Bills scheduled for committee :
03/16/21: Senate Public Safety:
SB 264: Min: Firearms: state property
Things to note:
February 24th board approved are formal positions on bills as they stand. I will be generating additional oppose and support letters in weeks to come. 02/24/21: SB 264 set for committee and now amended to include ALL County Property & ‘Firearm Precursor Parts’!! Several potentially bad spot bills out there on our watch list I will be watching closely to see what come of them in the weeks to come.
Details & Status on bills:
SUPPORT:
AB 216: Ramos: Peace officers: firearms: establishment serving the public.
Position: Support
This bill would make it unlawful for an establishment serving the public to prohibit or otherwise restrict a peace officer from carrying a weapon on the establishment’s premises that the peace officer is authorized to carry, regardless of whether the peace officer is engaged in the actual discharge of the officer’s duties while carrying the weapon. The bill would make a first offense punishable as an infraction by a fine not exceeding $500, and as a misdemeanor for a 2nd or subsequent violation, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding 6 months, by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Status: Introduced 01/11/21
02/24/21: Support Position approved by CRPA Board
AB 228: Rodriguez: Theft: receiving stolen property: firearm
POSITION: Support
Under existing law, knowingly buying or receiving stolen property, as specified, is punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony if the value of the property exceeds $950.
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, requires the receipt of stolen property that does not exceed $950 to be punished as a misdemeanor, except in cases when the defendant has previously been convicted of one or more specified serious or violent felonies or an offense requiring registration as a sex offender.
This bill would, upon approval by the voters, make knowingly buying or receiving a stolen firearm, as specified, regardless of the value of the firearm, punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony.
Status: Introduced 01/12/21
02/24/21: Support Position approved by CRPA Board
AB 334: Mullen: Workers’ compensation: skin cancer
POSITION: Support
Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law provides, among other things, that skin cancer developing in active lifeguards, as defined, is presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment, unless the presumption is rebutted.
This bill would expand the scope of those provisions to certain peace officers of the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Parks and Recreation.
Status: Introduced 01/27/21
02/24/21: Support Position approved by CRPA Board
AB 614: Agular-Curry: Wildlife Habitat: Birds
POSITION: Support
(CRPA Board supported this bill in the 2019/2020 session as: AB 2106)
This bill instead would require the Upland Game Bird Account advisory committee to annually review and provide comments to the department on all proposed projects and other expenditures funded from the Upland Game Bird Account to help ensure that specified requirements pertaining to the Upland Game Bird Account have been met and require the department to post budget information and a brief description on its internet website for all projects and other expenditures funded from the Upland Game Bird Account.
(2) Existing law establishes the Nesting Bird Habitat Incentive Program, which authorizes the department to include direct payments or other incentives to encourage landowners to voluntarily cultivate or retain upland cover crops or other upland vegetation on idled lands to provide waterfowl, upland game bird, and other wildlife habitat cover for certain purposes, including encouraging the use of idled agricultural lands for wildlife habitat, as specified. Existing law authorizes state or federal grants, state bond moneys, and private grants and donations to be allocated by the department for the purposes of the program.
Status: Introduced 02/12/21
02/24/21: Support Position approved by CRPA Board
AB 645: Gallagher: Fish and wildlife: poaching: penalties
POSITION: Support
Restores Fish & Game Code related penalties impacted by AB 1950 enacted 2020 session
Existing law provides that a person who takes, possesses, imports, exports, sells, purchases, barters, trades, or exchanges a bird, fish, mammal, reptile, amphibian, or part of any of those animals, for profit or personal gain is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine between $5,000 to $40,000, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law makes a second violation punishable by a fine between $10,000 to $50,000, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
This bill would increase the minimum fine for a second violation from $10,000 to $15,000.
Status: Introduced 02/12/21
02/24/21: Support Position approved by CRPA Board
AB 804: Dahle: Free Hunting Days
POSITION: Support
Existing law authorizes the Director of Fish and Wildlife to establish 2 free hunting days per year: one in the fall, and one in the winter. Existing law authorizes a California unlicensed resident to hunt during a free hunting day if accompanied by a licensed hunter, subject to certain conditions. Existing law prohibits these provisions from being implemented until the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Automated License Data System is fully operational for at least one year.
