republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-228.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms."
description: "Existing law authorizes the licensing authority of a city, county, or a city and county to grant licenses to sell firearms at retail within the city, county, or city and county. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain a list of licensed firearms dealers. Existing law authorizes the department to inspect dealers to ensure compliance with specified provisions of firearms law and to assess an annual fee to cover the reasonable costs of maintaining the dealer list and conducting inspections. Existing law exempts a dealer located in a jurisdiction that has adopted an inspection program to ensure compliance with firearms law from that portion of the department's fee that relates to the cost of inspections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 228"
citation: "California AB 228 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2022-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27d56169-58d7-4879-a108-6b830efe2a9b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB228"
source_hash: "d890951571f1018d90c5f616a52453445bd8d1efe8c1b74b000ce0cccf98b22a"
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 228 (20212022) — Firearms.

Existing law authorizes the licensing authority of a city, county, or a city and county to grant licenses to sell firearms at retail within the city, county, or city and county. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain a list of licensed firearms dealers. Existing law authorizes the department to inspect dealers to ensure compliance with specified provisions of firearms law and to assess an annual fee to cover the reasonable costs of maintaining the dealer list and conducting inspections. Existing law exempts a dealer located in a jurisdiction that has adopted an inspection program to ensure compliance with firearms law from that portion of the department's fee that relates to the cost of inspections.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/12/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB228&version=20210AB22899INT)
2. **01/03/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB228&version=20210AB22898AMD)
3. **01/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB228&version=20210AB22897AMD)
4. **07/21/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB228&version=20210AB22895CHP)
5. **AB228** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB228)
6. **06/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB228&version=20210AB22896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 228 Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB228 Rodriguez By Hurtado — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-13** From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2022-01-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (January 20). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 3434.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 31). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4432.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2022-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 138, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27d56169-58d7-4879-a108-6b830efe2a9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).