BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ó



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          Date of Hearing:   April 25, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                 AB 1821 (Hall) - As Introduced:  February 21, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                              Business and 
          Professions  Vote:                            9 - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill authorizes a security guard or security patrolperson 
          to carry and use a firearm pending receipt of a permanent 
          firearm's qualification card from the Bureau of Security and 
          Investigative Services if that person carries a hardcopy 
          printout of the bureau's approval and valid photo 
          identification.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          There are no significant costs associated with this legislation.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  . This bill allows the Bureau to post a firearm 
            clearance on its website allowing a security guard to carry a 
            firearm immediately instead of waiting up to six weeks for the 
            issuance of a firearms card.  The bill requires 
            firearm-cleared security guards to carry on his/her person the 
            Bureau-issued clearance to carry a firearm and valid state 
            issued guard card.  This is current practice for basic 
            security guard identification card; this legislation would 
            extend this practice to firearm qualification authorizations.

           2)Background  . The Bureau of Security and Investigative Services 
            licenses has jurisdiction over private patrol operators and 
            security guards, proprietary private security employers and 
            officers, private investigators, alarm companies, alarm 
            company employees, locksmith companies, locksmith employees, 
            and repossession companies and their employees.  The Bureau 
            also has jurisdiction over firearm and baton training 








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            facilities as well as their instructors.

            To apply for a firearms permit an applicant must take a 
            14-hour course in the use of firearms given by a firearms 
            training instructor certified by the Department of Consumer 
            Affairs. In addition, they must pass written and range exams 
            given at the end of the course, submit an application with 
            appropriate fees, be a United States citizen or have permanent 
            legal alien status, undergo a criminal history review, and, be 
            at least 18 years of age.



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916) 
          319-2081