CRIMINAL PROCEDURE REVISIONS                                                                             S.B. 1046 (S-3)-1051 (S-2):

                                                                                                                                                                                                      SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                                                                                                        REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

Senate Bill 1046 (Substitute S-3 as reported)

Senate Bill 1047 (Substitute S-3 as reported)  

Senate Bill 1048 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Senate Bill 1049 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

Senate Bill 1050 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Senate Bill 1051 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Sponsor:   Senator Roger Victory (S.B. 1046)

                            Senator Jeff Irwin (S.B. 1047)

                            Senator Sylvia Santana (S.B. 1048)

                            Senator Stephanie Chang (S.B. 1049)

                            Senator Michael D. MacDonald (S.B. 1050)

                            Senator Ed McBroom (S.B. 1051)

Committee:   Judiciary and Public Safety

CONTENT

Senate Bill 1046 (S-3) would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure to do the following:

 --       Modify a provision allowing a police officer to issue and serve upon a person an appearance ticket and release them from custody if he or she has been arrested without a warrant for a misdemeanor or ordinance violence, for which the maximum permissible penalty does not exceed 93 days in jail or a fine, or both, to refer to any misdemeanor or ordinance violation.

 --       Require a police officer to issue to and serve upon a person an appearance ticket and release the person from custody if he or she had been arrested for certain misdemeanors or ordinance violations.

 --       Allow a police officer to take an arrested person before a magistrate instead of issuing an appearance ticket if one or more specified circumstances applied.

 --       Require a police officer to specify the reason for not issuing a citation in an arrest report if he or she determined that one of the specified circumstances applied and he or she arrested the person instead of issuing an appearance ticket and require the officer to forward the report to the appropriate prosecuting authority for review.

 --       Require an arrested person taken into custody instead of being issued an appearance ticket to be charged or released by 3 p.m. the immediately following day during which arraignment could be performed.

 --       Specify that the bill would not create a right to the issuance of an appearance ticket in lieu of arrest.

 --       Allow an arrested person to appeal the legality of his or her arrest

Senate Bill 1047 (S-3) would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure to do the following:

 --       Require a court to arraign a person and set his or her case for the next step of criminal proceeding if a judicial officer were available to arraign the person on a warrant within two hours of his or her appearance, and require a court to recall the warrant and schedule the case for future arraignment if a judicial officer were not available within that time.

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