CA AB 1673

withdrawn

County fish and wildlife propagation fund: wildlife coexistence: tear gas.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law allows a person to purchase, possess, or use tear gas or a tear gas weapon for the projection or release or tear gas if the tear gas or tear gas weapon is used solely for self-defense purposes, subject to specified requirements. Under existing law, anyone who uses tear gas or a tear gas weapon except in self-defense is guilty of a crime. This bill would allow a person, who is authorized by the Department of Fish and Wildlife to apply aversive conditioning on wolves, to purchase, possess, or use any tear gas weapon that expels a projectile upon authorization from the sheriff of a county or the chief or other head of a municipal police department of any city or city and county. Existing law requires certain fines and penalties paid to and retained in a county treasury to be deposited in a county fish and wildlife propagation fund and expended for the protection, conservation, propagation, and preservation of fish and wildlife, as specified. Existing law authorizes expenditures from a county fish and wildlife propagation fund for purposes relating to fish and wildlife, including, among other things, costs incurred by a district attorney or city attorney in investigating and prosecuting civil and criminal actions relating to fish and wildlife. This bill would additionally authorize expenditures from a county fish and wildlife propagation fund for costs relating to wildlife coexistence programs to prevent human-wildlife conflict.

Introduced: 2026-02-23
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-18 — In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-02
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-03
From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
2026-02-23
Referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
referral-committee
2026-02-23
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. Read second time and amended.
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2026-02-24
Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
referral-committee
2026-03-04
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-03-05
Re-referred to Com. on W., P., & W.
referral-committee
2026-03-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-04-08
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 8).
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2026-04-09
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2026-04-13
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-04-23
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4789.)
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2026-04-23
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-05-06
Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
referral-committee
2026-06-11
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
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2026-06-12
Withdrawn from committee.
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2026-06-12
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2026-06-15
Re-referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and PUB. S.
referral-committee
2026-06-18
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Versions

02/02/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-02Compare
02/23/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-02-23Compare
03/04/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-04Compare
04/09/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-09Compare
06/11/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-11Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-03-24 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Caloza: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bains: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ward: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Ávila Farías: other
Do pass as amended.
2026-04-08 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Krell: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Fong: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: other
AB 1673 Hadwick Assembly Third Reading
2026-04-23 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Irwin: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Soria: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ta: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Davies: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Solache: yes
- Krell: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Chen: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Flora: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ward: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Papan: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Bains: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Patel: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Addis: other
- Gabriel: other
- Gipson: other
- Wicks: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Lee: other

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