--- type: "Bill" title: "Deadly weapons: prohibited persons: reports." description: "Existing law prohibits the purchase, receipt, possession, or control of firearms for a period of 5 years by persons that have been admitted to a mental health facility on the basis of their being a threat to themselves or others or as a result of being certified for intensive treatment. Existing law requires a mental health facility that admits a person described above to immediately report specified information to the Department of Justice with respect to the person." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20092010" identifier: "AB 302" citation: "California AB 302 (20092010)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Deadly weapons: prohibited persons: reports."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Beall"] version_count: 7 action_count: 27 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2009-02-17" last_action: "2010-09-27" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c364e493-edac-4c16-8241-f6ac43ca2cf8" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB302" source_hash: "76c5a22b2eebacaaf90e69f1f1975841308fe20d2d209c7f51458e57351f7478" 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 302 (20092010) — Deadly weapons: prohibited persons: reports. Existing law prohibits the purchase, receipt, possession, or control of firearms for a period of 5 years by persons that have been admitted to a mental health facility on the basis of their being a threat to themselves or others or as a result of being certified for intensive treatment. Existing law requires a mental health facility that admits a person described above to immediately report specified information to the Department of Justice with respect to the person. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/17/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB302&version=20090AB30299INT) 2. **01/21/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB302&version=20090AB30297AMD) 3. **06/01/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB302&version=20090AB30298AMD) 4. **06/22/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB302&version=20090AB30296AMD) 5. **09/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB302&version=20090AB30294CHP) 6. **AB302** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB302) 7. **08/30/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB302&version=20090AB30295ENR) ## Votes - Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower - Assembly 3rd Reading AB302 Beall By Alquist — **pass** (pass) · upper - AB 302 BEALL Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower - AB 302 BEALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Beall — primary (person) - Alquist — coauthor (person) - Blumenfield — coauthor (person) - De Leon — coauthor (person) - Hill — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2009-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2009-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20. - **2009-03-04** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee` - **2009-03-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (March 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2009-04-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2009-05-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2009-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-06-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 29. Page 2058.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2009-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2009-06-18** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee` - **2009-06-22** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. - **2010-01-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1` - **2010-04-14** Withdrawn from committee. - **2010-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2010-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2010-06-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2010-06-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2010-06-22** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1` - **2010-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage` - **2010-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2010-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 4573.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2010-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2010-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6417.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2010-09-03** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:45 p.m. - **2010-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2010-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 344, Statutes of 2010. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c364e493-edac-4c16-8241-f6ac43ca2cf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).