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Bill	Vehicles: registration fraud.	Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified. Existing law makes it a felony for a person who, with the intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud, alters, forges, counterfeits, or falsifies a registration card or who utters, publishes, passes, or attempts to pass, as true and genuine, a false, altered, forged, or counterfeited registration card knowing it to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 773	California SB 773 (20152016)	bill	Vehicles: registration fraud.	enacted	Allen	9	30	8	2015-02-27	2016-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/81483575-0e1e-456f-91b2-c22ed0145df2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB773	73ebb808df50b46b90b5da605ee7b2508282811eebeac0f8d0d1459bee055614	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 773 (20152016) — Vehicles: registration fraud.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified. Existing law makes it a felony for a person who, with the intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud, alters, forges, counterfeits, or falsifies a registration card or who utters, publishes, passes, or attempts to pass, as true and genuine, a false, altered, forged, or counterfeited registration card knowing it to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/15/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB773 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 773 Allen Senate Third Reading By DODD — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB773 Allen Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2015-04-21 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 826.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-01 Set for hearing May 11.
• 2015-05-11 May 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1160.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1260.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-06-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-29 June 29 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-05-31 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-08-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6232.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-26 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5443.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 776, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81483575-0e1e-456f-91b2-c22ed0145df2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).