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Bill	Vehicles: storage and towing.	Under existing law, when a vehicle has been towed and stored, the legal owner may only be charged a storage fee during the first 15 days of possession, and beyond the first 15 days, only for any time after 3 days have lapsed after written notification has been made to the legal owner, as specified. Existing law requires that fees charged under these provisions for storage and towing be reasonable.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 987	California AB 987 (20252026)	bill	Vehicles storageandtowing	enacted	Sharp-Collins	9	30	7	2025-02-20	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/a2b746f7-fe17-4c2f-b635-f35d3528e2e8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB987	3baf64db74d8d505c72d4469de5578b2cc4e0598851d8d64d044a933fd9861e4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 987 (20252026) — Vehicles: storage and towing.

Under existing law, when a vehicle has been towed and stored, the legal owner may only be charged a storage fee during the first 15 days of possession, and beyond the first 15 days, only for any time after 3 days have lapsed after written notification has been made to the legal owner, as specified. Existing law requires that fees charged under these provisions for storage and towing be reasonable.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/28/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB987 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 987 Sharp-Collins Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 987 Sharp-Collins Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB987 Sharp-Collins et al. By Wahab — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Sharp-Collins — primary (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Wahab — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2025-03-28 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 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
• 2025-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 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
• 2025-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-04-29 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1607.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-28 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 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
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 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
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. 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 file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-25 From Consent Calendar.
• 2025-08-25 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-08-28 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2439.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3019.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 345, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2b746f7-fe17-4c2f-b635-f35d3528e2e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).