republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-443.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: delinquent parking and traffic violations."
description: "Existing law generally prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from registering a vehicle if the registered owner or lessee has failed to pay outstanding parking or toll evasion penalties unless the registered owner or lessee pays the penalties at the time of the application for renewal. Under existing law, the DMV is not required to continue to attempt collection of outstanding parking or toll evasion penalties if a vehicle is transferred or the registration is not renewed for 2 renewal periods and the DMV has notified each local jurisdiction that is owed penalties of that fact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 443"
citation: "California AB 443 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: delinquent parking and traffic violations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowenthal"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-19"
last_action: "2013-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50510443-62a6-4b65-8a57-3ec232475332"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB443"
source_hash: "5e246403d5b583c54a33f61d113bd6733a3884c2c79e9a8f17182e87405fae5e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 443 (20132014) — Vehicles: delinquent parking and traffic violations.

Existing law generally prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from registering a vehicle if the registered owner or lessee has failed to pay outstanding parking or toll evasion penalties unless the registered owner or lessee pays the penalties at the time of the application for renewal. Under existing law, the DMV is not required to continue to attempt collection of outstanding parking or toll evasion penalties if a vehicle is transferred or the registration is not renewed for 2 renewal periods and the DMV has notified each local jurisdiction that is owed penalties of that fact.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB443&version=20130AB44399INT)
2. **03/12/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB443&version=20130AB44398AMD)
3. **04/04/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB443&version=20130AB44397AMD)
4. **08/13/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB443&version=20130AB44395CHP)
5. **AB443** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB443)
6. **07/10/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB443&version=20130AB44396ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government to Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 443 LOWENTHAL Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowenthal — primary (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-03-13** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1341.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-24** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-07-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1607.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-07-01** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
- **2013-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 101, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50510443-62a6-4b65-8a57-3ec232475332`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).