AB 1272 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Department of Motor Vehicles: occupational licensees.

Summary
Existing law makes it unlawful for the holder of an occupational license issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles to use the initials "DMV," the Department of Motor Vehicles logogram, or the words "Department of Motor Vehicles" in any business name or telephone number. This bill would add internet domain names to the above list of prohibited uses. By expanding the application of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. The bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Tags: Licensing
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Jul 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
Jul 2025
Signed into Law
Jul 2025
Introduced Feb 21, 2025 Signed Jul 28, 2025
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What changed between versions

03/24/25 - Amended Assembly 07/11/25 - Enrolled · 3 edits · Jul 11, 2025
MINOR
The enrolled version of AB 1272 removed the entire parking payment zones provision (Section 22508.2) that had been included in the amended assembly version, leaving only the DMV occupational license domain name prohibition as the bill's substantive content. The parking provision would have allowed San Francisco, Long Beach, and Santa Monica to implement mobile-only parking payment zones with cash alternatives, equity evaluations, reduced fines, and a 2033 sunset. All remaining changes are technical cleanup of amendment markup artifacts.
Scope change
The bill's scope narrowed significantly. The amended assembly version covered two distinct topics: DMV occupational license domain name restrictions AND mobile device parking payment zones in three cities. The enrolled version covers only the DMV domain name restriction, eliminating the entire parking policy component.
SCOPE

The entire Section 22508.2 of the Vehicle Code was removed. This section would have authorized San Francisco, Long Beach, and Santa Monica to require mobile device payment in parking zones, required cash alternative plans with stakeholder consultation, mandated an equity and cost evaluation report by January 1 of the fourth year, set civil fines at half the metered-zone rate for mobile-only zones, limited operation to five years or until January 1 2033, and included a sunset date of January 1 2033.

TECHNICAL

Resolved amendment markup artifacts in Section 25: changed 'any a person' to 'a person', 'such the person' to 'the person', 'any an occupational license' to 'an occupational license', cleaned up the business name/telephone number/domain name list, and changed 'may shall not use' to 'shall not use'.

Updated bill header from introduction date (February 21, 2025) to passage dates (Assembly May 27, 2025; Senate July 10, 2025), removed the 'Introduced by Assembly Member Dixon' line, and updated the legislative counsel's digest to remove all parking payment zones references.

Floor votes · Senate Jul 10, 2025 · Assembly May 27, 2025

How they voted

370
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 40
Jul 10, 2025
D Democratic30
27 Yea 3
90% Yea
R Republican10
10 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
10
Committee
10
Amendments
1
Jul 28, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
legislature
Jul 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
lower
Jul 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2043.).
upper
Jul 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
upper
Jun 25, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
upper
Jun 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
upper
May 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1740.)
lower
May 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 21).
lower
May 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
lower
Mar 25, 2025
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Introduced
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Committee
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
lower
Feb 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
lower
Feb 21, 2025
Introduced
Introduced. To print.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Diane Dixon
Diane Dixon
RRepublican
CA
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