CA SB 897

introduced

Vehicles: abandoned vehicles.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law authorizes a county satisfying specified conditions to establish a service authority for the abatement of abandoned vehicles and to impose a $1 vehicle registration fee for the abatement of abandoned vehicles. The fees imposed and the moneys received by the service authority from the Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, can only be used for the abatement, removal, and disposal of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles from private or public property. The service authority is authorized to adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement, removal, and disposal, as a public nuisance, of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicle and for the recovery of costs. This bill, notwithstanding these provisions, would authorize the City of Laguna Woods to use the amount of abandoned vehicle abatement funds received from the fee imposed by the service authority that formerly operated in the County of Orange, and the interest accrued thereon, for purposes of enforcing provisions of this code on public highways. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Laguna Woods.

Introduced: 2026-01-16
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-01 — Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-01-16
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2026-01-20
From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
2026-02-11
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
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2026-03-26
Set for hearing April 14.
2026-04-15
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3872.) (April 14).
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2026-04-16
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-04-23
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4033.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2026-04-23
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-05-04
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
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2026-06-30
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 29).
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2026-07-01
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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Versions

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Votes

Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar
2026-04-14 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Arreguín: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Valladares: other
Consent Calendar 2nd SB897 Choi et al.
2026-04-23 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Wiener: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Choi: yes
- Jones: yes
- Niello: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Limón: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Grove: yes
- Allen: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Stern: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Pérez: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: other
- Reyes: other
- Ochoa Bogh: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-06-29 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Wilson: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Davies: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Hart: yes
- Papan: yes
- Lackey: other

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

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