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type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: unserialized firearms."
description: "Existing law requires a person that is manufacturing a firearm or assembling a firearm from unserialized components, to apply to the Department of Justice for a unique mark of identification and to affix that mark to the firearm, as specified. Existing law prohibits a person, corporation, or firm from knowingly manufacturing or assembling, or to knowingly cause, allow, facilitate, aid, or abet the manufacture or assembling of, a firearm that is not imprinted with a valid state or federal serial number or mark of identification. Under existing law, a person who knowingly possesses a firearm that does not have a valid state or federal serial number or mark of identification is guilty of a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 97"
citation: "California AB 97 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms", "unserialized firearms"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dda526e-aacd-4741-bd8a-c9a4e19a4e9c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB97"
source_hash: "57760f21fd4b7d6f0ee6635081577650e4ef161a7a4fdecd45961dc329be3085"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 97 (20232024) — Firearms: unserialized firearms.
Existing law requires a person that is manufacturing a firearm or assembling a firearm from unserialized components, to apply to the Department of Justice for a unique mark of identification and to affix that mark to the firearm, as specified. Existing law prohibits a person, corporation, or firm from knowingly manufacturing or assembling, or to knowingly cause, allow, facilitate, aid, or abet the manufacture or assembling of, a firearm that is not imprinted with a valid state or federal serial number or mark of identification. Under existing law, a person who knowingly possesses a firearm that does not have a valid state or federal serial number or mark of identification is guilty of a misdemeanor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB97&version=20230AB9799INT)
2. **03/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB97&version=20230AB9798AMD)
3. **09/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB97&version=20230AB9797AMD)
4. **09/26/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB97&version=20230AB9795CHP)
5. **AB97** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB97)
6. **09/12/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB97&version=20230AB9796ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · lower
- AB 97 Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **800** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **60** (pass) · upper
- AB 97 Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — **770** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-02-28** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-03-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 7). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1748.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-07** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (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 6. Noes 0.) (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`
- **2023-09-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2435.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-09-07** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3011.)
- **2023-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3174.). `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 233, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dda526e-aacd-4741-bd8a-c9a4e19a4e9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).