republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-53.md

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Bill	Firearms: storage.	Existing law generally regulates the possession of firearms, including imposing storage requirements to prevent children from gaining access to firearms.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 53	California SB 53 (20232024)	bill	Firearms storage	enacted	Portantino	8	30	9	2022-12-05	2024-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/cb8375b0-3b5f-4948-bcfd-c86c1268f2e1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB53	7007f932fde9f4935ce01f20df5646106368b8d14fbdd9064e48da55dc378c03	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 53 (20232024) — Firearms: storage.

Existing law generally regulates the possession of firearms, including imposing storage requirements to prevent children from gaining access to firearms.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/28/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/24/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB53 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB53 Portantino et al. Concurrence — 29–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 53 Portantino Senate Third Reading By McCarty — 51–18 (pass) · lower
• SB 53 Portantino Senate Third Reading By McCarty Amendment Set #1 — 40–16 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 27–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
• Gipson — principal coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• McKinnor — coauthor (person)
• Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Pellerin — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Wahab — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)
• Zbur — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2023-01-18 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-01-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-01-03 Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-01-04 Set for hearing January 9.
• 2024-01-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 2958.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Set for hearing January 16.
• 2024-01-16 January 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-01-17 Set for hearing January 18.
• 2024-01-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3010.) (January 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 3049.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-01-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-04-29 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2024-05-28 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
• 2024-06-04 June 4 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 40. Noes 16. Page 6451.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 18. Page 6541.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-27 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 5510.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 542, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cb8375b0-3b5f-4948-bcfd-c86c1268f2e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).