Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt an ordinance declaring a motor vehicle to be a public nuisance subject to seizure and an impoundment of up to 30 days if the vehicle is used in the commission or attempted commission of the crimes of pimping, pandering, and soliciting, or agreeing to engage in, or engaging in, any act of prostitution, or illegal dumping of commercial quantities of waste matter upon a public or private highway or road, and the owner or operator of the vehicle had a prior conviction for the same offense within the past 3 years.
California AB 1206 (20172018) — Vehicles: impoundment: pilot program.
Existing law authorizes a city or county to adopt an ordinance declaring a motor vehicle to be a public nuisance subject to seizure and an impoundment of up to 30 days if the vehicle is used in the commission or attempted commission of the crimes of pimping, pandering, and soliciting, or agreeing to engage in, or engaging in, any act of prostitution, or illegal dumping of commercial quantities of waste matter upon a public or private highway or road, and the owner or operator of the vehicle had a prior conviction for the same offense within the past 3 years.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
3rd Reading AB1206 Bocanegra By Pan — 37–1 (pass) · upper
AB 1206 BOCANEGRA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–1 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 6–1 (pass) · upper
AB 1206 BOCANEGRA Assembly Third Reading — 69–1 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Bocanegra — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2017-03-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2017-04-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2017-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2017-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2017-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-04-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 1381.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2017-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2017-06-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2017-06-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-07-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-08-29 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2017-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 2460.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2017-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 3100.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2017-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2017-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 531, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/792895f3-a26a-4ba0-8383-3b5d54507806. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).