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Bill	Firearms: license to carry concealed.	Existing law authorizes the sheriff of a county or the chief or other head of a municipal police department of any city or city and county to issue a license to carry a concealed firearm to an applicant for that license if the applicant is of good moral character, good cause exists for issuance of the license, the applicant meets specified residency requirements, and the applicant has completed a specified course of training, acceptable to the licensing authority.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2103	California AB 2103 (20172018)	bill	Firearms: license to carry concealed.	enacted	Gloria	8	24	8	2018-02-08	2018-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/85257091-7183-463d-a17f-6a9e84dfd451	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2103	65946979b960177fd05eee2161f98854442feda7c48b1aa93c72a405816c2570	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2103 (20172018) — Firearms: license to carry concealed.

Existing law authorizes the sheriff of a county or the chief or other head of a municipal police department of any city or city and county to issue a license to carry a concealed firearm to an applicant for that license if the applicant is of good moral character, good cause exists for issuance of the license, the applicant meets specified residency requirements, and the applicant has completed a specified course of training, acceptable to the licensing authority.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2103 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 2103 GLORIA Assembly Third Reading — 57–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2103 Gloria et al. By Portantino — 28–9 (pass) · upper
• AB 2103 GLORIA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–16 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gloria — primary (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Chau — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — principal coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2018-02-22 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 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
• 2018-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4820.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 20. Page 4931.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-05-21 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-07-02 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 5558.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 16. Page 6615.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 752, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85257091-7183-463d-a17f-6a9e84dfd451. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).