---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: safety devices."
description: "Firearms: safety devices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 106"
citation: "California AB 106 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: safety devices."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "1998-12-22"
last_action: "1999-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90a0ebee-9a0e-48c7-bed5-ed3b968a3c1b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106"
source_hash: "113731f9a170b9cb12eac2a0e7615924cfdd6c2be41854821c586382a74cdba8"
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 106 (19992000) — Firearms: safety devices.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **12/22/98 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10699INT)
2. **03/10/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10698AMD)
3. **03/18/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10697AMD)
4. **04/05/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10696AMD)
5. **04/20/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10695AMD)
6. **05/28/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10694AMD)
7. **06/29/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10693AMD)
8. **08/30/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10691CHP)
9. **AB106** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106)
10. **08/26/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB106&version=19990AB10692ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB106 Scott By Hayden — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 106 SCOTT THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 106 SCOTT CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Scott — primary (person)
- Alpert — coauthor (person)
- Aroner — author (person)
- Corbett — coauthor (person)
- Davis — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Figueroa — coauthor (person)
- Havice — coauthor (person)
- Hayden — author (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Keeley — coauthor (person)
- Knox — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Lempert — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- McPherson — coauthor (person)
- Perata — coauthor (person)
- Polanco — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Shelley — coauthor (person)
- Solis — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)
- Villaraigosa — principal coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)
- Wesson — coauthor (person)
- Wildman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **1999-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 246, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **1999-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 3482.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **1999-08-23** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 10. Page 2556.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-07-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-07-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-06-29** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 19. Page 2418.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 7.) (May 26). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-25** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 23). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-03-11** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-01-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **1999-01-04** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **1998-12-23** From printer. May be heard in committee January 22.
- **1998-12-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90a0ebee-9a0e-48c7-bed5-ed3b968a3c1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).