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Bill	Firearms.	Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to require a firearms dealer to charge each firearm purchaser a fee, as specified, to fund various specified costs in connection with, among other things, a background check of the purchaser, and to fund the costs associated with the department's firearms-related regulatory and enforcement activities related to the sale, purchase, loan, or transfer of firearms. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 819	California SB 819 (20112012)	bill	Firearms.	enacted	Leno	6	27	7	2011-02-18	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/1566af72-4ed0-48e9-83c3-96c13ec9ec23	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB819	6d0ec63cd3c48a4c67f63b3678144d8b1ab13ff9179c694001b5900c507354ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 819 (20112012) — Firearms.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to require a firearms dealer to charge each firearm purchaser a fee, as specified, to fund various specified costs in connection with, among other things, a background check of the purchaser, and to fund the costs associated with the department's firearms-related regulatory and enforcement activities related to the sale, purchase, loan, or transfer of firearms. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB819 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 819 Leno Senate Third Reading By GATTO — 50–27 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 22–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Leno — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-03-29 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2011-04-04 Set, first hearing. Further hearing to be set.
• 2011-04-05 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2011-04-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 742.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-29 Set for hearing May 9.
• 2011-05-09 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-05-20 Set for hearing May 26.
• 2011-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 1122.) (May 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 16. Page 1234.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-07 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 50. Noes 27. Page 2646.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-29 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2011-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 743, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1566af72-4ed0-48e9-83c3-96c13ec9ec23. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).