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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 542

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Relating to: grants to schools to acquire proactive firearm detection software and making an appropriation. (FE)

Firearms and dangerous weapons Justice department of School — Finance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Justice awards grants to schools to

improve school safety. Currently DOJ awards grants to fund eligible expenditures

such as training, safety-related upgrades to buildings, equipment, and facilities,

and expenditures to provide blueprints or mapping data to law enforcement.

This bill requires DOJ to award grants of up to $325,000 to schools to acquire

proactive firearm detection software and provides $4,000,000 in the 2023-25 fiscal

biennium for the grants. Under the bill, schools must apply for the grants jointly

with the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the school. If the funding is

insufficient to award grants to all eligible applicants, the bill requires DOJ to award

the grants to qualified applicants in the order that the applications were received.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Callahan (R) , Dittrich (R) , Donovan (R) , Edming (R) , Goeben (R) , Green (R) , Michalski (R) , Mursau (R) , Nedweski (R) , O'Connor (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Rettinger (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Schmidt (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Summerfield (R)

7 cosponsors

Cabral-Guevara (R) , Feyen (R) , James (R) , L. Johnson (D) , Quinn (R) , Stubbs (D) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 10, Noes 5

Passed 10–5 Jan 18, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Passed 14–1 Jan 18, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Jan 18, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 3

Passed 12–3 Jan 18, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Oct 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Callahan, Spiros, Allen, Armstrong, Brandtjen, Dittrich, Donovan, Edming, Goeben, Green, Michalski, Mursau, Nedweski, O'Connor, Ortiz-Velez, Rettinger, Rodriguez, Schmidt, Steffen and Summerfield; cosponsored by Senators Wanggaard, James, Cabral-Guevara, Feyen, L. Johnson and Quinn

  2. Oct 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Nov 29, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Nov 29, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Callahan

  5. Nov 30, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Jan 9, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Stubbs added as a coauthor

  7. Jan 11, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Callahan

  8. Jan 16, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Callahan

  9. Jan 17, 2024 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Jan 17, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Ortiz-Velez withdrawn as a coauthor

  11. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 10, Noes 5

  12. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 1

  13. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  14. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 12, Noes 3

  15. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  16. Jan 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Ortiz-Velez added as a coauthor

  17. Jan 25, 2024 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Assembly Rule 42 (3)(c)

  18. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and referred to committee on Rules pursuant to Assembly Rule 42 (3)(c)

  19. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2024 by Committee on Rules

  20. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 10:19 AM on 2-22-2024 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 28

  21. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  22. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  23. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  24. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Callahan

  25. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  26. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  27. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  28. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  29. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  30. Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  31. Feb 22, 2024 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  32. Feb 26, 2024 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Education

  33. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1