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Bill	Vehicles: child passenger restraints.	Existing law requires a parent, legal guardian, or driver who transports a child under 16 years of age on a highway in a motor vehicle to properly secure that child in an appropriate child passenger restraint system or safety belt, as specified. Existing law authorizes a child or ward under 8 years of age who is 4 feet 9 inches in height or taller to be properly restrained by a safety belt rather than by a child passenger restraint system.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 435	California AB 435 (20252026)	bill	Vehicles childpassengerrestraints	enacted	Wilson	7	25	7	2025-02-06	2025-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/0461d82c-94ba-42b4-93b1-7c521fbb3d15	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435	1f2e747c470f628f94948daff99840d1163fa0a8df582f04dbeb4064ecb53f15	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 435 (20252026) — Vehicles: child passenger restraints.

Existing law requires a parent, legal guardian, or driver who transports a child under 16 years of age on a highway in a motor vehicle to properly secure that child in an appropriate child passenger restraint system or safety belt, as specified. Existing law authorizes a child or ward under 8 years of age who is 4 feet 9 inches in height or taller to be properly restrained by a safety belt rather than by a child passenger restraint system.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB435 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 435 Wilson Assembly Third Reading — 42–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 435 Wilson Assembly Third Reading — 35–12 (fail) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB435 Wilson By Cortese — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 435 Wilson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 49–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wilson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2025-02-18 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 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
• 2025-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-23 Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 35. Noes 12. Page 1657.). failure, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-23 Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Wilson.
• 2025-06-04 Reconsideration granted. (Page 2067.)
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 16. Page 2067.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 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
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2393.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 13. Page 3012.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 434, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0461d82c-94ba-42b4-93b1-7c521fbb3d15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).