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Bill	Firearms: assault weapons.	(1) Existing law generally prohibits the possession or transfer of assault weapons, except for the sale, purchase, importation, or possession of assault weapons by specified individuals, including law enforcement officers. Under existing law, "assault weapon" means, among other things, a semiautomatic centerfire rifle or a semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has any one of several specified attributes, including, for rifles, a thumbhole stock, and for pistols, a 2nd handgrip.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1135	California AB 1135 (20152016)	bill	Firearms: assault weapons.	enacted	Levine	8	33	8	2015-02-27	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b8bd2bab-7fde-4cbe-a2b0-043706355cc0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1135	514853db93fa4bafa9572d5948d48fd02ed07ed68df4ebdb4db7e9cff7b53284	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1135 (20152016) — Firearms: assault weapons.

(1) Existing law generally prohibits the possession or transfer of assault weapons, except for the sale, purchase, importation, or possession of assault weapons by specified individuals, including law enforcement officers. Under existing law, "assault weapon" means, among other things, a semiautomatic centerfire rifle or a semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has any one of several specified attributes, including, for rifles, a thumbhole stock, and for pistols, a 2nd handgrip.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1135 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/01/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1135 LEVINE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 46–30 (pass) · lower
• AB 1135 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1135 Levine By Glazer — 24–14 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 2–4 (fail) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Levine — primary (person)
• Chiu — principal coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — principal coauthor (person)
• Hall — principal coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Ting — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-04-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1563.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-30 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2015-06-30 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-07-01 Re-referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-07-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-25 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 3900.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-06-30 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 5587.)
• 2016-06-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 5587.)
• 2016-06-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 46. Noes 30. Page 5589.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-07-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 40, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b8bd2bab-7fde-4cbe-a2b0-043706355cc0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).