Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed California’s car dealers to tack on another $175 in fees to the cost of buying a vehicle.

On Monday, Newsom announced he wasn’t going to sign Senate Bill 791 , which would have raised the fees dealers can charge to process Department of Motor Vehicles and other paperwork from $85 to up to 1% of the purchase price, capped at $260.

In his veto message , Newsom said the fee increase made little sense since a car buyer would be paying a dealership “for only minutes of data entry.”

“At a time when Californians are already struggling with the high cost of living,” Newsom wrote, “this bill would raise the document processing fee to three times the current $85 cap – far beyond what an inflation adjustment would justify.”

Brian Maas, pr

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