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CA AB 987

enacted

Vehicles: storage and towing.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 987 pass?

Yes. CA AB 987 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 345, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 987 about?

Under existing law, when a vehicle has been towed and stored, the legal owner may only be charged a storage fee during the first 15 days of possession, and beyond the first 15 days, only for any time after 3 days have lapsed after written notification has been made to the legal owner, as specified. Existing law requires that fees charged under these provisions for storage and towing be reasonable. Existing law makes an insurer that is responsible for reasonable storage and towing charges liable to the person providing those services when a vehicle is towed and stored as a result of an accident or stolen recovery, as specified. Existing law requires that these storage and towing fees be reasonable and enumerates a list of fees that are presumptively unreasonable. This bill would expand the list of presumptively unreasonable fees for purposes of the provisions described above to include, among other things, storage fees charged for state holidays that exceed the posted standard daily storage rate and towing fees charged when the owner or the operator of a tow truck is directed by a law enforcement officer to remove a vehicle at the scene of a state or local emergency, as specified.

Who sponsors CA AB 987?

Sharp-Collins is the primary sponsor of CA AB 987, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Description

Under existing law, when a vehicle has been towed and stored, the legal owner may only be charged a storage fee during the first 15 days of possession, and beyond the first 15 days, only for any time after 3 days have lapsed after written notification has been made to the legal owner, as specified. Existing law requires that fees charged under these provisions for storage and towing be reasonable. Existing law makes an insurer that is responsible for reasonable storage and towing charges liable to the person providing those services when a vehicle is towed and stored as a result of an accident or stolen recovery, as specified. Existing law requires that these storage and towing fees be reasonable and enumerates a list of fees that are presumptively unreasonable. This bill would expand the list of presumptively unreasonable fees for purposes of the provisions described above to include, among other things, storage fees charged for state holidays that exceed the posted standard daily storage rate and towing fees charged when the owner or the operator of a tow truck is directed by a law enforcement officer to remove a vehicle at the scene of a state or local emergency, as specified.

Introduced
2025-03-28
Latest action
2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 345, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Sharp-Collinsauthor
  • Daviescoauthor
  • Wahabcoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-20

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-21

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  3. 2025-03-28

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.

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  4. 2025-03-28

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  5. 2025-04-01

    Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  6. 2025-04-22

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.

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  7. 2025-04-23

    Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  8. 2025-04-29

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  9. 2025-04-29

    Coauthors revised.

  10. 2025-05-14

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

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  11. 2025-05-15

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  12. 2025-05-19

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1607.)

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  13. 2025-05-20

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  14. 2025-05-28

    Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD.

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  15. 2025-06-11

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  16. 2025-06-25

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  17. 2025-07-02

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  18. 2025-07-09

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  19. 2025-08-19

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  20. 2025-08-20

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  21. 2025-08-25

    Ordered to third reading.

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  22. 2025-08-25

    From Consent Calendar.

  23. 2025-08-28

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  24. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  25. 2025-09-03

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2439.).

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  26. 2025-09-03

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  27. 2025-09-08

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3019.).

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  28. 2025-09-15

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

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  29. 2025-10-06

    Approved by the Governor.

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  30. 2025-10-06

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 345, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-20Compare
  • 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-28Compare
  • 04/22/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-22Compare
  • 06/11/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-11Compare
  • 07/02/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-02Compare
  • 08/28/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-08-28Compare
  • 09/10/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-10Compare
  • 10/06/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-06Compare
  • AB987Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-28 · pass · 16-0

    Member-level votes (16)
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-14 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Fong: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Arambula: yes

  • AB 987 Sharp-Collins Assembly Third Reading

    2025-05-20 · pass · 75-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Solache: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Papan: other
    • Dixon: other
    • Flora: other
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-24 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Dahle: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Valladares: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-07-08 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Umberg: yes

  • 3rd Reading AB987 Sharp-Collins et al. By Wahab

    2025-09-03 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Becker: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Caballero: yes

  • AB 987 Sharp-Collins Concurrence in Senate Amendments

    2025-09-08 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Nguyen: other

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