republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1908.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: specialized license plates: Veterans' organizations."
description: "Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) issues environmental and other specialized license plates, including veterans' organization license plates. Those license plates are required to have a distinctive design or decal. The issuance of those license plates is subject to additional fees, the revenue from which, less the DMV's costs, is required to be deposited in the Veterans Service Office Fund, except that 12 of a specified additional fee is required to be deposited in the California Environmental License Plate Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1908"
citation: "California AB 1908 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: specialized license plates: Veterans' organizations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cook"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2010-02-16"
last_action: "2010-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56fb0b0d-5c11-4650-a2d7-bd31b330d029"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1908"
source_hash: "6138edea167122775e06c9bbd2acfddcf6294bb420599a723615d41eaeeb17bd"
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 1908 (20092010) — Vehicles: specialized license plates: Veterans' organizations.

Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) issues environmental and other specialized license plates, including veterans' organization license plates. Those license plates are required to have a distinctive design or decal. The issuance of those license plates is subject to additional fees, the revenue from which, less the DMV's costs, is required to be deposited in the Veterans Service Office Fund, except that 12 of a specified additional fee is required to be deposited in the California Environmental License Plate Fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1908&version=20090AB190899INT)
2. **03/11/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1908&version=20090AB190898AMD)
3. **08/23/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1908&version=20090AB190896CHP)
4. **AB1908** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1908)
5. **08/06/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1908&version=20090AB190897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Transportation and Housing. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1908 Cook — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1908 COOK Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cook — primary (person)
- Carter — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2010-03-04** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-11** 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`
- **2010-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-06** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-10** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5159.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-27** Referred to Coms. on V.A. and T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4374.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-08-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:50 p.m.
- **2010-08-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 166, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56fb0b0d-5c11-4650-a2d7-bd31b330d029`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).