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Bill	Firearms: lending.	Existing law generally requires the loan of a firearm to be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer. A violation of this provision is a crime. Existing law exempts from this requirement a loan of a firearm between persons who are personally known to each other, if the loan is infrequent and does not exceed 30 days in duration.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1511	California AB 1511 (20152016)	bill	Firearms: lending.	enacted	Santiago	8	25	8	2015-03-05	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0f0fe2b4-b8a0-47b5-813f-93fd7e1743ee	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1511	4fae89ad99aa4e3073809390ce3feb11174254598e8e29df253f1ac7617c0c4f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1511 (20152016) — Firearms: lending.

Existing law generally requires the loan of a firearm to be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer. A violation of this provision is a crime. Existing law exempts from this requirement a loan of a firearm between persons who are personally known to each other, if the loan is infrequent and does not exceed 30 days in duration.

Version chain

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

1. 03/05/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/11/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/17/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/18/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1511 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/01/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1511 Santiago By Pan — 22–15 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1511 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1511 SANTIAGO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 43–31 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 2–4 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)
• Chiu — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-03-06 From printer. May be heard in committee April 5.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 977.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-05-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-19 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2015-05-19 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 16). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 15. Page 3901.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-06-09 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 21). committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 43. Noes 31. Page 5591.). 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 41, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0f0fe2b4-b8a0-47b5-813f-93fd7e1743ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).