republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-515.md

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Bill	Collateral recovery: tow vehicles.	(1) Existing law, the Collateral Recovery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of repossession agencies by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services under the supervision and control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. Any person who violates these provisions is guilty of a crime punishable by fine and imprisonment. The act requires an applicant for a qualification certificate to satisfy specified requirements, including possessing 2 years lawful experience that may include experience recovering collateral as a salaried employee of a financial institution or vehicle dealer and that is to consist of a minimum of 4,000 hours of compensated work. The act requires every repossession agency office to be under the active charge of a qualified certificate holder. The act requires licensees to serve a debtor with a specified notice of seizure after the recovery of collateral by the licensee.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 515	California AB 515 (20092010)	bill	Collateral recovery: tow vehicles.	enacted	Hagman	9	33	8	2009-02-24	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/65a736db-6e16-4b77-a0ff-3d366142c343	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB515	9731a67b7dce4e59351c33a74dcbfc741591fd56059368ac784b93917197b44e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 515 (20092010) — Collateral recovery: tow vehicles.

(1) Existing law, the Collateral Recovery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of repossession agencies by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services under the supervision and control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. Any person who violates these provisions is guilty of a crime punishable by fine and imprisonment. The act requires an applicant for a qualification certificate to satisfy specified requirements, including possessing 2 years lawful experience that may include experience recovering collateral as a salaried employee of a financial institution or vehicle dealer and that is to consist of a minimum of 4,000 hours of compensated work. The act requires every repossession agency office to be under the active charge of a qualified certificate holder. The act requires licensees to serve a debtor with a specified notice of seizure after the recovery of collateral by the licensee.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/29/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/17/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/26/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB515 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 515 HAGMAN Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #18 AB515 Hagman By Calderon — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 515 HAGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hagman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2009-03-26 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-21 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-07 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-11 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1468.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-06-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-06-01 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2009-06-01 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-06-09 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-06-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-07-06 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-07-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-07-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-20 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2009-08-24 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-25 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-26 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-27 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-31 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-09-02 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2132.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3086.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-29 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 322, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/65a736db-6e16-4b77-a0ff-3d366142c343. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).