Bill Text: CA AB1903 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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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-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1903

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Introduced by Assembly Member Gonzalez Fletcher

January 22, 2018

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An act to add Section 27851 to the Penal Code, relating to firearms.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1903, as introduced, 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.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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.

(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).