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Bill	Firearms: open carry.	Existing law prohibits, with certain exceptions, openly carrying an unloaded handgun outside a vehicle while in or upon a public place or public street of an incorporated city or city and county or while in or upon a public place or public street within a prohibited area, being defined as any area in which it is unlawful to discharge a firearm.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 7	California AB 7 (20172018)	bill	Firearms: open carry.	enacted	Gipson	7	27	5	2016-12-05	2017-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/a0d51f0c-41fb-49d0-841f-d6dc5ec42a07	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB7	f1f093c8c06cbf1ef99922115869af08b2f8761668cae971fb3e9d6065e76de8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 7 (20172018) — Firearms: open carry.

Existing law prohibits, with certain exceptions, openly carrying an unloaded handgun outside a vehicle while in or upon a public place or public street of an incorporated city or city and county or while in or upon a public place or public street within a prohibited area, being defined as any area in which it is unlawful to discharge a firearm.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/07/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/13/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB7 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 7 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 43–32 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB7 Gipson et al. By Portantino — 24–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
• 2017-02-23 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-02-27 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
• 2017-02-28 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 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
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (April 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 29. Page 1141.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-10 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 2770.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
• 2017-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 43. Noes 32. Page 3329.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 734, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0d51f0c-41fb-49d0-841f-d6dc5ec42a07. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).