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Assembly Bill 1674,
Santiago, extends state law limiting handgun purchases
to one per month to every type of gun.
"While well-intentioned, I believe this bill would have
the effect of burdening lawful ctizens who wish to sell
certain firearms that they no longer need," Brown said
in vetoing the bill.
- Assembly Bill 2607,
Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, expands the list
of people who can petition for a gun violence
restraining orders from immediate family members of the
target of the order to employers, coworkers and mental
health workers or school workers who’ve had contact with
the person in the last 6 months.
"In 2014, I signed Assembly Bill 1014 which allowed
immediate family members of law enforcement to petition
for a gun violence restraining order," Brown said. "That
law took effect on Jan. 1, 2016, so at this point it
would be premature to enact a futher expansion."
- Senate Bill 894,
Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, requires the
victim of gun thefts to report the crime to law
enforcement within 5 days.
"I continue to believe that responsible people report
the loss or theft of a firearm and irresponsible do
not," Brown said. "It is not likely that this bill would
change that.
This is
the entire list of proposed bills in the CA legislature
for 2016
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AB 156- (McCarty) Ammunition
Regulation. Requires
background checks for ammunition purchasers, licenses to
sell ammunition, and collection of sale information.
Restrictions on ammunition purchases, creates a DOJ
database of ammunition owners. Bans internet / out of
stage ammunition purchase.
AB
665- (Frazier -D) Hunting or fishing: local
regulation.
This bill would provide that the state fully occupies
the field of the taking and possession of fish and game.
AB 857- (Cooper) Ghost Gun
Registration.
Requires a person to get a serial number from DOJ before
making or assembling a gun. Retroactively requires
serial numbers to be placed on (some or numbers of)
firearms dating back to 1899.
AB 1135- (Levine, Ting) Bullet Buttons. Redefines
assault weapons to encompass specified guns capable of
accepting any type of detachable magazine. Bans common
and constitutionally protected firearms that have
magazine locking devices.
AB 1511- (Santiago) Gun Lending. Limits
infrequent lending of guns to specified family members.
Formerly dealt with energy conservation, but now
criminalizes loaning of firearms between personally
known, law-abiding adults, including sportsmen and
women.
AB
1663- (Chiu-D) Firearms: assault weapons. This
bill would classify a semiautomatic center rifle that
does not have a fixed magazine with the capacity to
accept no more than 10 rounds as an assault weapon.
AB
1664- (Levine-D) Firearms:
assault weapons. This bill would define "detachable
magazine" to mean an ammunition feeding device that can
be removed readily from the firearm without disassembly
of the firearm action, including an ammunition feeding
device that can be removed readily from the firearm with
the use of a tool.
AB
1673- (Gipson-D) Firearms:
unfinished frame or receiver. This bill would expand the
definition of "firearm" for other purposes to include an
unfinished frame or receiver that can be readily
converted to the functional condition of a finished
frame or receiver.
AB
1674- (Santiago-D) Firearms:
waiting period. This bill would make the current 30-day
prohibition on handguns applicable to all types of
firearms.
AB
1695- (Bonta-D) Firearms:
notice to purchasers: false reports of stolen
firearms. This bill would make it a misdemeanor to
report to a local law enforcement agency that a firearm
has been lost or stolen, knowing that report to be
false.
AB 1776- (Obernolte-R) Range Recycle
Bill. Existing
law prohibits the management of hazardous waste except
in accordance with the hazardous waste control laws and
prohibits the disposal of hazardous waste except at a
disposal site or at a facility of an owner or operator
who holds a valid hazardous waste facilities permit or
other grant of authorization from the Department of
Toxic Substances Control to use and operate the site or
facility. Existing law defines the term “disposal” for
purposes of the hazardous waste control laws as
including the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
spilling, leaking, or placing of a waste into or on any
land. This bill would exclude, from the definition of
the term “disposal” under those laws, the onsite
movement of soil at an active outdoor sport shooting
range, as defined, if this movement is done to
facilitate the removal and recycling of spent ammunition
materials existing on the site as a result of the normal
use of the shooting range and the residual soil is
replaced within the area from which it was originally
removed.
AB-1792 (Wood) Elk tags:
Indian tribes- If
enacted it will amend Section 332 of the Fish and Game
Code mandating CADFW allocate a ‘specific number’ of elk
tags to federally-recognized Indian tribes in California
for the purpose of cultural or religious ceremonies or
celebrations.
