---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: impoundment: storage notices."
description: "Vehicles: impoundment: storage notices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 616"
citation: "California AB 616 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: impoundment: storage notices."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vargas"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2003-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77df2ce2-71ef-4271-8992-fac9a9a06352"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB616"
source_hash: "e1815463262a779a63ba5d3cc534a69afda24cde564b89cec6f21f197647362c"
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 616 (20032004) — Vehicles: impoundment: storage notices.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB616&version=20030AB61699INT)
2. **04/21/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB616&version=20030AB61698AMD)
3. **09/02/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB616&version=20030AB61697AMD)
4. **09/30/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB616&version=20030AB61695CHP)
5. **AB616** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB616)
6. **09/09/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB616&version=20030AB61696ENR)

## Votes

- ab 616 vargas special consent calendar 2nd day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- special consent cale ab616 vargas — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 616 vargas assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vargas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 622, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2003-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3677.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2003-09-04** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2349.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-08-18** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2003-07-09** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-24** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 28). Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1965.) `passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-3, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Transportation Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-02-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2003-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77df2ce2-71ef-4271-8992-fac9a9a06352`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).