---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act."
description: "Existing law governs motor vehicle conditional sale contracts, as defined, and requires a seller, prior to the execution of a conditional sale contract, to make certain disclosures to the buyer, including a description and the price of each item sold if the contract includes a charge for the item, and the sum of all of those charges."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 766"
citation: "California SB 766 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CaliforniaCombatingAutoRetailScams(CARS)Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 38
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/696f0c5c-868e-4d7c-a324-31a183cf67fc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766"
source_hash: "e7188fa3e836925178bd742609201faa414b03ffdf680b38972652104dad6c1b"
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 SB 766 (20252026) — California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act.

Existing law governs motor vehicle conditional sale contracts, as defined, and requires a seller, prior to the execution of a conditional sale contract, to make certain disclosures to the buyer, including a description and the price of each item sold if the contract includes a charge for the item, and the sum of all of those charges.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76699INT)
2. **04/10/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76698AMD)
3. **05/01/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76697AMD)
4. **05/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76696AMD)
5. **06/13/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76695AMD)
6. **06/26/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76694AMD)
7. **07/14/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76693AMD)
8. **07/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76692AMD)
9. **08/29/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76691AMD)
10. **09/05/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76690AMD)
11. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76688CHP)
12. **SB766** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766)
13. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB766&version=20250SB76689ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–3** (pass) · upper
- SB 766 Allen Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — **76–1** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB766 Allen et al. Concurrence — **30–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-12** Referred to Coms. on TRANS., JUD., and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Set for hearing April 8.
- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 3. Page 711.) (April 8). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 943.) (April 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2025-05-19** May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-05-20** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1212.) (May 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 1377.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-09** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** June 17 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-06-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-29** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-08-29** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 3169.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2894.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 354, 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/696f0c5c-868e-4d7c-a324-31a183cf67fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).