California 2021-2022 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB2612 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/18/2022

                            CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2612Introduced by Assembly Member ChenFebruary 18, 2022 An act to amend Section 6404 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal law. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2612, as introduced, Chen. Criminal law: incarceration.Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons. Existing law authorizes the department to develop polices and regulations on visitation. Existing law allows an inmate sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, or to life and the inmate does not have a parole date established, to have family visits. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 6404 of the Penal Code is amended to read:6404. Inmates An inmate shall not be prohibited from family visits based solely on the fact that the inmate was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or was sentenced to life and is without a parole date established by the Board of Parole Hearings.

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2612Introduced by Assembly Member ChenFebruary 18, 2022 An act to amend Section 6404 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal law. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2612, as introduced, Chen. Criminal law: incarceration.Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons. Existing law authorizes the department to develop polices and regulations on visitation. Existing law allows an inmate sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, or to life and the inmate does not have a parole date established, to have family visits. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO 





 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill 

No. 2612

Introduced by Assembly Member ChenFebruary 18, 2022

Introduced by Assembly Member Chen
February 18, 2022

 An act to amend Section 6404 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal law. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2612, as introduced, Chen. Criminal law: incarceration.

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons. Existing law authorizes the department to develop polices and regulations on visitation. Existing law allows an inmate sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, or to life and the inmate does not have a parole date established, to have family visits. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons. Existing law authorizes the department to develop polices and regulations on visitation. Existing law allows an inmate sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, or to life and the inmate does not have a parole date established, to have family visits. 

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.

## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 6404 of the Penal Code is amended to read:6404. Inmates An inmate shall not be prohibited from family visits based solely on the fact that the inmate was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or was sentenced to life and is without a parole date established by the Board of Parole Hearings.

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

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

SECTION 1. Section 6404 of the Penal Code is amended to read:6404. Inmates An inmate shall not be prohibited from family visits based solely on the fact that the inmate was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or was sentenced to life and is without a parole date established by the Board of Parole Hearings.

SECTION 1. Section 6404 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

### SECTION 1.

6404. Inmates An inmate shall not be prohibited from family visits based solely on the fact that the inmate was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or was sentenced to life and is without a parole date established by the Board of Parole Hearings.

6404. Inmates An inmate shall not be prohibited from family visits based solely on the fact that the inmate was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or was sentenced to life and is without a parole date established by the Board of Parole Hearings.

6404. Inmates An inmate shall not be prohibited from family visits based solely on the fact that the inmate was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or was sentenced to life and is without a parole date established by the Board of Parole Hearings.



6404. Inmates An inmate shall not be prohibited from family visits based solely on the fact that the inmate was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or was sentenced to life and is without a parole date established by the Board of Parole Hearings.