Plain English Breakdown
The official text states the bill is enacted but does not provide an effective date in the provided metadata or summary.
Firearm Rules for Minors Banned Until Age 30
This law requires minors banned from owning guns until age 30 to follow the same gun surrender steps as other prohibited people and allows courts to issue search warrants if they fail to turn in their weapons.
What This Bill Does
- Applies existing firearm surrender rules to juveniles who are banned from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm until they are 30 years old.
- Requires the court to give specific instructions about giving up guns and assign probation officers to check if these minors have any firearms.
- Allows law enforcement agencies to update the Automated Firearms System when they receive surrendered weapons from these juveniles.
- Makes it an infraction for these minors to fail to file a completed Prohibited Persons Relinquishment Form on time.
- Allows courts to issue search warrants if there is probable cause and a court finding that the minor failed to turn in their firearm as required.
Who It Names or Affects
- Juveniles who are wards of juvenile court due to specified serious or violent offenses and cannot own guns until age 30.
- Local probation departments assigned to investigate whether these minors have firearms.
- Law enforcement agencies responsible for updating records and executing search warrants.
Terms To Know
- Ward of the juvenile court
- A minor under legal control because they committed specified serious or violent offenses.
- Relinquish
- To give up ownership, possession, or control of an item to authorities.
- Prohibited Persons Relinquishment Form
- A document that people banned from owning guns must fill out and file with the court on time.
Limits and Unknowns
- The official text does not list a specific effective date.
- Reimbursement for local agency costs depends on whether the Commission on State Mandates determines that state-mandated costs exist.
- Search warrants can only be issued if a court has already found that the minor failed to turn in their firearm.