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Bill	New Motor Vehicle Board.	Existing law establishes the New Motor Vehicle Board in the Department of Motor Vehicles, and requires the board to hear and decide certain protests presented by a motor vehicle franchisee in regard to a dispute with the vehicle manufacturer. Prior law, until January 1, 2019, authorized the board to hear protests by an association challenging the legality of an export or sale-for-resale prohibition policy of a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch and established procedures for hearing those protests, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 179	California AB 179 (20192020)	bill	New Motor Vehicle Board.	enacted	Reyes	6	25	7	2019-01-09	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/64cacf88-f38c-4c50-ab2a-a3b0a9f3f2e1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB179	3d1d551528ed1a16c388d80d1b3ed693bb89543cc804b38e566c0e653e71ba13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 179 (20192020) — New Motor Vehicle Board.

Existing law establishes the New Motor Vehicle Board in the Department of Motor Vehicles, and requires the board to hear and decide certain protests presented by a motor vehicle franchisee in regard to a dispute with the vehicle manufacturer. Prior law, until January 1, 2019, authorized the board to hear protests by an association challenging the legality of an export or sale-for-resale prohibition policy of a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch and established procedures for hearing those protests, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/09/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/26/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB179 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 179 Reyes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB179 Reyes By Jones — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 179 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Reyes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-10 From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-06 From Consent Calendar.
• 2019-05-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-05-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1722.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2012.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2453.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3012.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 796, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64cacf88-f38c-4c50-ab2a-a3b0a9f3f2e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).