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Bill	Firearms: dealer requirements.	Existing law prohibits any person from selling, leasing, or transferring any firearm unless the person is licensed as a firearms dealer, as specified. Existing law prescribes certain requirements and prohibitions for licensed firearms dealers. A violation of any of these requirements or prohibitions is grounds for forfeiture of a firearms dealer's license.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 241	California SB 241 (20232024)	bill	Firearms dealer requirements	enacted	Min	7	30	9	2023-01-25	2023-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/073ba7c5-e584-4528-b2a4-9ac3897b56e1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB241	90c5fd639cc104c32122850eb55a5a511a941b2c7293c553f762e4a837fff561	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 241 (20232024) — Firearms: dealer requirements.

Existing law prohibits any person from selling, leasing, or transferring any firearm unless the person is licensed as a firearms dealer, as specified. Existing law prescribes certain requirements and prohibitions for licensed firearms dealers. A violation of any of these requirements or prohibitions is grounds for forfeiture of a firearms dealer's license.

Version chain

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

1. 01/25/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/29/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/26/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB241 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB241 Min et al. Concurrence — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• SB 241 Min Senate Third Reading — 60–13 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 241 Min Senate Third Reading By Gipson — 61–14 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 31–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Min — primary (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-25 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-01-26 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 25.
• 2023-02-01 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-02-16 Set for hearing March 14.
• 2023-03-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 341.) (March 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-10 April 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1162.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 1359.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 13. Page 3065.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-08 Action rescinded whereby bill read third time, passed, and ordered to Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-08 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 14. Page 3525.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2823.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 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 250, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/073ba7c5-e584-4528-b2a4-9ac3897b56e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).