Bill Text: CA AB1912 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Deer: archery season: concealed firearms.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2026-08-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 132, Statutes of 2026. [AB1912 Detail]

Download: California-2025-AB1912-Chaptered.html

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Assembly Bill No. 1912

CHAPTER 132

An act to amend Section 4370 of the Fish and Game Code, relating to hunting.

[ Approved by Governor  August 27, 2026. Filed with Secretary of State  August 27, 2026. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1912, Hadwick. Deer: archery season: concealed firearms.

Existing law establishes an archery season for the taking of deer with bow and arrow. Existing law generally prohibits a person taking or attempting to take deer during that archery season from carrying, or having under their immediate control, a firearm of any kind, except for an active or honorably retired peace officer, as specified.

This bill would repeal that prohibition.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 4370 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:

4370.

 In every area in which deer may lawfully be taken during the general open season there is an archery season for the taking of deer with bow and arrow. The season for each area shall be as the commission may prescribe, with a minimum interposing interval of three days immediately preceding the regular open season on deer in that area.