Firearms: Dealers' Record of Sale Special Account of the General Fund.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to require firearm dealers to charge firearm purchasers a fee to fund, among other specified costs, the processing of firearm purchaser information. Existing law also authorizes the department to charge a fee to reimburse it for, among other things, the actual costs associated with the preparation, sale, processing, and filing of specified forms or reports and the actual processing costs associated with the submission of a dealer's record of sale. Existing law requires all moneys received by the department pursuant to these provisions to be deposited in the Dealers' Record of Sale Special Account of the General Fund, to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditure by the department to offset specified costs. This bill would require the Department of Justice, on or before July 1 to annually issue a report to the Legislature regarding the status of the revenues generated by the Dealers' Record of Sale fees pursuant to this article. The bill would require the report to contain information regarding the balance of the account and expenditures and loans from the account, as specified.