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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 07/02/26 - Amended Assembly
 05/14/26 - Amended Senate
 04/16/26 - Amended Senate
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1305 Wildlife: bears.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

SB1305:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 May 14, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 16, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1305

Introduced by Senator Richardson
(Coauthors: Senators Blakespear, Stern, and Weber Pierson)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Zbur)

February 20, 2026

An act to amend Sections 3011, 3950, 4181, 4181.1, and 4185 of, to add Section 4764 to, and to add Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 4775) to Part 3 of Division 4 of, of the Fish and Game Code, relating to wildlife.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1305, as amended, Richardson.
 Wildlife: bears.

Existing law classifies “black and brown or cinnamon bears (genus Euarctos)” as a game mammal for purposes of managing, taking, or hunting that species. Existing law makes it unlawful to take a bear using a firearm, trap, or bow and arrow without first procuring a tag authorizing the taking. Existing law also makes it unlawful for a person to take a bear with an iron or steel-jawed or any type of metal-jawed traps. In any part of a district within the Counties of San Bernardino and Riverside, existing law authorizes the taking of bears at any time with traps within a good and substantial fence surrounding beehives, as specified.

This bill would exclude grizzly bear from the application of the above-described provisions.

Existing law establishes the Department of Fish and Wildlife in the Natural Resources Agency. Under existing law, the department has jurisdiction over the conservation, protection, and management of fish, wildlife, native plants, and habitat necessary for biologically sustainable populations of those species.

This bill would require the department to develop and make publicly available a roadmap that evaluates whether, and under what conditions, reintroduction of the grizzly bear is feasible and advisable, and the extent to which the ecological functions once provided by the grizzly bear may be restored through human-mediated landscape restoration, including through reintroduction of the species. The bill would also require the department, by June 30, 2030, to submit the roadmap document to relevant budget and policy committees of the Legislature, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, and the Fish and Game
 Commission. The bill would prohibit reintroduction of the grizzly bear in the state until the department or others have carried out various actions, including, among other things, completion of the roadmap, determinations, based on the best available science, that establishment of a self-sustaining grizzly population in the state is biologically viable, and a consultation with California Native American tribes and engagement with communities, as specified. The bill would make implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation, except as specified.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Grizzly Recovery Assessment Act.

SEC. 2.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is was a California keystone species known for its powerful influence on ecosystem structure and function. Through their ecological interactions, grizzly bears promote promoted biodiversity and ecosystem heterogeneity by
 modifying vegetation composition and structure, regulating trophic dynamics, accelerating geomorphic processes, enriching soils with marine and terrestrial nutrients, dispersing seeds, and initiating secondary ecological processes. Prior to their deliberate extirpation from California in the 20th century, grizzly bears inhabited the majority of California’s ecoregions, except the hottest and most arid portions of the state. Contemporary conservation and indigenous science recognize the integral role of grizzly bears in maintaining healthy, functioning ecosystems across their range. Their removal from California ecosystems contributed to cascading