WHEREAS, Section 21625 of the Business and Professions Code provides that it is the intent of the Legislature to curtail the dissemination of stolen property and to facilitate the recovery of stolen property by means of a uniform, statewide, state-administered program of regulation of persons whose principal business is the buying, selling, trading, auctioning, or taking in pawn of tangible personal property and to aid the State Board of Equalization to detect possible sales tax evasion; and

WHEREAS, Existing law requires secondhand dealers and coin dealers, on forms either approved or provided at actual cost by the Department of Justice, to report daily all tangible personal property purchased, taken in trade or pawn, or accepted for sale on consignment or auctioning, to the chief of police or sheriff; and

WHEREAS, Prior to 2000, existing law generally required those forms to be submitted by mail; and

WHEREAS, In 2000, the Legislature enacted Chapter 994 of the Statutes of 2000 to require the Department of Justice, in consultation with local law enforcement agencies, to develop clear and comprehensive descriptive categories for this property and to develop, also in consultation with these agencies and representatives of the secondhand and coin dealer businesses, a standard format to be used statewide to transmit this report electronically; and

WHEREAS, Implementation of that standard format for the purposes of electronic transmission has yet to occur; now, therefore, be it