--- type: "Bill" title: "Vehicles: removal and impoundment." description: "Existing law requires a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if the magistrate is presented with a peace officer's affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer's presence in violation of specified offenses, including, among others, a person who, while operating a motor vehicle and with the intent to evade, willfully flees or otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer's motor vehicle. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, as specified." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20232024" identifier: "AB 3085" citation: "California AB 3085 (20232024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Vehicles", "removal and impoundment"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Gipson"] version_count: 5 action_count: 21 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2024-02-16" last_action: "2024-09-23" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09d6dd35-81e5-487f-b951-49ee92887efc" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085" source_hash: "3e5a44e0dee4c5fc5f3b66f2263d78b64ba46de1de503781922e2dfe99bc6080" 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 3085 (20232024) — Vehicles: removal and impoundment. Existing law requires a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if the magistrate is presented with a peace officer's affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer's presence in violation of specified offenses, including, among others, a person who, while operating a motor vehicle and with the intent to evade, willfully flees or otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer's motor vehicle. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, as specified. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085&version=20230AB308599INT) 2. **04/08/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085&version=20230AB308598AMD) 3. **09/23/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085&version=20230AB308596CHP) 4. **AB3085** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085) 5. **08/23/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085&version=20230AB308597ENR) ## Votes - Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · upper - AB 3085 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — **66–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB3085 Gipson et al. By Cortese — **33–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Gipson — primary (person) - Muratsuchi — author (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18. - **2024-03-11** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2024-04-08** 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-1, reading-2` - **2024-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2024-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-04-18** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. - **2024-04-18** Withdrawn from committee. - **2024-04-18** Ordered to second reading. - **2024-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 5153.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2024-05-22** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB S. `referral-committee` - **2024-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-07-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5268.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-21** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage` - **2024-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m. - **2024-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2024-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 504, 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/09d6dd35-81e5-487f-b951-49ee92887efc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).