---
type: "Bill"
title: "Automobile sales finance: sellers."
description: "The Rees-Levering Motor Vehicle Sales and Finance Act regulates conditional sales contracts for motor vehicles, and, among other things, requires a person selling or leasing a motor vehicle under a conditional sale contract to disclose certain information to the buyer of the vehicle. A willful violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor and may render the contract unenforceable. A seller who violates the provisions of the act may also be liable to the buyer for monetary damages."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1447"
citation: "California AB 1447 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Automobile sales finance: sellers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feuer"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-01-04"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce106714-df3b-46ff-b765-32f596b669e1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447"
source_hash: "fab6237169f84194dab62e98680f803e39f85221018800911685ddea2f807dc5"
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 1447 (20112012) — Automobile sales finance: sellers.

The Rees-Levering Motor Vehicle Sales and Finance Act regulates conditional sales contracts for motor vehicles, and, among other things, requires a person selling or leasing a motor vehicle under a conditional sale contract to disclose certain information to the buyer of the vehicle. A willful violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor and may render the contract unenforceable. A seller who violates the provisions of the act may also be liable to the buyer for monetary damages.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/04/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447&version=20110AB144799INT)
2. **05/01/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447&version=20110AB144798AMD)
3. **05/22/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447&version=20110AB144797AMD)
4. **06/25/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447&version=20110AB144796AMD)
5. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447&version=20110AB144795AMD)
6. **08/20/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447&version=20110AB144794AMD)
7. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447&version=20110AB144792CHP)
8. **AB1447** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447)
9. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447&version=20110AB144793ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1447 FEUER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **53–25** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **3–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1447 Feuer By Lieu — **22–14** (pass) · upper
- AB 1447 FEUER Assembly Third Reading — **49–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feuer — primary (person)
- Atkins — coauthor (person)
- Dickinson — coauthor (person)
- Evans — coauthor (person)
- Lieu — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-01-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-01-05** From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
- **2012-03-26** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-21** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 5035.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-07** Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-13** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-06-13** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-07-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 4780.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 6380.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 740, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce106714-df3b-46ff-b765-32f596b669e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).