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type: "Bill"
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title: "Vehicles: registration."
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description: "Existing law requires current month and year tabs, indicating the month and year of expiration of a vehicle's registration, to be attached to the rear license plate assigned to the vehicle for the last preceding registration year in which the licensed plates were issued. Under existing law, a vehicle that fails to display current month and year tabs or display expired tabs is in violation of law. Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "AB 256"
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citation: "California AB 256 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Vehicles", "registration"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dixon"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 26
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2023-01-19"
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last_action: "2023-10-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e35089e9-baa9-483f-86b3-d50ccaa2958e"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB256"
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source_hash: "2c281653a9fc69b5e591a54dd9ca1cff0c5901bfd31f8f13fc080f1e60821200"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 256 (20232024) — Vehicles: registration.
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Existing law requires current month and year tabs, indicating the month and year of expiration of a vehicle's registration, to be attached to the rear license plate assigned to the vehicle for the last preceding registration year in which the licensed plates were issued. Under existing law, a vehicle that fails to display current month and year tabs or display expired tabs is in violation of law. Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/19/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB256&version=20230AB25699INT)
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2. **03/14/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB256&version=20230AB25698AMD)
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3. **04/17/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB256&version=20230AB25697AMD)
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4. **08/17/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB256&version=20230AB25696AMD)
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5. **10/04/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB256&version=20230AB25694CHP)
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6. **AB256** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB256)
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7. **09/18/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB256&version=20230AB25695ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 256 Dixon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 256 Dixon Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB256 Dixon By Rubio — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Dixon — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2023-01-20** From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
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- **2023-02-02** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-14** 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`
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- **2023-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-17** 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`
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- **2023-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-05-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1593.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2023-05-31** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-26** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2023-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-06-27** From Consent Calendar.
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- **2023-06-27** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2023-08-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2618.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2023-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3348.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2023-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2023-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 297, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e35089e9-baa9-483f-86b3-d50ccaa2958e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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