---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: license plates: motorcycles."
description: "Vehicles: license plates: motorcycles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1515"
citation: "California AB 1515 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: license plates: motorcycles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margett"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "1999-02-26"
last_action: "2000-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b430bf44-f552-406d-a83a-6013c97f1543"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515"
source_hash: "6cb01e5fe265379ece6aafdeb39d0d0734f0c4ae63ba0585a32747e7ef057828"
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 AB 1515 (19992000) — Vehicles: license plates: motorcycles.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515&version=19990AB151599INT)
2. **03/16/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515&version=19990AB151598AMD)
3. **03/29/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515&version=19990AB151597AMD)
4. **06/29/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515&version=19990AB151596AMD)
5. **08/25/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515&version=19990AB151595AMD)
6. **09/29/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515&version=19990AB151593CHP)
7. **AB1515** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515)
8. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1515&version=19990AB151594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1515 MARGETT CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1515 Margett By Morrow — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Margett — primary (person)
- Ackerman — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Baugh — coauthor (person)
- Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Costa — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Cunneen — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Granlund — coauthor (person)
- House — coauthor (person)
- Knight — coauthor (person)
- Knox — coauthor (person)
- Leach — coauthor (person)
- Monteith — coauthor (person)
- Morrow — coauthor (person)
- Mountjoy — coauthor (person)
- Oller — coauthor (person)
- Pescetti — coauthor (person)
- Rainey — coauthor (person)
- Robert Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Zettel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 859, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-15** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2000-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 8925.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-31** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 6398.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-25** Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-24** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **2000-08-18** To inactive file on motion of Senator Morrow.
- **2000-06-29** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2000-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-16** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-02-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-05-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1780.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-17** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-04-20** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-01** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **1999-02-28** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **1999-02-26** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b430bf44-f552-406d-a83a-6013c97f1543`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).