republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2546.md

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Bill	Law enforcement and state agencies: military equipment: funding, acquisition, and use.	Existing federal law authorizes the United States Department of Defense to transfer surplus personal property, including arms and ammunition, to federal or state agencies for use in law enforcement activities, subject to specified conditions, at no cost to the acquiring agency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2546	California AB 2546 (20232024)	bill	Law enforcement and state agencies funding acquisition and use military equipment	enacted	Rendon	4	15	4	2024-02-13	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/8e70db05-c339-4843-a7a9-38f40b8c6927	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2546	c76cd36490714f7497744f7788f6d95c4defcaee400c1da461b0b3728ce2066b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2546 (20232024) — Law enforcement and state agencies: military equipment: funding, acquisition, and use.

Existing federal law authorizes the United States Department of Defense to transfer surplus personal property, including arms and ammunition, to federal or state agencies for use in law enforcement activities, subject to specified conditions, at no cost to the acquiring agency.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB2546 (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2546 Rendon Assembly Third Reading — 58–6 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2546 Rendon By Atkins — 33–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rendon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2024-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-03-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 6. Page 4532.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-01 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (May 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 5222.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 408, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e70db05-c339-4843-a7a9-38f40b8c6927. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).