California Senate Bill SB1423 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 1423INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Fuller FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to amend Section 626 of the Penal Code, relating to entry onto school campuses. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1423, as introduced, Fuller. Entry onto school campuses. Existing law establishes various offenses for unauthorized entry onto school campuses, as specified. Existing law provides definitions of certain terms used in these provisions. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those definitional 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 626 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 626. (a)  As used in   For purposes of  this chapter, the following definitions apply: (1) "University" means the University of California,  and includes   including  any  of its  affiliated  institution thereof   institutions  and any campus or facility owned, operated, or controlled by the Regents of the University of California. (2) "State university" means any California state university,  and includes   including  any campus or facility owned, operated, or controlled by the Trustees of the California State University. (3) "Community college" means any public community college established pursuant to the Education Code. (4) "School" means any public or private elementary school, junior high school, four-year high school, senior high school, adult  school   school,  or any branch  thereof,   of those schools,  opportunity school, continuation high school, regional occupational center, evening high school,  or  technical  school or   school,  any public right-of-way situated immediately adjacent to school  property   property,  or any other place  if  a teacher and one or more pupils are required to be  at that place  in connection with assigned school activities. (5) "Chief administrative officer" means either of the following: (A) The president of the university or a state university, the Chancellor of the California State University, or the officer designated by the Regents of the University of California or pursuant to authority granted by the Regents of the University of California to administer and be the officer in charge of a campus or other facility owned, operated, or controlled by the Regents of the University of California, or the superintendent of a community college district. (B) For a school, the principal of the school, a person who possesses a standard supervision credential or a standard administrative credential and who is designated by the principal, or a person who carries out the same functions as a person who possesses a credential and who is designated by the principal. (b) For the purpose of determining the penalty to be imposed pursuant to this chapter, the court may consider a written report from the Department of Justice containing information from its records showing prior  convictions; and that communication   convictions. That report  is prima facie evidence of the convictions, if the defendant admits them, regardless of whether  or not  the complaint commencing the proceedings  has  alleged prior convictions. (c)  As used in   For purposes of  this code, the following definitions apply: (1) "Pupil currently attending school" means a pupil enrolled in a public or private school who  has been   is  in attendance or  has  had an excused absence, for purposes of attendance accounting, for a majority of the days for which the pupil  has been   was  enrolled in that school during the school year. (2) "Safe school zone" means an area that encompasses any of the following places during regular school hours or within 60 minutes before or after the schoolday or 60 minutes before or after a school-sponsored activity at the schoolsite: (A) Within 100 feet of a bus  stop, whether or not a public transit bus stop, that has been   stop  publicly designated by the school district as a schoolbus  stop.   stop, regardless of whether it is a public transit bus   stop.  This definition applies only if the school district  has chosen   chooses  to mark the bus stop as a schoolbus stop. (B) Within 1,500 feet of a school, as designated by the school district.