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Bill	Vehicles: duplicate or substitute certificate of title or license plate.	(1) Existing law prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing a duplicate or substitute certificate of title or license plate if, after a search of the records of the department, the registered owner's address, as submitted on the application, is different from that which appears in the records of the department, unless the registered owner applies in person and presents additional specified documentation, that includes, among other things, a facsimile of specified documents if the facsimile matches the vehicle record of the department.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 873	California AB 873 (20092010)	bill	Vehicles: duplicate or substitute certificate of title or license plate.	enacted	Price	7	25	6	2009-02-26	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/eac27dbf-4a27-4d86-8528-7fcacc5c6e19	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB873	2348161e9e7d5edfaefad8b40bc1d1f1a407db2448b383b0000c368bf7df4afb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 873 (20092010) — Vehicles: duplicate or substitute certificate of title or license plate.

(1) Existing law prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing a duplicate or substitute certificate of title or license plate if, after a search of the records of the department, the registered owner's address, as submitted on the application, is different from that which appears in the records of the department, unless the registered owner applies in person and presents additional specified documentation, that includes, among other things, a facsimile of specified documents if the facsimile matches the vehicle record of the department.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB873 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 873 PRICE 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
• AB 873 Concurrence in Senate Amendments By ANDERSON — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #13 AB873 Price — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Price — primary (person)
• Anderson — principal coauthor (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
• 2009-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-21 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (April 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-05-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-05 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1367.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2009-06-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-18 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-07-07 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-07-16 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1766.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2654.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-08-27 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:15 p.m.
• 2009-09-08 Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly.
• 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 481, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eac27dbf-4a27-4d86-8528-7fcacc5c6e19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).