This bill would require, rather than authorize, the director to establish 2 free hunting days per year, one in the fall and one in the spring, no later than July 1, 2022. The bill would delete the prohibition requiring a delay in implementation of the above-described provisions.
Status: Introduced 02/16/21
02/24/21: Support Position approved by CRPA Board
AB 817: Wood: Sport fishing licenses: electronic display: 12 consecutive month licenses
POSITION: Support
This bill would require that, beginning January 1, 2023, a license purchase voucher for specified sport fishing licenses and specified sport fishing validations to expire and be considered void if not redeemed within 12 consecutive months from the date of purchase. The bill would require the sport fishing license or validation that is redeemed with a license purchase voucher to remain valid for 12 consecutive months from the date that the voucher is redeemed.
Status: Introduced 02/16/21
02/24/21: Support Position approved by CRPA Board
SB 470: Jones: Fishing and Hunting Annual combined Hunting and fishing licenses
POSITION: Support
This bill would create the annual combined hunting and fishing license that would grant the holder of the license the same privileges as the annual hunting and fishing licenses and that would be valid for a term of one year from the date specified on the license. The bill would limit the issuance of these licenses to residents and would require the department to issue these licenses beginning January 1, 2023, upon payment of a fee of $100, as adjusted annually for inflation. The bill would require the Fish and Game Commission to adjust the amount of the fee to fully recover, but not exceed, all reasonable administrative and implementation costs of the department and the commission relating to these licenses. The bill would require the department to provide an applicant for one of these licenses the option to automatically renew the license and would provide a 5% discount if the applicant selects this option.
Status: Introduced 02/17/21
02/24/21: Support Position approved by CRPA Board
ASSEMBLY OPPOSE:
AB 311: Ward: Firearms: gun shows
Position: OPPOSE
AB 311 will prohibit a vendor at a gun show or event from possessing, displaying, offering to sell, selling, or transferring any firearm precursor parts. The bill would make a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $2,000. The bill would prohibit a vendor who has been convicted of a violation of those provisions from participating in any gun show or event in this state for one year after the date of the conviction. The bill would make a violation of that prohibition on participating in any gun show or event a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $5,000 and a 5-year prohibition on participating in any gun show or event in the state. The bill would, if a person violates that 5-year prohibition, make that violation grounds for the revocation of any firearm, ammunition, or firearm precursor part vendor license the person holds. By adding new grounds for the revocation of ammunition licenses, the bill would amend Proposition 63.
The bill would additionally require a gun show producer, if any vendor at a gun show or event is violating those provisions, to immediately require the vendor to leave the gun show premises, to notify the Department of Justice of the vendor’s conduct, and bar the vendor from attending or participating in the producer’s gun shows for one year.
Status:
Introduced: 01/25/21
02/15/21: Opposition Position approved by CRPA board / confirmed by Committee 02/24/21
02/18/21: CRPA Opposition Letter Filed with ASM Public Safety
AB 1223: Levine: Firearms and ammunition: excise tax
Position: Oppose
This bill would, until January 1, 2028, impose an excise tax on a retailer in the amount of $25 per firearm on the sale in this state of a handgun or semiautomatic rifle or shotgun sold as new, as provided, and an excise tax on a retailer in the amount of ___% of the gross receipts from any sale of ammunition. The tax would be collected by the state pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law. The bill would require that the revenues collected be deposited in the CalVIP Firearm and Ammunition Tax Fund, which the bill would create. The bill would continuously appropriate moneys in that fund to the Board of State and Community Corrections to provide CalVIP grants, thereby making an appropriation.
The bill would also extend the operation of the CalVIP program until January 1, 2028.
This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 2/3 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
Status: Introduced 02/19/21
02/24/21: Oppose Position approved by CRPA Board
AB 1478: Chiu: Firearms: Unsafe Handguns
Position: Oppose
Existing law, subject to certain exceptions, generally makes it an offense to manufacture or sell an unsafe handgun, as defined, and requires the Department of Justice to compile a roster listing all of the handguns that have been tested and determined not to be unsafe handguns. Existing law establishes criteria for determining if a handgun is an unsafe handgun.
Existing law, commencing July 1, 2022, requires that a handgun, to be included on the roster, be designed and equipped with microscopic characters used to identify the pistol, imprinted on the interior of the pistol and transferred to each cartridge case when the firearm is fired.
