CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1371

Introduced by Assembly Member Low

February 17, 2023

An act to amend Section 25450 of the Penal Code, relating to firearms.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1371, as introduced, Low. Firearms: carrying concealed.
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.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 25450 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

25450.
 As provided in this article, Section 25400 does not apply to, or affect, any of the following:
(a) Any peace officer, listed in Section 830.1 or 830.2, or subdivision (a) of Section 830.33, whether active or honorably retired.
(b) Any other duly appointed peace officer.
(c) Any honorably retired peace officer listed in subdivision (c) of Section 830.5.
(d) Any other honorably retired peace officer who during the course and scope of his or her their appointment as a peace officer was authorized to, and did, carry a firearm.
(e) Any full-time paid peace officer of another state or the federal government who is carrying out official duties while in California.
(f) Any person summoned by any of these officers to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while the person is actually engaged in assisting that officer.