AB 1798- (Cooper-D) Firearms- Cell
Phone Case.
Existing federal law prohibits a person from
manufacturing, entering into commerce, shipping,
transporting, or receiving any toy, look-alike, or
imitation firearm unless the firearm contains, or has
affixed to it, a marking approved by the federal
Secretary of Commerce. Existing state law defines
“imitation firearm” as any BB device, toy gun, replica
of a firearm, or other device that is so substantially
similar in coloration and overall appearance to an
existing firearm as to lead a reasonable person to
perceive that the device is a firearm. Under existing
law, a manufacturer, importer, or distributor of
imitation firearms that, among other things, fails to
comply with any applicable federal law or regulation
governing the marking of a toy, look-alike, or imitation
firearm, as defined by federal law or regulation, is
guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would specify that
the definition of imitation firearm described above
includes, but is not limited to, a protective case for a
cellular telephone that is so substantially similar in
coloration and overall appearance to an existing firearm
as to lead a reasonable person to perceive that the
device is a firearm.
AB 1844- (Gallagher-R) Hunting and
fishing licenses:
reduced license fees: veterans.Under existing law, a
hunting license grants the privilege to take birds and
mammals. Existing law requires the Department of Fish
and Wildlife to issue a hunting license for a term of
one year, as provided, upon payment of a fee, to
eligible residents and nonresidents. Existing law
requires the department to issue a lifetime hunting
license, upon payment of a fee, to eligible California
residents that authorizes a person to take birds and
mammals for the life of the person, as prescribed. Under
existing law, a sport fishing license grants the
privilege to take fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
Existing law requires the department to issue a sport
fishing license for the period of a calendar year, as
provided, upon payment of a fee, to eligible residents
and nonresidents. Existing law requires the department
to issue a lifetime sport fishing license, upon payment
of a fee, to eligible California residents that
authorizes a person to take fish, reptiles, and
amphibians for the life of the person, as prescribed.
Existing law requires the department to issue lifetime
sportsman's licenses, upon payment of a fee, to eligible
California residents that authorizes a person to take
birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, and amphibians for the
life of the person, as prescribed. This bill would
require the department to reduce the fee required to
obtain the above-described licenses by an unspecified
percentage for a person who is a veteran of the Armed
Forces of the United States and is a resident of
California.
AB 1999- (Achadjian-R) Prohibited
Persons File.
Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish
and maintain an online database known as the Prohibited
Armed Persons File, sometimes referred to as the Armed
Prohibited Persons System, to cross-reference persons
who have ownership or possession of a firearm on or
after January 1, 1996, and who, subsequent to the date
of that ownership or possession of a firearm, fall
within a class of persons who are prohibited from owning
or possessing a firearm. This bill would state the
intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating
to the Prohibited Armed Persons File.
AB 2165- (Bonta-D) Handgun Roster LE
Exception.
Existing law makes it a crime for any person in this
state to manufacture, import into the state, keep for
sale, offer or expose for sale, give, or lend an unsafe
handgun. Under existing law, this prohibition does not
apply to the sale or purchase of a handgun if the
handgun is sold to, or purchased by, a police
department, the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, or any federal law enforcement agency,
among other entities. This bill would also make the
above prohibition inapplicable to the sale of a handgun
to, or purchase of one by, other peace officers, as
specified.
AB 2229- (Grove-R) Firearms.
Existing law prohibits specified persons from owning,
purchasing, receiving, or having in their possession any
firearm. Existing law prohibits selling, supplying,
delivering, or giving possession or control of a firearm
to those persons. This bill would make technical,
non-substantive changes to that provision.
AB 2245- (Cooper-D) CCPOA exemptions to
handgun roster.
Existing law makes it a crime for any person in this
state to manufacture, import into the state, keep for
sale, offer or expose for sale, give, or lend an unsafe
handgun. Under existing law, this prohibition does apply
to the sale or purchase of a handgun if the handgun is
sold to, or purchased by, the Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation or to any federal law enforcement
agency, among other entities. This bill would also make
the above prohibition inapplicable to the sale to, or
purchase by, a probation department.
AB 2340- (Gallagher-R) Gun Free School
Zone-Domestic Violence Exemption.
