Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary STATE GOVERNMENTEXPENDITURESIncarceration $15,700 EXPENDITURESGeneral FundFY26-27$745,800FY27-28 & Subsequent Years$432,600Total Positions Required: 4 Bill Summary Present law lists several acts that constitute the offense of organized retail crime, including when a person acts in concert with one or more individuals to commit theft of merchandise with a value greater than $1,000, aggregated over a 90-day period, with the intent to sell, barter, or trade the merchandise for monetary or other gain, or fraudulently return the merchandise to a retail merchant. This bill removes that the value is aggregated over a ninety-day period, and provides, instead, that the value is aggregated over a 180-day period. This bill also adds the following acts as acts that constitute the offense of organized retail crime: When a person knowingly uses a mask, facial covering, or other concealment of the person's identity to facilitate the commission of organized retail crime. When a person knowingly uses a motor vehicle with no license plate; an altered, fake, or concealed license plate; or a temporary license plate to facilitate the commission of organized retail crime. PENALTIES Present law provides that the grading of the penalty for the offense of organized retail crime depends on the value of the merchandise obtained. This bill requires that a sentence imposed must include a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration if the defendant used or possessed a firearm, firearm ammunition, a firearm-related device, or an anti-theft device during the commission of the offense. An "anti-theft device" is a tool, machine, implement, or other item used to unlawfully deactivate, circumvent, interfere with, remove, or otherwise render inoperative a monitor, sensor, camera, or other security device used or designed t
