---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle service contracts."
description: "Existing law provides that an express warranty warranting a motor vehicle lubricant, treatment, fluid, or additive that covers incidental or consequential damage resulting from a failure of the lubricant, treatment, fluid, or additive shall constitute automobile insurance, unless specified requirements are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2354"
citation: "California AB 2354 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle service contracts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-18"
last_action: "2016-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fa12430-e428-47c2-9e50-99a27bc14236"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2354"
source_hash: "2d93cdd191989515878480c7a057a795591f95cbff3181baa6ccc1c448c02fc1"
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 2354 (20152016) — Vehicle service contracts.

Existing law provides that an express warranty warranting a motor vehicle lubricant, treatment, fluid, or additive that covers incidental or consequential damage resulting from a failure of the lubricant, treatment, fluid, or additive shall constitute automobile insurance, unless specified requirements are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2354&version=20150AB235499INT)
2. **04/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2354&version=20150AB235498AMD)
3. **05/25/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2354&version=20150AB235497AMD)
4. **09/16/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2354&version=20150AB235495CHP)
5. **AB2354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2354)
6. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2354&version=20150AB235496ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2354 CALDERON Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2354 Calderon By Roth — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2354 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4785.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-19** Referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-23** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-06-23** Ordered to second reading.
- **2016-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5007.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6114.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 386, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fa12430-e428-47c2-9e50-99a27bc14236`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).