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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Vehicles: removal and impoundment."
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description: "Existing law requires a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if the magistrate is presented with a peace officer's affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer's presence in violation of specified offenses, including, among others, a person who, while operating a motor vehicle and with the intent to evade, willfully flees or otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer's motor vehicle. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, 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 3085"
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citation: "California AB 3085 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Vehicles", "removal and impoundment"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gipson"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2024-02-16"
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last_action: "2024-09-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09d6dd35-81e5-487f-b951-49ee92887efc"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085"
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source_hash: "3e5a44e0dee4c5fc5f3b66f2263d78b64ba46de1de503781922e2dfe99bc6080"
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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 3085 (20232024) — Vehicles: removal and impoundment.
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Existing law requires a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if the magistrate is presented with a peace officer's affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer's presence in violation of specified offenses, including, among others, a person who, while operating a motor vehicle and with the intent to evade, willfully flees or otherwise attempts to elude a pursuing peace officer's motor vehicle. Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, 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. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085&version=20230AB308599INT)
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2. **04/08/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085&version=20230AB308598AMD)
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3. **09/23/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085&version=20230AB308596CHP)
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4. **AB3085** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085)
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5. **08/23/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3085&version=20230AB308597ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 3085 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — **66–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB3085 Gipson et al. By Cortese — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Gipson — primary (person)
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- Muratsuchi — author (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
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- **2024-03-11** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-08** 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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- **2024-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-18** Assembly Rule 96 suspended.
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- **2024-04-18** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2024-04-18** Ordered to second reading.
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- **2024-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 5153.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2024-05-22** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB S. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-07-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5268.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-08-21** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2024-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
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- **2024-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2024-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 504, Statutes of 2024. `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/09d6dd35-81e5-487f-b951-49ee92887efc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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