Currently, private employers can bar employees from storing guns in personal vehicles parked in the employer’s parking lots. They also can ban all firearms, permit firearms, or place conditions on possession of firearms on their property.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, the new law provides that public and private employers that receive public funds from federal or state governments, regardless of whether the funds are for contractual services, grants, or another reason, and irrespective of the amount of such funding, shall not:

(a) Prohibit an employee who may legally possess a firearm from storing a firearm or ammunition in the employee’s vehicle while entering or exiting the employer’s property or while the vehicle is parked on the employer’s property as long as the vehicle is locked, and the firearm or ammunition is not visible.

(b) Take any adverse action against any employee who stores a firearm or ammunition in accordance with this section. 

All employers are prohibited from requiring an employee to disclose whether the employee is storing a firearm or ammunition in their vehicle. An employer may not search or require a search of an employee’s vehicle for a firearm or ammunition, except by a law enforcement officer pursuant to a warrant or a recognized exception to the warrant requirement.