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type: "Bill"
title: "New Motor Vehicle Board."
description: "Existing law establishes the New Motor Vehicle Board in the Department of Motor Vehicles, and requires the board to hear and decide certain protests presented by a motor vehicle franchisee in regard to a dispute with the vehicle manufacturer. Prior law, until January 1, 2019, authorized the board to hear protests by an association challenging the legality of an export or sale-for-resale prohibition policy of a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch and established procedures for hearing those protests, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 179"
citation: "California AB 179 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["New Motor Vehicle Board."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64cacf88-f38c-4c50-ab2a-a3b0a9f3f2e1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB179"
source_hash: "3d1d551528ed1a16c388d80d1b3ed693bb89543cc804b38e566c0e653e71ba13"
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 179 (20192020) — New Motor Vehicle Board.
Existing law establishes the New Motor Vehicle Board in the Department of Motor Vehicles, and requires the board to hear and decide certain protests presented by a motor vehicle franchisee in regard to a dispute with the vehicle manufacturer. Prior law, until January 1, 2019, authorized the board to hear protests by an association challenging the legality of an export or sale-for-resale prohibition policy of a manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, or distributor branch and established procedures for hearing those protests, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/09/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB179&version=20190AB17999INT)
2. **05/20/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB179&version=20190AB17998AMD)
3. **08/26/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB179&version=20190AB17997AMD)
4. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB179&version=20190AB17995CHP)
5. **AB179** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB179)
6. **09/06/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB179&version=20190AB17996ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **130** (pass) · upper
- AB 179 Reyes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB179 Reyes By Jones — **400** (pass) · upper
- AB 179 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — **730** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **140** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Reyes — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** From Consent Calendar.
- **2019-05-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-05-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1722.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2012.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-26** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2453.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3012.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 796, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64cacf88-f38c-4c50-ab2a-a3b0a9f3f2e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).