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Bill	Firearms: requirements for licensed dealers.	Existing law regulates licensed firearms dealers and provides that a license is subject to forfeiture for a breach of specified prohibitions in existing law. Existing law authorizes the temporary transfer of a firearm without a firearms dealer's participation to a person who is 18 years of age or older for safekeeping to prevent it from being used to attempt suicide, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 368	California SB 368 (20232024)	bill	Firearms requirements for licensed dealers	enacted	Portantino	7	28	8	2023-02-08	2023-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/8e55248a-6517-476a-a1bd-b22e9e41a6f7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB368	3b164b0924e9f4efd7345ff92f2c49fa5785b2d5513bf23ebcf49e9448be93e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 368 (20232024) — Firearms: requirements for licensed dealers.

Existing law regulates licensed firearms dealers and provides that a license is subject to forfeiture for a breach of specified prohibitions in existing law. Existing law authorizes the temporary transfer of a firearm without a firearms dealer's participation to a person who is 18 years of age or older for safekeeping to prevent it from being used to attempt suicide, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/29/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/07/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/26/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB368 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 368 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 62–15 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB368 Portantino et al. — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB368 Portantino et al. Concurrence — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Padilla — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-08 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-09 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 11.
• 2023-02-15 Referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-02 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2023-03-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 579.) (March 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2023-04-17 April 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1167.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 1253.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 3010.)
• 2023-09-07 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 3156.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2674.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 251, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e55248a-6517-476a-a1bd-b22e9e41a6f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).