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type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: prohibited persons: notification."
description: "Existing law requires a court to notify the Department of Justice of specified court actions that would result in an individual being prohibited from possessing firearms and deadly weapons or result in the individual no longer being subject to that prohibition. Under existing law, notice to the department is required when, among other instances, a person has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial, a person has been found not guilty of specified crimes by reason of insanity, or a person has been placed under conservatorship and prohibited from possessing firearms or deadly weapons. Existing law requires the court to notify the department as soon as possible, but not later than 2 court days after taking the relevant action. The court is required to submit these notices in an electronic format, as prescribed by the department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1591"
citation: "California AB 1591 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: prohibited persons: notification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Achadjian"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2014-02-03"
last_action: "2014-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/805a2088-d17f-46f1-91dc-429aa1200c91"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1591"
source_hash: "6a8982a4a5c5c24b91994351c15784ceecf0a436191a4806dcbcf58587b9d7ac"
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 1591 (20132014) — Firearms: prohibited persons: notification.
Existing law requires a court to notify the Department of Justice of specified court actions that would result in an individual being prohibited from possessing firearms and deadly weapons or result in the individual no longer being subject to that prohibition. Under existing law, notice to the department is required when, among other instances, a person has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial, a person has been found not guilty of specified crimes by reason of insanity, or a person has been placed under conservatorship and prohibited from possessing firearms or deadly weapons. Existing law requires the court to notify the department as soon as possible, but not later than 2 court days after taking the relevant action. The court is required to submit these notices in an electronic format, as prescribed by the department.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/03/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1591&version=20130AB159199INT)
2. **05/20/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1591&version=20130AB159198AMD)
3. **06/17/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1591&version=20130AB159197AMD)
4. **07/18/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1591&version=20130AB159195CHP)
5. **AB1591** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1591)
6. **07/02/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1591&version=20130AB159196ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1591 ACHADJIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
- AB 1591 ACHADJIAN Assembly Third Reading — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **70** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #17 AB1591 Achadjian By Anderson — **320** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Achadjian — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Gray — author (person)
- Skinner — principal coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
- **2014-02-14** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-03-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4145.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-03-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-03-27** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-19** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-05-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-04** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2014-06-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2014-06-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-18** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2014-06-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4146.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-06-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5732.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2014-07-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 141, Statutes of 2014.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/805a2088-d17f-46f1-91dc-429aa1200c91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).