Existing law authorizes the conditional release of a sexually violent predator under specified circumstances, and requires the State Department of State Hospitals to make the necessary placement arrangements to place the person in a community, as specified.
This bill would prohibit the department or its designee from placing a person who has been conditionally released in a community if the person does not have housing in a qualified dwelling, and would define “qualified dwelling” to mean a structure intended for human habitation by one person or a single family and that is not within 10 feet of another inhabited dwelling.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 6608.3 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

6608.3.
 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Department of State Hospitals or its designee shall not place a person who has been conditionally released in a community if the person does not have housing in a qualified dwelling.
(b) For the purposes of this section, a “qualified dwelling” means a structure intended for human habitation by one person or a single family and that is not within 10 feet of another inhabited dwelling.

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REVISIONS:
Heading—Lines 1, and 2.
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