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Bill	Firearms: unsafe handguns.	Existing law prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, or transfer of an unsafe handgun, as defined. Existing law exempts from this prohibition sales to specified law enforcement agencies or other specified government agencies for use by specified employees and sales to specified peace officers.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2699	California AB 2699 (20192020)	bill	Firearms: unsafe handguns.	enacted	Santiago	8	26	8	2020-02-20	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/55dbdfdc-00d4-4151-a05c-9d0c113b75d7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2699	2fa2498eed8426be89b18d622ed79c6bdb07bd604ffa7a7e60e6a688a2808a91	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2699 (20192020) — Firearms: unsafe handguns.

Existing law prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, or transfer of an unsafe handgun, as defined. Existing law exempts from this prohibition sales to specified law enforcement agencies or other specified government agencies for use by specified employees and sales to specified peace officers.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/10/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2699 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2699 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2699 Santiago By Portantino — 35–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2699 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 6–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (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.
• 2020-04-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-05-04 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
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-05-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4698.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-08-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2020-08-10 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
• 2020-08-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (August 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5494.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-15 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 289, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55dbdfdc-00d4-4151-a05c-9d0c113b75d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).