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Bill	Vehicles: driver's licenses.	(1) Existing law prohibits a person from renting a motor vehicle to another unless the person to whom the vehicle is rented is a validly licensed driver, as specified, and the person renting to that driver has inspected the person's driver's license and compared the signature on the license with the signature of the driver written in his or her presence.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2659	California AB 2659 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: driver's licenses.	enacted	Blumenfield	7	36	8	2012-02-24	2012-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/8b78580b-3823-4d5b-aee3-a99c8a6e3b1e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2659	a7b116caf5109ab878405571bb5ff2f5ab77a7447c75d781cd749ed206d5d07c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2659 (20112012) — Vehicles: driver's licenses.

(1) Existing law prohibits a person from renting a motor vehicle to another unless the person to whom the vehicle is rented is a validly licensed driver, as specified, and the person renting to that driver has inspected the person's driver's license and compared the signature on the license with the signature of the driver written in his or her presence.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/20/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2659 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• amendments be concurred in. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2659 Blumenfield By DeSaulnier — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2659 Blumenfield By Lieu — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2659 BLUMENFIELD Assembly Third Reading — 68–6 (pass) · lower
• AB 2659 BLUMENFIELD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blumenfield — 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
• 2012-03-19 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 6. Page 4772.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2012-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-06-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-06-21 Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). 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
• 2012-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4436.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-13 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2012-08-20 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage
• 2012-08-21 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2012-08-21 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2012-08-22 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2012-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 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
• 2012-08-24 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
• 2012-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4928.). 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.
• 2012-08-30 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6663.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 406, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b78580b-3823-4d5b-aee3-a99c8a6e3b1e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).