Existing law prohibits a person who has been taken into custody, assessed, and admitted to a designated facility, or who has been certified for intensive treatment after having been admitted to a designated facility, because the person is a danger to themselves or others as a result of a mental health disorder, from owning a firearm, as specified. Existing law also prohibits a person who has been adjudicated to be a danger to others as a result of a mental disorder or mental illness, or who has been adjudicated to be a mentally disordered sex offender, a person who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of committing specified crimes, a person found by a court to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, or a person who has been placed under conservatorship by a court because the person is gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism from purchasing or receiving, or attempting to purchase or receive, or having possession, custody, or control of a firearm or any other deadly weapon. A violation of these prohibitions is a crime.
California SB 1002 (20232024) — Firearms: prohibited persons.
Existing law prohibits a person who has been taken into custody, assessed, and admitted to a designated facility, or who has been certified for intensive treatment after having been admitted to a designated facility, because the person is a danger to themselves or others as a result of a mental health disorder, from owning a firearm, as specified. Existing law also prohibits a person who has been adjudicated to be a danger to others as a result of a mental disorder or mental illness, or who has been adjudicated to be a mentally disordered sex offender, a person who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of committing specified crimes, a person found by a court to be mentally incompetent to stand trial, or a person who has been placed under conservatorship by a court because the person is gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism from purchasing or receiving, or attempting to purchase or receive, or having possession, custody, or control of a firearm or any other deadly weapon. A violation of these prohibitions is a crime.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1002 Blakespear Senate Third Reading By Zbur — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB1002 Blakespear et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Special Consent SB1002 Blakespear et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Blakespear — primary (person)
Boerner — coauthor (person)
Davies — coauthor (person)
Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-01 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
2024-02-28 Set for hearing March 19.
2024-03-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-03-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3351.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
2024-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
2024-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3967.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-20 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4178.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2024-06-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6718.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2024-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5675.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2024-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 526, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4d0a5f7-7fd7-48b7-a272-f3e662031859. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).