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Bill	Firearms: transfers.	Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from making more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30-day period. A violation of that prohibition is a crime. Existing law prohibits a firearms dealer from delivering a handgun to a person whenever the dealer is notified by the Department of Justice that within the preceding 30-day period the purchaser has made another application to purchase a handgun that does not fall within an exception to the 30-day prohibition. A violation of that delivery prohibition by the dealer is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 61	California SB 61 (20192020)	bill	Firearms: transfers.	enacted	Portantino	8	29	8	2019-01-03	2019-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/2840a040-c7bc-4cb7-8b87-24aff6f82f02	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB61	86001ac10e738fc81caa16b82fc8b6e4f67c6964cc3c268f24a3a92a9bc35022	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 61 (20192020) — Firearms: transfers.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from making more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30-day period. A violation of that prohibition is a crime. Existing law prohibits a firearms dealer from delivering a handgun to a person whenever the dealer is notified by the Department of Justice that within the preceding 30-day period the purchaser has made another application to purchase a handgun that does not fall within an exception to the 30-day prohibition. A violation of that delivery prohibition by the dealer is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 01/03/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB61 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/17/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB61 Portantino et al. — 27–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 61 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Maienschein — 55–22 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — principal coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-03 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2019-01-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
• 2019-01-07 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-01-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-06 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2019-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 525.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-22 April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1089.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1220.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 July 10 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 22. Page 3537.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 2938.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
• 2019-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 737, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2840a040-c7bc-4cb7-8b87-24aff6f82f02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).