---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: registration: reissuance fee exemption: military."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to suspend, cancel, or revoke the registration of a vehicle where the financial responsibility requirements have not been met. The person seeking reinstatement of the vehicle registration is required to pay a fee sufficient to pay the cost of the reissuance as determined by the department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 425"
citation: "California AB 425 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: registration: reissuance fee exemption: military."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cook"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-23"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82a0b142-1d02-419d-b665-3a16bb9d23cd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB425"
source_hash: "e18bb9fccc892ded42ce0d8b09f1a739cdbde4d99adb54be8833422a91947d03"
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 425 (20092010) — Vehicles: registration: reissuance fee exemption: military.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to suspend, cancel, or revoke the registration of a vehicle where the financial responsibility requirements have not been met. The person seeking reinstatement of the vehicle registration is required to pay a fee sufficient to pay the cost of the reissuance as determined by the department.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB425&version=20090AB42599INT)
2. **04/21/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB425&version=20090AB42598AMD)
3. **08/06/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB425&version=20090AB42596CHP)
4. **AB425** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB425)
5. **07/13/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB425&version=20090AB42597ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 425 COOK Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #12 AB425 Cook — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cook — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2009-03-09** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-20** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-11** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1468.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-02** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-07-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1668.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-07-09** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-07-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2009-08-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 107, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82a0b142-1d02-419d-b665-3a16bb9d23cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).