Cultural heritage: protection of items and places of cultural and historical interest.

Existing law, such as the California Cultural and Historical Endowment Act and other statutes, has the goal of encouraging the preservation and protection of items and places of cultural and historical interest. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to later enact legislation to protect precious and irreplaceable items and places of cultural and historical interest by prohibiting public entities from, and urging private entities to refrain from, engaging with individuals and entities who have destroyed, vandalized, scavenged, stolen from, or otherwise despoiled, artifacts, items, or structures in any place of cultural and historical interest anywhere in the world.