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Bill	Firearms: firearm safety certificate.	Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from purchasing or receiving any handgun without a valid handgun safety certificate, and prohibits any person from selling, delivering, loaning, or transferring any handgun to any person who does not have a valid handgun safety certificate, with exceptions, as specified. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 683	California SB 683 (20132014)	bill appropriation	Firearms: firearm safety certificate.	enacted	Block	8	29	8	2013-02-22	2013-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/aa461b25-2af5-4e67-b70d-418895b3b131	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB683	1d4ffcb26482e1bf215f78639df1eecc8124b9866336a37226c62c7be1ee6a06	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 683 (20132014) — Firearms: firearm safety certificate.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from purchasing or receiving any handgun without a valid handgun safety certificate, and prohibits any person from selling, delivering, loaning, or transferring any handgun to any person who does not have a valid handgun safety certificate, with exceptions, as specified. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/07/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB683 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB683 Block Concurrence — 25–11 (pass) · upper
• Special Order — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 683 Block Senate Third Reading By STONE — 46–30 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-05 Set for hearing April 16.
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 568.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2013-05-06 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-05-17 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2013-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1018.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-28 Made Special Order for Wednesday, May 29, at 10:30 a.m.
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 1150.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-17 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-08-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-21 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 46. Noes 30. Page 3026.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 2292.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2013-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 761, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa461b25-2af5-4e67-b70d-418895b3b131. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).