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Bill	Gun violence restraining order: petition.	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. Under existing law, the restraining order prohibits the subject of the petition from having in their custody or control, or owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, a firearm or ammunition for a duration of one year, subject to earlier termination or renewal by the court.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1493	California AB 1493 (20192020)	bill	Gun violence restraining order: petition.	enacted	Ting	7	24	8	2019-02-22	2019-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/19cc6d38-5f59-4987-96cf-baac330b7745	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1493	078cad9fc5ea153b5ced8344169bf6283121eafc10ff0280c0053d9e3dec4e82	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1493 (20192020) — Gun violence restraining order: petition.

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. Under existing law, the restraining order prohibits the subject of the petition from having in their custody or control, or owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving, a firearm or ammunition for 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. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1493 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1493 Ting Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1493 Ting By Skinner — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1493 Ting Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-21 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 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
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1479.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2495.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3112.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-17 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 733, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19cc6d38-5f59-4987-96cf-baac330b7745. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).