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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties."
+description: "Existing law makes it an infraction to drink any alcoholic beverage while driving a motor vehicle upon any highway or on other specified lands. Existing law also prohibits a driver or passenger from drinking any alcoholic beverage while in a motor vehicle upon a highway, and makes a violation of this provision punishable as an infraction."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "SB 65"
+citation: "California SB 65 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2016-12-29"
+last_action: "2017-09-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5470de13-3650-4d0a-8849-5aca2e903154"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65"
+source_hash: "2c4bf053f25165bd7ba8f3e200292b81637c336b7aea169ec43d534c4bc23637"
+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 SB 65 (20172018) — Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties.
+
+Existing law makes it an infraction to drink any alcoholic beverage while driving a motor vehicle upon any highway or on other specified lands. Existing law also prohibits a driver or passenger from drinking any alcoholic beverage while in a motor vehicle upon a highway, and makes a violation of this provision punishable as an infraction.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **12/29/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6599INT)
+2. **03/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6598AMD)
+3. **03/27/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6597AMD)
+4. **04/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6596AMD)
+5. **05/03/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6595AMD)
+6. **05/11/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6594AMD)
+7. **09/11/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6592CHP)
+8. **SB65** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65)
+9. **08/25/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6593ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 65 Hill Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Lackey — principal coauthor (person)
+- Low — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-12-29** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2017-01-03** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 2.
+- **2017-01-04** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-12** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-14** Set for hearing March 28.
+- **2017-03-20** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-03-21** March 28 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2017-03-22** Set for hearing April 4.
+- **2017-03-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 626.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-07** Set for hearing April 25.
+- **2017-04-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-02** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 854.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2017-05-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-05** Set for hearing May 15.
+- **2017-05-09** May 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2017-05-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-16** Set for hearing May 22.
+- **2017-05-22** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2017-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1259.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2017-06-15** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-07-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-07-17** Coauthors revised.
+- **2017-07-19** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-07-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2768.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-08-24** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2017-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2017-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 232, Statutes of 2017.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5470de13-3650-4d0a-8849-5aca2e903154`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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