Bill Text: CA AB1903 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Firearms: buyback programs: gift cards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2018-09-28 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB1903 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1903-Enrolled.html
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Enrolled
August 15, 2018 |
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Passed
IN
Senate
August 13, 2018 |
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Passed
IN
Assembly
April 09, 2018 |
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Amended
IN
Assembly
February 27, 2018 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1903 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gonzalez Fletcher |
January 22, 2018 |
An act to add Section 27851 to the Penal Code, relating to firearms.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1903, Gonzalez Fletcher.
Firearms: buyback programs: gift cards.
Existing law requires that a firearms sale, loan, or transfer be completed through a licensed firearms dealer if neither party to the transaction holds a dealer’s license. Existing law exempts several firearms transactions from that requirement, including the sale, delivery, or transfer of a firearm to an authorized representative of a government entity as part of an authorized, voluntary program in which the government entity is buying or receiving weapons from private individuals.
This bill would, for purposes of a voluntary firearms buyback program, as defined, prohibit a city, city and county, county, or the state, in exchange for a firearm, from dispensing a gift card whose issuer is a seller of goods or services that holds a firearms dealer’s license or an
ammunition vendor license.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 27851 is added to the Penal Code, to read:27851.
(a) For purposes of a voluntary firearms buyback program, a city, city and county, county, or the state shall not, in exchange for a firearm, dispense a gift card whose issuer is a seller of goods or services that holds a firearms dealer’s license issued pursuant to Sections 26700 to 26915, inclusive, or an ammunition vendor license pursuant to Section 30342.(b) For purposes of this section, “voluntary firearms buyback program” means a program or event that is consistent with Section 27850 and
in which an authorized representative of a city, city and county, county, or the state buys or receives firearms from the public for purposes of reducing the number of firearms in the community.
(c) A city, city and county, county, and the state shall not renew or modify an existing contract in a manner that would violate subdivision (a).