This bill would, until July 1, 2022, require those microscopic characters to be imprinted in 2 one or more places on the interior of the pistol, provided that the department certifies that the technology used to create the imprint is available to more than one manufacturer unencumbered by any patent restrictions.
Existing law, commencing July 1, 2022, also precludes from inclusion on the list a firearm that is not already on the list if it does not have a chamber load indicator or magazine disconnect mechanism, as specified.
This bill would preclude a firearm from the list if it doesn’t have a chamber load indicator or magazine disconnect mechanism and wasn’t on the roster as of 2007.
Although this is just a clean-up bill to Chiu’s AB 2847 (2020), we oppose because the entire statute is unconstitutional.
Status: Introduced 02/19/21
02/24/21: Oppose Position approved by CRPA Board
AB 1509: Lee: Enhancements: Firearms
Position: Oppose
This bill shows the gross insincerity of the promoters of gun control regarding gun violence, it drastically reduces the penalties imposed on the violent felons who knowingly use firearms in the commission of crimes! Give them a slap on the wrist, and then returns then to society. All while they continue to turn law abiding gun owners into criminals!
Existing law imposes various sentence enhancements, consisting of additional and consecutive terms of imprisonment, including, among others, enhancements for being armed with a firearm during the commission of a felony, being armed with a firearm during the commission of a street gang crime, as defined, being armed with ammunition designed to penetrate armor during the commission of a felony, furnishing a firearm to another for the purpose of aiding, abetting, or enabling that person to commit a felony, using a firearm during the commission of a felony, and the infliction of great bodily injury on any other person during the commission of a felony.
This bill would repeal those enhancements and make conforming changes.
Existing law imposes a sentence enhancement in the state prison of 10 years for personally using a firearm in the commission of specified felonies, 20 years for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm in the commission of those felonies, and 25 years to life for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm and causing great bodily injury or death to any other person during the commission of those felonies.
This bill would reduce those enhancements to 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively.
Existing law imposes a sentence enhancement of 5, 6, or 10 years in the state prison for, with intent to inflict great bodily injury or death, discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle in the commission of a felony and inflicting great bodily injury or death in the commission of a felony.
This bill would reduce that enhancement to 1, 2, or 3 years in the state prison.
Status: Introduced 02/19/21
02/24/21: Oppose Position approved by CRPA Board
SENATE OPPOSE:
SB 252: Wiener: Bears: take prohibition.
Position: Oppose
SB 252 would eliminate the legal take of bears in our state and change their designation to “non-game” animals.
Status: Introduced 01/25/21
01/27/21: CRPA Board approval to formally Oppose
02/01/21: Victory! Bill pulled by author! Held in rules may likely see again 2022 session.
02/03/25: held in Senate Rules Committee
02/24/21: Oppose Position confirmed CRPA Board Legislative Committee
SB 264: Min: Firearms: state property
Position: Oppose
SB 264 would prohibit a state officer or employee, or operator, lessee, or licensee of any state-owned property, from contracting for, authorizing, or allowing the sale of any firearm, ammunition or ‘firearm precursor part’ on state property and county property, as specified. The bill would exempt a gun buyback event held by a law enforcement agency from its provisions.
Status:
Introduced 01/27/21
02/08/21: Formal Oppose position approved by CRPA Board / 02/24/21 confirmed
02/09/21: Opposition letter filed with Senate Public Safety
02/24/21: Bill amended to include county land and prohibit sale of
03/16/21: Senate Public Safety firearm precursor parts!
SB 715: Portantino: Criminal law
Position: Oppose
(CRPA Board approved opposition of this bill SB 914 in the 2019/2020 session / vetoed 09/29/20)
SB 715 is a redux of SB 914 (2020). It is a convoluted bill that includes the issues of firearms transfers, eligible youth purchases, validity of hunting licenses and more.
This bill would also authorize the state prosecutor to investigate and gather facts in an incident involving a shooting by a peace officer that results in the death of a civilian if there is a reasonable dispute as to whether the civilian was armed.
Existing law requires the sale, transfer, or loan of a firearm to be processed, as specified, through a licensed firearm dealer.
