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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Firearms: open carry."
+description: "Existing law prohibits, with certain exceptions, openly carrying an unloaded handgun outside a vehicle while in or upon a public place or public street of an incorporated city or city and county or while in or upon a public place or public street within a prohibited area, being defined as any area in which it is unlawful to discharge a firearm."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 7"
+citation: "California AB 7 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Firearms: open carry."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gipson"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2016-12-05"
+last_action: "2017-10-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0d51f0c-41fb-49d0-841f-d6dc5ec42a07"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7"
+source_hash: "f1f093c8c06cbf1ef99922115869af08b2f8761668cae971fb3e9d6065e76de8"
+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 7 (20172018) — Firearms: open carry.
+
+Existing law prohibits, with certain exceptions, openly carrying an unloaded handgun outside a vehicle while in or upon a public place or public street of an incorporated city or city and county or while in or upon a public place or public street within a prohibited area, being defined as any area in which it is unlawful to discharge a firearm.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **12/05/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7&version=20170AB799INT)
+2. **02/27/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7&version=20170AB798AMD)
+3. **03/28/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7&version=20170AB797AMD)
+4. **09/07/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7&version=20170AB796AMD)
+5. **10/13/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7&version=20170AB794CHP)
+6. **AB7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7)
+7. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7&version=20170AB795ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- AB 7 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **43–32** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB7 Gipson et al. By Portantino — **24–14** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gipson — primary (person)
+- Portantino — coauthor (person)
+- Wiener — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-12-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2016-12-06** From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
+- **2017-02-23** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-02-28** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 29. Page 1141.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2017-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-07-10** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 2770.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2017-09-13** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
+- **2017-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 43. Noes 32. Page 3329.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2017-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
+- **2017-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 734, Statutes of 2017.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0d51f0c-41fb-49d0-841f-d6dc5ec42a07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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