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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Driving privilege: minors."
+description: "Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to suspend or order a delay in the issuance of the driving privilege, for one year, of a minor who is an habitual truant, as defined, or who is adjudged to be a ward of the court, as prescribed. Existing law requires the juvenile court, when determining whether to suspend or delay a minor's driving privilege, to consider whether a personal or family hardship exists that requires the minor to have a driver's license for his or her own, or a member of his or her family's, employment or for medically related purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 2685"
+citation: "California AB 2685 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Driving privilege: minors."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2018-02-15"
+last_action: "2018-09-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03556c10-3996-4533-8d45-7cba4b7b6bfe"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2685"
+source_hash: "6f0cdfd3a07e8abc33bf827845d934b93c3c7e1ce015adf41656b6bcd0cab6f0"
+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 2685 (20172018) — Driving privilege: minors.
+
+Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to suspend or order a delay in the issuance of the driving privilege, for one year, of a minor who is an habitual truant, as defined, or who is adjudged to be a ward of the court, as prescribed. Existing law requires the juvenile court, when determining whether to suspend or delay a minor's driving privilege, to consider whether a personal or family hardship exists that requires the minor to have a driver's license for his or her own, or a member of his or her family's, employment or for medically related purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/15/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2685&version=20170AB268599INT)
+2. **03/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2685&version=20170AB268598AMD)
+3. **04/12/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2685&version=20170AB268597AMD)
+4. **08/23/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2685&version=20170AB268596AMD)
+5. **09/23/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2685&version=20170AB268594CHP)
+6. **AB2685** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2685)
+7. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2685&version=20170AB268595ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading AB2685 Lackey By Vidak — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2685 LACKEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2685 LACKEY Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lackey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
+- **2018-03-19** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5216.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-05-30** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-07-02** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-06** From Consent Calendar.
+- **2018-08-06** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2018-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5893.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2018-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6773.)
+- **2018-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6894.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2018-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 717, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03556c10-3996-4533-8d45-7cba4b7b6bfe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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