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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Firearms: imitation firearms: gun-shaped phone cases."
+description: "Existing federal law prohibits a person from manufacturing, entering into commerce, shipping, transporting, or receiving any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm unless the firearm contains, or has affixed to it, a marking approved by the federal Secretary of Commerce."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 1798"
+citation: "California AB 1798 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Firearms: imitation firearms: gun-shaped phone cases."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cooper"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2016-02-08"
+last_action: "2016-08-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e330af22-5858-4f01-aa16-c71d4736a50e"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798"
+source_hash: "55c6583c2b8ace754a4485ef6082665884aa600946df0f937f6bcf59fbd210f1"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 1798 (20152016) — Firearms: imitation firearms: gun-shaped phone cases.
+
+Existing federal law prohibits a person from manufacturing, entering into commerce, shipping, transporting, or receiving any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm unless the firearm contains, or has affixed to it, a marking approved by the federal Secretary of Commerce.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/08/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798&version=20150AB179899INT)
+2. **08/26/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798&version=20150AB179897CHP)
+3. **AB1798** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798)
+4. **08/12/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798&version=20150AB179898ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 1798 COOPER Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Special Consent — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cooper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2016-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
+- **2016-02-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-03-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-03-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4040.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-03-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2016-04-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-05-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2016-05-25** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-03** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2016-08-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4879.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2016-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2016-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 198, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e330af22-5858-4f01-aa16-c71d4736a50e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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