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Bill	Vehicles: towed vehicles.	Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle from a tow truck to document specified information, including the make, model, and license plate or vehicle identification number of the vehicle. Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle to obtain the specified information from the towing company the next day if the vehicle was dropped off after hours. Existing law requires the information to be maintained for 3 years and to be made available for inspection and copying within 48 hours of a written request by any officer or agent of a police department, a sheriff's department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Attorney General's office, the Bureau of Automotive Repair, a district attorney's office, or a city attorney's office. A willful violation of these requirements is a misdemeanor, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2167	California AB 2167 (20152016)	bill	Vehicles: towed vehicles.	enacted	Achadjian	7	25	5	2016-02-17	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/6a5382ef-aeef-482e-bc99-5449727864a1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2167	1d063fb78766a97a45af470d9acc76a4c60f6ae08023fd5db6299238c944c801	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2167 (20152016) — Vehicles: towed vehicles.

Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle from a tow truck to document specified information, including the make, model, and license plate or vehicle identification number of the vehicle. Existing law requires a business taking possession of a vehicle to obtain the specified information from the towing company the next day if the vehicle was dropped off after hours. Existing law requires the information to be maintained for 3 years and to be made available for inspection and copying within 48 hours of a written request by any officer or agent of a police department, a sheriff's department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Attorney General's office, the Bureau of Automotive Repair, a district attorney's office, or a city attorney's office. A willful violation of these requirements is a misdemeanor, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2167 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2167 ACHADJIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2167 ACHADJIAN Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Achadjian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-04-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-25 From Consent Calendar.
• 2016-04-25 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5078.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2016-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4879.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-18 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5871.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 518, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a5382ef-aeef-482e-bc99-5449727864a1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).