CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2655

Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson

February 20, 2020

An act to amend Section 30015 of the Penal Code, relating to firearms.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2655, as introduced, Gipson. Firearms: Prohibited Armed Persons File.
Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain a database for use by law enforcement and other specified entities for the purpose of identifying persons who have ownership or possession of a firearm as indicated in the Consolidated Firearms Information System and are prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm. Existing law required the Department of Justice to report annually to the Legislature, from March 1, 2015, to March 1, 2019, on the status of enforcement efforts relating to the file.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 30015 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

30015.
 (a) The sum of twenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the Dealers’ Record of Sale Special Account of the General Fund to the Department of Justice to address the backlog in the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS) and the illegal possession of firearms by those prohibited persons.
(b) No later than March 1, 2015, and no No later than March 1 of each year thereafter, year, the department shall report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee all of the following for the immediately preceding calendar year:
(1) The degree to which the backlog in the APPS has been reduced or eliminated.
(2) The number of agents hired for enforcement of the APPS.
(3) The number of people cleared from the APPS.
(4) The number of people added to the APPS.
(5) The number of people in the APPS before and after the relevant reporting period, including a breakdown of why each person in the APPS is prohibited from possessing a firearm.
(6) The number of firearms recovered due to enforcement of the APPS.
(7) The number of contacts made during the APPS enforcement efforts.
(8) Information regarding task forces or collaboration with local law enforcement on reducing the APPS backlog.
(c) (1) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under subdivision (b) is inoperative on March 1, 2019, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.