This bill would exempt from these provisions any licensed common carrier involved in the delivery of a firearm, as specified. This bill would also exempt from these provisions a licensed manufacturer of ammunition, as specified.
Existing law prohibits the transfer of a firearm to a minor, except as specified.
This bill amends those exceptions to include, among other things, the infrequent gifting of a firearm, other than a handgun or semiautomatic centerfire rifle, to a minor 16 years of age or older, with a hunting license, as specified.
Existing law requires a dealer who is unable to process the sale, transfer, or loan of a firearm, to return the firearm to the person making the sale, transfer, or loan.
This bill would additionally prohibit the dealer from returning a firearm to the person making the sale, transfer, or loan, if that person is prohibited from obtaining a firearm and would, in those cases, provide a procedure by which that person could transfer the firearm to a third party, as specified. The bill would authorize the dealer to charge a fee for any firearm stored by the dealer pursuant to this procedure.
Existing law requires, with certain exceptions, a person who purchases or receives a firearm to possess a valid firearm safety certificate.
This bill would extend the exceptions to include any licensed common carrier involved in the delivery of a firearm, a manufacturer of ammunition, as specified, and transfers to minors, as specified.
Existing law prohibits the sale or transfer of a firearm to any person who does not have a firearm safety certificate, as specified. Existing law also prohibits the sale or transfer of a firearm by a licensed firearm dealer to a person under 21 years of age. Existing law exempts from these provisions the sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of a firearm, other than a handgun, to or by a person without a firearm safety certificate, but in possession of a valid, unexpired hunting license, as specified. Existing law also exempts the sale or transfer of a firearm, other than a handgun or semiautomatic centerfire rifle, to a person 18 years of age or older who possesses a valid, unexpired hunting license, as specified.
This bill would, for purposes of these provisions, define a valid and unexpired hunting license.
Existing law, subject to exceptions, imposes a 10-day waiting period for delivery of a firearm, during which time a background check is conducted by the Department of Justice to determine if the proposed recipient of the firearm is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm.
This bill would require the department, commencing July 1, 2023, for sales of firearms to persons under 21 years of age who are eligible to purchase a firearm based upon their possession of a hunting license, to confirm the validity of the hunting license as part of the background check.
Existing law permits the Department of Justice to charge a fee sufficient to reimburse it for specified costs related to the sale or transfer of firearms, such as the preparation, sale, processing, and filing of required reports and costs associated with the submission of a Dealers’ Record of Sale (DROS), as specified. Existing law requires that firearm purchaser information be provided to the department exclusively by electronic means. Existing law directs the department to electronically approve the purchase or transfer of ammunition through a vendor at the time of purchase or transfer and prior to the purchaser taking possession of the ammunition, and permits the department to collect certain fees for these purposes. Existing law, commencing on July 1, 2022, directs the department to electronically approve the purchase or transfer of firearm precursor parts through a vendor at the time of purchase or transfer and before the purchaser taking possession of the firearm precursor part, and permits the department to collect certain fees for these purposes.
This bill would delete obsolete provisions relating to the department’s authority to impose fees for nonelectronic transfers of firearm purchaser information to the department.
Existing law prohibits the possession of a handgun by a minor.
This bill would additionally prohibit the possession of a firearm, other than a handgun, by a minor, with certain exceptions.
By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
Status:
Introduced 02/19/21
02/24/21: Oppose Position approved by CRPA Board
Assembly Watch:
AB 26: Holden: Peace officers: use of force.
Position: Recommend Watch
This bill would require those law enforcement policies to require those officers to immediately report potential excessive force, and to intercede when present and observing an officer using excessive force, as defined. The bill would additionally require those policies to, among other things, prohibit retaliation against officers that report violations of law or regulation of another officer to a supervisor, as specified, and to require that an officer who fails to intercede be disciplined in the same manner as the officer who used excessive force. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
Status: Introduced 12/07/20
AB 89: Jones Sawyer: Peace Officers: minimum qualifications.
POSITION: Watch
This bill would increase the minimum qualifying age from 18 to 25 years of age. This bill would permit an individual under 25 years of age to qualify for employment as a peace officer if the individual has a bachelor’s or advanced degree from an accredited college or university. The bill would provide legislative findings in support of the measure.
STATUS: Introduced 12/07/20
AB 229: Holden: Use of force instruction: private security guards: alarm company responders.
