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type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: gun shows and events."
description: "Existing law generally regulates gun shows and events and requires a person producing, sponsoring, operating, or otherwise organizing a gun show or event to possess a valid certificate of eligibility from the Department of Justice. Existing law requires the producer of a gun show or event to post specified notices at each public entrance to the event, and a specified notice in the parking lot. A violation of this requirement or other requirements is punishable as a misdemeanor and makes a person ineligible for a certificate of eligibility for a period of one year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2552"
citation: "California AB 2552 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: gun shows and events."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-02-17"
last_action: "2022-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfae9576-4eaf-4768-ba92-e9d09594295b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2552"
source_hash: "043c215a3c3e9ec565f29e5f13b2dc5588b7f43b398174eff0a6a793be6791fd"
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 2552 (20212022) — Firearms: gun shows and events.
Existing law generally regulates gun shows and events and requires a person producing, sponsoring, operating, or otherwise organizing a gun show or event to possess a valid certificate of eligibility from the Department of Justice. Existing law requires the producer of a gun show or event to post specified notices at each public entrance to the event, and a specified notice in the parking lot. A violation of this requirement or other requirements is punishable as a misdemeanor and makes a person ineligible for a certificate of eligibility for a period of one year.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/17/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2552&version=20210AB255299INT)
2. **04/07/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2552&version=20210AB255298AMD)
3. **06/27/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2552&version=20210AB255297AMD)
4. **09/28/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2552&version=20210AB255295CHP)
5. **AB2552** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2552)
6. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2552&version=20210AB255296ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **51** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2552 McCarty et al. By Min — **315** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **124** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **52** (pass) · lower
- AB 2552 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **5813** (pass) · lower
- AB 2552 McCarty Assembly Third Reading — **5714** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **50** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- McCarty — primary (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2022-03-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 5). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. Page 4983.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (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 and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 4943.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-23** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 6056.)
- **2022-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 13. Page 6066.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 696, 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/cfae9576-4eaf-4768-ba92-e9d09594295b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).