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Bill	Vehicles: temporary license plates.	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) , upon registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner 2 license plates, as specified. Existing law also requires vehicle dealers and lessor-retailers to attach a numbered report-of-sale form issued by the DMV to a vehicle at the time of sale, and to submit to the DMV an application for registration of the vehicle, and the applicable fees, within a specified period after the date of sale. Existing law authorizes a dealer, as specified, to assess a specified document processing charge on the purchaser or lessee of a vehicle for the preparation and processing of documents, disclosures, and titling, registration, and information security obligations imposed by state and federal law. Existing law generally makes a violation of the Vehicle Code an infraction, but makes counterfeiting a license plate a felony.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 516	California AB 516 (20152016)	bill	Vehicles: temporary license plates.	enacted	Mullin	9	36	9	2015-02-23	2016-07-25	openstates	ocd-bill/f5b7dccc-f672-4585-8ac7-0054fc3f3ba5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB516	5518c9ad8f182694beef7ae17821d96a4fe427fd6435f90853f7226a476b350c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 516 (20152016) — Vehicles: temporary license plates.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) , upon registering a vehicle, to issue to the owner 2 license plates, as specified. Existing law also requires vehicle dealers and lessor-retailers to attach a numbered report-of-sale form issued by the DMV to a vehicle at the time of sale, and to submit to the DMV an application for registration of the vehicle, and the applicable fees, within a specified period after the date of sale. Existing law authorizes a dealer, as specified, to assess a specified document processing charge on the purchaser or lessee of a vehicle for the preparation and processing of documents, disclosures, and titling, registration, and information security obligations imposed by state and federal law. Existing law generally makes a violation of the Vehicle Code an infraction, but makes counterfeiting a license plate a felony.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/30/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB516 (committee substitute) — source
9. 07/01/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 516 MULLIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 516 MULLIN Assembly Third Reading — 74–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB516 Mullin By Hill — 30–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mullin — primary (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-20 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
• 2015-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-05-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 1924.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-30 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
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-08-24 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hill.
• 2016-02-08 From inactive file.
• 2016-02-08 Ordered to second reading.
• 2016-02-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 4637.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-06-30 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 5595.)
• 2016-06-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 5595.)
• 2016-06-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5597.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-07-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-07-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-07-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 90, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5b7dccc-f672-4585-8ac7-0054fc3f3ba5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).