CA SB1080

Creates new crime under Penal Code Section 594.38 for receiving, retaining, or disposing of stolen grave markers or commemorative structures for veterans, peace officers, firefighters, or first responders, punishable by up to one year in county jail and/or up to $5,000 fine

Establishes crime for damaging, defacing, destroying, mutilating, or removing American flags, veteran's grave markers, metal plaques, or commemorative flag holders from graves of veterans, peace officers, firefighters, or first responders

Makes it illegal to damage, deface, destroy, mutilate, or remove any object or structure set to memorialize a veteran, peace officer, firefighter, or other first responder

Exempts stolen grave markers from punishment if person intends to return them to a cemetery, law enforcement, Department of Veterans Affairs, nonprofit veterans' services group, or authorized person

Declares no state reimbursement required to local agencies or school districts as the costs result from creating a new crime under existing constitutional provisions