republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1614.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: license plate pilot program."
description: "Existing law requires a vehicle to display a license plate, issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, with tabs that indicate the month and year the vehicle registration expires. Existing law authorizes the department to conduct a pilot program, until January 1, 2020, if certain conditions are met, to evaluate the use of alternatives to stickers, tabs, license plates, and registration cards. In the conduct of a pilot program under these provisions, existing law limits the exchange of data between the department and any electronic device or the provider of any electronic device to the data necessary to display evidence of registration compliance and prohibits the department from receiving or retaining any information regarding the movement, location, or use of a vehicle participating in the pilot program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1614"
citation: "California AB 1614 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: license plate pilot program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gipson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d1ed766-29e3-4c82-8b14-bc2648109f18"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1614"
source_hash: "71203f4babd3ec1dde0bab06496de9f0295557bbc56c2b9514c6c01705221cc6"
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 1614 (20192020) — Vehicles: license plate pilot program.

Existing law requires a vehicle to display a license plate, issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, with tabs that indicate the month and year the vehicle registration expires. Existing law authorizes the department to conduct a pilot program, until January 1, 2020, if certain conditions are met, to evaluate the use of alternatives to stickers, tabs, license plates, and registration cards. In the conduct of a pilot program under these provisions, existing law limits the exchange of data between the department and any electronic device or the provider of any electronic device to the data necessary to display evidence of registration compliance and prohibits the department from receiving or retaining any information regarding the movement, location, or use of a vehicle participating in the pilot program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1614&version=20190AB161499INT)
2. **09/20/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1614&version=20190AB161497CHP)
3. **AB1614** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1614)
4. **09/12/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1614&version=20190AB161498ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1614 Gipson By Hueso — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1614 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gipson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1903.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2693.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 319, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d1ed766-29e3-4c82-8b14-bc2648109f18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).