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Bill	Vehicles: license plates: legislative and congressional members.	Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue distinctive license plates for a motor vehicle owned by a current or retired Member of the California Legislature and a Member of the Congress of the United States and requires that the person pay additional fees in addition to the regular fees for an original registration or renewal of registration. Existing law establishes the California Environmental License Plate Fund in the State Treasury and requires, after certain moneys are deducted by the Controller, that the balance of the moneys in the fund be available for expenditure for specific trust purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2068	California AB 2068 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: license plates: legislative and congressional members.	enacted	Portantino	8	24	6	2012-02-23	2012-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/4dfb2fb1-91f6-456e-aad6-91209a24d079	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2068	50255e5c8e03965166e4a11ffa6da6f7a624a06c54100efa88d91a2e198b2671	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2068 (20112012) — Vehicles: license plates: legislative and congressional members.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue distinctive license plates for a motor vehicle owned by a current or retired Member of the California Legislature and a Member of the Congress of the United States and requires that the person pay additional fees in addition to the regular fees for an original registration or renewal of registration. Existing law establishes the California Environmental License Plate Fund in the State Treasury and requires, after certain moneys are deducted by the Controller, that the balance of the moneys in the fund be available for expenditure for specific trust purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/21/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2068 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/27/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2068 PORTANTINO Assembly Third Reading — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2068 Portantino By Rubio — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2068 PORTANTINO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Cannella — coauthor (person)
• Cook — coauthor (person)
• Dutton — coauthor (person)
• Jeffries — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 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
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4924.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 4980.) 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 T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-26 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. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4587.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6106.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 748, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4dfb2fb1-91f6-456e-aad6-91209a24d079. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).