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Bill	Vehicles: special interest license plates: California Arts Council.	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue, for fees in specified amounts, a special interest license plate bearing a full-plate graphic design that depicts a significant feature or quality of the State of California and is approved by the department in consultation with the California Arts Council. Existing law requires the California Arts Council to use the revenue derived from fee increases authorized during the 2003–04 Regular Session exclusively for arts education and local arts programming, and prohibits the council from using this revenue for administrative costs.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 789	California SB 789 (20132014)	bill	Vehicles: special interest license plates: California Arts Council.	enacted	Liu	5	27	7	2013-02-22	2013-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c33cd559-718a-4e08-bad2-c08dc6db6be3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB789	69a0bdb35698c846558c56409ea228a549025a3b46f81c5fd803b983aa8bf27e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 789 (20132014) — Vehicles: special interest license plates: California Arts Council.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue, for fees in specified amounts, a special interest license plate bearing a full-plate graphic design that depicts a significant feature or quality of the State of California and is approved by the department in consultation with the California Arts Council. Existing law requires the California Arts Council to use the revenue derived from fee increases authorized during the 2003–04 Regular Session exclusively for arts education and local arts programming, and prohibits the council from using this revenue for administrative costs.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/06/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB789 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Arts, Entertain, Sports, Tourism, & Internet Media — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 789 Liu Senate Third Reading By CALDERON — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB789 Liu Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #6 — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Liu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-03-12 Set for hearing April 16.
• 2013-04-09 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-10 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2013-04-17 Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-18 Set for hearing May 7.
• 2013-05-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 853.) (May 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-10 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2013-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 990.) (May 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1119.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-14 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
• 2013-06-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-19 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2605.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1949.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 221, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c33cd559-718a-4e08-bad2-c08dc6db6be3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).