Existing law, the Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1995,
subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from
possessing a firearm in a place that the person knows,
or reasonably should know, is a school zone, unless with
the written permission of certain school district
officials. Existing law defines a school zone as an area
on the grounds of a school providing instruction in
kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or within a
distance of 1,000 feet of that school. Existing law,
subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from bringing
or possessing a firearm upon the grounds of a campus of
a public or private university or college, or buildings
owned or operated for student housing, teaching,
research, or administration by a public or private
university or college, that are contiguous or are
clearly marked university property, as specified, unless
with the written permission of specified university or
college officials. Under existing law, a violation of
these provisions is a felony, or, under specified
circumstances, a misdemeanor. Under existing law,
certain persons are exempt from both the school zone and
the university prohibitions, including, among others, a
retired peace officer authorized to carry a concealed or
loaded firearm. This bill would exempt from both the
school zone and the university prohibitions a person
holding a valid license to carry a concealed firearm who
is also protected by a domestic violence protective
order, as specified. Existing law, subject to
exceptions, prohibits carrying ammunition or reloaded
ammunition onto school grounds unless it is with the
written permission of the school district
superintendent, the superintendent’s designee, or
equivalent school authority. This bill would exempt from
that prohibition a person holding a valid license to
carry a concealed firearm who is also protected by a
domestic violence protective order, as specified. The
bill would make additional technical, non-substantive
changes.
AB 2361- (Santiago-D) Police Officers.
Existing law designates all persons who meet specified
standards as peace officers. Existing law requires any
sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or police officer,
as specified, to successfully complete a course of
training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer
Standards and Training before exercising the powers of a
peace officer. This bill would authorize an independent
institution of higher education, as defined, to
designate a person regularly employed as a security
officer as a peace officer during the course of and
within the scope of his or her employment, as specified,
provided that the person successfully completes the
course of training described above.
AB 2369- (Patterson-R) Firearm Theft-
Prop 47.
Existing law, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,
enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the voters at
the November 4, 2014, statewide general election,
reduced certain felonies to misdemeanors, including
possession of specified controlled substances and theft
of a firearm with a value under $950. This bill would
authorize the prosecution to charge a person with a
felony if the person has been convicted 2 or more times
in the 12-month period of the crimes reduced to a
misdemeanor by Proposition 47 or, if the crime being
prosecuted is petty theft, when the person had been
convicted of specified other crimes, including grand
theft and carjacking, at least twice in the past 12
months. The bill would specify that, for purposes of
determining the 12-month period, the date the crimes
were committed is used, not the date of conviction. The
bill would also make it a felony when the items taken
include a firearm
AB 2440- (Gatto-D) Search Warrants.
Existing law provides that a search warrant may only be
issued upon probable cause, supported by affidavit,
naming or describing the person to be searched or
searched for, and particularly describing the property,
thing, or things and the place to be searched. Existing
law also states the grounds upon which a search warrant
may be issued. This bill would make technical,
non-substantive changes to those provisions.
AB 2459- (McCarty-D) Firearm Dealers:
conduct of business.
Under existing law, a firearms dealer or licensee means
a person who has a valid federal firearms license, has a
regulatory or business license, has a valid seller’s
permit issued by the State Board of Equalization, has a
certificate of eligibility issued by the Department of
Justice, has a license granted by a duly constituted
licensing authority of any city, county, or city and
county, and is among those recorded in the centralized
list of licensed firearms dealers kept by the Department
of Justice. Existing law regulates licensed firearms
dealers and provides that a license is subject to
forfeiture for a breach of specified prohibitions in
existing law. This bill would authorize the Department
of Justice to impose a civil fine not exceeding $500 for
a breach of those prohibitions, and a civil fine not
exceeding $2,000 for a breach of those prohibitions when
the licensee has received written notification from the
department regarding the breach and fails to take
corrective action, as specified, or the department
determines the licensee committed the breach knowingly
or with gross negligence. Existing law, subject to
exceptions pertaining to specified gun shows or events,
requires a firearms dealer to conduct business only in
the buildings designated in the dealer’s license. This
bill would, in addition, commencing January 1, 2018,
prohibit a firearms dealer license from designating a
building that is a residence, as defined, as a building
where the licensee’s business may be conducted. The bill
would also provide that these provisions would not
preclude or preempt a local ordinance that places
additional or more stringent requirements on firearms
dealers regarding where the business of the licensee may
be conducted. The bill would require a licensee to
ensure that its business premises are monitored by a
video surveillance system that, among other
requirements, visually records and archives footage of
(1) every sale or transfer of a firearm or ammunition,
in a manner that makes the facial features of the
purchaser or transferee clearly visible in the recorded
footage; (2) all places where firearms or ammunition are
stored, displayed, carried, handled, sold, or
transferred; (3) the immediate exterior surroundings of
the licensee’s business premises; and (4) all parking
areas owned or leased by the licensee. The bill would,
commencing January 1, 2018, require a licensee to obtain
a policy of commercial insurance that insures the
licensee against liability for damage to property and
for injury to or death of any person as a result of the
theft, sale, lease or transfer or offering for sale,
lease or transfer of a firearm or ammunition, or any
other operations of the business and business premises,
in the amount of $1,000,000 per incident, as specified.
