--- type: "Bill" title: "Vehicles: towed vehicles." description: "Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle from a tow truck to document specified information, including the make, model, and license plate or vehicle identification number of the vehicle. Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle to obtain the specified information from the towing company the next day if the vehicle was dropped off after hours. Existing law requires the information to be maintained for 3 years and to be made available for inspection and copying within 48 hours of a written request by any officer or agent of a police department, a sheriff's department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Attorney General's office, the Bureau of Automotive Repair, a district attorney's office, or a city attorney's office. A willful violation of these requirements is a misdemeanor, as specified." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20152016" identifier: "AB 2167" citation: "California AB 2167 (20152016)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Vehicles: towed vehicles."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Achadjian"] version_count: 7 action_count: 25 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2016-02-17" last_action: "2016-09-23" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a5382ef-aeef-482e-bc99-5449727864a1" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167" source_hash: "1d063fb78766a97a45af470d9acc76a4c60f6ae08023fd5db6299238c944c801" 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 2167 (20152016) — Vehicles: towed vehicles. Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle from a tow truck to document specified information, including the make, model, and license plate or vehicle identification number of the vehicle. Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle to obtain the specified information from the towing company the next day if the vehicle was dropped off after hours. Existing law requires the information to be maintained for 3 years and to be made available for inspection and copying within 48 hours of a written request by any officer or agent of a police department, a sheriff's department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Attorney General's office, the Bureau of Automotive Repair, a district attorney's office, or a city attorney's office. A willful violation of these requirements is a misdemeanor, as specified. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/17/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167&version=20150AB216799INT) 2. **03/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167&version=20150AB216798AMD) 3. **04/12/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167&version=20150AB216797AMD) 4. **06/21/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167&version=20150AB216796AMD) 5. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167&version=20150AB216794CHP) 6. **AB2167** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167) 7. **08/19/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167&version=20150AB216795ENR) ## Votes - Do pass — **11–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower - AB 2167 ACHADJIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower - AB 2167 ACHADJIAN Assembly Third Reading — **80–0** (pass) · lower - Special Consent — **37–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Achadjian — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2016-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2016-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19. - **2016-03-17** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2016-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1` - **2016-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2016-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1` - **2016-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2016-04-19** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2016-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2016-04-25** From Consent Calendar. - **2016-04-25** Ordered to third reading. - **2016-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5078.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2016-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee` - **2016-06-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2016-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1` - **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2016-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2016-08-03** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2016-08-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4879.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2016-08-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2016-08-18** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5871.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2016-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m. - **2016-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2016-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 518, Statutes of 2016. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a5382ef-aeef-482e-bc99-5449727864a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).