A proposal to make nearly all car thefts a felony-level crime cleared its first hurdle in the state legislature, even as lawmakers questioned if the measure went far enough in deterring crime.
, argued it’s a matter of equity for victims of car theft. Current state law uses car value as a threshold for if the offense is a felony or a misdemeanor.
The bill won unanimous — if tepid — approval from the five-member, Democrat-led Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Julie Gonzales and Robert Rodriguez, both Democrats, couched their votes as closer to neutral than supportive. “This bill seems to me to be quite downstream, because we are talking about the penalties once an arrest has been made, as opposed to addressing the upstream issues and challenges,” Gonzales said. She cast her vote with a sideways thumb, though clarified it was an aye.
“You’re absolutely right that we’re not solving these cases and this bill isn’t going to fix that,” Mason said. “I think it’s going to help.”
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