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California AB 1594 (20212022) — Firearms: civil suits.

Existing law generally regulates the transfer and possession of firearms. Existing law also provides for various private rights of action. Existing law also provides that specified unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices are unlawful. Existing law also makes false advertising unlawful.

Version chain

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

1. 01/03/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/20/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/23/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/12/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1594 (committee substitute) — source
8. 06/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1594 Ting et al. By Hertzberg — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1594 Ting Assembly Third Reading — 50–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — author (person)
• Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Mia Bonta — principal coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Ward — author (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-01-04 From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-20 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Assembly Rule 69(b) suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 18. Page 4844.)
• 2022-05-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4845.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 20.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 4432.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-27 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2022-06-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2022-07-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-07-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 98, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f23cf2bc-e784-48e7-bdf4-a7cdc043cf4d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).