---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: local registration fees."
description: "Existing law authorizes a county, upon the adoption of a resolution by its board of supervisors, to impose a specified fee, in addition to other fees imposed for the registration of a vehicle, to be expended in part to fund programs to deter, investigate, and prosecute vehicle theft crimes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2536"
citation: "California AB 2536 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles", "local registration fees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hoover"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-13"
last_action: "2024-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/710c1ad0-b5aa-4e93-8d0b-4905ffedbcc4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2536"
source_hash: "82998fd0a19f8f3ae6511e4ed354ff7d9a0b6160224b95126b18011b455e8c73"
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 2536 (20232024) — Vehicles: local registration fees.

Existing law authorizes a county, upon the adoption of a resolution by its board of supervisors, to impose a specified fee, in addition to other fees imposed for the registration of a vehicle, to be expended in part to fund programs to deter, investigate, and prosecute vehicle theft crimes.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2536&version=20230AB253699INT)
2. **06/14/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2536&version=20230AB253697CHP)
3. **AB2536** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2536)
4. **06/07/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2536&version=20230AB253698ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2536 Hoover Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hoover — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2024-03-21** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-11** From Consent Calendar by request of Assembly Member Essayli. To Third Reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4776.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-30** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4354.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2024-06-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 16, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/710c1ad0-b5aa-4e93-8d0b-4905ffedbcc4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).