---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers: welfare checks: firearms."
description: "Existing law allows a person to be taken into custody for a period of 72 hours for crisis intervention when probable cause exists that the person, as a result of a mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled. Under existing law, the Attorney General is required to maintain a registry of specified information concerning the sale, lease, or transfer of firearms, and to include in the registry specified data provided to the Department of Justice."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 505"
citation: "California SB 505 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peace officers: welfare checks: firearms."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 39
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2013-02-21"
last_action: "2014-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70cf0eb3-f97f-4126-bfe6-19d5a25a5425"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505"
source_hash: "4eefd2e17a4e67ec88e967ec2526447222359bfd570b816971b7ef2ccb923629"
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 SB 505 (20132014) — Peace officers: welfare checks: firearms.

Existing law allows a person to be taken into custody for a period of 72 hours for crisis intervention when probable cause exists that the person, as a result of a mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled. Under existing law, the Attorney General is required to maintain a registry of specified information concerning the sale, lease, or transfer of firearms, and to include in the registry specified data provided to the Department of Justice.

## 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=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50599INT)
2. **04/01/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50598AMD)
3. **04/24/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50597AMD)
4. **05/15/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50596AMD)
5. **05/28/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50595AMD)
6. **06/10/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50594AMD)
7. **08/04/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50593AMD)
8. **08/18/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50592AMD)
9. **09/30/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50590CHP)
10. **SB505** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505)
11. **08/25/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB505&version=20130SB50591ENR)

## Votes

- From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Be referred to Committee on Public Safety. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 505 Jackson Senate Third Reading By MELENDEZ — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB505 Jackson Concurrence — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **15–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-21** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2013-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-12** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2013-03-27** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-03-28** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2013-04-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-23** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 484.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2013-05-02** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-05-10** Set for hearing May 20.
- **2013-05-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-05-20** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2013-05-21** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1015.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1174.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-30** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-06** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-08-14** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-12** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96(a). `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-16** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-06** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 2.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6234.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-20** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-21** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-21** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4676.) Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-21** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4787.) `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-22** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4759.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2014-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 918, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70cf0eb3-f97f-4126-bfe6-19d5a25a5425`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).