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          Date of Hearing:   April 30, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                AB 2300 (Ridley-Thomas) - As Amended:  April 1, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              Public  
          SafetyVote:  7-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill changes the date from January 1, 1991 to January 1,  
          1996 for records of ownership within the Prohibited Arms Persons  
          File maintained by the Department of Justice (DOJ).  
           
           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible administrative costs.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . This bill corrects a statutory inconsistency.  
            Current law requires DOJ to maintain an online database, known  
            as Prohibited Arms Persons File (APPS), to cross-reference  
            persons who own or possess a gun on or after January 1, 1991,  
            as indicated by the record in the consolidated Firearms  
            Information database (CFIS), and who, subsequent to the date  
            of that ownership or possession, fall within a class of  
            persons prohibited from possessing a gun. 

            The CFIS database, however, contains gun records beginning in  
            1996, not 1991 as the statute requires. Last year the Bureau  
            of State Audits noted this inconsistency and suggested DOJ  
            seek legislative clarification regarding whether DOJ is  
            required to cross-reference records going back to 1991 even  
            though CFIS does not contain those records.

           2)Support  . DOJ supports this correction.

           3)There is no known opposition  . 









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           Analysis Prepared by  :    Geoff Long / APPR. / (916) 319-2081