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Bill	Automotive repair.	Existing law, the Automotive Repair Act, the violation of which is a crime, establishes the Bureau of Automotive Repair under the supervision and control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. Existing law regulates the business of automotive repair and makes it unlawful for any person to be an automotive repair dealer unless registered with the bureau. Existing law defines an automotive repair dealer and an automotive technician as persons who, among other things, repair motor vehicles.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 873	California AB 873 (20152016)	bill	Automotive repair.	enacted	Jones	8	31	8	2015-02-26	2016-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/5db95ae8-e85e-4742-a9ea-17096b22de3c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB873	d9b02ca07d5a6e9566d298dd618f8322ca1b9c571aa3089466c06e1b8ac579c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 873 (20152016) — Automotive repair.

Existing law, the Automotive Repair Act, the violation of which is a crime, establishes the Bureau of Automotive Repair under the supervision and control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. Existing law regulates the business of automotive repair and makes it unlawful for any person to be an automotive repair dealer unless registered with the bureau. Existing law defines an automotive repair dealer and an automotive technician as persons who, among other things, repair motor vehicles.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/25/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB873 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB873 Jones By Hill — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 873 JONES Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 873 JONES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2015-03-16 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1348.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-21 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-06-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-06-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-06-22 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5367.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6451.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 849, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5db95ae8-e85e-4742-a9ea-17096b22de3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).