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Bill	Vehicles: special license plates: disabled veterans.	(1) Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is required, upon application and without additional fees, to issue a special license plate or plates to a disabled person, a disabled veteran, or an organization or agency involved in the transportation of those persons pursuant to procedures adopted by the department. Existing law requires the department, prior to issuing a special license plate to a disabled person or disabled veteran, to require the submission of a certificate signed by a medical professional, as provided, that substantiates the disability of the person or veteran, in certain situations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1944	California AB 1944 (20092010)	bill	Vehicles: special license plates: disabled veterans.	enacted	Fletcher	7	26	8	2010-02-17	2010-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/56159a0b-3cfe-4a86-a908-6d6eadd2d1bb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1944	c3265caa75a0954153f8d19172d00a2c1f2663c0e0c962ee0225a508253ae6a8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1944 (20092010) — Vehicles: special license plates: disabled veterans.

(1) Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles is required, upon application and without additional fees, to issue a special license plate or plates to a disabled person, a disabled veteran, or an organization or agency involved in the transportation of those persons pursuant to procedures adopted by the department. Existing law requires the department, prior to issuing a special license plate to a disabled person or disabled veteran, to require the submission of a certificate signed by a medical professional, as provided, that substantiates the disability of the person or veteran, in certain situations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/03/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/01/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1944 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/16/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd AB1944 Fletcher — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1944 FLETCHER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1944 FLETCHER Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Fletcher — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2010-03-04 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2010-04-06 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. 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.
• 2010-05-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2010-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-17 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-20 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5235.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-06-03 Referred to Coms. on V.A. and T. & H. 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 V.A. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-23 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-24 Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2010-06-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-07-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 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 4372.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6150.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:50 p.m.
• 2010-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 421, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56159a0b-3cfe-4a86-a908-6d6eadd2d1bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).