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type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: prohibited persons."
description: "Existing law makes it a crime for a person to own or possess a firearm if the person has an outstanding warrant for a felony or a warrant for one of several specified misdemeanors. Existing law makes these crimes inapplicable to a person who did not have knowledge of the outstanding warrant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 723"
citation: "California SB 723 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: prohibited persons."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2020-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/507a28d2-bdc9-4107-8e53-d8abbfe20574"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB723"
source_hash: "1a70d2f80cd5a970a06fa264d0d30be745738388254d77cb9863385e168177fd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 723 (20192020) — Firearms: prohibited persons.
Existing law makes it a crime for a person to own or possess a firearm if the person has an outstanding warrant for a felony or a warrant for one of several specified misdemeanors. Existing law makes these crimes inapplicable to a person who did not have knowledge of the outstanding warrant.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB723&version=20190SB72399INT)
2. **01/06/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB723&version=20190SB72398AMD)
3. **01/07/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB723&version=20190SB72397AMD)
4. **09/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB723&version=20190SB72395CHP)
5. **SB723** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB723)
6. **09/03/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB723&version=20190SB72396ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar SB723 — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **80** (pass) · lower
- SB 723 Jones Consent Calendar Second Day — **750** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jones — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-03** Set for hearing January 14 in PUB. S. pending receipt.
- **2020-01-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-06** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-07** 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`
- **2020-01-14** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3087.) (January 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-01-15** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3117.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-01-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-27** August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-08-06** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5277.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2020-09-09** 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 306, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/507a28d2-bdc9-4107-8e53-d8abbfe20574`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).