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Bill	Vehicles: registration services: disclosure of service fees.	Existing law defines the term "registration service" for purposes of the Vehicle Code and excludes from that definition certain activities. Existing law prohibits a person from acting as a registration service, engaging in the business of soliciting or receiving any application for the registration, renewal of registration, or transfer of registration or ownership of any vehicle of a type subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, or of soliciting or receiving an application for specified motor carrier permits, or transmitting or presenting any of those documents to the Department of Motor Vehicles, if any compensation is solicited or received for the service, without a license or temporary permit issued by the department. Under existing law, a registration service authorized by the department to engage in those activities is required to, among other things, display prominently at its place of business a sign indicating that the registration service is not a branch of the department and inform each customer of that fact. A violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1627	California AB 1627 (20132014)	bill	Vehicles: registration services: disclosure of service fees.	enacted	Gomez	8	28	5	2014-02-10	2014-07-16	openstates	ocd-bill/7f6ee3be-3217-4efc-adaa-71374ab6b45f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1627	cfd2136bfde0564b3750e67bb942d962bfc9f2f136fb233a25aa2761bf14175f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1627 (20132014) — Vehicles: registration services: disclosure of service fees.

Existing law defines the term "registration service" for purposes of the Vehicle Code and excludes from that definition certain activities. Existing law prohibits a person from acting as a registration service, engaging in the business of soliciting or receiving any application for the registration, renewal of registration, or transfer of registration or ownership of any vehicle of a type subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, or of soliciting or receiving an application for specified motor carrier permits, or transmitting or presenting any of those documents to the Department of Motor Vehicles, if any compensation is solicited or received for the service, without a license or temporary permit issued by the department. Under existing law, a registration service authorized by the department to engage in those activities is required to, among other things, display prominently at its place of business a sign indicating that the registration service is not a branch of the department and inform each customer of that fact. A violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/23/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/06/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/16/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1627 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/09/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1627 GOMEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #18 — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gomez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2014-02-20 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2014-04-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4633.)
• 2014-05-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-06 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-14 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5111.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2014-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-06-25 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2014-07-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4255.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-07-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2014-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-07-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-07-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 128, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f6ee3be-3217-4efc-adaa-71374ab6b45f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).