Bill Text: CA SB1286 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1286 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Firearms: handgun registry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1286 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1286-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 1286	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator La Malfa

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 32015 of the Penal Code, relating to
firearms.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1286, as introduced, La Malfa. Firearms: handgun registry.
   Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain a
roster listing handguns that are not unsafe that may be sold in this
state. The department is authorized to charge licensed firearm
manufacturers and persons who import into the state for sale, keep
for sale, or offer or expose for sale, any pistol, revolver, or other
firearm capable of being concealed upon the person in this state, an
annual fee not exceeding the costs of preparing, publishing, and
maintaining the roster, and the costs of research and development,
report analysis, firearms storage, and other program infrastructure
costs necessary to implement those provisions related to determining
unsafe handguns.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 32015 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   32015.  (a) On and after January 1, 2001, the Department of
Justice shall compile, publish, and thereafter maintain a roster
listing all of the pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of
being concealed upon the person that have been tested by a certified
testing laboratory, have been determined not to be unsafe handguns,
and may be sold in this state pursuant to this part. The roster shall
list, for each firearm, the manufacturer, model number, and model
name.
   (b) (1) The department may charge every person in this state who
is licensed as a manufacturer of firearms pursuant to Chapter 44
(commencing with Section 921) of Title 18 of the United States Code,
and any person in this state who manufactures or causes to be
manufactured, imports into the state for sale, keeps for sale, or
offers or exposes for sale any pistol, revolver, or other firearm
capable of being concealed upon the person in this state, an annual
fee not exceeding the costs of preparing, publishing, and maintaining
the roster pursuant to subdivision (a) ,  and the costs of
research and development, report analysis, firearms storage, and
other program infrastructure costs necessary to implement Sections
31900 to 32110, inclusive.
   (2)  Any   A  pistol, revolver, or other
firearm capable of being concealed upon the person that is
manufactured by a manufacturer who manufactures or causes to be
manufactured, imports into the state for sale, keeps for sale, or
offers or exposes for sale any pistol, revolver, or other firearm
capable of being concealed upon the person in this state, and who
fails to pay any fee required pursuant to paragraph (1), may be
excluded from the roster.
   (3) If a purchaser has initiated a transfer of a handgun that is
listed on the roster as not unsafe, and prior to the completion of
the transfer, the handgun is removed from the roster of not unsafe
handguns because of failure to pay the fee required to keep that
handgun listed on the roster, the handgun shall be deliverable to the
purchaser if the purchaser is not otherwise prohibited from
purchasing or possessing the handgun. However, if a purchaser has
initiated a transfer of a handgun that is listed on the roster as not
unsafe, and prior to the completion of the transfer, the handgun is
removed from the roster pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 32020,
the handgun shall not be deliverable to the purchaser.