Existing law authorizes the licensing authority of a city, county, or a city and county to grant licenses to sell firearms at retail within the city, county, or city and county. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain a list of licensed firearms dealers. Existing law authorizes the department to inspect dealers to ensure compliance with specified provisions of firearms law and to assess an annual fee to cover the reasonable costs of maintaining the dealer list and conducting inspections. Existing law exempts a dealer located in a jurisdiction that has adopted an inspection program to ensure compliance with firearms law from that portion of the department's fee that relates to the cost of inspections.
Existing law authorizes the licensing authority of a city, county, or a city and county to grant licenses to sell firearms at retail within the city, county, or city and county. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain a list of licensed firearms dealers. Existing law authorizes the department to inspect dealers to ensure compliance with specified provisions of firearms law and to assess an annual fee to cover the reasonable costs of maintaining the dealer list and conducting inspections. Existing law exempts a dealer located in a jurisdiction that has adopted an inspection program to ensure compliance with firearms law from that portion of the department's fee that relates to the cost of inspections.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Rodriguez — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-01-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2021-01-13 From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2021-03-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2022-01-03 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
2022-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-01-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-01-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (January 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2022-01-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2022-01-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-01-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 3434.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-02-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-06-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 31). 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
2022-06-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4432.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-06-27 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
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 138, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27d56169-58d7-4879-a108-6b830efe2a9b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).