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Bill	Firearms.	Existing law generally requires that a firearms transaction be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer and prohibits the transfer of a firearm unless the person has been issued a firearms license. Existing law provides various exceptions to this requirement, including for firearms sold or transferred to an authorized law enforcement representative for use by the law enforcement agency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 693	California AB 693 (20172018)	bill	Firearms.	enacted	Irwin	9	28	6	2017-02-15	2017-10-14	openstates	ocd-bill/c137e6cd-dd5f-454b-a064-98240793f92e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB693	9ca9edfa4afc56ffde46e88555fd71370b71b4bdd4f385536acfb7e78918476f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 693 (20172018) — Firearms.

Existing law generally requires that a firearms transaction be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer and prohibits the transfer of a firearm unless the person has been issued a firearms license. Existing law provides various exceptions to this requirement, including for firearms sold or transferred to an authorized law enforcement representative for use by the law enforcement agency.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/12/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/13/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/14/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB693 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 693 IRWIN Concurrence - Urgency Added — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 693 IRWIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB693 Irwin By Stern Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-15 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
• 2017-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-28 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1391.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-08 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
• 2017-06-12 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
• 2017-06-14 Measure version as amended on June 12 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2017-06-20 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-22 From Consent Calendar.
• 2017-06-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-07-13 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2302.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-05 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2924.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 783, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c137e6cd-dd5f-454b-a064-98240793f92e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).