---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: lending."
description: "Existing law generally requires the loan of a firearm to be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer. A violation of this provision is a crime. Existing law exempts from this requirement a loan of a firearm between persons who are personally known to each other, if the loan is infrequent and does not exceed 30 days in duration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1511"
citation: "California AB 1511 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: lending."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-03-05"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f0fe2b4-b8a0-47b5-813f-93fd7e1743ee"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511"
source_hash: "4fae89ad99aa4e3073809390ce3feb11174254598e8e29df253f1ac7617c0c4f"
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 1511 (20152016) — Firearms: lending.

Existing law generally requires the loan of a firearm to be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer. A violation of this provision is a crime. Existing law exempts from this requirement a loan of a firearm between persons who are personally known to each other, if the loan is infrequent and does not exceed 30 days in duration.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/05/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511&version=20150AB151199INT)
2. **05/04/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511&version=20150AB151197AMD)
3. **05/11/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511&version=20150AB151196AMD)
4. **05/17/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511&version=20150AB151195AMD)
5. **05/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511&version=20150AB151198AMD)
6. **07/01/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511&version=20150AB151193CHP)
7. **AB1511** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511)
8. **07/01/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511&version=20150AB151194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1511 Santiago By Pan — **22–15** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1511 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1511 SANTIAGO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **43–31** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **2–4** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Santiago — primary (person)
- Chiu — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-03-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-06** From printer. May be heard in committee April 5.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 977.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-19** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2015-05-19** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-04** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-04** 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. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 16). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-05-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 15. Page 3901.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-06-09** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-22** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 21). `committee-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 43. Noes 31. Page 5591.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 41, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f0fe2b4-b8a0-47b5-813f-93fd7e1743ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).