California Assembly Bill AB2655 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2655INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Weber FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to amend Section 18.5 of the Penal Code, relating to misdemeanors. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2655, as introduced, Weber. Misdemeanors: maximum sentence. Existing law defines a crime or public offense as an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it. Under existing law, a crime that is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed a year is a misdemeanor. Existing law provides that every offense punishable by imprisonment in a county jail up to or not exceeding one year is punishable by imprisonment not to exceed 364 days. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision. 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 18.5 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 18.5. Every offense  which   that  is prescribed by  any   a  law of the state to be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail up to or not exceeding one year shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not  to exceed   exceeding  364 days.