BILL NUMBER: AB 2460INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Ammiano FEBRUARY 19, 2010 An act to amend Section 878 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal procedure. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2460, as introduced, Ammiano. Witnesses: appearance before trial court: written undertakings. Existing law allows the magistrate or judge to require a material witness in a case to appear and testify and to require the witness to sign a written undertaking that he or she will appear and testify or forfeit $500. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 878 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 878. On holding the defendant to answer or on a plea of guilty where permitted by law, the magistrate may take from each of the material witnesses examined before him or her on the part of the people a written undertaking, to the effect thathethe witness will appear and testify at the court to which the depositions and statements or case are to be sent, or that he or she will forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars $500 .