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Bill	Automobile sales finance: sellers.	The Rees-Levering Motor Vehicle Sales and Finance Act regulates conditional sales contracts for motor vehicles, and, among other things, requires a person selling or leasing a motor vehicle under a conditional sale contract to disclose certain information to the buyer of the vehicle. A willful violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor and may render the contract unenforceable. A seller who violates the provisions of the act may also be liable to the buyer for monetary damages.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1447	California AB 1447 (20112012)	bill	Automobile sales finance: sellers.	enacted	Feuer	9	28	7	2012-01-04	2012-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/ce106714-df3b-46ff-b765-32f596b669e1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1447	fab6237169f84194dab62e98680f803e39f85221018800911685ddea2f807dc5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1447 (20112012) — Automobile sales finance: sellers.

The Rees-Levering Motor Vehicle Sales and Finance Act regulates conditional sales contracts for motor vehicles, and, among other things, requires a person selling or leasing a motor vehicle under a conditional sale contract to disclose certain information to the buyer of the vehicle. A willful violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor and may render the contract unenforceable. A seller who violates the provisions of the act may also be liable to the buyer for monetary damages.

Version chain

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

1. 01/04/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/01/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/22/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1447 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1447 FEUER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1447 Feuer By Lieu — 22–14 (pass) · upper
• AB 1447 FEUER Assembly Third Reading — 49–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Feuer — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — coauthor (person)
• Evans — coauthor (person)
• Lieu — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-01-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-01-05 From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
• 2012-03-26 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-01 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-21 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 5035.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-06-13 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 4780.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 6380.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2012-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 740, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ce106714-df3b-46ff-b765-32f596b669e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).