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				<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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				<ns0:ActionDate>2025-09-11</ns0:ActionDate>
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			<ns0:SessionYear>2025</ns0:SessionYear>
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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Cabaldon</ns0:AuthorText>
		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR_OPPOSITE">(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry)</ns0:AuthorText>
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				<ns0:Contribution>LEAD_AUTHOR</ns0:Contribution>
				<ns0:House>SENATE</ns0:House>
				<ns0:Name>Cabaldon</ns0:Name>
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				<ns0:Name>Aguiar-Curry</ns0:Name>
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		<ns0:Title> An act to amend Sections 12590 and 12607 of, and to add Sections 12619.1 and 12640.1 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to fireworks.</ns0:Title>
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			<ns0:Subject>Fireworks licenses and permits: criminal convictions: local jurisdictions.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>The State Fireworks Law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt regulations relating to fireworks as may be necessary for the protection of life and property. Existing law requires these regulations to include, among other things, provisions for the granting of licenses and permits for the manufacture, wholesale, import, export, and sale of all classes of fireworks. Existing law authorizes the State Fire Marshal to deny or revoke a fireworks license for specified reasons. A violation of the State Fireworks Law or the regulations issued pursuant thereto is a misdemeanor.</html:p>
			<html:p>Existing law requires fireworks licensees seeking authorization for specified activities related to fireworks to submit a written application for a permit to the chief of the fire department or
			 the chief fire prevention officer of the city or county, or to another issuing authority that may be designated by the governing body of the city or county, or, in the event there is no officer or person appointed within the area, to the State Fire Marshal or the State Fire Marshal’s deputy, as provided.</html:p>
			<html:p> This bill would require a fireworks licensee to provide to the State Fire Marshal documentation affirming the possession of a permit applicable to fireworks activity and necessary local land use permits or other entitlements, as required by the public agency having local jurisdiction, and information about the storage sites for the fireworks. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal to revoke the fireworks license of a licensee who fails to provide this documentation or information and to deny a license to a license applicant who fails to provide this documentation or
			 information, as provided. The bill would also require the State Fire Marshal to both allow the applicable public agency an opportunity to validate the permit or entitlement assertions of the licensee and to furnish a copy of any applicable license to the public agency, as provided.</html:p>
			<html:p>Existing law authorizes the State Fire Marshal to deny the application for a license or the application for renewal of a license filed by a person who has been convicted of a felony involving explosives or dangerous fireworks or who has been convicted as a principal or accessory in a crime against property involving arson or any other fire-related offenses, as provided.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would additionally authorize the State Fire Marshal to deny the application for a license or the application for renewal of a license to a person under indictment
			 for, or who has been convicted in any court of, a crime that is both (A) punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, and (B) a violent crime or an offense the commission of which creates a threat to public safety.</html:p>
			<html:p>Existing law requires an import or export fireworks licensee to file a notice with the State Fire Marshal before the arrival of any class of fireworks subject to the license held by the licensee.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would require an import or export fireworks licensee to additionally provide the above-described notice to the local jurisdiction listed as the destination for the fireworks. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
			<html:p>The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures
			 for making that reimbursement.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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			<ns0:Num>SECTION 1.</ns0:Num>
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				Section 12590 of the 
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					<ns0:Num>12590.</ns0:Num>
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							<html:p>The State Fire Marshal may deny or revoke any license issued pursuant to this part if the State Fire Marshal finds any of the following conditions has occurred:</html:p>
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								(a) 
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								The licensee has failed to pay the annual renewal license fee provided in this chapter.
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								(b) 
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								The licensee or license applicant has violated any provisions of this part or any regulations adopted by the State Fire Marshal pursuant to this part.
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								(c) 
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								The licensee or license applicant has created or caused a fire nuisance.
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								(d) 
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								The licensee has failed to keep full, complete, and accurate records or failed to file any required
						reports.
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								(e) 
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								Any fact or condition exists which, if it had existed at the time of the original application for the license reasonably would have warranted the State Fire Marshal in refusing originally to issue the license.
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								(f) 
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								The permit issued under Section 12640 has been rescinded or revoked by the issuing authority.
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								(g) 
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								Any licensee or license applicant has refused to make available to the State Fire Marshal full, complete, and accurate records.
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								(h)
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								(1)
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								The licensee has failed to provide to the State Fire Marshal the documentation or information required pursuant to Section 12640.1. 
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								(2)
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								The license applicant has failed to provide to the State Fire Marshal the documentation or information described in Section 12640.1, excluding documentation related to permits that may only be acquired by those who already possess a license. 
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			<ns0:Num>SEC. 2.</ns0:Num>
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				Section 12607 of the 
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				 is amended to read:
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					<ns0:Num>12607.</ns0:Num>
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							<html:p>The State Fire Marshal may deny the application for a license or the application for renewal of a license filed by a person who meets any of the following conditions:</html:p>
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								(a)
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								The person has been convicted of a felony
						involving explosives or dangerous
						fireworks.
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								(b)
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								The person has been convicted as a principal or accessory in a crime against property involving arson or any other fire-related offense contained in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 450) of Title 13 of Part 1 of the Penal Code.
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								(c)
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								The person is under indictment for, or has been convicted in any court of, a crime that meets both of the
						following conditions: 
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								(1)
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								The crime is punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.
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								(2)
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								The crime is a violent offense or an offense the commission of which creates a threat to public safety.
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			<ns0:Num>SEC. 3.</ns0:Num>
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				Section 12619.1 is added to the 
				<ns0:DocName>Health and Safety Code</ns0:DocName>
				, to read:
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					<ns0:Num>12619.1.</ns0:Num>
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							<html:p>An import or export licensee shall provide the notice described in Section 12619 to the local jurisdiction listed as the destination for the fireworks. </html:p>
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			<ns0:Num>SEC. 4.</ns0:Num>
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				Section 12640.1 is added to the 
				<ns0:DocName>Health and Safety Code</ns0:DocName>
				, to read:
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								(a)
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								The licensee shall provide to the State Fire Marshal the following, if applicable: 
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								(1)
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								Documentation affirming the possession of a permit applicable to fireworks activity required by the public agency having local jurisdiction pursuant to this chapter.
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								(2)
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								Documentation affirming possession of necessary local land use permits or other entitlements required by the public agency having local jurisdiction pursuant to this chapter.
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								(3)
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								Information about the storage sites for the fireworks.
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								(b)
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								The State Fire Marshal shall allow the applicable
						public agency an opportunity to validate the permit or entitlement assertions of the licensee as described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a), and shall furnish to the public agency a copy of any license issued to the licensee pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 12570). 
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			<ns0:Num>SEC. 5.</ns0:Num>
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					No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII
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					B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII
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					B of the California Constitution.
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