republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1215.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: electronic processing of documents: titling and registration."
description: "(1) Existing law imposes specified licensing and regulatory requirements on dealers of motor vehicles and requires that specified fees and charges be disclosed in a conditional sales contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle. Existing law also prohibits any person from driving, moving, or leaving upon a highway any motor vehicle subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid under that code, and existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish contracts for electronic programs that allow qualified industry partners to join the department in providing services that include processing and payment programs for vehicle registration and titling transactions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1215"
citation: "California AB 1215 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: electronic processing of documents: titling and registration."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blumenfield"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb626ff0-c109-498a-91a9-8f6df28b4e61"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215"
source_hash: "3aae664aecbeb7f680709383eb8019f37f38e2d9d799a3e3f46f9e83b8f92157"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1215 (20112012) — Vehicles: electronic processing of documents: titling and registration.

(1) Existing law imposes specified licensing and regulatory requirements on dealers of motor vehicles and requires that specified fees and charges be disclosed in a conditional sales contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle. Existing law also prohibits any person from driving, moving, or leaving upon a highway any motor vehicle subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid under that code, and existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish contracts for electronic programs that allow qualified industry partners to join the department in providing services that include processing and payment programs for vehicle registration and titling transactions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121599INT)
2. **04/28/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121598AMD)
3. **05/10/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121597AMD)
4. **05/27/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121596AMD)
5. **06/22/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121595AMD)
6. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121594AMD)
7. **08/15/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121593AMD)
8. **08/18/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121592AMD)
9. **09/26/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121590CHP)
10. **AB1215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215)
11. **09/08/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1215&version=20110AB121591ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1215 BLUMENFIELD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1215 Blumenfield By Padilla — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1215 BLUMENFIELD Assembly Third Reading — **75–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blumenfield — primary (person)
- Yamada — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-17** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-04-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-10** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 3. Page 1810.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-16** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-08-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 2130.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 4. Page 2850.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2011-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 329, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb626ff0-c109-498a-91a9-8f6df28b4e61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).