JANUARY REPORT

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• Assembly Bills
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• ● AB 68 - Gallagher (R) - SUPPORT
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• ○ Bill Text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB68/2025
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• ○ Analysis: This bill, in its original form, dealt with having at least one
• armed officer on public school campuses, but was amended by
• Assembly member Gallagher to pertain to having armed School Resource
• Officers in rural areas.
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• ○ Status: Failed in the Assembly Education Committee. 2 Ayes, 7 Noes.
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• ● AB 256 - DeMaio (R) - SUPPORT
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• ○ Bill Text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB256/2025
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• ○ Analysis: This bill adds an enhancement for criminals who commit
• crimes while under the influence of substances they are prohibited from
• possessing and using, while also authorizing a search warrant to draw
• blood for toxicology reports to gather more data about how substances
• affect criminals who commit crimes with firearms. During the hearing in
• the Public Safety Committee, Democrats defended criminals and were very
• skeptical about this bill and the enhancements.
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• ○ Status: Failed in the Assembly Public Safety Committee. 2 Ayes, 5 Noes, 2 Abstained.
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• ● AB 1092 - Castillo (R) - SUPPORT
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• ○ Bill Text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1092/2025
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• ○ Analysis: With understaffed sheriff’s departments, absurd application
• processing times from counties that disfavor the right to carry, and
• extraneous fees, this bill helps alleviate the workload for departments and
• allows CCW permits and renewals to be processed more efficiently and
• cost effectively. This bill was granted reconsideration for this year after it
• failed the Assembly Public Safety Committee last year. No hearing was
• held, just a vote.
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• ○ Status: Failed in the Assembly Public Safety Committee. 2 Ayes, 7 Noes.
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• ● AB 1589 - Chen (R) - MONITOR
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• ○ Bill Text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1589/2025
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• ○ Analysis: This bill expands who has access to suppressors in California
• by allowing those who are Level I reserve peace officers to use them in the
• course of their duties when authorized. A few examples of who would be
• able to use suppressors include persons who have been deputized by a
• local police department, such as a reserve deputy sheriff, reserve city
• police officer, a reserve park ranger, and a reserve special agent for the
• Department of Justice, amongst others. Expanding access to suppressors
• to people who wish to volunteer and give back to their communities could
• potentially be a good way to destigmatize suppressors, allowing an inroad
• to show that suppressors in the hands of the people are not dangerous and unusual, but can be useful tools to facilitate lawful actions.
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• ○ Status: May be heard in committee February 15th.
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• ● AB 1615 - Nguyen (D) - MONITOR
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• ○ Bill Text: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1615/2025
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• ○ Analysis: Increasing the frequency of when peace officer employed by a
• county probation department has to complete Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) training qualifications with what is deemed to be an
• “unsafe handgun” appears to be downstream from the misconceived
• notion that off-roster handguns are somehow more dangerous than those
• on the roster because of the lack of required features. Additionally, by
• imposing a state mandated local program, this bill will cost the state more
• money to schedule even more qualification classes for said specified peace
• officers. We will be monitoring this bill in its current form as it goes
• through the preliminary stages of the legislative process.
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• ○ Status: May be heard in committee February 21st.
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• Senate Bills
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• ● TBA