POSITION: Watch
This bill would, in addition, prohibit them from carrying or using a firearm or baton unless the security guard is an employee of a private patrol operator licensee, and commencing January 1, 2023, would require the course in the carrying and use of firearms to include training in the appropriate use of force, as specified.
Existing law requires an applicant for a security guard registration to complete a course in the exercise of the power to arrest. Existing law requires the course to be approximately 8 hours long and cover specified topics, including responsibilities and ethics in citizen arrest and limitations on security guard power to arrest.
This bill, commencing January 1, 2023, would, among other things, add topics related to the appropriate use of force to the training course described above, including training on the use of objectively reasonable force. The bill would also extend the required length of the course to 10 hours. The bill would also require training regarding implicit and explicit bias, cultural competency, and deescalation techniques.
Existing law, the Alarm Company Act, regulates, among other things, the training of persons who respond to an alarm to include training regarding the exercise of the power of arrest.
This bill would, by January 1, 2023, require persons governed by these provisions who respond to an alarm to have similar training in the appropriate use of force, and would increase the duration of the required training from 2 to 4 hours.
Status: Introduced 01/12/21
AB 333: Kamlager: Participation in a criminal street gang: enhanced sentence.
POSITION: Watch
This bill would also require that the crimes committed to form a pattern of criminal gang activity have commonly benefited at least one specified member of the gang other than the person who committed the offenses and that the common benefit from the offense be more than reputational. The bill would remove burglary, looting, felony vandalism, and specified personal identity fraud violations from the crimes that define a pattern of criminal gang activity. The bill would prohibit the use of the currently charged crime to prove the pattern of criminal gang activity. The bill would require that an organization, association, or group of three or more persons have an established hierarchy to meet the definition of a criminal street gang. The bill would require that the prosecution prove that the defendant knows the person or people responsible for committing the offenses used to establish the pattern of criminal gang activity in order to prove the sentencing enhancement.
This bill would require, if requested by the defense in a case where a sentencing enhancement for participation in a criminal street gang is charged, that the defendant’s guilt of the underlying offense first be proved and that a further proceeding on the sentencing enhancement occur after a finding of guilt. The bill would require that a charge for active participation in a criminal street gang be tried separately from all other counts that do not otherwise require gang evidence as an element of the crime.
Status: Introduced 01/27/21
AB 452: Friedman: Pupil Safety: Parental notifications: firearm safety laws.
Position: Watch
This bill would require a school district, county office of education, charter school, private school, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as applicable, to inform parents and guardians of pupils at the beginning of each semester or quarter of the regular school term and during any new enrollment or transfer, of California’s child access prevention laws and laws relating to the safe storage of firearms, as specified. By imposing additional duties on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the State Department of Education to develop, in consultation with the Department of Justice, and annually provide to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and private schools the appropriate content to use for the notice. The bill would make a school district, county office of education, charter school, private school, and the Superintendent immune from civil liability for any damages relating to the notification.
Status: Introduced 02/08/21
AB 564: Gonzalez: Biodiversity Protection and Restoration Act
Position: Watch recommended to board
This bill would establish the Biodiversity Protection and Restoration Act and would provide that it is the policy of the state that all state agencies, boards, and commissions shall utilize their authorities in furtherance of the biodiversity conservation purposes and goals of certain executive orders. The bill would require all state agencies, boards, and commissions to consider and prioritize the protection of biodiversity in carrying out their statutory mandates. The bill would require strategies related to the goal of the state to conserve at least 30% of California’s land and coastal waters by 2030 to be made available to the public and provided to certain legislative committees by no later than June 30, 2022.
Status: Introduced: 02/11/21
AB 667: Irwin: Firearms: Armed Prohibited Persons System
Position: Watch
This bill would, instead of requiring information regarding task forces or collaboration with local law enforcement, require that report to include a summary of efforts of local law enforcement on reducing the file or backlog, with a comparison of statistics between department, local law enforcement, and joint task force efforts. The bill would require, no later than February 1 each year, every local law enforcement agency to report specified information to the department, including, among other things, the total number of individuals within their jurisdiction in the Armed Prohibited Persons System and the number of cases which are active and pending. By increasing the duties of local law enforcement agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
Status: Introduced 02/12/21
AB 876: Gabriel: Gun violence restraining orders
Position: Watch
Existing law establishes a gun violence restraining order that prohibits and enjoins a named person from having in their custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving any firearms or ammunition. Existing law requires a person who is subject to a gun violence restraining order to surrender their firearms and ammunition immediately upon request of any law enforcement officer after being served with the restraining order.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Status: Introduced: 02/17/21
AB 1057: Petrie-Norris: Firearms: Unsafe handguns.
