---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: dealer requirements."
description: "Existing law prohibits any person from selling, leasing, or transferring any firearm unless the person is licensed as a firearms dealer, as specified. Existing law prescribes certain requirements and prohibitions for licensed firearms dealers. A violation of any of these requirements or prohibitions is grounds for forfeiture of a firearms dealer's license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 1384"
citation: "California SB 1384 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: dealer requirements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Min"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43ab4bef-f734-421d-bf29-485bfd6653ae"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384"
source_hash: "a481487a0cd6f4fe69f430ddc32662c2b9a8fdcee679049d17667630320c7a78"
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 1384 (20212022) — Firearms: dealer requirements.

Existing law prohibits any person from selling, leasing, or transferring any firearm unless the person is licensed as a firearms dealer, as specified. Existing law prescribes certain requirements and prohibitions for licensed firearms dealers. A violation of any of these requirements or prohibitions is grounds for forfeiture of a firearms dealer's license.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384&version=20210SB138499INT)
2. **04/07/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384&version=20210SB138498AMD)
3. **04/25/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384&version=20210SB138497AMD)
4. **06/23/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384&version=20210SB138496AMD)
5. **08/04/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384&version=20210SB138495AMD)
6. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384&version=20210SB138493CHP)
7. **SB1384** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384)
8. **08/18/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1384&version=20210SB138494ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB1384 Min et al. Concurrence — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1384 Min Senate Third Reading By McCarty — **53–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Min — primary (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
- **2022-02-22** From printer.
- **2022-03-09** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2022-04-07** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3440.) (April 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2022-05-09** May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2022-05-13** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3794.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 3875.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-27** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (June 22). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-04** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-04** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 19. Page 5818.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-11** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-16** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 4848.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 995, 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/43ab4bef-f734-421d-bf29-485bfd6653ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).