---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: vehicle storage."
description: "Existing law requires a person, when leaving a handgun in an unattended vehicle, to lock the handgun in the vehicle's trunk, lock the handgun in a locked container and place the container out of plain view, or lock the handgun in a locked container that is permanently affixed to the vehicle's interior and not in plain view."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 1382"
citation: "California SB 1382 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: vehicle storage."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vidak"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3ba31b7-cf73-4175-938f-3117d9120425"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1382"
source_hash: "8271373d5f44fa08719e82d1f12e212c20a76017b006e3180cf54848b2c215d5"
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 SB 1382 (20172018) — Firearms: vehicle storage.

Existing law requires a person, when leaving a handgun in an unattended vehicle, to lock the handgun in the vehicle's trunk, lock the handgun in a locked container and place the container out of plain view, or lock the handgun in a locked container that is permanently affixed to the vehicle's interior and not in plain view.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1382&version=20170SB138299INT)
2. **07/09/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1382&version=20170SB138297CHP)
3. **SB1382** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1382)
4. **06/21/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1382&version=20170SB138298ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar SB1382 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1382 Vidak Consent Calendar Second Day — **80–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vidak — primary (person)
- Gaines — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-03** Set for hearing April 17.
- **2018-04-17** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4700.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4764.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-12** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5860.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-19** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2018-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2018-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 94, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3ba31b7-cf73-4175-938f-3117d9120425`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).