---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: removal: autonomous vehicles."
description: "Existing law authorizes a peace officer, or a public employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws, to remove a vehicle under specified circumstances, including when the vehicle is found or is operating on the highway with a registration expiration date in excess of 6 months before the date it is found or operated on the highway, or displaying a license plate or registration sticker that was not issued for that vehicle."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 87"
citation: "California AB 87 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: removal: autonomous vehicles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-05"
last_action: "2018-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f536a83b-87f2-4520-a1c3-a878f29673da"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB87"
source_hash: "0090806c68554117376efff15831b3b01495a6855660255267533d2a61db3c06"
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 87 (20172018) — Vehicles: removal: autonomous vehicles.

Existing law authorizes a peace officer, or a public employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws, to remove a vehicle under specified circumstances, including when the vehicle is found or is operating on the highway with a registration expiration date in excess of 6 months before the date it is found or operated on the highway, or displaying a license plate or registration sticker that was not issued for that vehicle.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/05/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB87&version=20170AB8799INT)
2. **01/03/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB87&version=20170AB8798AMD)
3. **06/04/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB87&version=20170AB8797AMD)
4. **08/06/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB87&version=20170AB8796AMD)
5. **09/22/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB87&version=20170AB8794CHP)
6. **AB87** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB87)
7. **08/29/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB87&version=20170AB8795ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB87 Ting et al. By Allen — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 87 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- AB 87 TING Assembly Third Reading — **45–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ting — primary (person)
- Frazier — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-06** From printer. May be heard in committee February 5.
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and C. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-01-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-01-03** Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
- **2018-01-03** (pending re-refer to Com. on C. & C.)
- **2018-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on C. & C. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (January 8). Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (January 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 27. Page 3853.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-04** 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. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5288.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-16** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-23** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 21. Page 6468.)
- **2018-08-23** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 23). `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6667.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 667, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f536a83b-87f2-4520-a1c3-a878f29673da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).