CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 994Introduced by Assembly Member HadwickFebruary 20, 2025 An act to amend Section 4001 of the Penal Code, relating to jails. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 994, as introduced, Hadwick. County jails.Existing law requires each county jail to contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow persons belonging to specified classes to be confined separately from other persons belonging to other classes.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.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 4001 of the Penal Code is amended to read:4001. Each A county jail must shall contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either any one of the following classes to be confined separately and distinctly from persons belonging to either of the other classes:1. (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial; trial.2. (b) Persons already convicted of crime and held under sentence; sentence.3. (c) Persons detained as witnesses or held under civil process, or under an order imposing punishment for a contempt.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 994Introduced by Assembly Member HadwickFebruary 20, 2025 An act to amend Section 4001 of the Penal Code, relating to jails. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 994, as introduced, Hadwick. County jails.Existing law requires each county jail to contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow persons belonging to specified classes to be confined separately from other persons belonging to other classes.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 994
Introduced by Assembly Member HadwickFebruary 20, 2025
Introduced by Assembly Member Hadwick
February 20, 2025
An act to amend Section 4001 of the Penal Code, relating to jails.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 994, as introduced, Hadwick. County jails.
Existing law requires each county jail to contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow persons belonging to specified classes to be confined separately from other persons belonging to other classes.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law requires each county jail to contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow persons belonging to specified classes to be confined separately from other persons belonging to other classes.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 4001 of the Penal Code is amended to read:4001. Each A county jail must shall contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either any one of the following classes to be confined separately and distinctly from persons belonging to either of the other classes:1. (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial; trial.2. (b) Persons already convicted of crime and held under sentence; sentence.3. (c) Persons detained as witnesses or held under civil process, or under an order imposing punishment for a contempt.
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 4001 of the Penal Code is amended to read:4001. Each A county jail must shall contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either any one of the following classes to be confined separately and distinctly from persons belonging to either of the other classes:1. (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial; trial.2. (b) Persons already convicted of crime and held under sentence; sentence.3. (c) Persons detained as witnesses or held under civil process, or under an order imposing punishment for a contempt.
SECTION 1. Section 4001 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
4001. Each A county jail must shall contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either any one of the following classes to be confined separately and distinctly from persons belonging to either of the other classes:1. (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial; trial.2. (b) Persons already convicted of crime and held under sentence; sentence.3. (c) Persons detained as witnesses or held under civil process, or under an order imposing punishment for a contempt.
4001. Each A county jail must shall contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either any one of the following classes to be confined separately and distinctly from persons belonging to either of the other classes:1. (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial; trial.2. (b) Persons already convicted of crime and held under sentence; sentence.3. (c) Persons detained as witnesses or held under civil process, or under an order imposing punishment for a contempt.
4001. Each A county jail must shall contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either any one of the following classes to be confined separately and distinctly from persons belonging to either of the other classes:1. (a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial; trial.2. (b) Persons already convicted of crime and held under sentence; sentence.3. (c) Persons detained as witnesses or held under civil process, or under an order imposing punishment for a contempt.
4001. Each A county jail must shall contain a sufficient number of rooms to allow all persons belonging to either any one of the following classes to be confined separately and distinctly from persons belonging to either of the other classes:
1.
(a) Persons committed on criminal process and detained for trial; trial.
2.
(b) Persons already convicted of crime and held under sentence; sentence.
3.
(c) Persons detained as witnesses or held under civil process, or under an order imposing punishment for a contempt.