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Bill	Smog check: vehicle repair assistance and retirement program.	(1) Existing law establishes a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance (smog check) program, developed, implemented, and administered by the Department of Consumer Affairs (the department) . The duty of enforcing and administering the program is vested in the Chief of the Bureau of Automotive Repair within the department. The owner of a motor vehicle that has failed its most recent smog check inspection has the right to retire the vehicle from operation at a dismantler under contract with the Bureau of Automotive Repair, and the department is required to pay this person up to $1,500, or more if cost effective.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 787	California AB 787 (20092010)	bill	Smog check: vehicle repair assistance and retirement program.	enacted	Hill	10	42	12	2009-02-26	2010-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/67308a7f-8fba-4f3a-9ecc-6af60fac4364	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB787	8f7274460577c006b5b835e03cc41602da4fbc62a72360812372fdb910e5ce9e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 787 (20092010) — Smog check: vehicle repair assistance and retirement program.

(1) Existing law establishes a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance (smog check) program, developed, implemented, and administered by the Department of Consumer Affairs (the department) . The duty of enforcing and administering the program is vested in the Chief of the Bureau of Automotive Repair within the department. The owner of a motor vehicle that has failed its most recent smog check inspection has the right to retire the vehicle from operation at a dismantler under contract with the Bureau of Automotive Repair, and the department is required to pay this person up to $1,500, or more if cost effective.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/09/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/01/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/15/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/15/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/20/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/24/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB787 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/08/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 787 HILL Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 787 HILL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Be referred to Committee on Elections and Redistricting. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB787 Hill By Yee — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Senate amendments be concurred in. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2009-03-26 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-04-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on RULES by unanimous consent. referral-committee
• 2009-04-23 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E. & R. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 23). referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2009-05-04 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 30). 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 1959.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-18 Referred to Com. on E., R., & C.A. referral-committee
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-17 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-27 In committee: Held under submission.
• 2010-02-09 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
• 2010-02-11 Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2010-02-25 Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2010-06-15 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
• 2010-07-15 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-08-16 Received August 13 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14)
• 2010-08-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-23 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-25 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 5. Page 4861.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-26 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 6707.)
• 2010-08-26 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2010-08-26 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6735.)
• 2010-08-26 From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (August 26). committee-passage
• 2010-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 60. Noes 12. Page 6796.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-27 (Corrected September 9.)
• 2010-09-13 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2010-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 231, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67308a7f-8fba-4f3a-9ecc-6af60fac4364. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).