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type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms."
description: "Existing law generally regulates the transfer of firearms and provides for retaining specified information regarding firearm transfers by the Department of Justice. Existing law establishes different requirements regarding reportable information for handguns and firearms that are not handguns. Under existing law, the Department of Justice requires firearms dealers to keep a register or record of electronic or telephonic transfers of information pertaining to firearms transactions, as specified. Existing law exempts from these requirements certain transactions involving firearms that are not handguns."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 809"
citation: "California AB 809 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feuer"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/675980dc-0c65-42e4-8210-e11f7ad3f451"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809"
source_hash: "500f531ae0051bb1bac629e44b0ec20d283db270211f538fb1419670051c8baf"
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 809 (20112012) — Firearms.
Existing law generally regulates the transfer of firearms and provides for retaining specified information regarding firearm transfers by the Department of Justice. Existing law establishes different requirements regarding reportable information for handguns and firearms that are not handguns. Under existing law, the Department of Justice requires firearms dealers to keep a register or record of electronic or telephonic transfers of information pertaining to firearms transactions, as specified. Existing law exempts from these requirements certain transactions involving firearms that are not handguns.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809&version=20110AB80999INT)
2. **03/24/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809&version=20110AB80998AMD)
3. **05/27/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809&version=20110AB80997AMD)
4. **06/14/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809&version=20110AB80996AMD)
5. **08/30/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809&version=20110AB80995AMD)
6. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809&version=20110AB80993CHP)
7. **AB809** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809)
8. **09/20/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB809&version=20110AB80994ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **116** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **63** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **51** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **51** (pass) · upper
- AB 809 FEUER Assembly Third Reading — **4729** (pass) · lower
- AB 809 FEUER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **4729** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB809 Feuer By De León — **2119** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **90** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Feuer — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2011-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2011-03-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 29. Page 1794.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** 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. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-11** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2011-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 19. Page 2394.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 47. Noes 29. Page 3134.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 745, Statutes of 2011.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/675980dc-0c65-42e4-8210-e11f7ad3f451`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).