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type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: unsafe, unsecured load."
description: "Existing law requires the department to administer a written test of those persons seeking driver's licenses or certificates of renewal. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include at least one question in at least 20% of the tests of an applicant's knowledge and understanding of the provisions of the Vehicle Code to verify, among other things, that the applicant has read and understands that the abandonment or dumping of any animal is a criminal offense that can create a severe traffic safety hazard."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1925"
citation: "California AB 1925 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: unsafe", "unsecured load."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Choi"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/336013e4-39e7-46e6-bcff-9662276538ae"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1925"
source_hash: "a33cafb7a9fe4bb696242763d9daeda825c8894b2a3b94d218f0a0ddf89950c2"
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 1925 (20172018) — Vehicles: unsafe, unsecured load.
Existing law requires the department to administer a written test of those persons seeking driver's licenses or certificates of renewal. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include at least one question in at least 20% of the tests of an applicant's knowledge and understanding of the provisions of the Vehicle Code to verify, among other things, that the applicant has read and understands that the abandonment or dumping of any animal is a criminal offense that can create a severe traffic safety hazard.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/24/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1925&version=20170AB192599INT)
2. **07/18/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1925&version=20170AB192597CHP)
3. **AB1925** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1925)
4. **07/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1925&version=20170AB192598ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar AB1925 — **370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **110** (pass) · lower
- AB 1925 CHOI Consent Calendar Second Day — **740** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **120** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Choi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-25** From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4898.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-10** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-25** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5038.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-07-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-07-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-07-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 124, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/336013e4-39e7-46e6-bcff-9662276538ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).