Bill > SB140

This bill appropriates twenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000) from the Dealers' Record of Sale Special Account of the General Fund to the Department of Justice to address the backlog in the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS), which is an automated system that tracks individuals who are prohibited from owning firearms after legally acquiring them, and to combat the illegal possession of firearms by these individuals. The bill also mandates that the Department of Justice report annually to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on various metrics related to the APPS backlog reduction, agent hiring, and enforcement efforts, with these reporting requirements set to become inoperative in March 2019. Furthermore, the bill declares itself an urgency statute, meaning it takes effect immediately upon passage, to address the immediate danger to public safety posed by the current APPS backlog and the illegal possession of firearms.