---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: criminal storage."
description: "Existing law establishes the offenses of criminal storage of a firearm in the first degree, when a person keeps a loaded firearm within any premises under his or her custody or control, the person knows or reasonably should know that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or guardian, and a child obtains access to a person's loaded firearm resulting in death or great bodily injury, as specified, and criminal storage of a firearm in the 2nd degree, when under those circumstances, the child obtains access to the firearm resulting in injury other than great bodily injury or the firearm is carried off premises, as specified. Existing law makes the first degree offense punishable as a felony or misdemeanor with specified penalties and makes the 2nd degree offense punishable as a misdemeanor with specified penalties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 231"
citation: "California AB 231 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: criminal storage."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-05"
last_action: "2013-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f53ce34-0fb9-4354-9ae0-dee146355982"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231"
source_hash: "ab5ef1cb54ae4617e286bb244a296e0ac1392b37716111a78a8fcd263bba4f23"
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 231 (20132014) — Firearms: criminal storage.

Existing law establishes the offenses of criminal storage of a firearm in the first degree, when a person keeps a loaded firearm within any premises under his or her custody or control, the person knows or reasonably should know that a child is likely to gain access to the firearm without the permission of the child's parent or guardian, and a child obtains access to a person's loaded firearm resulting in death or great bodily injury, as specified, and criminal storage of a firearm in the 2nd degree, when under those circumstances, the child obtains access to the firearm resulting in injury other than great bodily injury or the firearm is carried off premises, as specified. Existing law makes the first degree offense punishable as a felony or misdemeanor with specified penalties and makes the 2nd degree offense punishable as a misdemeanor with specified penalties.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/05/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23199INT)
2. **03/21/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23198AMD)
3. **04/11/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23197AMD)
4. **04/18/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23196AMD)
5. **05/06/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23195AMD)
6. **08/12/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23194AMD)
7. **08/30/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23193AMD)
8. **10/11/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23191CHP)
9. **AB231** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231)
10. **09/16/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB231&version=20130AB23192ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB231 Ting By DeSaulnier — **24–15** (pass) · upper
- AB 231 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **48–30** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 231 TING Assembly Third Reading — **46–30** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **11–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ting — primary (person)
- Gomez — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-06** From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
- **2013-03-21** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** 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`
- **2013-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-11** 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`
- **2013-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 30. Page 1651.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-08-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-12** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-30** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 2231.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 48. Noes 30. Page 3096.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2013-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 730, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f53ce34-0fb9-4354-9ae0-dee146355982`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).