---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: conditional sale contracts."
description: "(1) Existing law imposes various licensing and regulatory requirements on dealers of motor vehicles and requires that certain fees and charges be disclosed in a conditional sale contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle. A violation of the disclosure requirements for conditional sales contracts is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2502"
citation: "California AB 2502 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: conditional sale contracts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blumenfield"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/411f40c9-fd76-432c-92b3-37105627b8d7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502"
source_hash: "556dd20acf0f384cb9480e47aef64d80f74f68ed24f3b1d554fbc57a71afec05"
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 2502 (20112012) — Vehicles: conditional sale contracts.

(1) Existing law imposes various licensing and regulatory requirements on dealers of motor vehicles and requires that certain fees and charges be disclosed in a conditional sale contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle. A violation of the disclosure requirements for conditional sales contracts is a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502&version=20110AB250299INT)
2. **03/22/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502&version=20110AB250298AMD)
3. **05/08/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502&version=20110AB250297AMD)
4. **08/20/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502&version=20110AB250296AMD)
5. **08/24/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502&version=20110AB250295AMD)
6. **09/27/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502&version=20110AB250293CHP)
7. **AB2502** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502)
8. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2502&version=20110AB250294ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2502 BLUMENFIELD Concurrence - Urgency Added — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Be referred to Committee on Judiciary. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2502 BLUMENFIELD Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2502 Blumenfield By Alquist — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blumenfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-19** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-29** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2012-05-07** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4829.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-07-05** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-09** From consent calendar.
- **2012-08-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-27** Joint Rule 61(b)(15) suspended. (Page 4875.)
- **2012-08-28** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4895.)
- **2012-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-31** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5054.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-31** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6758.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 675, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/411f40c9-fd76-432c-92b3-37105627b8d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).