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Bill	Firearms.	Existing law, subject to exceptions, generally makes it an offense to manufacture or sell an unsafe handgun, as defined, and requires the Department of Justice to compile a roster listing all of the handguns that have been tested and determined not to be unsafe handguns. Existing law establishes criteria for determining if a handgun is an unsafe handgun, including, for firearms manufactured after a certain date and not already listed on the roster, the lack of a chamber load indicator, magazine disconnect mechanism, and technology that transfers a microscopic array of characters from the firearm to the cartridge case when the firearm is fired, known as a microstamp.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 452	California SB 452 (20232024)	bill	Firearms	enacted	Blakespear	9	30	8	2023-02-13	2023-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/e19fb7c4-daa3-4af0-af5c-2169dec91683	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB452	0034eb18ad2b032e6d9dc8dcbbc9bb10b50139c8a9e30a0adfa2577b49acda0c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 452 (20232024) — Firearms.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, generally makes it an offense to manufacture or sell an unsafe handgun, as defined, and requires the Department of Justice to compile a roster listing all of the handguns that have been tested and determined not to be unsafe handguns. Existing law establishes criteria for determining if a handgun is an unsafe handgun, including, for firearms manufactured after a certain date and not already listed on the roster, the lack of a chamber load indicator, magazine disconnect mechanism, and technology that transfers a microscopic array of characters from the firearm to the cartridge case when the firearm is fired, known as a microstamp.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/26/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB452 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB452 Blakespear et al. Concurrence — 30–9 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB452 Blakespear et al. — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 452 Blakespear Senate Third Reading By Maienschein — 55–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 803.) (April 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2023-05-01 May 1 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 1171.) (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
• 2023-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1280.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered 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. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 3430.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2843.) 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 253, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e19fb7c4-daa3-4af0-af5c-2169dec91683. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).