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Bill	Repossession agencies: exemptions.	Existing law, the Collateral Recovery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of repossession agencies by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services under the supervision and control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. The act provides that a repossession agency does not include the legal owner of collateral that is subject to a security agreement or a bona fide employee of the legal owner of collateral that is subject to a security agreement.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1877	California AB 1877 (20112012)	bill	Repossession agencies: exemptions.	enacted	Ma	9	30	6	2012-02-22	2012-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/beaff10d-1243-4783-ad44-aa54ee652a3b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1877	bf3db1844ad80ecc27c94a8e259b45b9ea779a46c14f88a0ec87c46fb6f3a08a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1877 (20112012) — Repossession agencies: exemptions.

Existing law, the Collateral Recovery Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of repossession agencies by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services under the supervision and control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. The act provides that a repossession agency does not include the legal owner of collateral that is subject to a security agreement or a bona fide employee of the legal owner of collateral that is subject to a security agreement.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/10/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/24/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/23/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1877 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/06/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1877 MA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1877 Ma By Vargas — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1877 MA Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ma — primary (person)
• Olsen — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2012-03-05 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-04-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-24 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4984.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4755.). 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.)
• 2012-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 6411.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
• 2012-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 476, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/beaff10d-1243-4783-ad44-aa54ee652a3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).