AB 2151: Booking fees: crimes related to sex purchasing.
- Session Year: 2021-2022
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2022-02-15
Existing law prohibits certain acts related to the exchange of money or other consideration for sex.
Existing law authorizes a county to impose a fee for the administrative costs of booking or otherwise processing an arrested person upon the arresting agency.
Prior law required a person convicted of a crime to be ordered to reimburse the arresting agency for these booking costs. Existing law makes a person who is driving under the influence and whose intoxicated driving proximately causes an incident liable for the cost of the emergency response to that incident, as specified.
This bill would make a person lawfully arrested for an offense as a sex purchaser, as defined, liable to the arresting agency for booking costs, as specified. The bill would authorize the arrest agency to collect booking costs, as specified, and would require the arresting agency to offer an administrative hearing to the arrested person.
(a)Notwithstanding any other law, a person lawfully arrested for an offense including subdivision (b) of Section 647 of, or Section 653.22 of, the Penal Code, for acting as a sex purchaser, is liable to the arresting agency for booking costs incurred by or imposed upon the arresting agency.
(b)When the arresting law enforcement agency either directly incurs booking costs for an arrest described in subdivision (a), or is billed for booking costs by the law enforcement agency receiving custody of the arrested person, the arresting agency may bill the arrested person or take other collection actions authorized by law to collect any sum owed pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c)The arresting agency shall offer an administrative hearing to any person who wishes to contest their liability for these costs. A conviction or acquittal on the charge in criminal court shall be dispositive of the persons liability for booking costs, however nonprosecution of the offense shall not necessarily render a person not liable.
(d)As used in this section:
(1)Booking costs has the same meaning as actual administrative costs defined in subdivision (c) of Section 29550.
(2)Sex purchaser means a person who has unlawfully paid money or other consideration in exchange for performance of a sex act with another person, or has attempted, offered, conspired to, or loitered for the purpose of doing so.
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| Oct 24, 2022 | From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). |
| Apr 26, 2022 | In committee: Set, final hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Apr 5, 2022 | In committee: Set, second hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. |
| Mar 29, 2022 | In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. |
| Mar 22, 2022 | In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. |
| Feb 24, 2022 | Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Feb 16, 2022 | From printer. May be heard in committee March 18. |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Introduced. To print. |
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