republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1871.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Private passenger motor vehicle insurance coverage: personal vehicle sharing."
description: "Existing law prohibits an insured motor vehicle from being classified as a common carrier, livery, or for-hire vehicle solely for the reason that the named insured is performing volunteer services for a nonprofit charitable organization or governmental agency consisting of providing social service transportation, as defined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1871"
citation: "California AB 1871 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Private passenger motor vehicle insurance coverage: personal vehicle sharing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2010-02-12"
last_action: "2010-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/539ef985-3c5c-4a52-85a8-441d8145410f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871"
source_hash: "871114faacac63ca71635165b3d47c79350075f26c503dca2b9f18a037ae4d3d"
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 1871 (20092010) — Private passenger motor vehicle insurance coverage: personal vehicle sharing.

Existing law prohibits an insured motor vehicle from being classified as a common carrier, livery, or for-hire vehicle solely for the reason that the named insured is performing volunteer services for a nonprofit charitable organization or governmental agency consisting of providing social service transportation, as defined.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871&version=20090AB187199INT)
2. **04/28/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871&version=20090AB187198AMD)
3. **05/11/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871&version=20090AB187197AMD)
4. **06/01/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871&version=20090AB187196AMD)
5. **06/10/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871&version=20090AB187195AMD)
6. **08/20/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871&version=20090AB187194AMD)
7. **09/29/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871&version=20090AB187192CHP)
8. **AB1871** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871)
9. **09/03/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1871&version=20090AB187193ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1871 JONES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1871 Jones By Pavley — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1871 JONES Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2010-03-25** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-04-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (May 5). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-01** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 5388.). `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5568.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-10** Referred to Com. on B., F. & I. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., F. & I. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-07-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-07-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-12** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2010-08-18** From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
- **2010-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2010-08-20** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-25** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4861.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6707.)
- **2010-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6735.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2010-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 454, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/539ef985-3c5c-4a52-85a8-441d8145410f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).