The bill would also provide that these provisions would
not preclude or preempt a local ordinance that places
additional or more stringent requirements on firearms
dealers regarding insurance pertaining to the licensee’s
business.
AB 2478- (Melendez-R) Firearms:
Violations.-Straw
purchase. Existing law prohibits specified persons from
owning, purchasing, receiving, or having in his or her
possession, any firearm. Existing law prohibits a
person, corporation, or firm from knowingly selling,
supplying, delivering, or giving possession or control
of a firearm to one of those prohibited persons, and
makes a violation of that prohibition a felony
punishable by imprisonment for 2, 3, or 4 years in the
county jail. This bill would make that offense
punishable by imprisonment for 2, 3, or 4 years in the
state prison. Existing law prohibits a person,
corporation, or firearms dealer from selling, supplying,
delivering, or giving possession or control of a firearm
to anyone whom the person, corporation, or dealer has
cause to believe is a prohibited person, and makes a
violation of that prohibition punishable as a felony or
misdemeanor subject to imprisonment in the county jail
or by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by both that fine
and imprisonment. Under existing law, for each felony
case, a court is required to hold, and a prosecutor is
required to attend, a preliminary hearing. This bill
would make that offense a felony punishable by
imprisonment for 2, 3, or 4 years in the state prison.
AB 2481– (Lackey-R) Crossbow discharge.
Existing law provides for specified enhancements for the
use or discharge of a firearm, or discharge of a firearm
that causes serious bodily injury or death, in
connection with certain offenses, as specified. This
bill wouldalso make those enhancements applicable if the
weapon used or discharged is a crossbow
AB 2508- (Mathis-R) Unsafe handguns.
(1) Existing law establishes various requirements
governing unsafe handguns, as defined. Among other
things, existing law makes it a crime, punishable by
imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, to
manufacture, import into the state for sale, keep for
sale, offer or expose for sale, give, or lend an unsafe
handgun. Existing law also requires handguns imported
into the state for sale, kept for sale, or offered or
exposed for sale, to be tested, as specified, to
determine if they are unsafe. Existing law requires the
Department of Justice to maintain a roster listing the
handguns that have been tested and have been determined
not to be unsafe. Existing law specifies various
exceptions from these requirements. Existing law allows
a handgun model that has been included in the roster to
be retested and allows the handgun model to be removed
from the roster if it fails retesting. Existing law
allows a handgun model removed from the roster for
failing retesting to be reinstated upon a petition to
the Attorney General for reinstatement and successful
retesting, as specified. This bill would allow a handgun
model removed from the roster for any reason other than
its failure upon retesting to be reinstated to the
roster upon a petition to the Attorney General for
reinstatement and successful retesting, as specified.
The bill would require that a handgun model that is
reinstated to the roster pursuant to these provisions
only meet the requirements for listing as of the date
the handgun model was originally submitted for testing.
(2) Under existing law, a firearm is deemed to meet the
requirements for being listed on the roster if a firearm
made by the same manufacturer is already listed on the
roster and the unlisted firearm differs from the listed
firearm only with regard to certain features, as
specified. This bill would revise the features in which
the unlisted firearm may differ from the listed firearm
and still be deemed to satisfy the requirements of being
listed on the roster, as specified, and require that the
unlisted firearm otherwise be internally functionally
identical to the listed firearm. The bill would
additionally require a firearm to be deemed to satisfy
the requirements of being listed on the roster if a
manufacturer alters a listed firearm, as provided, and
the changes are, in the opinion of the manufacturer,
necessary to improve the safety or operation of the
firearm.
