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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Firearms: prohibited persons."
+description: "Under existing law, a person who purchases or receives a firearm, attempts to purchase or receive a firearm, or owns or possesses a firearm knowing that the person is prohibited from doing so by a temporary restraining order, an injunction, or a protective order, as specified, is guilty of a crime."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "AB 164"
+citation: "California AB 164 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Firearms: prohibited persons."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2019-01-07"
+last_action: "2019-10-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30804209-382e-49fd-8b11-e29b88768ea4"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164"
+source_hash: "51264f29b5179a065b3d63fe8dbd5f8928a72f94eccfe895f54ca23201c7a8d5"
+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 164 (20192020) — Firearms: prohibited persons.
+
+Under existing law, a person who purchases or receives a firearm, attempts to purchase or receive a firearm, or owns or possesses a firearm knowing that the person is prohibited from doing so by a temporary restraining order, an injunction, or a protective order, as specified, is guilty of a crime.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/07/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164&version=20190AB16499INT)
+2. **02/20/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164&version=20190AB16498AMD)
+3. **03/13/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164&version=20190AB16497AMD)
+4. **05/16/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164&version=20190AB16496AMD)
+5. **10/11/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164&version=20190AB16494CHP)
+6. **AB164** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164)
+7. **09/12/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164&version=20190AB16495ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Special Consent AB164 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 164 Cervantes Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cervantes — primary (person)
+- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
+- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
+- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-02-21** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-26** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2019-03-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-03-13** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-03-14** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1918.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-07-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-09-04** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2711.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-09-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2019-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2019-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 726, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30804209-382e-49fd-8b11-e29b88768ea4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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