Position: Watch (spot bill at time of introduction).
Existing law prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, or transfer of an unsafe handgun, as defined. Existing law exempts from this prohibition sales to specified law enforcement agencies or other specified government agencies for use by specified employees and sales to specified peace officers.
This bill would make technical, no substantive changes to those provisions.
Status: Introduced 02/18/21
AB 1191: McCarty: Firearms: Tracing
Position: Watch
Existing law directs law enforcement agencies, as defined, to submit the description of a firearm that has been reported stolen, lost, found, recovered, or under observation directly to an automated Department of Justice system.
Existing law also requires these law enforcement agencies to report to the Department of Justice any information in their possession necessary to identify and trace the history of a recovered firearm that is illegally possessed, has been used in a crime, or is suspected of having been used in a crime.
Existing law requires the department to maintain this data for at least 10 years and make it available, as specified, for academic and research purposes.
This bill would require the department to analyze the data as specified and, by no later than January 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, submit a report to the Legislature summarizing this analysis, and make the report available to the public.
Status: Introduced 02/18/21
AB 1237: Ting: Information access: research institutions: firearms.
Position: Watch
This bill would name the center for research into firearm-related violence the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis. The bill would generally require that the information above be made available to researchers affiliated with the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis, and, at the department’s discretion, be made available to any other nonprofit bona fide research institution or public agency concerned with the study and prevention of violence, for academic and policy research purposes. The bill would require that material identifying individuals only be provided for research or statistical activities, and require that information to only be used for those purposes and for reports or publications derived from that information to not identify specific individuals. By providing access to criminal history information, the unauthorized furnishing of which is a crime, this bill would expand a crime and create a state-mandated local program. The bill would additionally require the Department of Justice to establish procedures for these requests, as specified.
Status: Introduced 02/19/21
AB 1339: Bloom: Firearms: carrying concealed
Position: Watch (spot bill at this time)
Existing law prohibits the carrying of a concealed firearm, as specified. Existing law exempts specified active and retired peace officers from this prohibition, subject to certain conditions.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Status: Introduced 02/19/21
Senate Watch:
SB 73: Wiener: Probation: eligibility: crimes relating to controlled substances
POSITION: Recommended watch
This bill would delete various crimes relating to controlled substances, including, but not limited to, the crimes described above, from those prohibitions against granting probation or a suspended sentence. The bill would authorize the remaining prohibitions on probation to be waived by a court in the interests of justice. By making additional persons eligible for probation, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Status: 12/20/20
SB 81: Skinner: Firearms: licensed firearms dealers Sentencing: dismissal of enhancements.
POSITION: Recommended Watch
This bill would, with exceptions, require a court to dismiss an enhancement in specified circumstances unless overcome by clear and convincing evidence that dismissal of the enhancement would endanger public safety.
Status: Introduced 12/15/20
02/08/21: Significantly amended by author; no longer an FFL bill
SB 320: Eggman: Domestic violence protective orders: possession of a firearm
POSITION: Recommended Watch
This bill would require a court to notify the parties of how any firearms still in the restrained party’s possession are to be relinquished and how to submit a receipt to the court. The bill would require the court to review the file to determine whether the receipt has been filed and inquire as to whether the person has complied with the requirement. The bill would require violations of the firearms prohibition to be reported to the prosecuting attorney in the jurisdiction where the order has been issued within 2 business days of the court hearing unless the restrained party provides a receipt showing compliance at a subsequent hearing or by direct filing with the clerk of the court.
This bill would also require the court, at a noticed hearing relating to a domestic violence protective order in family court or juvenile court, to consider information presented that the restrained person has possession or control of a firearm. The bill would authorize the court, upon making this finding, to set a review hearing, as specified, to determine whether the person has possession or control of a firearm in violation of the above provisions.
STATUS: Introduced 02/04/
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