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Bill	Firearms: gun shows and events.	Existing law generally regulates gun shows and events and requires a person producing, sponsoring, operating, or otherwise organizing a gun show or event to possess a valid certificate of eligibility from the Department of Justice. Existing law requires the producer of a gun show or event to post specified notices at each public entrance to the event, and a specified notice in the parking lot. A violation of this requirement or other requirements is punishable as a misdemeanor and makes a person ineligible for a certificate of eligibility for a period of one year.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2552	California AB 2552 (20212022)	bill	Firearms: gun shows and events.	enacted	McCarty	6	24	7	2022-02-17	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/cfae9576-4eaf-4768-ba92-e9d09594295b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2552	043c215a3c3e9ec565f29e5f13b2dc5588b7f43b398174eff0a6a793be6791fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2552 (20212022) — Firearms: gun shows and events.

Existing law generally regulates gun shows and events and requires a person producing, sponsoring, operating, or otherwise organizing a gun show or event to possess a valid certificate of eligibility from the Department of Justice. Existing law requires the producer of a gun show or event to post specified notices at each public entrance to the event, and a specified notice in the parking lot. A violation of this requirement or other requirements is punishable as a misdemeanor and makes a person ineligible for a certificate of eligibility for a period of one year.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/27/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2552 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2552 McCarty et al. By Min — 31–5 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 2552 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–13 (pass) · lower
• AB 2552 McCarty Assembly Third Reading — 57–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 5). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 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
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. 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 5. Noes 1.) (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 and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 4943.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-23 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 6056.)
• 2022-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 13. Page 6066.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 696, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cfae9576-4eaf-4768-ba92-e9d09594295b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).