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Bill	Vehicles: license plates: obstruction or alteration.	(1) Existing law prohibits a person from displaying upon a vehicle a license plate altered from its original markings. Existing law also prohibits a person from selling a product or device that obscures, or is intended to obscure, the reading or recognition of a license plate, as specified. A violation of these provisions is an infraction and the penalty for the first conviction of an infraction under the Vehicle Code is a fine not exceeding $100.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2489	California AB 2489 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: license plates: obstruction or alteration.	enacted	Hall	8	27	6	2012-02-24	2012-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/ed43420a-30aa-4b31-86f0-07e5e327b1c8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2489	0f8f349af1c3e19eea542e656d9212af5d052816c4ff5fb505b6238039e2c01f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2489 (20112012) — Vehicles: license plates: obstruction or alteration.

(1) Existing law prohibits a person from displaying upon a vehicle a license plate altered from its original markings. Existing law also prohibits a person from selling a product or device that obscures, or is intended to obscure, the reading or recognition of a license plate, as specified. A violation of these provisions is an infraction and the penalty for the first conviction of an infraction under the Vehicle Code is a fine not exceeding $100.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/08/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2489 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2489 Hall By Pavley — 35–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 2489 HALL Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2489 HALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-15 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 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
• 2012-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4829.) 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 T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-06-15 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
• 2012-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 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
• 2012-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 3. Page 4905.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6565.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 702, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ed43420a-30aa-4b31-86f0-07e5e327b1c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).