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Bill	Firearms: transfers.	Existing law generally requires any person who sells, leases, or transfers firearms to be a licensed dealer, as specified. Existing law exempts infrequent sales, leases, and transfers from this requirement. Existing law generally prohibits the purchase or receipt of a firearm by, or sale, transfer, or loan of a firearm, to, a person who does not have a firearm safety certificate. Existing law exempts from this requirement, the infrequent loan of a firearm. Existing law defines "infrequent" for purposes of this exemption to mean less than 6 handgun transactions per calendar year, or, for firearms other than handguns, an indefinite number of transactions that are "occasional and without regularity."	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 376	California SB 376 (20192020)	bill	Firearms: transfers.	enacted	Portantino	8	29	8	2019-02-20	2019-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/4b9c2969-ea1a-4420-9155-925433fb5578	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376	866c6b97983b8c8c9fce445da1f4d53380378be842a511fd627f3c3bba06b3db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 376 (20192020) — Firearms: transfers.

Existing law generally requires any person who sells, leases, or transfers firearms to be a licensed dealer, as specified. Existing law exempts infrequent sales, leases, and transfers from this requirement. Existing law generally prohibits the purchase or receipt of a firearm by, or sale, transfer, or loan of a firearm, to, a person who does not have a firearm safety certificate. Existing law exempts from this requirement, the infrequent loan of a firearm. Existing law defines "infrequent" for purposes of this exemption to mean less than 6 handgun transactions per calendar year, or, for firearms other than handguns, an indefinite number of transactions that are "occasional and without regularity."

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB376 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• SB 376 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 57–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB376 Portantino Concurrence — 27–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-06 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2019-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 526.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-22 April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1098.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 1251.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 June 25 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 19. Page 3267.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 2843.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 738, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4b9c2969-ea1a-4420-9155-925433fb5578. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).