---
type: "Bill"
title: "State goods: peace officer's state-issued handgun: spouse or domestic partner."
description: "Existing law authorizes a peace officer who has been duly retired through a service retirement or a peace officer retiring from a job-incurred disability to be authorized by the person's department head to purchase his or her state-issued handgun, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 685"
citation: "California AB 685 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State goods: peace officer's state-issued handgun: spouse or domestic partner."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Achadjian"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2013-02-21"
last_action: "2013-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/391b3f3c-80df-4db5-8797-fc47d1721417"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB685"
source_hash: "d0a260a31f708395ac0d1be991e664e4d8e7a495ba91302dd3b63445a4765dd5"
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 685 (20132014) — State goods: peace officer's state-issued handgun: spouse or domestic partner.

Existing law authorizes a peace officer who has been duly retired through a service retirement or a peace officer retiring from a job-incurred disability to be authorized by the person's department head to purchase his or her state-issued handgun, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB685&version=20130AB68599INT)
2. **04/02/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB685&version=20130AB68598AMD)
3. **06/24/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB685&version=20130AB68596CHP)
4. **AB685** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB685)
5. **06/12/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB685&version=20130AB68597ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB685 Achadjian By Knight — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 685 ACHADJIAN Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Achadjian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-02** 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`
- **2013-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1006.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-02** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 1272.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-10** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-06-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2013-06-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-06-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 16, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/391b3f3c-80df-4db5-8797-fc47d1721417`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).