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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vessels: arrests."
description: "Existing law provides that whenever any person is arrested for certain offenses, including, among other things, an infraction involving vehicle equipment, the arresting officer is required to permit the arrested person to execute a notice, prepared by the officer in triplicate, containing a promise to correct the violation and to deliver proof of correction to the issuing agency, unless the arresting officer finds that a disqualifying condition exists."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 591"
citation: "California AB 591 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vessels: arrests."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Villapudua"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-11"
last_action: "2021-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c63e33bd-82c3-4452-a071-c2e1b02a12a7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB591"
source_hash: "ded462f9b322d50baee21b4ad97d692adf7718403f49b233f4f9206f8d3c1412"
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 591 (20212022) — Vessels: arrests.
Existing law provides that whenever any person is arrested for certain offenses, including, among other things, an infraction involving vehicle equipment, the arresting officer is required to permit the arrested person to execute a notice, prepared by the officer in triplicate, containing a promise to correct the violation and to deliver proof of correction to the issuing agency, unless the arresting officer finds that a disqualifying condition exists.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/11/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB591&version=20210AB59199INT)
2. **07/09/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB591&version=20210AB59197CHP)
3. **AB591** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB591)
4. **06/25/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB591&version=20210AB59198ENR)
## Votes
- AB 591 Villapudua Consent Calendar Second Day — **770** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB591 — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **170** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **160** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **150** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Villapudua — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2021-02-18** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1153.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1632.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2021-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 57, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c63e33bd-82c3-4452-a071-c2e1b02a12a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).