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Bill	Department of Motor Vehicles: appointments: unlawful sale.	Existing law establishes the Department of Motor Vehicles in the Transportation Agency and sets forth the powers and duties of the department, including, but not limited to, vehicle registration and the issuance and renewal of driver's licenses. Existing law defines a "person," for the purposes of these and related provisions, as a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation. Under existing law, a violation of, or failure to comply with, any provision of the Vehicle Code is unlawful and constitutes an infraction, unless otherwise provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 317	California AB 317 (20192020)	bill	Department of Motor Vehicles: appointments: unlawful sale.	enacted	Diep	7	24	6	2019-01-30	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/3fcf056c-32bf-4b3f-aa15-15e2abcf99ec	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB317	1bb3e61e715206f992b3ccf2c7e058b9f26c5365262a638e1fd2ce34c79b9ade	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 317 (20192020) — Department of Motor Vehicles: appointments: unlawful sale.

Existing law establishes the Department of Motor Vehicles in the Transportation Agency and sets forth the powers and duties of the department, including, but not limited to, vehicle registration and the issuance and renewal of driver's licenses. Existing law defines a "person," for the purposes of these and related provisions, as a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or corporation. Under existing law, a violation of, or failure to comply with, any provision of the Vehicle Code is unlawful and constitutes an infraction, unless otherwise provided.

Version chain

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

1. 01/30/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/26/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB317 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/10/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 317 Diep Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 317 Diep Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB317 Diep et al. By Jones — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Diep — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)
• Fong — author (person)
• Frazier — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Voepel — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
• 2019-02-11 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-02-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-02-27 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1926.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2503.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3095.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 608, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3fcf056c-32bf-4b3f-aa15-15e2abcf99ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).