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Bill	Gun violence restraining orders: law enforcement procedures.	Existing law authorizes a law enforcement officer to request, and a judicial officer to issue on an ex parte basis, a temporary emergency gun violence restraining order that prohibits a person from having custody or control of any firearms or ammunition if the person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or another by having a firearm or ammunition. Existing law establishes a civil restraining order process to accomplish that purpose.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 339	California AB 339 (20192020)	bill	Gun violence restraining orders: law enforcement procedures.	enacted	Irwin	6	24	8	2019-01-31	2019-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/0a78a255-4ff2-4d92-942c-9467ea42c727	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB339	e24b92ddf0558ff1c1c983e65ee7b4cccb6c8c03ca93ee88cc5bad29ce6a26d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 339 (20192020) — Gun violence restraining orders: law enforcement procedures.

Existing law authorizes a law enforcement officer to request, and a judicial officer to issue on an ex parte basis, a temporary emergency gun violence restraining order that prohibits a person from having custody or control of any firearms or ammunition if the person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to themselves or another by having a firearm or ammunition. Existing law establishes a civil restraining order process to accomplish that purpose.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/11/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB339 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 339 Irwin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB339 Irwin et al. By Stern — 34–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 339 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — 68–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2019-02-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-06 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
• 2019-03-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 1.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 1. Page 1795.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (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
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 4. Page 2697.). 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 72. Noes 0. Page 3293.). 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 727, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0a78a255-4ff2-4d92-942c-9467ea42c727. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).