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Bill	Department of Motor Vehicles: records.	Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to permit inspection of, or sell, or both, information from its records concerning the registration of a vehicle or information from the files of drivers' licenses at a charge sufficient to pay at least the actual cost to the department for providing the inspection or sale of that information, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 398	California AB 398 (20212022)	bill	Department of Motor Vehicles: records.	enacted	Fong	6	22	6	2021-02-03	2021-07-16	openstates	ocd-bill/3e3fbd48-db4d-451a-a6dc-1e8e27cdb02a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB398	60f330cc66d6d1ba7ba7de644c777dcb553371423933bae1bfeaa60303ad147f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 398 (20212022) — Department of Motor Vehicles: records.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to permit inspection of, or sell, or both, information from its records concerning the registration of a vehicle or information from the files of drivers' licenses at a charge sufficient to pay at least the actual cost to the department for providing the inspection or sale of that information, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/16/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB398 (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/29/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar AB398 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 398 Fong Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 398 Fong Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Fong — primary (person)
• Chau — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
• 2021-02-12 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1335.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-05-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1633.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-06-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2132.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2021-07-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-07-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 90, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e3fbd48-db4d-451a-a6dc-1e8e27cdb02a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).