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type: "Bill"
title: "Abandoned recreational vehicles."
description: "Under existing law, if a peace officer or employee of a public agency has reasonable grounds to believe a vehicle is abandoned, they are authorized to remove the vehicle from a highway or public or private property and store it, as specified. Existing law provides a specific procedure for the disposal of an abandoned vehicle valued at $500 or less that includes notifying the Stolen Vehicle System of the Department of Justice and contacting the registered and legal owners of record with the Department of Motor Vehicles, among other procedural requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 630"
citation: "California AB 630 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Abandonedrecreationalvehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark González"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5431ac30-16fc-434d-b1b0-bc6c376c9317"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630"
source_hash: "e4e99104fb23c50bd471c63d0336bf7195b1845a623dc46f6bba15981364326b"
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 630 (20252026) — Abandoned recreational vehicles.
Under existing law, if a peace officer or employee of a public agency has reasonable grounds to believe a vehicle is abandoned, they are authorized to remove the vehicle from a highway or public or private property and store it, as specified. Existing law provides a specific procedure for the disposal of an abandoned vehicle valued at $500 or less that includes notifying the Stolen Vehicle System of the Department of Justice and contacting the registered and legal owners of record with the Department of Motor Vehicles, among other procedural requirements.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630&version=20250AB63099INT)
2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630&version=20250AB63098AMD)
3. **04/30/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630&version=20250AB63097AMD)
4. **06/25/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630&version=20250AB63096AMD)
5. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630&version=20250AB63095AMD)
6. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630&version=20250AB63094AMD)
7. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630&version=20250AB63092CHP)
8. **AB630** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630)
9. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB630&version=20250AB63093ENR)
## Votes
- AB 630 Mark González Assembly Third Reading — **700** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **61** (pass) · upper
- AB 630 Mark González Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB630 Mark González et al. By Arreguín — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mark González — primary (person)
- Arreguín — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** 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`
- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-01** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1652.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-04** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-07** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2895.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3434.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 699, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5431ac30-16fc-434d-b1b0-bc6c376c9317`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).