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type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to a federal constitutional convention."
description: "The measure would apply to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment relating to firearms, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SJR 7"
citation: "California SJR 7 (20232024)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Federal constitutional convention", "firearms"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wahab"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-08-14"
last_action: "2023-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cfdcc2c-15ae-4d61-9b55-d1f64f3efa5b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR7"
source_hash: "e98867047e3ea54437fb6b80d8c5ac16b4405ec0d47ea1ef094f3db87f7114eb"
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 SJR 7 (20232024) — Relative to a federal constitutional convention.
The measure would apply to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment relating to firearms, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **08/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR7&version=20230SJR799INT)
2. **09/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR7&version=20230SJR798AMD)
3. **09/21/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR7&version=20230SJR796CHP)
4. **SJR7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR7)
5. **09/19/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SJR7&version=20230SJR797ENR)
## Votes
- Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — **31** (pass) · upper
- SJR 7 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Jones-Sawyer — **5317** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **52** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SJR7 Wahab et al. — **2411** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Wahab — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Ashby — coauthor (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Cortese — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Glazer — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — author (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-08-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-08-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after September 14.
- **2023-08-16** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-08-16** Set for hearing August 22.
- **2023-08-21** August 22 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-08-22** Set for hearing August 29.
- **2023-08-24** Senate Rules suspended.
- **2023-08-24** (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 2176.)
- **2023-08-29** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 2220.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-01** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-01** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-06** Read third time. `reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-06** Adopted. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 2393.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-09-06** Ordered to the Assembly.
- **2023-09-06** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2023-09-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-12** Assembly Rule 46 and 74(d) suspended.
- **2023-09-12** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2023-09-13** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-14** Read third time. `reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-14** Adopted. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 3601.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2023-09-14** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2023-09-14** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-09-21** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2023-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 175, 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/7cfdcc2c-15ae-4d61-9b55-d1f64f3efa5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).