republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-805.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: automobile dismantlers: license: applications."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon receipt of an application for an automobile dismantler's license that is accompanied by the appropriate fee, to make a thorough investigation of the information contained in the application, not later than 120 days from the receipt of that application, except this investigation requirement does not apply to information in the application relating to permits, numbers, or a plan that may be required by other provisions of law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 805"
citation: "California AB 805 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: automobile dismantlers: license: applications."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fuentes"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-26"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2babd4a1-272c-449b-8f2f-52b60abfe6e4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB805"
source_hash: "19ac4f416227f4e5d3d495425dac8150a6adddc4685ffbccaba7e1e02d6ad679"
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 805 (20092010) — Vehicles: automobile dismantlers: license: applications.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon receipt of an application for an automobile dismantler's license that is accompanied by the appropriate fee, to make a thorough investigation of the information contained in the application, not later than 120 days from the receipt of that application, except this investigation requirement does not apply to information in the application relating to permits, numbers, or a plan that may be required by other provisions of law.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB805&version=20090AB80599INT)
2. **08/26/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB805&version=20090AB80598AMD)
3. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB805&version=20090AB80596CHP)
4. **AB805** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB805)
5. **09/11/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB805&version=20090AB80597ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #18 AB805 Fuentes By Lowenthal — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 805 FUENTES Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 805 FUENTES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fuentes — 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.
- **2009-03-23** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-27** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1241.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2009-06-30** 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.
- **2009-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3187.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 475, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2babd4a1-272c-449b-8f2f-52b60abfe6e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).