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Bill	Firearms.	(1) Existing law, subject to specified exceptions, makes it a crime to openly carry an exposed, unloaded handgun outside a vehicle in specified public places. Existing law exempts from this crime, in part, the open carrying of an unloaded handgun at an auction or similar event for a nonprofit public benefit or mutual benefit corporation, if the handgun is to be auctioned or sold for the nonprofit public benefit or mutual benefit corporation, and the handgun is delivered by a person licensed by existing law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 538	California AB 538 (20132014)	bill	Firearms.	enacted	Pan	8	25	7	2013-02-20	2013-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/cf5a5789-60b9-4a6e-b6f4-bd4efa0e0a44	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB538	788d868b448e8b1e4e490a494ba90790d9a7aaf43f9e89fb59703790d8f44203	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 538 (20132014) — Firearms.

(1) Existing law, subject to specified exceptions, makes it a crime to openly carry an exposed, unloaded handgun outside a vehicle in specified public places. Existing law exempts from this crime, in part, the open carrying of an unloaded handgun at an auction or similar event for a nonprofit public benefit or mutual benefit corporation, if the handgun is to be auctioned or sold for the nonprofit public benefit or mutual benefit corporation, and the handgun is delivered by a person licensed by existing law.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/17/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/04/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB538 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 538 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 52–26 (pass) · lower
• AB 538 PAN Assembly Third Reading — 50–23 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB538 Pan By De León — 22–14 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-29 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 23. Page 1513.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-06-04 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 2107.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 2920.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 738, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf5a5789-60b9-4a6e-b6f4-bd4efa0e0a44. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).