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type: "Bill"
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title: "Vehicles: child passenger restraints."
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description: "Existing law requires a parent, legal guardian, or driver who transports a child under 16 years of age on a highway in a motor vehicle to properly secure that child in an appropriate child passenger restraint system or safety belt, as specified. Existing law authorizes a child or ward under 8 years of age who is 4 feet 9 inches in height or taller to be properly restrained by a safety belt rather than by a child passenger restraint system."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 435"
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citation: "California AB 435 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Vehicles", "childpassengerrestraints"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Wilson"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 25
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2025-02-06"
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last_action: "2025-10-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0461d82c-94ba-42b4-93b1-7c521fbb3d15"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435"
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source_hash: "1f2e747c470f628f94948daff99840d1163fa0a8df582f04dbeb4064ecb53f15"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 435 (20252026) — Vehicles: child passenger restraints.
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Existing law requires a parent, legal guardian, or driver who transports a child under 16 years of age on a highway in a motor vehicle to properly secure that child in an appropriate child passenger restraint system or safety belt, as specified. Existing law authorizes a child or ward under 8 years of age who is 4 feet 9 inches in height or taller to be properly restrained by a safety belt rather than by a child passenger restraint system.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/06/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435&version=20250AB43599INT)
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2. **03/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435&version=20250AB43598AMD)
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3. **05/19/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435&version=20250AB43597AMD)
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4. **06/25/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435&version=20250AB43596AMD)
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5. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435&version=20250AB43594CHP)
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6. **AB435** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435)
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7. **09/10/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB435&version=20250AB43595ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 435 Wilson Assembly Third Reading — **42–16** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **11–2** (pass) · lower
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- AB 435 Wilson Assembly Third Reading — **35–12** (fail) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB435 Wilson By Cortese — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 435 Wilson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **49–13** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Wilson — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
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- **2025-02-18** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-23** Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 35. Noes 12. Page 1657.). `failure, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-23** Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Wilson.
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- **2025-06-04** Reconsideration granted. (Page 2067.)
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- **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 16. Page 2067.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2393.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 13. Page 3012.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 434, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0461d82c-94ba-42b4-93b1-7c521fbb3d15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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