--- type: "Bill" title: "Vehicle removal." description: "Existing law authorizes a peace officer or a regularly employed and salaried employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations to remove a vehicle when, among other things, the officer arrests a person driving or in control of a vehicle for an alleged offense, and the officer is, by the Vehicle Code or other law, required or permitted to take, and does take, the person into custody." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "AB 875" citation: "California AB 875 (20252026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Vehicleremoval"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"] version_count: 8 action_count: 24 vote_count: 7 first_action: "2025-02-19" last_action: "2025-10-01" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75644e9f-2b68-46b5-a313-fffe889cb6ba" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875" source_hash: "65e6cadd79581186a22a0ec97f21685bd0f0881e83123e6d1eed14b29e8d44db" 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 875 (20252026) — Vehicle removal. Existing law authorizes a peace officer or a regularly employed and salaried employee who is engaged in directing traffic or enforcing parking laws and regulations to remove a vehicle when, among other things, the officer arrests a person driving or in control of a vehicle for an alleged offense, and the officer is, by the Vehicle Code or other law, required or permitted to take, and does take, the person into custody. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875&version=20250AB87599INT) 2. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875&version=20250AB87598AMD) 3. **06/11/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875&version=20250AB87597AMD) 4. **06/25/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875&version=20250AB87596AMD) 5. **07/10/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875&version=20250AB87595AMD) 6. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875&version=20250AB87593CHP) 7. **AB875** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875) 8. **09/02/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB875&version=20250AB87594ENR) ## Votes - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower - AB 875 Muratsuchi Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower - AB 875 Muratsuchi Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower - Consent Calendar 2nd AB875 Muratsuchi et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Muratsuchi — primary (person) - Davies — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22. - **2025-03-28** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-21** 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` - **2025-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1663.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2025-06-04** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2025-06-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-06-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-07-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2025-07-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2025-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2762.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 168, Statutes of 2025. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75644e9f-2b68-46b5-a313-fffe889cb6ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).