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Bill	Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.	(1) Existing law authorizes an immediate family member of a person or a law enforcement officer to request that a court, after notice and a hearing, issue a gun violence restraining order against that person. Under existing law, the petitioner has the burden of proving, by clear and convincing evidence, that the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of causing personal injury and that the order is necessary to prevent personal injury, as specified. Existing law prohibits a person subject to a gun violence restraining order from having in the person's custody or control, or owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, any firearms or ammunition while that order is in effect. Under existing law, a gun violence restraining order and a renewal gun violence restraining order have a duration of one year, subject to earlier termination or renewal by the court.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 12	California AB 12 (20192020)	bill	Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.	enacted	Irwin	9	29	7	2018-12-03	2019-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/91a2c0a8-5731-4233-adaa-982eebc3fd19	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB12	7652effd25b31d6a9fe74751997a8694e7a777003ad45cd3cdb4c38e0e373cbf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 12 (20192020) — Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.

(1) Existing law authorizes an immediate family member of a person or a law enforcement officer to request that a court, after notice and a hearing, issue a gun violence restraining order against that person. Under existing law, the petitioner has the burden of proving, by clear and convincing evidence, that the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of causing personal injury and that the order is necessary to prevent personal injury, as specified. Existing law prohibits a person subject to a gun violence restraining order from having in the person's custody or control, or owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, any firearms or ammunition while that order is in effect. Under existing law, a gun violence restraining order and a renewal gun violence restraining order have a duration of one year, subject to earlier termination or renewal by the court.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/15/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/13/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB12 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 12 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — 53–13 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 12 Irwin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB12 Irwin et al. By Stern — 30–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)
• Stern — principal coauthor (person)
• Ting — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
• 2019-02-15 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-02-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-02-19 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-03-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-03-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 13. Page 1075.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-08 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2708.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 15. Page 3289.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 724, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91a2c0a8-5731-4233-adaa-982eebc3fd19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).