AB 2510- (Linder-R) License to carry
concealed: uniform license.
Existing law authorizes the sheriff of a county or a
chief or other head of a municipal police department of
a city or a city and county to issue a license to carry
a concealed firearm upon proof that the person applying
for the license is of good moral character, that good
cause exists for the issuance, that the applicant
satisfies specified residency requirements, and that the
applicant has completed a course of specified training.
Existing law requires that licenses and applications for
licenses be uniform throughout the state, and to be
submitted upon forms prescribed by the Attorney General.
This bill would require the Attorney General to develop
a uniform license that may be used as indicia of proof
of licensure throughout the state. The bill would
require the Attorney General to approve the use of
licenses issued by local agencies if they contain
specified information and a recent photograph of the
applicant. The bill would require the Attorney General
to retain exemplars of approved licenses and maintain a
list of agencies issuing local licenses.
AB 2540- (Melendez-R) Sales and Use
Tax:
exception: gun safes: trigger locks. Existing sales and
use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the
gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal
property sold at retail in this state, or on the
storage, use, or other consumption in this state of
tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for
storage, use, or other consumption in this state.
Existing law provides various exemptions from the taxes
imposed by those laws. This bill, on and after January
1, 2017, and before January 1, 2018, would provide an
exemption from those taxes for the gross receipts from
the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption
of, gun safes, as defined, with a cost of $1,000 or less
and trigger locks. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales
and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose
local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales
and Use Tax Law, and existing law authorizes districts,
as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes
generally in accordance with the Transactions and Use
Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use
Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are
incorporated into these laws. This bill would specify
that this exemption does not apply to local sales and
use taxes or transactions and use taxes.
AB 2666- (Baker-R) Firearms:
Felons and Possession.
Existing law provides that any person convicted of a
felony under the laws of the United States, the State of
California, or any other state or country, and who owns,
purchases, receives, or has in possession or under
custody or control any firearm is guilty of a felony.
Existing law prescribes the punishment for that felony
as imprisonment for a term of 16 months, or 2 or 3
years. This bill would provide that the punishment for
subsequent convictions of that felony would be
imprisonment for a term of 4, 5, or 6 years. By
increasing the penalties for an existing crime, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The
bill would also make additional technical,
nonsubstantive changes.
AB 2765- (Weber-D) Prop 47- Sentencing
Reduction.
Existing law, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,
enacted by Proposition 47, as approved by the voters at
the November 4, 2014, statewide general election,
reduced the penalties for various crimes. Under the
provisions of the act, a person currently convicted of a
felony or felonies who would have been guilty of a
misdemeanor under the act if the act had been in effect
at the time of the conviction may petition or apply to
have the sentence reduced in accordance with the act.
That act requires that this petition or application be
filed before November 4, 2017. Proposition 47 provides
that its provisions may be amended by a statute that is
consistent with and furthers its intent and that is
passed by a 2 ⁄3 vote of each house of the Legislature
and is signed by the Governor. Proposition 47 also
provides that the Legislature may, by majority vote,
amend, add, or repeal provisions to further reduce the
penalties for offenses it addresses. Because the bill
would remove the time limitation for petitioning or
applying for a reduction of sentence, the bill would
amend the act and would require a 2 ⁄3 vote of the
Legislature.
AB 2854- (Cooper-D) Firearm Theft- Prop
47. (1) The
existing Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, enacted as
an initiative statute by Proposition 47, as approved by
the electors at the November 4, 2014, statewide general
election, makes the theft of property that does not
exceed $950 in value petty theft, and makes that crime
punishable as a misdemeanor, with certain exceptions.
The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature
to amend an initiative statute by another statute that
becomes effective only when approved by the electors.
This bill would amend that initiative statute by making
the theft of a firearm grand theft in all cases and
punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16
months, or 2 or 3 years. (2) Under existing law, a
person who buys or receives property that has been
stolen, knowing the property to be stolen, or who
conceals, sells, withholds, or aids in concealing,
selling, or withholding property from the owner, knowing
the property to be stolen, is guilty of a misdemeanor or
a felony, except that if the value of the property does
not exceed $950, Proposition 47 makes the offense
punishable as a misdemeanor if the defendant has not
previously been convicted of one or more specified
serious or violent felonies or an offense requiring
registration as a sex offender. This bill would amend
that initiative statute by making the buying or
receiving of a stolen firearm, with knowledge that the
property was stolen, or the concealing, selling,
withholding, or aiding in concealing, selling, or
withholding of a firearm, with knowledge that the
property was stolen, a misdemeanor or a felony. (3) This
bill would call a special election to be consolidated
with the June 7, 2016, statewide primary election. This
bill would require the Secretary of State to submit the
provisions of the bill that amend the initiative statute
to the electors for their approval at the June 7, 2016,
consolidated election. This bill would declare that it
is to take effect immediately as an act calling an
election.
