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Bill	Firearms: public safety.	Existing law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who has been convicted of certain misdemeanors may not, within 10 years of the conviction, own, purchase, receive, possess or have under their custody or control, any firearm and makes a violation of that prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 902	California SB 902 (20232024)	bill	Firearms public safety	enacted	Roth	7	26	8	2024-01-03	2024-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/ed6b997d-7783-4483-af07-c77ab6e5cacc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB902	eca82dffe947e7741f0ca24177a44643eeaefd7bfba7bc53b241aa4a94b9353e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 902 (20232024) — Firearms: public safety.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who has been convicted of certain misdemeanors may not, within 10 years of the conviction, own, purchase, receive, possess or have under their custody or control, any firearm and makes a violation of that prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.

Version chain

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

1. 01/03/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/24/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB902 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 902 Roth Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB902 Roth et al. Concurrence — 37–3 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB902 Roth et al. — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Roth — primary (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-03 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 3.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2024-03-13 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
• 2024-04-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3449.) (April 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, 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 6. Noes 1. Page 3963.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 4058.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). 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
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6713.) 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 37. Noes 3. Page 5636.) 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 545, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ed6b997d-7783-4483-af07-c77ab6e5cacc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).