CaliforniaVehicles: homelessness.
What it does
Existing law makes it unlawful for a peace officer or an unauthorized person to remove an unattended vehicle from a highway, except as provided. Under existing law, the removal of a vehicle is a seizure, subject to the limits set forth in jurisprudence for the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance establishing procedures for the abatement and removal, as public nuisances, of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or parts of vehicles from private or public property.
More detail
Existing law, whenever a peace officer or other public employee removes an abandoned vehicle valued at $500 or less, requires the public agency that removed, or caused the removal of, the vehicle to cause the disposal of the vehicle subject to specified requirements, including providing notice, as specified, to the registered and legal owners and any other person known to have an interest in the vehicle, and a process for the owners and interested persons to request and have a poststorage hearing, as specified.
This bill would authorize a public agency of a city, county, or city and county to dismantle, or cause the dismantlement of, an abandoned vehicle, as defined, if the abandoned vehicle cannot be towed or otherwise moved and the vehicle has been declared a nuisance or hazard by a fire marshal, environmental health director, or public health officer of a city, county, or city and county, if various requirements are met, including attaching a distinctive notice to the vehicle at least 15 days prior to dismantlement that states the vehicle will be dismantled by the public agency if the hazard is not abated, sending a notice, within 48 hours of the attachment of the notice to the vehicle, to the owners and any other person known to have an interest in the vehicle informing them of specified information, including that the vehicle may be disposed of at least 15 days from the date of the notice and that they may have a hearing before the public agency if a request for a hearing is made within 10 days from the date of notice, as specified. This bill would require a requested hearing to be conducted within 5 business days of the request. If, after at least 15 days from the notification, the vehicle remains unclaimed, and if no request for a hearing was made or a hearing was not attended, the bill would require the public agency to provide the lienholder authorization to dismantle the vehicle. The bill would provide that a local government is not prevented from performing emergency summary abatement of an abandoned vehicle that is creating imminent health or safety hazards.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
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- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Sep 30Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 977, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 30Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Aug 27Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 24Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5682.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Major
- Vote recorded Unfinished Business SB692 Arreguín et al. Concurrence. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 19In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Vote recorded SB 692 Arreguín Senate Third Reading By Mark González. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 19Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6261.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Aug 10Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 10Read third time and amended.Major
- Aug 6Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 5From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 5).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 25From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- 2025
- Jul 16Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jul 15From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 14).Major
- Jul 14
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Jul 3Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.Major
- Jul 2From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1).Major
- Jul 1
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation]. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 16Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and TRANS.Minor
- Jun 4In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Jun 3Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1437.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading SB692 Arreguín et al. Result: pass.Upper
- May 27Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 23Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Upper
- May 23From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1210.) (May 23).Major
- May 16Set for hearing May 23.
- May 5May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 25Set for hearing May 5.
- Apr 23Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 23Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Apr 23From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 842.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.Minor
- Apr 22
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing]. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 9From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.Major
- Apr 9Set for hearing April 22.
- Apr 2Re-referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HOUSING.Minor
- Mar 25From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Major
- Mar 5Referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Feb 24Read first time.Minor
- Feb 24From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- Feb 21Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced