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Bill	Firearms: prohibited persons.	Under existing law, a person who purchases or receives a firearm, attempts to purchase or receive a firearm, or owns or possesses a firearm knowing that the person is prohibited from doing so by a temporary restraining order, an injunction, or a protective order, as specified, is guilty of a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 164	California AB 164 (20192020)	bill	Firearms: prohibited persons.	enacted	Cervantes	7	26	7	2019-01-07	2019-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/30804209-382e-49fd-8b11-e29b88768ea4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB164	51264f29b5179a065b3d63fe8dbd5f8928a72f94eccfe895f54ca23201c7a8d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 164 (20192020) — Firearms: prohibited persons.

Under existing law, a person who purchases or receives a firearm, attempts to purchase or receive a firearm, or owns or possesses a firearm knowing that the person is prohibited from doing so by a temporary restraining order, an injunction, or a protective order, as specified, is guilty of a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 01/07/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/13/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB164 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB164 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 164 Cervantes Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cervantes — primary (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-08 From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 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
• 2019-02-21 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-02-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-03-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1918.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 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: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2711.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 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 726, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/30804209-382e-49fd-8b11-e29b88768ea4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).