{"id":3717,"date":"2025-10-16T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:35:00","slug":"veto-of-a-car-dealer-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/veto-of-a-car-dealer-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Veto of a car dealer bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB791\">SB 791<\/a> would have increased the amount car dealerships can charge for processing fees from $85 to up to 1% of the purchase price, capped at $260. The bill was vetoed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SB-791-Veto.pdf\">veto message<\/a> includes, \u201cAt a time when Californians are already struggling with the high cost of living,  this bill would raise the document processing fee to three times the current $85 cap \u2013 far beyond what an inflation adjustment would justify.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The veto message also includes a note that there are also no additional requirements on car dealerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/2025\/10\/california-car-dealer-fees-veto\/\">Cal Matters | Newsom vetoes car dealers\u2019 bill to hike fees on buyers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SB 791 would have increased the amount car dealerships can charge for processing fees from $85 to up to 1% of the purchase price, capped at $260. The bill was vetoed. The veto message includes, \u201cAt a time when Californians are already struggling with the high cost of living, this bill would raise the document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}