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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Vehicle infractions and misdemeanors: arrests."
+description: "Existing law requires that whenever a person is arrested for a vehicle-related infraction or misdemeanor, he or she be taken immediately before a magistrate if he or she fails to present his or her driver's license or other satisfactory evidence of identity for examination."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 346"
+citation: "California AB 346 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Vehicle infractions and misdemeanors: arrests."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wilk"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2015-02-13"
+last_action: "2015-07-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4796baf9-70a7-4665-af42-9ac93d52828e"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB346"
+source_hash: "40b7dd561ab85d9d39a090860cca5adfa3d300df45bcf5057dd4e5358f444f0f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 346 (20152016) — Vehicle infractions and misdemeanors: arrests.
+
+Existing law requires that whenever a person is arrested for a vehicle-related infraction or misdemeanor, he or she be taken immediately before a magistrate if he or she fails to present his or her driver's license or other satisfactory evidence of identity for examination.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/13/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB346&version=20150AB34699INT)
+2. **07/14/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB346&version=20150AB34697CHP)
+3. **AB346** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB346)
+4. **06/24/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB346&version=20150AB34698ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 346 WILK Assembly Third Reading — **78–1** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent #3 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wilk — primary (person)
+- Lackey — coauthor (person)
+- Melendez — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2015-03-02** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 975.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-06-17** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2015-06-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1550.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-06-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
+- **2015-06-29** Enrolled measure version corrected.
+- **2015-07-02** Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly.
+- **2015-07-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
+- **2015-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 82, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4796baf9-70a7-4665-af42-9ac93d52828e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+