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SB 452- (Galgiani-D)
Theft: firearms. This
bill would make the theft of a firearm grand theft in
all cases, punishable by imprisonment in the state
prison for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years.
SB 457- (Nielson-R) Bobcat Protection
Act of 2013.
Existing law, the Bobcat Protection Act of 2013, makes
it unlawful to trap any bobcat, or attempt to do so, or
to sell or export any bobcat or part of any bobcat taken
in the area surrounding Joshua Tree National Park, as
specified. The act requires the Fish and Game Commission
to amend its regulations to prohibit the trapping of
bobcats adjacent to the boundaries of each national or
state park and national monument or wildlife refuge in
which bobcat trapping is prohibited. The act also
requires the commission, commencing January 1, 2016, to
consider whether to prohibit bobcat trapping within, and
adjacent to, preserves, state conservancies, and any
other public or private conservation areas identified to
the commission by the public as warranting protection,
and to amend its regulations accordingly, as specified.
The act requires the commission to delineate the
boundaries of an area in which bobcat trapping is
prohibited pursuant to these provisions using readily
identifiable features, such as highways or other major
roads, such as those delineated for Joshua Tree National
Park.
SB 566- (Bates-R) Firearms. This
bill would reduce the fee for a handgun safety
certificate to $15 for an honorably discharged member of
the US Armed Forces, the National Guard, the Air
National Guard, or the active reserve components of the
United States, $10 of which is to be paid to the DOJ to
cover the above-described costs.
SB 805- (Committee on Natural Resources
& Water) Natural Resources. Current
law authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to
establish, by regulation, an automatic process to
conform its sport fishing regulations to federal
regulations. This bill would clarify that specified laws
relating to administrative regulations and rulemaking do
not apply to the conforming action implemented pursuant
to the automatic process described above. This bill
contains other related provisions and other current
laws.
SB
869- (Hill-D) Firearms:
securing handguns in vehicles. This bill requires a
person, when leaving a handgun in a vehicle, to secure
the handgun by locking it in the trunk of the vehicle or
locking it in a locked container and placing the
container out of plain view, and making a violation of
these requirements an infraction punishable by a fine.
SB
880- (Hall-D) Firearms:
assault weapons. This bill would revise the definition
of "assault weapon" to mean a semiautomatic centerfire
rifle, or a semiautomatic pistol that does not have a
fixed magazine but has any one of those specified
attributes.
SB
894- (Jackson-D) Firearms:
lost or stolen: reports. This bill would make a
violation of not reporting a theft or loss of a firearm
within time allotted and/or report if the firearm is
subsequently recovered punishable by a fine.
SB 1006- (Wolk-D) Firearms Violence
Research. This
bill would enact the California Firearm Violence
Research Act. The bill would declare legislative intent
regarding the principles by which the university would
administer the center and award research funds, as
prescribed. The bill would require the university to
report, on or before December 31, 2017, and every 5
years thereafter, specified information regarding the
activities of the center and information pertaining to
research grants.
SB 1037- (Allen-D) Return of Firearms:
Special Procedures. Existing law establishes various
presumptions pertaining to the burden of producing
evidence under various circumstances. This bill would
establish a presumption that a person who is listed in
the registry that records firearm ownership maintained
by the Department of Justice or who is listed in the
Consolidated Firearms Information System, as the owner
of a firearm, an assault weapon, or a .50 BMG rifle, is
in possession of that firearm until the department is
notified to the contrary. The bill would require that
state inspection station signs also state that
California law may prohibit a person from bringing a
firearm into the state that was acquired outside of the
state.
SB 1057- (Anderson-R) Civil Action
Terrorism.
