BILL NUMBER: AB 1134	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mark Stone

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 26150 of the Penal Code, relating to
firearms.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1134, as introduced, Mark Stone. Firearms: concealed firearm
licenses.
   Existing law authorizes the sheriff of a county, or the chief or
other head of a municipal police department, upon proof that the
person applying is of good moral character, that good cause exists,
and that the person applying satisfies certain conditions, to issue a
license for the person to carry a concealed handgun, as specified.
Existing law provides that the chief or other head of a municipal
police department is not precluded from entering an agreement with
the sheriff of the county in which the city is located for the
sheriff to process all applications for licenses for a person to
carry a concealed handgun, renewals of those licenses, and amendments
to those licenses.
   This bill would provide that the sheriff of the county in which
the city is located is not precluded from entering an agreement with
the chief or other head of a municipal police department of a city
for the chief or other head of a municipal police department to
process all applications for licenses for a person to carry a
concealed handgun, renewals of those licenses, and amendments to
those licenses.
   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 26150 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   26150.  (a) When a person applies for a license to carry a pistol,
revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the
person, the sheriff of a county may issue a license to that person
upon proof of all of the following:
   (1) The applicant is of good moral character.
   (2) Good cause exists for issuance of the license.
   (3) The applicant is a resident of the county or a city within the
county, or the applicant's principal place of employment or business
is in the county or a city within the county and the applicant
spends a substantial period of time in that place of employment or
business.
   (4) The applicant has completed a course of training as described
in Section 26165.
   (b) The sheriff may issue a license under subdivision (a) in
either of the following formats:
   (1) A license to carry concealed a pistol, revolver, or other
firearm capable of being concealed upon the person.
   (2) Where the population of the county is less than 200,000
persons according to the most recent federal decennial census, a
license to carry loaded and exposed in only that county a pistol,
revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the
person. 
   (c) Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the sheriff of the
county in which the city is located from entering an agreement with
the chief or other head of a municipal police department of a city
for the chief or other head of a municipal police department to
process all applications for licenses, renewals of licenses, and
amendments to licenses pursuant to this chapter.