---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: disabled veterans."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue special license plates or distinguishing placards to disabled veterans for purposes of certain parking privileges. In issuing a special license plate or placard to a disabled veteran, existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to accept as proof of disability a certificate from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs certifying that the applicant is a disabled veteran."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 408"
citation: "California AB 408 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: disabled veterans."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frazier"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2020-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ae3bc31-37c2-4347-9230-7f71101a65c7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB408"
source_hash: "d4d1f22e7f5dba3be07f21319c7a4a32124689e41c9b6fcc030ad30c9a79d1cd"
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 408 (20192020) — Vehicles: disabled veterans.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue special license plates or distinguishing placards to disabled veterans for purposes of certain parking privileges. In issuing a special license plate or placard to a disabled veteran, existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to accept as proof of disability a certificate from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs certifying that the applicant is a disabled veteran.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/07/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB408&version=20190AB40899INT)
2. **01/23/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB408&version=20190AB40896AMD)
3. **02/26/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB408&version=20190AB40898AMD)
4. **03/13/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB408&version=20190AB40897AMD)
5. **09/09/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB408&version=20190AB40894CHP)
6. **AB408** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB408)
7. **08/31/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB408&version=20190AB40895ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Veterans Affairs] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB408 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 408 Frazier Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Frazier — primary (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2019-02-15** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-02-27** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-14** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-05-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-01-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (January 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-01-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 3893.)
- **2020-01-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3902.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-01-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-13** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4375.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2020-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 42, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ae3bc31-37c2-4347-9230-7f71101a65c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).