Existing law provides that every person has, subject to
the qualifications and restrictions provided by law, the
right of protection from bodily harm, and from injury to
his or her personal relations. Existing law authorizes
the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims
Board to compensate a victim of a crime from the
Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for
pecuniary loss incurred as a direct result of the crime,
when the board determines it will best aid the person
seeking compensation. This bill would authorize a person
who is injured by an act of terrorism, as defined, to
bring an action to recover damages against a person or
entity who committed the act of terrorism, aided the
person or entity to commit the act or terrorism, or
coerced, induced, or solicited the person or entity to
commit the act of terrorism. The bill would provide that
the amount awarded may be up to 3 times the damages
actually incurred, but in no event less than $10,000.
The bill would permit a civil action or proceeding under
this section to be commenced at any time within 5 years
after the injury caused by the act of terrorism is
suffered, as specified.
SB 1081- (Morrell-R) Hunting and sport
fishing: free
and reduced license fees: veterans.Under existing law, a
hunting license grants the privilege to take birds and
mammals. Existing law requires the Department of Fish
and Wildlife to issue a hunting license for a term of
one year, as provided, upon payment of a fee, to
eligible residents and nonresidents. Existing law
requires the department to issue a reduced fee hunting
license for a term of one year, as provided, upon
payment of a reduced fee, to a disabled veteran or
recovering service member, as specified. Existing law
requires these fees to be adjusted annually according to
a specified index. This bill would instead require the
department to issue a free hunting license, upon
application to the department, to a disabled veteran or
recovering service member and would require the
department, to issue a reduced fee hunting license, upon
application and payment of a fee of $5, to a veteran of
the Armed Forces of the United States who was honorably
discharged. The bill would prohibit the reduced hunting
license fee from being adjusted pursuant to the
specified index.
SB 1191- (Berryhill-R) Fish and
wildlife:
management plans. Existing statutory law delegates to
the commission the power to regulate the taking or
possession of birds, mammals, fish, amphibia, and
reptiles in accordance with prescribed laws. Under
existing law, the Department of Fish and Wildlife
exercises various functions with regard to the taking of
fish and wildlife. Under existing law, a violation of
the Fish and Game Code or of any rule, regulation, or
order made or adopted under the code is a crime. This
bill would require the Department of Fish and Wildlife
to develop and submit, on or before September 1, 2018,
to the Fish and Game Commission for its approval, a
wildlife resources master plan, and would provide for
the preparation and approval of wildlife management
plans, which would form the primary basis for managing
these wildlife resources. The bill would authorize
regulations that the commission adopts to implement a
wildlife management plan or amendment to make
inoperative, in regard to the resource, any wildlife
management statute that applies to the resource.
SB 1332- (Mendoza-D) Penal Code related
to firearms.
Existing law requires the Attorney General to maintain a
registry of all firearm owners consisting of the name,
address, identification of, place of birth, complete
telephone number, occupation, sex, description, and all
legal names and aliases used by the owner of a
particular firearm as listed on the Dealer’s Record of
Sale or other specified reports. This bill would require
the Department of Justice to modify its registration
form so that both spouses or both domestic partners may
register as the owners of the firearm and would require
the department to maintain both names on the firearm’s
registry.
SB 1334- (Stone, Mark-D) Gunshot Wound
Reporting.
Existing law requires a health practitioner, as
specified, who, in his or her professional capacity or
within the scope of his or her employment, provides
medical services to a patient who he or she knows, or
reasonably suspects, has suffered from a wound or other
physical injury where the injury is by means of a
firearm or is the result of assaultive or abusive
conduct, to make a report to a law enforcement agency,
as specified. Existing law defines “assaultive or
abusive conduct” for these purposes as a violation of
specified crimes. Under existing law, a violation of
this provision is a crime. This bill would add the crime
of human trafficking to the list of crimes that
constitute assaultive or abusive conduct for purposes of
the above reporting requirements.
SB 1362- (Mendoza-D) Transit Authority.
