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type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: purchases."
description: "Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from making more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30-day period. Under existing law, a violation of this prohibition is a crime. Existing law exempts from that prohibition a firearms transaction where neither of the parties is a firearms dealer if the transaction is completed through a dealer. Commencing on January 1, 2024, existing law will also apply this limitation to completed frames or receivers and firearm precursor parts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1483"
citation: "California AB 1483 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms", "purchases"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valencia"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f179723-c12a-4efb-9efb-083eb34bdc08"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483"
source_hash: "fabf66033c80bba976dd54d84e4f38639ba006fc91349ab705c354e142a35fb7"
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 1483 (20232024) — Firearms: purchases.
Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person from making more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30-day period. Under existing law, a violation of this prohibition is a crime. Existing law exempts from that prohibition a firearms transaction where neither of the parties is a firearms dealer if the transaction is completed through a dealer. Commencing on January 1, 2024, existing law will also apply this limitation to completed frames or receivers and firearm precursor parts.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483&version=20230AB148399INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483&version=20230AB148398AMD)
3. **04/20/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483&version=20230AB148397AMD)
4. **05/15/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483&version=20230AB148396AMD)
5. **09/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483&version=20230AB148395AMD)
6. **09/26/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483&version=20230AB148393CHP)
7. **AB1483** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483)
8. **09/12/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1483&version=20230AB148394ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB1483 Valencia et al. By Bradford — **299** (pass) · upper
- AB 1483 Valencia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **6216** (pass) · lower
- AB 1483 Valencia Assembly Third Reading — **6214** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **123** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **40** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **51** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Valencia — primary (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — principal coauthor (person)
- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** 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`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1557.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 14. Page 1697.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-31** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2461.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 16. Page 3195.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-15** 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 246, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f179723-c12a-4efb-9efb-083eb34bdc08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).