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Bill	Crime prevention and investigation: informational databases: firearms.	Existing law directs police and sheriffs' departments to submit the description of serialized or uniquely inscribed nonserialized property that has been reported stolen, lost, found, recovered, or under observation, directly to an automated Department of Justice system. Existing law requires that any information entered into the Department of Justice system regarding a firearm remain in the system until the firearm is found, recovered, no longer under observation, or the record is deemed to have been entered in error. Existing law also requires the costs resulting from this requirement to be reimbursed from funds other than those collected from specified fees relating to firearms.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2222	California AB 2222 (20172018)	bill	Crime prevention and investigation: informational databases: firearms.	enacted	Quirk	9	32	10	2018-02-12	2018-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/f9498c6c-1ccd-4c4a-b1a5-266ef4224501	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2222	bd2f1f352e897728533a7c19598b7719daa8275ffc2787fde9cf946f77646a94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2222 (20172018) — Crime prevention and investigation: informational databases: firearms.

Existing law directs police and sheriffs' departments to submit the description of serialized or uniquely inscribed nonserialized property that has been reported stolen, lost, found, recovered, or under observation, directly to an automated Department of Justice system. Existing law requires that any information entered into the Department of Justice system regarding a firearm remain in the system until the firearm is found, recovered, no longer under observation, or the record is deemed to have been entered in error. Existing law also requires the costs resulting from this requirement to be reimbursed from funds other than those collected from specified fees relating to firearms.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/02/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/19/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/25/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2222 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2222 Quirk et al. By Hertzberg — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2222 Quirk et al. By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2222 QUIRK Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2222 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2222 Quirk et al. By Hertzberg Reconsider — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Quirk — primary (person)
• Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2018-03-01 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
• 2018-04-02 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
• 2018-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5623.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5650.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5650.)
• 2018-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5953.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6997.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 864, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9498c6c-1ccd-4c4a-b1a5-266ef4224501. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).