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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Firearms: unsafe handguns."
+description: "Existing law, subject to exceptions, generally makes it an offense to manufacture or sell an unsafe handgun, as defined, and requires the Department of Justice to compile a roster listing all of the handguns that have been tested and determined not to be unsafe handguns. Existing law establishes criteria for determining if a handgun is an unsafe handgun, including, for firearms manufactured after a certain date and not already listed on the roster, the lack of a chamber load indicator, magazine disconnect mechanism, and technology that transfers a microscopic array of characters from the firearm to the cartridge case when the firearm is fired, known as a microstamp. Existing law requires the microstamp to be transferred to the cartridge upon firing and to be imprinted in 2 or more places on the internal working parts of the handgun."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "AB 2847"
+citation: "California AB 2847 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Firearms: unsafe handguns."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chiu"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2020-02-20"
+last_action: "2020-09-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb9290bc-4d5a-44f6-a18c-f506535e09f3"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2847"
+source_hash: "a067f3c028dd6ad780793397c81f87eb5a733fe61fc9ad6fe21dfbf885afb554"
+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 2847 (20192020) — Firearms: unsafe handguns.
+
+Existing law, subject to exceptions, generally makes it an offense to manufacture or sell an unsafe handgun, as defined, and requires the Department of Justice to compile a roster listing all of the handguns that have been tested and determined not to be unsafe handguns. Existing law establishes criteria for determining if a handgun is an unsafe handgun, including, for firearms manufactured after a certain date and not already listed on the roster, the lack of a chamber load indicator, magazine disconnect mechanism, and technology that transfers a microscopic array of characters from the firearm to the cartridge case when the firearm is fired, known as a microstamp. Existing law requires the microstamp to be transferred to the cartridge upon firing and to be imprinted in 2 or more places on the internal working parts of the handgun.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/20/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2847&version=20190AB284799INT)
+2. **05/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2847&version=20190AB284798AMD)
+3. **05/07/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2847&version=20190AB284797AMD)
+4. **07/02/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2847&version=20190AB284796AMD)
+5. **09/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2847&version=20190AB284794CHP)
+6. **AB2847** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2847)
+7. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2847&version=20190AB284795ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2847 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — **52–20** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2847 Chiu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–19** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB2847 Chiu et al. By Wiener — **25–12** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chiu — primary (person)
+- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
+- Gabriel — author (person)
+- Gipson — coauthor (person)
+- Gloria — coauthor (person)
+- Jackson — coauthor (person)
+- Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
+- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
+- Ting — coauthor (person)
+- Wicks — coauthor (person)
+- Wiener — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2020-04-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-04** 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`
+- **2020-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-07** 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`
+- **2020-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-20** Coauthors revised.
+- **2020-05-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (June 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2020-06-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2020-06-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 20. Page 4827.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
+- **2020-08-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 31). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2020-08-13** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2020-08-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 4402.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 19. Page 5355.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2020-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2020-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 292, Statutes of 2020.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb9290bc-4d5a-44f6-a18c-f506535e09f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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