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Bill	Vehicles: veterans' organizations license plates: fees.	Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) issues environmental and other specialized license plates, including veterans' organizations license plates. Veterans' organizations license plates are required to have a distinctive design or decal. The Department of Veterans Affairs may modify the plate design or decals, but is prohibited from issuing those plates or decals, as modified, until all existing plates or decals have been issued.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1550	California AB 1550 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: veterans' organizations license plates: fees.	enacted	Bonilla	9	26	7	2012-01-25	2012-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/92a6b42d-74c0-4142-8573-bbd08ec71724	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1550	8e09c14997d667c3b41a1653a329019eed23f65cde4d77e36a5b6f1de53dab21	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1550 (20112012) — Vehicles: veterans' organizations license plates: fees.

Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) issues environmental and other specialized license plates, including veterans' organizations license plates. Veterans' organizations license plates are required to have a distinctive design or decal. The Department of Veterans Affairs may modify the plate design or decals, but is prohibited from issuing those plates or decals, as modified, until all existing plates or decals have been issued.

Version chain

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

1. 01/25/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/21/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/20/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1550 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/23/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1550 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1550 Bonilla By Alquist — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1550 BONILLA Assembly Third Reading — 71–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonilla — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Alquist — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)
• Jeffries — coauthor (person)
• Strickland — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-01-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-01-26 From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
• 2012-02-02 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-03-21 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-03-28 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-03-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-09 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-04-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 4340.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-04-19 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-05-14 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. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4482.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-21 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 6054.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 398, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92a6b42d-74c0-4142-8573-bbd08ec71724. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).