--- type: "Bill" title: "Firearms: prohibited persons." description: "Existing law prohibits a person who has been taken into custody, assessed, and admitted to a designated facility, or who has been certified for intensive treatment after having been admitted to a designated facility, because the person is a danger to themselves or others as a result of a mental health disorder, from owning a firearm, as specified. Existing law also prohibits a person who has been adjudicated to be a danger to others as a result of a mental disorder or mental illness, or who has been adjudicated to be a mentally disordered sex offender, a person who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of committing specified crimes, a person found by a court to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, or a person who has been placed under conservatorship by a court because the person is gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism from purchasing or receiving, or attempting to purchase or receive, or having possession, custody, or control of a firearm or any other deadly weapon. A violation of these prohibitions is a crime." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20232024" identifier: "SB 1002" citation: "California SB 1002 (20232024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Firearms", "prohibited persons"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Blakespear"] version_count: 8 action_count: 29 vote_count: 8 first_action: "2024-02-01" last_action: "2024-09-24" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4d0a5f7-7fd7-48b7-a272-f3e662031859" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002" source_hash: "f737e2d2fda7bd7bc3528b1315f8af2365aaced3ba35ee5e86304d5acb6f9c0f" 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 1002 (20232024) — Firearms: prohibited persons. Existing law prohibits a person who has been taken into custody, assessed, and admitted to a designated facility, or who has been certified for intensive treatment after having been admitted to a designated facility, because the person is a danger to themselves or others as a result of a mental health disorder, from owning a firearm, as specified. Existing law also prohibits a person who has been adjudicated to be a danger to others as a result of a mental disorder or mental illness, or who has been adjudicated to be a mentally disordered sex offender, a person who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of committing specified crimes, a person found by a court to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, or a person who has been placed under conservatorship by a court because the person is gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism from purchasing or receiving, or attempting to purchase or receive, or having possession, custody, or control of a firearm or any other deadly weapon. A violation of these prohibitions is a crime. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/01/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002&version=20230SB100299INT) 2. **03/11/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002&version=20230SB100298AMD) 3. **06/17/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002&version=20230SB100297AMD) 4. **08/19/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002&version=20230SB100296AMD) 5. **08/22/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002&version=20230SB100295AMD) 6. **09/24/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002&version=20230SB100293CHP) 7. **SB1002** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002) 8. **09/03/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1002&version=20230SB100294ENR) ## Votes - Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper - SB 1002 Blakespear Senate Third Reading By Zbur — **76–0** (pass) · lower - Unfinished Business SB1002 Blakespear et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper - Special Consent SB1002 Blakespear et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower - Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Blakespear — primary (person) - Boerner — coauthor (person) - Davies — coauthor (person) - Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-02-01** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2024-02-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3. - **2024-02-14** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee` - **2024-02-28** Set for hearing March 19. - **2024-03-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-03-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3351.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-05-03** Set for hearing May 13. - **2024-05-13** May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file. - **2024-05-14** Set for hearing May 16. - **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3967.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-05-20** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2024-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4178.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-05-24** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2024-06-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2024-06-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-08-07** August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. - **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-08-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-22** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-22** Ordered to third reading. - **2024-08-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6718.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2024-08-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5675.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. - **2024-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2024-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 526, Statutes of 2024. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4d0a5f7-7fd7-48b7-a272-f3e662031859`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).