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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Carrillo</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to add Section 6600.2 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to judicial commitments. </ns0:Title>
                <ns0:RelatingClause>judicial commitments</ns0:RelatingClause>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Sexually violent predators.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p> Existing law provides for the civil commitment of a person who is determined to be a sexually violent predator. Existing law establishes a procedure by which a person committed as a sexually violent predator may petition for conditional release and requires the court, if it makes a specified determination, to place the person on conditional release. </html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would require a court presiding over any proceeding held pursuant to the above-described provisions that is open to the public to provide the public with a remote access option that allows members of the public to remotely observe the proceeding. </html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                Section 6600.2 is added to the
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                                                        <html:p>A court presiding over any proceeding held pursuant to this article that is open to the public shall provide the public with a remote access option that allows members of the public to remotely observe the proceeding.</html:p>
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