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Bill	Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.	Existing law allows a court to issue an order restraining an individual from possessing a firearm for the duration of the order. Existing law allows the court to issue a temporary emergency gun violence restraining order on an ex parte basis if the possession of a firearm by the subject of the petition poses an immediate and present danger. Existing law requires a law enforcement officer who requests a temporary emergency gun violence restraining order to take certain steps, including filing a copy of the order with the court as soon as practicable after issuance.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2617	California AB 2617 (20192020)	bill	Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.	enacted	Gabriel	7	26	8	2020-02-20	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/b2dc21ce-cae6-490d-86c9-6ccf797697e5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2617	299c44d1b7070ac45ceb5b774fa365a4258b1b71a487f3f1b2621d2ab65d4ccf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2617 (20192020) — Firearms: gun violence restraining orders.

Existing law allows a court to issue an order restraining an individual from possessing a firearm for the duration of the order. Existing law allows the court to issue a temporary emergency gun violence restraining order on an ex parte basis if the possession of a firearm by the subject of the petition poses an immediate and present danger. Existing law requires a law enforcement officer who requests a temporary emergency gun violence restraining order to take certain steps, including filing a copy of the order with the court as soon as practicable after issuance.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/06/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/09/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/28/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2617 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2617 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2617 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB2617 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gabriel — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — principal coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2020-03-02 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-03-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-06 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
• 2020-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-05-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4769.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-07-09 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
• 2020-07-28 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
• 2020-08-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 31). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4382.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5357.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 286, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2dc21ce-cae6-490d-86c9-6ccf797697e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).