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Bill	Vehicles: Electronic Lien and Title (ELT) Program.	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner and a registration card to the registered owner, or both to the registered owner, if there is no legal owner of the vehicle.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1515	California AB 1515 (20092010)	bill	Vehicles: Electronic Lien and Title (ELT) Program.	enacted	Eng	7	27	6	2009-02-27	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/71d48de9-7cab-4552-b84d-7caab3a5be4a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1515	371d172906a786ad134a6211f83543a75412b082d46afbf6d26020898aebb46b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1515 (20092010) — Vehicles: Electronic Lien and Title (ELT) Program.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon registering a vehicle, to issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner and a registration card to the registered owner, or both to the registered owner, if there is no legal owner of the vehicle.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1515 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #13 AB1515 Eng — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1515 ENG Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1515 ENG Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eng — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-21 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-26 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-28 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1769.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2009-06-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-25 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-07-07 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-07-16 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1767.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2656.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-08-27 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:15 p.m.
• 2009-09-08 Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly.
• 2009-09-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 540, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71d48de9-7cab-4552-b84d-7caab3a5be4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).