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type: "Bill"
title: "Recreational vehicles."
description: "(1) Existing law establishes a New Motor Vehicle Board that regulates the activities or practices of a new motor vehicle dealer, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, or representative, as specified. Existing law regulates the terms and enforcement of recreational vehicle franchise agreements. Existing law requires a franchisor seeking to enter into a franchise establishing an additional motor vehicle dealership within a relevant market area where the same recreational vehicle line-make is represented, or seeking to relocate an existing motor vehicle dealership, to notify the board of that intention. Existing law allows franchisees in that recreational vehicle line-make in the relevant market area to file with the board a protest to establishing or relocating the dealership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 759"
citation: "California AB 759 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Recreational vehicles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Linder"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-25"
last_action: "2015-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb54a676-5cc3-42e2-bc4a-13aad1cade42"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB759"
source_hash: "2d96bc2d259afac737a5270fbff28db858316d6cdf3a1460f93198f34ed0bb1d"
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 759 (20152016) — Recreational vehicles.
(1) Existing law establishes a New Motor Vehicle Board that regulates the activities or practices of a new motor vehicle dealer, manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, or representative, as specified. Existing law regulates the terms and enforcement of recreational vehicle franchise agreements. Existing law requires a franchisor seeking to enter into a franchise establishing an additional motor vehicle dealership within a relevant market area where the same recreational vehicle line-make is represented, or seeking to relocate an existing motor vehicle dealership, to notify the board of that intention. Existing law allows franchisees in that recreational vehicle line-make in the relevant market area to file with the board a protest to establishing or relocating the dealership.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/25/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB759&version=20150AB75999INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB759&version=20150AB75998AMD)
3. **08/31/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB759&version=20150AB75997AMD)
4. **09/04/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB759&version=20150AB75996AMD)
5. **10/01/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB759&version=20150AB75994CHP)
6. **AB759** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB759)
7. **09/14/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB759&version=20150AB75995ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB759 Linder By Bates — **390** (pass) · upper
- AB 759 LINDER Consent Calendar Second Day — **770** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **110** (pass) · upper
- AB 759 LINDER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **800** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Linder — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** 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`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1224.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-06-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-07-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** From Consent Calendar.
- **2015-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-08-31** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2631.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2015-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3077.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 407, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb54a676-5cc3-42e2-bc4a-13aad1cade42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).