Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 744

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker or prosecutor. (FE)

Court — Procedure Crime and criminals Disease

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, if a prisoner throws or expels blood, semen, vomit, saliva,

urine, feces, or other bodily substance at or toward an officer or other person in the

prison or facility, a court may order the prisoner to undergo testing for communicable

diseases if there is probable cause to believe that there was potential for transmitting

a communicable disease to the victim. This bill allows a court to require such testing

for any criminal defendant who throws or expels blood, semen, vomit, saliva, urine,

feces, or other bodily substance at or toward a public safety worker or a prosecutor.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Feb 18, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 4, Noes 1

Passed 4–1 Mar 17, 2020 official source full page