republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20012002/ab-496.md

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Bill	Firearms.	Firearms.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20012002	AB 496	California AB 496 (20012002)	bill	Firearms.	enacted	Koretz	6	25	9	2001-02-21	2002-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/50799153-4d98-40bc-b0c6-1e304adb9714	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB496	a6bd920250b7311fdcc01e6d0e52baf0af9a59ef6edb410aa7a11d49ed4efe3b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 496 (20012002) — Firearms.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/01 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/23/02 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/21/01 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/26/02 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB496 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/27/02 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 496 Koretz Third Reading Urgency — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 496 Koretz Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 496 Koretz Concurrence in Senate Amendments — fail (fail) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 496 Koretz Motion to Reconsider — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB496 Koretz By Perata — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Koretz — primary (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
• Frommer — coauthor (person)
• Goldberg — coauthor (person)
• Horton — coauthor (person)
• Perata — principal coauthor (person)
• Scott — principal coauthor (person)
• Shelley — author (person)
• Steinberg — author (person)
• Torlakson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2002-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 906, Statutes of 2002.
• 2002-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2002-09-09 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2002-08-27 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 44. Noes 27. Page 8236.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 41. Noes 33. Page 8242.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2002-08-24 Motion to reconsider continued until Tuesday, August 27.
• 2002-08-23 Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments. (Ayes 36. Noes 31. Page 7982.) Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Koretz. committee-failure
• 2002-08-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2002-08-14 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 5416.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2002-05-16 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2002-05-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (May 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2002-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2001-08-28 Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2001-08-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2001-07-02 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2001-07-02 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2001-06-12 Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2001-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2001-06-05 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 13. Page 2132.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2001-05-31 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 7.) (May 31). Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage
• 2001-05-29 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1856.)
• 2001-05-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. referral-committee
• 2001-04-25 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2001-03-15 Referred to Standing Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife. referral-committee
• 2001-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2001-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/50799153-4d98-40bc-b0c6-1e304adb9714. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).