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California Increase Penalties for Repeat Theft and Fentanyl Dealers Measure (2024)
| California Increase Penalties for Repeat Theft and Fentanyl Dealers Measure | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Law enforcement and Civil and criminal trials | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin State legislature |
The California Increase Penalties for Repeat Theft and Fentanyl Dealers Measure was not on the ballot in California as a legislatively referred state statute on November 5, 2024.[1]
The measure would have made changes to Proposition 47, which was passed in 2014, including authorizing persons convicted of two or more theft-related offenses to be punished as a misdemeanor or felony based on the value of the property involved if the offenses occurred within three years of each other. The measure would have also required individuals convicted of dealing fentanyl to serve up to six years in prison.[1]
Proposition 47 classified certain crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies unless the defendant had prior convictions for murder, rape, certain sex offenses or certain gun crimes; allowed resentencing for those currently serving a prison sentence for any of the offenses that the initiative reduced to misdemeanors; and created the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund to receive appropriations based on savings from the initiative. Legislators can't make any changes to laws enacted through the initiative process without voter approval through a legislatively referred state statute.
Text of measure
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The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
To put a legislatively referred state statute that amends an initiative before voters, a two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required in both the California State Senate and the California House of Representatives.
Senate Bill 1381 was introduced on February 16, 20224. It passed the Senate on April 15, 2024, by a vote of 38-0. It passed the Assembly on June 10, 2024, by a vote of 63-0. It was amended by the Assembly on July 1. The state legislature decided not to place it on the ballot.[1]
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