Bounty hunters will have to be licensed, trained and registered in California under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
AB 2043 passed both houses of the state Legislature on Aug. 25.
While the department regulates the state’s bail industry and requires bail agents to be licensed, it had not required bounty hunters, often called bail fugitive recovery persons, to be similarly licensed.
At the time, bounty hunters were only required to have proof that they had completed certain classes and had not been convicted of a felony.