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Bill	Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors.	Existing law generally requires a manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer of vehicles to be licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Under existing law, it is unlawful for a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch to engage in specified activity. Violation of this law is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 642	California SB 642 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors.	enacted	Padilla	7	26	7	2011-02-18	2011-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6e70182b-c13a-47a6-84ba-ea9e4faa6d22	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB642	03db3649835f6333b49dae05697074ae4843542494ad814b5c4236911c4af2fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 642 (20112012) — Vehicles: manufacturers and distributors.

Existing law generally requires a manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer of vehicles to be licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Under existing law, it is unlawful for a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch to engage in specified activity. Violation of this law is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/07/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/30/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/26/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB642 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB642 Padilla Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 642 Padilla Senate Third Reading By DICKINSON — 72–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-14 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2011-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 765.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-29 Set for hearing May 9.
• 2011-05-10 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1035.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-05-27 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-21 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-06-28 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-06-30 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 7). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (August 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 2584.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2151.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2011-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 342, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e70182b-c13a-47a6-84ba-ea9e4faa6d22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).