(1) The Private Security Services Act generally
regulates the private security vocation, and requires
each uniformed employee of a provide patrol operator to,
among other things, register with the Bureau of Security
and Investigative Services and complete specified
training. The act exempts specified persons from its
requirements. This bill would exempt a person regularly
employed as a security officer by the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transit Authority from the requirements of
the Private Security Services Act. (2) Existing law
authorizes certain persons who are not peace officers to
exercise the powers of arrest under certain
circumstances, if they have completed a specified
training course prescribed by the Commission on Peace
Officer Standards and Training. This bill would extend
that authority to persons regularly employed as security
officers by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit
Authority. (3) Existing law states that specified
provisions of law relating to deadly weapons do not
prohibit a police officer, special police officer, peace
officer, or law enforcement officer from carrying a
wooden club or baton. This bill would additionally state
that the specified provisions of law do not prohibit a
security officer regularly employed by the Los Angeles
Metropolitan Transit Authority from carrying a wooden
club or baton. (4) Under existing law, a person is
guilty of carrying a loaded firearm when the person
carries a loaded firearm on the person or in a vehicle
while in any public place or on any public street. This
bill would, notwithstanding the above provision, allow a
person regularly employed by the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transit Authority as a security officer to
be permitted to carry a shotgun in a patrol vehicle or
armored vehicle owned by the authority for use in
carrying out the security officer’s official duties. (5)
Existing law prohibits the sale, gift, and loan of a
large-capacity magazine. A violation of this prohibition
is punishable as a misdemeanor with specified penalties
or as a felony. This bill would make these provisions
inapplicable to the sale of, giving of, lending of,
importation into this state of, or purchase of, any
large-capacity magazine to or by the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transit Authority for use by its employee
security officers in the discharge of their official
duties. (6) This bill would make legislative findings
and declarations as to the necessity of a special
statute for the County of Los Angeles.
SB 1369- (Runner-R) Firearms:
Prohibited Persons. Existing law makes it a crime for
certain persons to own, purchase, receive, or possess a
firearm, including, among other persons, persons
convicted of a felony, persons who are addicted to the
use of a narcotic drug, persons convicted of specified
violent offenses, persons who have been adjudicated by a
court of any state to be a danger to others as a result
of a mental disorder or mental illness, and persons who
have been admitted to a facility, are receiving
inpatient treatment, and, in the opinion of the
attending health professional who is primarily
responsible for the patients’ treatment, are a danger to
himself or herself or others. This bill would require
the Department of Justice, if the department determines
that a person prohibited from owning, purchasing,
receiving, or possessing a firearm by the provisions
described above has attempted to acquire a firearm, to
notify the local law enforcement agency with primary
jurisdiction over the area in which the person was last
known to reside.
SB 1407- (de Leon-D) Firearm:
Identifying Information. Existing law authorizes the
Department of Justice to assign a distinguishing number
or mark of identification to any firearm whenever the
firearm lacks a manufacturer's number or other mark of
identification, or whenever the manufacturer's number or
other mark of identification or distinguishing number or
mark assigned by the department has been destroyed or
obliterated.This bill would require a person who
manufactures or assembles a firearm to first apply to
the department for a unique serial number or other
identifying mark, as provided. The bill would require
any person who owns a firearm that does not bear a
serial number to likewise apply to the department for a
unique serial number or other mark of identification.
The bill would prohibit the sale or transfer of
ownership of a firearm manufactured or assembled
pursuant to these provisions. The bill would prohibit a
person from aiding in the manufacture or assembly of a
firearm by a person who is prohibited from possessing a
firearm. The bill would make a violation of these
provisions a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 1446- (Hancock-D) Magazine Capacity.
Existing law, for purposes pertaining to the ammunition
capacity of certain assault weapons, defines “capacity
to accept more than 10 rounds” to mean capable of
accommodating more than 10 rounds, but specifies that
this term does not apply to a feeding device that has
been permanently altered so that it cannot accommodate
more than 10 rounds. This bill would revise that
definition to mean capable of holding more than 10
rounds of ammunition, but not applying to a feeding
device that has been permanently altered so that it
cannot hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. (2)
Existing law prohibits the sale, gift, and loan of a
large-capacity magazine. A violation of this prohibition
is punishable as a misdemeanor with specified penalties
or as a felony. Existing law defines “large-capacity
magazine” to mean any ammunition feeding device with the
capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, but provides
that the definition may not be construed to include a
feeding device that has been permanently altered so that
it cannot accommodate more than 10 rounds. This bill
would include within that definition of large-capacity
magazine a feeding device that had a capacity of more
than 10 rounds of ammunition but has been permanently
modified to hold no more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
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SJR
20- (Hall-D) Gun violence:
research. This measure would urge the Congress of the US
to lift a current prohibition against publicly funded
scientific research on the causes of gun violence and
its effects on public health, and to appropriate funds
for the purpose of conducting that research.
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