AB 983 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Vehicles: removal and impoundment.

Summary

Existing law requires a magistrate to issue a warrant or order authorizing a peace officer to immediately seize and cause the removal of a vehicle if the magistrate is presented with a peace officer's affidavit establishing reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle was an instrumentality used in the peace officer's presence in violation of specified offenses, including, among others, a person who engages in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility, as specified. Existing law makes it a crime to drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than 100 miles per hour. This bill would include the above-described crime in the list of offenses for which a peace officer may impound a vehicle pursuant to a warrant or order issued by a magistrate.

Issues: ✓ Transportation

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Introduction

Feb 2025

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Governor

Introduced Feb 20, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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02/20/25 - Introduced → 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly · 1 edit · Apr 10, 2025

MINOR

The amendment to AB 983 makes a minor drafting clarification to the list of Vehicle Code violations that authorize vehicle impoundment. A single 'or' was removed from the middle of the list of covered offenses, changing the grammatical structure from multiple 'or' conjunctions between each item to a single 'or' before the final item. The actual set of covered violations remains unchanged.

TECHNICAL

In Section 14602.7(a)(1)(A), the list of Vehicle Code violations triggering impoundment authority was restructured from using 'or' between each listed offense to using a single 'or' before the final item (subdivision (b) of Section 22348). The offenses covered are the same: Sections 2800.1, 2800.2, 2800.3, 23103, subdivision (a) or (c) of Section 23109, and subdivision (b) of Section 22348.

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Amendments

Feb 2, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

lower

Apr 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

lower

Apr 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

lower

Apr 10, 2025

Introduced

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

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

lower

Feb 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

lower

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