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Bill	Vehicles: license plates: veterans.	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue special license plates under a special interest license plate program, as specified, and authorizes organizations, including veterans' organizations, to participate in that program. Existing law authorizes any person who is the registered owner or lessee of a vehicle to apply for a special interest license plate that has a distinctive design or decal that honors all veterans or veterans who served in a particular war or armed conflict. Under existing law, these special interest license plates are subject to fees for issuance, renewal, or personalization that are additional to those required for nonspecialized license plates. Existing law requires that the revenue from those additional fees, less the DMV's costs, be deposited in the Veterans Service Office Fund, and further requires that money in the Veterans Service Office Fund be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the Department of Veterans Affairs for allocation and disbursement to counties for the operation of county veterans service offices.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 244	California AB 244 (20132014)	bill	Vehicles: license plates: veterans.	enacted	Bonilla	7	27	9	2013-02-06	2013-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/ef5af585-bf3b-474e-a7f3-d8fca6f4445c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB244	15304458173b953471e141e3ccd18576d09a8990a23d27f14fbc440f9dfb5b61	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 244 (20132014) — Vehicles: license plates: veterans.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue special license plates under a special interest license plate program, as specified, and authorizes organizations, including veterans' organizations, to participate in that program. Existing law authorizes any person who is the registered owner or lessee of a vehicle to apply for a special interest license plate that has a distinctive design or decal that honors all veterans or veterans who served in a particular war or armed conflict. Under existing law, these special interest license plates are subject to fees for issuance, renewal, or personalization that are additional to those required for nonspecialized license plates. Existing law requires that the revenue from those additional fees, less the DMV's costs, be deposited in the Veterans Service Office Fund, and further requires that money in the Veterans Service Office Fund be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the Department of Veterans Affairs for allocation and disbursement to counties for the operation of county veterans service offices.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/08/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/12/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/10/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB244 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB244 Bonilla By Gaines — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Transportation and Housing. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 244 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 244 BONILLA Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonilla — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2013-02-21 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2013-04-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-24 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2013-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1664.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Coms. on V.A. and T. & H. referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-08-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2099.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2902.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2013-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 690, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef5af585-bf3b-474e-a7f3-d8fca6f4445c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).