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Bill	Firearms: prohibited persons.	Existing law prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. A violation of that prohibition is a felony. Existing law also prohibits a person who has been convicted of a specified misdemeanor from possessing a firearm for a period of 10 years. A violation of that prohibition may be punished as either a misdemeanor or a felony.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 3129	California AB 3129 (20172018)	bill	Firearms: prohibited persons.	enacted	Rubio	6	24	8	2018-02-16	2018-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/57bfe849-955b-4e80-98f8-124c9c4180a4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3129	d429bfa2a5d943c43bc1058267c557d2af32ad43a21fdc7c51e4c4087eb10cff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3129 (20172018) — Firearms: prohibited persons.

Existing law prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. A violation of that prohibition is a felony. Existing law also prohibits a person who has been convicted of a specified misdemeanor from possessing a firearm for a period of 10 years. A violation of that prohibition may be punished as either a misdemeanor or a felony.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/02/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB3129 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 3129 RUBIO Assembly Third Reading — 45–16 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB3129 Rubio By Skinner — 26–7 (pass) · upper
• AB 3129 RUBIO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rubio — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-19 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
• 2018-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 16. Page 5563.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (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 26. Noes 7. Page 5653.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 19. Page 6663.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 883, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57bfe849-955b-4e80-98f8-124c9c4180a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).