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Bill	Body armor: prohibition.	Existing law makes it a felony for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to purchase, own, or possess body armor. Existing law authorizes a person subject to that prohibition, whose employment, livelihood, or safety is dependent on the ability to legally possess and use body armor, to file a petition for an exception to the prohibition with the chief of police or county sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the person seeks to possess and use the body armor, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 92	California AB 92 (20232024)	bill	Body armor prohibition	enacted	Connolly	8	28	8	2023-01-05	2023-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/52cdb6c1-630f-465c-9e01-1de33cd8ee7b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB92	7cd3be1de376cb14d5e2941c994969a8bb2eff30aa9f1ec05208cbb517f584ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 92 (20232024) — Body armor: prohibition.

Existing law makes it a felony for a person who has been convicted of a violent felony to purchase, own, or possess body armor. Existing law authorizes a person subject to that prohibition, whose employment, livelihood, or safety is dependent on the ability to legally possess and use body armor, to file a petition for an exception to the prohibition with the chief of police or county sheriff of the jurisdiction in which the person seeks to possess and use the body armor, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 01/05/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/21/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB92 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 92 Connolly Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–12 (pass) · lower
• AB 92 Connolly Assembly Third Reading — 58–13 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB92 Connolly et al. By Umberg — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Connolly — primary (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-01-06 From printer. May be heard in committee February 5.
• 2023-01-26 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-01-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-02-21 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
• 2023-02-22 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-02-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (February 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-01 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 13. Page 1705.) 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
• 2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 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
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 2728.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 12. Page 3533.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 232, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52cdb6c1-630f-465c-9e01-1de33cd8ee7b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).