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Bill	Parking penalties.	Existing law authorizes a processing agency that processes unpaid parking penalties to proceed under specified options to collect those penalties. Under one option, a processing agency is authorized to file an itemization of unpaid penalties with the Department of Motor Vehicles for the department to collect the penalties along with the registration of the vehicle. Existing law requires this option, starting on July 1, 2018, to include a process to provide a payment plan for indigent persons.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2544	California AB 2544 (20172018)	bill	Parking penalties.	enacted	Lackey	6	23	8	2018-02-15	2018-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/92e53055-eff4-481e-a6c2-396f82ac6f78	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2544	334cce5cb6d0af9745f2d4e61b8165ff266529d4694ce511a1ed0ae10a2c23ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2544 (20172018) — Parking penalties.

Existing law authorizes a processing agency that processes unpaid parking penalties to proceed under specified options to collect those penalties. Under one option, a processing agency is authorized to file an itemization of unpaid penalties with the Department of Motor Vehicles for the department to collect the penalties along with the registration of the vehicle. Existing law requires this option, starting on July 1, 2018, to include a process to provide a payment plan for indigent persons.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/31/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/07/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2544 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2544 LACKEY Concurrence - Urgency Added — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2544 LACKEY Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2544 Lackey et al. By Wiener Urgency Clause — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lackey — primary (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4790.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2018-05-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 (Received pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14).)
• 2018-08-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 5458.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-23 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6508.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 494, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92e53055-eff4-481e-a6c2-396f82ac6f78. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).