Bill Text: CA AB2646 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Civil rights: political structure equal protection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 912, Statutes of 2014. [AB2646 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2646-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2646	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ting

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section  65100 of the Government Code
   231.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure  , relating
to  local planning.   jurors. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2646, as amended, Ting.  Local planning.  
Jurors: peremptory challenge.  
   Existing law prohibits a party from using a peremptory challenge
to remove a prospective juror on the basis of an assumption that the
prospective juror is biased merely because of his or her race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, or similar
grounds.  
   This bill would also prohibit a party from using a peremptory
challenge to remove a prospective juror on the basis of ethnic group
identification, age, genetic information, or disability. 

   The Planning and Zoning Law provides that there is a planning
agency in each city and county with the powers necessary to carry out
the purposes of that law.  
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
law. 
   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 231.5 of the   Code of
Civil Procedure   is amended to read: 
   231.5.  A party may not use a peremptory challenge to remove a
prospective juror on the basis of an assumption that the prospective
juror is biased merely because of  his or her race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation   a
characteristic listed or defined in subdivision (a) of Section 11135
of the Government Code  , or similar grounds. 
  SECTION 1.    Section 65100 of the Government Code
is amended to read:
   65100.  There is in each city and county a planning agency with
the authority necessary to carry out the purposes of this title. The
legislative body of each city and county shall by ordinance assign
the functions of the planning agency to a planning department, one or
more planning commissions, administrative bodies or hearing
officers, the legislative body itself, or any combination thereof, as
it deems appropriate and necessary. In the absence of an assignment,
the legislative body shall carry out all the functions of the
planning agency.