---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: imitation firearms: gun-shaped phone cases."
description: "Existing federal law prohibits a person from manufacturing, entering into commerce, shipping, transporting, or receiving any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm unless the firearm contains, or has affixed to it, a marking approved by the federal Secretary of Commerce."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1798"
citation: "California AB 1798 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: imitation firearms: gun-shaped phone cases."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-02-08"
last_action: "2016-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e330af22-5858-4f01-aa16-c71d4736a50e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798"
source_hash: "55c6583c2b8ace754a4485ef6082665884aa600946df0f937f6bcf59fbd210f1"
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 1798 (20152016) — Firearms: imitation firearms: gun-shaped phone cases.

Existing federal law prohibits a person from manufacturing, entering into commerce, shipping, transporting, or receiving any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm unless the firearm contains, or has affixed to it, a marking approved by the federal Secretary of Commerce.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798&version=20150AB179899INT)
2. **08/26/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798&version=20150AB179897CHP)
3. **AB1798** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798)
4. **08/12/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1798&version=20150AB179898ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1798 COOPER Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2016-02-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-03-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-03-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4040.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-04-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-05-25** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-03** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2016-08-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4879.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2016-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 198, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e330af22-5858-4f01-aa16-c71d4736a50e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).