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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 897: Vehicles: abandoned vehicles.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 897 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on January 16, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Vehicles: abandoned vehicles. Primary sponsor: Steven Choi (R). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (August 24, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 126, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Steven ChoiPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate37
Diane DixonCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly72
Tony StricklandCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate36

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 126, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6040.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
  7. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 29).
  8. Referred to Com. on TRANS.
  9. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  10. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4033.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  11. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
  12. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3872.) (April 14).

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page