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type: "Bill"
title: "Firearms: transfers."
description: "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.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 376"
citation: "California SB 376 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms: transfers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b9c2969-ea1a-4420-9155-925433fb5578"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376"
source_hash: "866c6b97983b8c8c9fce445da1f4d53380378be842a511fd627f3c3bba06b3db"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376&version=20190SB37699INT)
2. **03/25/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376&version=20190SB37698AMD)
3. **05/17/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376&version=20190SB37697AMD)
4. **06/11/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376&version=20190SB37696AMD)
5. **09/06/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376&version=20190SB37695AMD)
6. **10/11/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376&version=20190SB37693CHP)
7. **SB376** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376)
8. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB376&version=20190SB37694ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading — **269** (pass) · upper
- SB 376 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — **5719** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **42** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **51** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **71** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB376 Portantino Concurrence — **2712** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **144** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b9c2969-ea1a-4420-9155-925433fb5578`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).