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type: "Bill"
title: "Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act: services and repairs: travel trailers and motor homes."
description: "The Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act requires every manufacturer of consumer goods sold in the state for which the manufacturer has made an express warranty to maintain sufficient service and repair facilities, as specified, to carry out the terms of the warranties. Existing law requires a manufacturer or its representative who fails to service or repair goods pursuant to an express warranty, after a reasonable number of attempts, to replace those goods or to reimburse the buyer, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1849"
citation: "California AB 1849 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act", "services and repairs", "travel trailers and motor homes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b555137c-c097-4b2a-a810-0346c2ea7548"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1849"
source_hash: "d4584cc398f96097af3df6297b2f29670871ab9b171bb9b8103761dda2c26fc7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 1849 (20232024) — Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act: services and repairs: travel trailers and motor homes.
The Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act requires every manufacturer of consumer goods sold in the state for which the manufacturer has made an express warranty to maintain sufficient service and repair facilities, as specified, to carry out the terms of the warranties. Existing law requires a manufacturer or its representative who fails to service or repair goods pursuant to an express warranty, after a reasonable number of attempts, to replace those goods or to reimburse the buyer, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/17/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1849&version=20230AB184999INT)
2. **03/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1849&version=20230AB184998AMD)
3. **05/16/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1849&version=20230AB184997AMD)
4. **06/06/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1849&version=20230AB184996AMD)
5. **08/26/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1849&version=20230AB184994CHP)
6. **AB1849** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1849)
7. **08/14/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1849&version=20230AB184995ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1849 Grayson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **740** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **100** (pass) · upper
- AB 1849 Grayson Assembly Third Reading — **720** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **100** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Grayson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-18** From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-03-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-03-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-16** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5295.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6266.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2024-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 196, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b555137c-c097-4b2a-a810-0346c2ea7548`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).