Democrat Lawmaker’s Bill to Reform Prop. 47 Fails in Committee

A series of smash-and-grab robberies left stores with boarded up windows on Nov. 22, 2021. Lear Zhou/The Epoch Times

SACRAMENTO—The effort to lower California’s threshold for felony theft from $950 to $400 failed in an Assembly Public Safety Committee hearing on March 22.

Assemblyman Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield) brought forward Assembly Bill (AB) 1603 in January to reduce the threshold for felony theft from $950 back to $400, which was the law in California before Proposition (Prop.) 47 was passed in 2014.