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Bill	Domestic violence protective orders: possession of a firearm.	(1) Existing law prohibits a person subject to a protective order, as defined, from owning, possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition while that protective order is in effect and makes a willful and knowing violation of a protective order a crime. Existing law requires the court, when issuing the order with both parties present, to inform the parties of this information and to order the restrained person to relinquish any firearm in the person's immediate possession or control or subject to their immediate possession or control. Existing law specifies the means of relinquishment if the law enforcement officer serving the protective order does not request the immediate surrender of the firearm, including, surrender to law enforcement, or by selling the firearm to a licensed gun dealer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 320	California SB 320 (20212022)	bill	Domestic violence protective orders: possession of a firearm.	enacted	Eggman	8	36	10	2021-02-04	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/5d97670a-6a46-41f4-a0dd-83be3628af65	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB320	dbad98baaa4729ce0a6b54f96946c769cccdbc5e91b8f56d8300aa57464fddb2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 320 (20212022) — Domestic violence protective orders: possession of a firearm.

(1) Existing law prohibits a person subject to a protective order, as defined, from owning, possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition while that protective order is in effect and makes a willful and knowing violation of a protective order a crime. Existing law requires the court, when issuing the order with both parties present, to inform the parties of this information and to order the restrained person to relinquish any firearm in the person's immediate possession or control or subject to their immediate possession or control. Existing law specifies the means of relinquishment if the law enforcement officer serving the protective order does not request the immediate surrender of the firearm, including, surrender to law enforcement, or by selling the firearm to a licensed gun dealer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/04/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/08/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB320 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 320 Eggman Senate Third Reading By Blanca Rubio — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB320 Eggman et al. By Rubio Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB320 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eggman — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Blanca Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-04 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-05 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7.
• 2021-02-17 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-25 Set for hearing March 9.
• 2021-03-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 424.) (March 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-12 Set for hearing March 23.
• 2021-03-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 590.) (March 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2021-04-20 April 19 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1187.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1344.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-23 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Chau.
• 2021-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-08-30 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-30 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3015.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2610.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 685, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5d97670a-6a46-41f4-a0dd-83be3628af65. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).