republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-286.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: additional registration fees."
description: "Existing law, in addition to the other fees imposed for the registration of a vehicle, imposes, as a county option with certain exceptions, an additional fee of $1, and an additional service fee of $2, on all commercial motor vehicles, and continuously appropriates the money to fund local programs relating to vehicle theft crimes. These provisions are to be repealed as of January 1, 2010."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 286"
citation: "California AB 286 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: additional registration fees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2009-02-13"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4b9387c-84f0-4122-ab6d-8923fe1ff298"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB286"
source_hash: "e0b89be0a11d52b6a00831857dbe153de5fdb002b8c8a4c926c4de5a8757987d"
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 286 (20092010) — Vehicles: additional registration fees.

Existing law, in addition to the other fees imposed for the registration of a vehicle, imposes, as a county option with certain exceptions, an additional fee of $1, and an additional service fee of $2, on all commercial motor vehicles, and continuously appropriates the money to fund local programs relating to vehicle theft crimes. These provisions are to be repealed as of January 1, 2010.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB286&version=20090AB28699INT)
2. **06/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB286&version=20090AB28698AMD)
3. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB286&version=20090AB28696CHP)
4. **AB286** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB286)
5. **09/16/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB286&version=20090AB28697ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 286 SALAS Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Transportation. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 286 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB286 Salas By Lowenthal — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Jones — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2009-03-04** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-02** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-28** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 29. Page 2053.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-18** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-08** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (July 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-23** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2009-07-23** (Page 1804.)
- **2009-07-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-08-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (August 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-03** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 2155.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 3256.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **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 230, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4b9387c-84f0-4122-ab6d-8923fe1ff298`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).