republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1732.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: manufacturers, distributors, and dealers."
description: "Existing law generally requires a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer of vehicles to be licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law prohibits these licensees from, among other things, failing to, within 48 hours, withdraw in writing an advertisement of a vehicle that has been sold or withdrawn from sale and advertising or representing a vehicle as a new vehicle if the vehicle is a used vehicle. Existing law makes it a crime to violate these provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1732"
citation: "California AB 1732 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: manufacturers", "distributors", "and dealers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stone"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-14"
last_action: "2014-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/670f499a-f8f1-496a-aef8-b90116025907"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1732"
source_hash: "783466d555b7334671abe1cfa9c4da729c800f62ce031c20243f7a3a5f82dc44"
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 1732 (20132014) — Vehicles: manufacturers, distributors, and dealers.

Existing law generally requires a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, remanufacturer, remanufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, transporter, or dealer of vehicles to be licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law prohibits these licensees from, among other things, failing to, within 48 hours, withdraw in writing an advertisement of a vehicle that has been sold or withdrawn from sale and advertising or representing a vehicle as a new vehicle if the vehicle is a used vehicle. Existing law makes it a crime to violate these provisions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1732&version=20130AB173299INT)
2. **04/10/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1732&version=20130AB173298AMD)
3. **06/15/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1732&version=20130AB173297AMD)
4. **07/01/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1732&version=20130AB173296AMD)
5. **09/30/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1732&version=20130AB173294CHP)
6. **AB1732** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1732)
7. **08/21/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1732&version=20130AB173295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1732 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1732 STONE Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1732 Stone By Lieu — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4848.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-09** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4553.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-19** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6181.)
- **2014-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6185.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 856, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/670f499a-f8f1-496a-aef8-b90116025907`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).