Bill Text: CA AB36 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Domestic violence protective orders: possession of a firearm.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB36 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB36-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 36

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Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Berman, Gipson, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, and Wicks)

December 05, 2022

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An act relating to firearms.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 36, as introduced, Gabriel. Domestic violence protective orders: possession of a firearm.

Existing law prohibits a person subject to a protective order, as defined, from owning, possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm while that protective order is in effect and makes a willful and knowing violation of a protective order a crime.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to extend that prohibition for an additional 3 years after the expiration of a protective order, unless the court finds the person to not be a threat to public safety.

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.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to prohibit a person subject to a domestic violence protective order from owning, possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm for an additional three years after the domestic violence protective order has expired, unless the court finds the person to not be a threat to public safety.