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Bill	Firearms: purchases.	Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from making more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30-day period. Under existing law, a violation of this prohibition is a crime. Existing law exempts from that prohibition a firearms transaction where neither of the parties is a firearms dealer if the transaction is completed through a dealer. Commencing on January 1, 2024, existing law will also apply this limitation to completed frames or receivers and firearm precursor parts.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1483	California AB 1483 (20232024)	bill	Firearms purchases	enacted	Valencia	8	25	8	2023-02-17	2023-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/5f179723-c12a-4efb-9efb-083eb34bdc08	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483	fabf66033c80bba976dd54d84e4f38639ba006fc91349ab705c354e142a35fb7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1483 (20232024) — Firearms: purchases.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from making more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30-day period. Under existing law, a violation of this prohibition is a crime. Existing law exempts from that prohibition a firearms transaction where neither of the parties is a firearms dealer if the transaction is completed through a dealer. Commencing on January 1, 2024, existing law will also apply this limitation to completed frames or receivers and firearm precursor parts.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/15/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1483 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/12/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1483 Valencia et al. By Bradford — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• AB 1483 Valencia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–16 (pass) · lower
• AB 1483 Valencia Assembly Third Reading — 62–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Valencia — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — principal coauthor (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 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
• 2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1557.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 14. Page 1697.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-31 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2461.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 16. Page 3195.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 246, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f179723-c12a-4efb-9efb-083eb34bdc08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).