SACRAMENTO — The measure that would create a 12 percent excise tax on all tangible adult entertainment products in California has been dropped for the legislative season but still is alive.

Assembly Bill 1082 is slated as a two-year bill and will be brought back in August when the Legislature reconvenes after summer recess, according to Allegra Kim, a legislative analyst for state Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont,[pictured] who sponsored the measure.

But for the time being, Free Speech Coalition Executive Director Diane Duke is elated.

“We’re thrilled,” Duke told XBIZ. “We dodged another one, but there always are those who believe in the absurdity of a bill like this one. I think there always will be those who want to abridge the industry’s free-speech rights.”

Duke was referring to the year-in, year-out battle the FSC faces with the numerous attempts to tax adult products throughout the union.

With AB 1082, the measure would expand Proposition 83 — the 2006 voter-approved measure requiring that sex offenders wear GPS devices for the rest of their lives — to apply to parolees convicted before the proposition took effect, as well as to domestic violence parolees.

Forty percent of gross receipts would be earmarked for the Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Prevention Fund, while 60 percent would be tagged for the Domestic Abuser Surveillance Fund.

The bill, which will be brought back to committee in August, would need a two-third’s majority of each house of the Legislature to reach the governor’s office for his approval or veto.