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Bill	Vehicles: driver's licenses.	(1) Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver's licenses to applicants who meet specified criteria and provide the department with the required information. Existing law requires the department to establish that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2189	California AB 2189 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: driver's licenses.	enacted	Cedillo	10	36	7	2012-02-23	2012-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/2b79118a-622c-4133-8dd0-2416c275f4d5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2189	d90202d2ed292eafed2191e0788f3619a8708c5dec784435a03f54266eafb699	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2189 (20112012) — Vehicles: driver's licenses.

(1) Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver's licenses to applicants who meet specified criteria and provide the department with the required information. Existing law requires the department to establish that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/07/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2189 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• amendments be concurred in. — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2189 Cedillo By Calderon — 25–7 (pass) · upper
• AB 2189 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• From Committee: That the measure be returned to the Senate floor for consideration. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2189 CEDILLO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 55–21 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cedillo — primary (person)
• Alejo — principal coauthor (person)
• Alquist — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Bonilla — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Charles Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• De León — coauthor (person)
• Eng — coauthor (person)
• Fong — coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Lara — coauthor (person)
• Leno — principal coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — author (person)
• Swanson — coauthor (person)
• V. Manuel Pérez — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)
• Yee — 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.
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 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
• 2012-04-16 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
• 2012-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-26 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4813.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 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
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-20 From consent calendar.
• 2012-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 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
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-27 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2012-08-27 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on T. & H. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-08-28 From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 28). committee-passage
• 2012-08-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 7. Page 4945.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2012-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 6633.)
• 2012-08-30 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 21. Page 6700.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 862, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b79118a-622c-4133-8dd0-2416c275f4d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).