republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-1200.md

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Bill	Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.	(1) Existing law allows a court to issue a gun violence restraining order prohibiting and enjoining a named person from having in his or her custody or control any firearms or ammunition if the person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having a firearm or ammunition in his or her custody or control. Existing law establishes a civil restraining order process to accomplish that purpose.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 1200	California SB 1200 (20172018)	bill	Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.	enacted	Skinner	7	27	8	2018-02-15	2018-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/ac47412a-3723-4f86-9c8d-911273afba3e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1200	544ff3dc57fc346f77ee87a7f18d0a0b91d84630b3fbb08e088c9bf4579819f4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1200 (20172018) — Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.

(1) Existing law allows a court to issue a gun violence restraining order prohibiting and enjoining a named person from having in his or her custody or control any firearms or ammunition if the person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having a firearm or ammunition in his or her custody or control. Existing law establishes a civil restraining order process to accomplish that purpose.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1200 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 1200 Skinner Senate Third Reading By GIPSON — 64–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1200 Skinner Concurrence — 22–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-05 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2018-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 4700.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-20 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2018-04-30 April 30 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2018-05-18 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 4306.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 4351.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-06-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 5. Page 6187.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 898, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac47412a-3723-4f86-9c8d-911273afba3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).