BILL NUMBER: AB 1999	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Achadjian

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act  to add Section 30020 to the Penal Code, 
relating to firearms.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1999, as amended, Achadjian. Prohibited Armed Persons 
File.   File: initial review. 
   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. 

   Existing law appropriates $24,000,000 from the Dealers' Record of
Sale Special Account to the Department of Justice to address the
backlog in the Armed Prohibited Persons System and the illegal
possession of firearms by those prohibited persons. Existing law
requires the department to report to the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee specified information, including, among other things, the
degree to which the backlog in the Armed Prohibited Persons System
has been reduced or eliminated.  
   This bill would require the department to complete an initial
review of a match, as defined, in the daily queue of the Armed
Prohibited Persons System within 7 days of the match being placed in
the queue and to periodically reassess whether the department can
complete those reviews more efficiently. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 30020 is added to the 
 Penal Code   , to read:  
   30020.  (a) The Department of Justice shall complete an initial
review of a match in the daily queue of the Armed Prohibited Persons
System within seven days of the match being placed in the queue and
shall periodically reassess whether the department can complete those
reviews more efficiently.
   (b) (1) For the purpose of this section, "Armed Prohibited Persons
System" means the "Prohibited Armed Persons File," as described in
Section 30000.
   (2) For the purpose of this section, "match" means the entry into
the Automated Criminal History System or into any department
automated information system of the name and other information of an
individual who may be prohibited from acquiring, owning, or
possessing a firearm, and a corresponding record of ownership or
possession of a firearm by that individual, as described in Section
30005.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation relating to the Prohibited Armed Persons File.