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 03/26/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/13/26 - Introduced

 AB-1941 Organized metal theft.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/04/2026 09:00 PM

AB1941:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 04, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 26, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1941

Introduced by Assembly Member Mark González
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Solache)
(Principal coauthor: Senator Rubio)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Ahrens, Alanis, Castillo, Davies, Ellis, Haney, Hoover, Macedo, Patel, Sanchez, Schiavo, Ta, and Wallis)
(Coauthors: Senators Alvarado-Gil, Archuleta, Hurtado, Niello, Ochoa Bogh, Pérez, and Valladares)

February 13, 2026

 An act to add Sections 496f and 11199.6 to the Penal Code, relating to metal theft. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1941, as amended, Mark González.
 Organized metal theft.

Existing law makes a person who is a dealer in or collector of junk, metals, or secondhand materials, or their agent, employee, or representative, who buys or receives any wire, cable, copper, lead, solder, mercury, iron, or brass that the person knows or reasonably should know is used by or belongs to specified entities, including a railroad, certain utility companies, or a public entity engaged in furnishing public utility service, without using due diligence to ascertain that the person selling or delivering that material has a legal right to do so, guilty of criminally receiving that property and, in addition to imprisonment, makes that act punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000.

This bill would prohibit organized metal theft, described as acting in concert with one or more persons to steal metal materials from one or more of
 specified materials and items with the intent to sell, exchange, or return those metal materials for value, acting in concert with 2 or more persons to receive, purchase, or possess those metal materials knowing or believing it to have been stolen, acting as an agent of another to steal those metal materials as part of an organized plan to commit theft, or recruiting, coordinating, organizing, supervising, directing, managing, or financing another to undertake acts of theft of metal. The bill would make a violation of organized metal theft punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony. The bill would make related findings and declarations and state the intent of the Legislature. By creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law encourages local law enforcement agencies to report thefts of commodity metals that have occurred within their jurisdiction to a specified privately maintained theft alert system to ensure that
 persons using the system receive timely and thorough information regarding metal thefts.

This bill would authorize local law enforcement agencies, public agencies, and private entities to provide information about theft of commodity metals to the Department of Justice and would require the department to make this information available to such local law enforcement agencies, public agencies, and private entities.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares the following:

(a) California is facing a statewide surge in organized metal theft, particularly involving copper wire and other high-value metals used in public infrastructure, communication networks, and utility systems.

(b) Driven by soaring global copper prices and gaps in enforcement and regulation, criminals have increasingly targeted essential public assets, including streetlights, bridges, rail systems, telecommunications lines, and electrical infrastructure, to strip and resell stolen metal for profit.

(c) This epidemic of metal theft has caused widespread public
 safety hazards, power outages, and costly disruptions to critical infr