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Bill	Motor vehicle conditional sale contracts.	The Rees-Levering Motor Vehicle Sales and Finance Act regulates motor vehicle conditional sale contracts, and, among other things, requires a person selling or leasing a motor vehicle under a conditional sale contract to disclose certain information to a buyer. A violation of those disclosure requirements makes a conditional sale contract unenforceable, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 238	California AB 238 (20112012)	bill	Motor vehicle conditional sale contracts.	enacted	Huber	7	28	6	2011-02-03	2011-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/2263b783-651f-4270-b380-c02a9cd29fcd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB238	b40760a1d1ca4957438ab27ebade9633a2bad534f0ed7193af04d707768074e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 238 (20112012) — Motor vehicle conditional sale contracts.

The Rees-Levering Motor Vehicle Sales and Finance Act regulates motor vehicle conditional sale contracts, and, among other things, requires a person selling or leasing a motor vehicle under a conditional sale contract to disclose certain information to a buyer. A violation of those disclosure requirements makes a conditional sale contract unenforceable, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB238 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/20/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 238 HUBER Consent Calendar Second Day — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB238 Huber By Fuller Urgency Clause — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 238 HUBER Concurrence - Urgency Added — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Huber — primary (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
• 2011-02-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-03-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-04-12 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 12). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-04-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 1047.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-05-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-08-29 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
• 2011-09-01 Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1, Joint Rule 61(a)(12) suspended. (Page 2225.)
• 2011-09-01 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 2226.)
• 2011-09-02 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
• 2011-09-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (September 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2438.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 28. Page 3193.)
• 2011-09-09 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (September 9). committee-passage
• 2011-09-09 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3216.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 526, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2263b783-651f-4270-b380-c02a9cd29fcd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).