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Bill	Vehicles: specialized license plates: Veterinary Medical Board.	(1) Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles issues environmental and other specialized license plates. The issuance of some of those license plates is subject to additional fees. Existing law prohibits the department from establishing a specialized license plate program for a state agency until the department has received not less than 7,500 applications for the plates within 12 months after the date of the department's approval of the agency's initial application to sponsor a specialized license plate program.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 610	California AB 610 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: specialized license plates: Veterinary Medical Board.	enacted	Solorio	9	27	6	2011-02-16	2012-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/336b8d39-a2ab-4154-a7cd-f0644565a2e0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB610	1f179ec513279e4d05ba73c7260ebffa28ed207602746d6310da41771b53c70f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 610 (20112012) — Vehicles: specialized license plates: Veterinary Medical Board.

(1) Under existing law, the Department of Motor Vehicles issues environmental and other specialized license plates. The issuance of some of those license plates is subject to additional fees. Existing law prohibits the department from establishing a specialized license plate program for a state agency until the department has received not less than 7,500 applications for the plates within 12 months after the date of the department's approval of the agency's initial application to sponsor a specialized license plate program.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/19/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/06/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/26/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. AB610 (committee substitute) — source
9. 04/20/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 610 SOLORIO Assembly Third Reading — 65–7 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB610 Solorio By Rubio Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 610 SOLORIO Concurrence - Urgency Added — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Solorio — primary (person)
• Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
• Gatto — coauthor (person)
• Jeffries — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-06 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 7. Page 1735.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-07-05 In committee: Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-08-22 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
• 2012-01-19 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
• 2012-03-21 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
• 2012-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-03-29 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-04-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-12 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3129.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after April 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-04-19 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4451.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:55 a.m.
• 2012-04-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-04-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 9, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/336b8d39-a2ab-4154-a7cd-f0644565a2e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).