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Bill	Vehicles: registration and title information.	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to furnish the legal owner of record of a vehicle, upon his or her request, information regarding the current registration status of the vehicle, including the license plate number and address of the registered owner of the vehicle. Existing law also authorizes the department to charge a fee to pay for the cost of furnishing this information.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 647	California AB 647 (20092010)	bill	Vehicles: registration and title information.	enacted	Yamada	7	24	6	2009-02-25	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/886bfec5-15dc-420e-8205-9f8e6ebb47d0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB647	d0b1f083037be64646e6dc9214e25c451daf758031bb8a3a7eed7941ffc61dba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 647 (20092010) — Vehicles: registration and title information.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to furnish the legal owner of record of a vehicle, upon his or her request, information regarding the current registration status of the vehicle, including the license plate number and address of the registered owner of the vehicle. Existing law also authorizes the department to charge a fee to pay for the cost of furnishing this information.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/22/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/09/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB647 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #16 AB647 Yamada — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 647 YAMADA Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 647 YAMADA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Yamada — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2009-03-23 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-21 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 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 1469.) 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 Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2009-06-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-25 Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 7). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-09 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-18 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-24 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-08-27 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1977.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2790.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-08 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 461, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/886bfec5-15dc-420e-8205-9f8e6ebb47d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).