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California AB 1519 (20232024) — Vehicles: catalytic converters.

Existing law licenses and regulates motor vehicle dealers and retail sellers. Existing law prohibits a motor vehicle dealer or retail seller from selling any motor vehicle that is not in compliance with the requirements enumerated in the Vehicle Code.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1519 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1519 Bains Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1519 Bains Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB1519 Bains et al. By Umberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bains — primary (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Sanchez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 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
• 2023-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1580.)
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2133.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2768.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3555.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 847, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96e7fba4-ed5e-4b39-a3f3-9236379da067. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).