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Assembly Democrats are fracturing over California legislative leaders’ decision to make changes to some retail theft bills that are designed to derail a controversial November ballot initiative ...
California leaders are pushing lawmakers to get on board with their own version of Proposition 47 changes by Wednesday. California Democrats got dragged into changing Prop. 47 — even though many ...
Theft Under Proposition 36, the theft of money or property worth $950 or less would be punishable as a felony for people who have two or more previous convictions for some theft-related crimes.
In 2020, Proposition 20 was put on the ballot which, among other changes, would have given prosecutors the ability to charge certain thefts as felonies again. It failed with 38% of the vote. [41] In November 2024, Proposition 36, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, was placed on the ballot.
California lawmakers on Monday gave final approval to a package of 10 bills meant to combat retail theft, an effort that divided Democrats as they confronted key issues in the upcoming November ...
(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has laid out how The Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, passed by voters on Nov. 5., will be implemented. Prop. 36 ...
Felony petty theft is the colloquial term for a statute in the California Penal Code (Section 666) that makes it possible for a person who commits the crime of petty theft to be charged with a felony rather than a misdemeanor if the accused had previously been convicted of a theft-related crime at any time in the past.
One of the more controversial sections of the California Penal Code are the consecutive Sections 666 and 667; Section 666, known officially as petty theft with a prior – and colloquially, felony petty theft and makes it possible for someone who committed a minor shoplifting crime to be charged with a felony if the person had been convicted of ...