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Bill	Vehicles: electronic verification of financial responsibility and insurance.	(1) Existing law requires every driver and every owner of a motor vehicle to be able to establish financial responsibility, and, at all times, carry in the vehicle evidence of a form of financial responsibility, which may be obtained by a law enforcement officer from the electronic reporting system established by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law requires, upon the demand of a peace officer, that evidence of registration and proof of financial responsibility be provided by a person driving a motor vehicle.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1708	California AB 1708 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: electronic verification of financial responsibility and insurance.	enacted	Gatto	9	29	6	2012-02-15	2012-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/7c327fe4-5961-4d8c-8777-d8bed93d85de	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1708	d12dec29152d6faef528a51295fae667c3af80256d8deabde74e8df475cd4499	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1708 (20112012) — Vehicles: electronic verification of financial responsibility and insurance.

(1) Existing law requires every driver and every owner of a motor vehicle to be able to establish financial responsibility, and, at all times, carry in the vehicle evidence of a form of financial responsibility, which may be obtained by a law enforcement officer from the electronic reporting system established by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law requires, upon the demand of a peace officer, that evidence of registration and proof of financial responsibility be provided by a person driving a motor vehicle.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/19/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/11/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/05/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1708 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/16/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1708 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1708 GATTO Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2012-02-23 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4784.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and INS. referral-committee
• 2012-06-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-06-11 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
• 2012-06-12 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-06-12 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4445.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 5887.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2012-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 236, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c327fe4-5961-4d8c-8777-d8bed93d85de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).