--- type: "Bill" title: "Vehicles: Electronic Lien and Title (ELT) Program." description: "Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner and a registration card to the registered owner, or both to the registered owner, if there is no legal owner of the vehicle." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20092010" identifier: "AB 1515" citation: "California AB 1515 (20092010)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Vehicles: Electronic Lien and Title (ELT) Program."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Eng"] version_count: 7 action_count: 27 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2009-02-27" last_action: "2009-10-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71d48de9-7cab-4552-b84d-7caab3a5be4a" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515" source_hash: "371d172906a786ad134a6211f83543a75412b082d46afbf6d26020898aebb46b" 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 (20092010) — Vehicles: Electronic Lien and Title (ELT) Program. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner and a registration card to the registered owner, or both to the registered owner, if there is no legal owner of the vehicle. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/27/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515&version=20090AB151599INT) 2. **04/14/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515&version=20090AB151598AMD) 3. **04/29/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515&version=20090AB151597AMD) 4. **06/25/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515&version=20090AB151596AMD) 5. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515&version=20090AB151594CHP) 6. **AB1515** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515) 7. **08/25/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515&version=20090AB151595ENR) ## Votes - Special Consent #13 AB1515 Eng — **pass** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower - AB 1515 ENG Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower - Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower - AB 1515 ENG Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Eng — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2009-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction` - **2009-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30. - **2009-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1` - **2009-04-13** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2009-04-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1` - **2009-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2009-04-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 27). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2009-04-29** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-04-30** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2009-05-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2009-05-26** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1769.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2009-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2009-06-11** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee` - **2009-06-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2009-06-25** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-07-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage` - **2009-07-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2009-07-09** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar. - **2009-07-16** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1767.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2009-07-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2009-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2656.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2009-08-27** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:15 p.m. - **2009-09-08** Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly. - **2009-09-25** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m. - **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 540, Statutes of 2009. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71d48de9-7cab-4552-b84d-7caab3a5be4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).