BILL NUMBER: SCR 63	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Yee

                        JANUARY 20, 2010

   Relative to secondhand goods.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 63, as introduced, Yee. Secondhand goods.
   This measure would urge the Department of Justice to ensure
compliance with a requirement that the department develop a standard
format to be used statewide for purposes of reporting secondhand
dealer transactions.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, Section 21625 of the Business and Professions Code
provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to curtail the
dissemination of stolen property and to facilitate the recovery of
stolen property by means of a uniform, statewide, state-administered
program of regulation of persons whose principal business is the
buying, selling, trading, auctioning, or taking in pawn of tangible
personal property and to aid the State Board of Equalization to
detect possible sales tax evasion; and
   WHEREAS, Existing law requires secondhand dealers and coin
dealers, on forms either approved or provided at actual cost by the
Department of Justice, to report daily all tangible personal property
purchased, taken in trade or pawn, or accepted for sale on
consignment or auctioning, to the chief of police or sheriff; and
   WHEREAS, Prior to 2000, existing law generally required those
forms to be submitted by mail; and
   WHEREAS, In 2000, the Legislature enacted Chapter 994 of the
Statutes of 2000 to require the Department of Justice, in
consultation with local law enforcement agencies, to develop clear
and comprehensive descriptive categories for this property and to
develop, also in consultation with these agencies and representatives
of the secondhand and coin dealer businesses, a standard format to
be used statewide to transmit this report electronically; and
   WHEREAS, Implementation of that standard format for purposes of
electronic transmission has yet to occur; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature urges the Department of
Justice to ensure compliance with the requirements of Chapter 994 of
the Statutes of 2000 at the earliest possible time; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Department of Justice and to the author for
appropriate distribution.