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type: "Bill"
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title: "Vehicles: window tinting."
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description: "Existing law generally prohibits any person from driving any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied in or upon the vehicle that obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view through the windshield or side windows. Under existing law, clear, colorless, and transparent material is allowed to be installed on the front side windows if the material meets certain standards and the driver has in his or her possession, or within the vehicle, a certificate certifying that the windows with the material installed meet those standards."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 1303"
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citation: "California AB 1303 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Vehicles: window tinting."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-02-17"
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last_action: "2017-09-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b26a030-03c3-4fad-9227-f24d99e1db1c"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1303"
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source_hash: "d30b410f9a9458fe57cdb9d0017b3be07b9fbad3a58515265edef5a93db20db4"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1303 (20172018) — Vehicles: window tinting.
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Existing law generally prohibits any person from driving any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied in or upon the vehicle that obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view through the windshield or side windows. Under existing law, clear, colorless, and transparent material is allowed to be installed on the front side windows if the material meets certain standards and the driver has in his or her possession, or within the vehicle, a certificate certifying that the windows with the material installed meet those standards.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1303&version=20170AB130399INT)
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2. **04/05/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1303&version=20170AB130398AMD)
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3. **07/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1303&version=20170AB130397AMD)
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4. **09/01/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1303&version=20170AB130395CHP)
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5. **AB1303** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1303)
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6. **08/25/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1303&version=20170AB130396ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB1303 McCarty By Pan — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- McCarty — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
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- **2017-03-13** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-04-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-04-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1128.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-06-08** From Consent Calendar.
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- **2017-06-08** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2017-07-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2017-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2177.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2017-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2756.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2017-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2017-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2017-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 210, Statutes of 2017.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b26a030-03c3-4fad-9227-f24d99e1db1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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