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Bill	Motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers.	Existing law establishes the New Motor Vehicle Board in the Department of Motor Vehicles, and requires the board to hear and decide certain protests presented by a motor vehicle franchisee in regard to a dispute with the vehicle manufacturer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 473	California AB 473 (20232024)	bill	Motor vehicle manufacturers distributors and dealers	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	11	34	8	2023-02-06	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/05069b51-379e-423d-a7c5-3f631792ef07	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB473	f150acd634b8cc8b1633c62aff83877cda9faf8e5c72107941614fc1eb72f460	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 473 (20232024) — Motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers.

Existing law establishes the New Motor Vehicle Board in the Department of Motor Vehicles, and requires the board to hear and decide certain protests presented by a motor vehicle franchisee in regard to a dispute with the vehicle manufacturer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/06/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/15/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/12/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/15/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/29/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/03/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB473 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 473 Aguiar-Curry Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 473 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB473 Aguiar-Curry et al. By Umberg — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)
• Archuleta — coauthor (person)
• Connolly — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Jim Patterson — coauthor (person)
• Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• McKinnor — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Reyes — coauthor (person)
• Sanchez — coauthor (person)
• Ta — coauthor (person)
• Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-07 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-03-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-15 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-04-12 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
• 2023-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). 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
• 2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1712.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-31 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (June 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 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
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2239.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3075.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 332, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/05069b51-379e-423d-a7c5-3f631792ef07. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).