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Bill	Firearms: prohibited persons.	Existing law prohibits a person convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. Existing law prohibits a person convicted of certain specified misdemeanors from possessing a firearm for a period of 10 years after that conviction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2239	California AB 2239 (20212022)	bill	Firearms: prohibited persons.	enacted	Maienschein	8	26	7	2022-02-16	2022-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/9f6b9363-808c-4f03-a228-0d7153c10b6d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2239	9abc729011670735b4f29df2887bb473d05b96e0859557eba354b6b0d246182c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2239 (20212022) — Firearms: prohibited persons.

Existing law prohibits a person convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. Existing law prohibits a person convicted of certain specified misdemeanors from possessing a firearm for a period of 10 years after that conviction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/22/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/21/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2239 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2239 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2239 Maienschein Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2239 Maienschein By Durazo — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-10 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4983.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4433.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-06-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2022-07-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-07-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 143, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f6b9363-808c-4f03-a228-0d7153c10b6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).