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Bill	Firearms.	Existing law requires that a weapon acquired by a specified governmental entity under specified circumstances, including as part of a "gun-buyback" program, be destroyed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2842	California AB 2842 (20232024)	bill	Firearms	enacted	Papan	8	25	8	2024-02-15	2024-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/369ac1d5-9f41-48c5-b3cf-376af120c4bf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2842	f3a685b0b65c6e7a642aa59406024c37fad6096881ec881feb4e2f859227e5fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2842 (20232024) — Firearms.

Existing law requires that a weapon acquired by a specified governmental entity under specified circumstances, including as part of a "gun-buyback" program, be destroyed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/30/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/24/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2842 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2842 Papan et al. By Blakespear — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2842 Papan Consent Calendar Second Day — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2842 Papan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Papan — primary (person)
• Addis — coauthor (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Alanis — coauthor (person)
• Boerner — coauthor (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)
• Flora — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Pacheco — coauthor (person)
• Pellerin — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)
• Valencia — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2024-03-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 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
• 2024-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5161.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-22 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-05-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 537, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/369ac1d5-9f41-48c5-b3cf-376af120c4bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).