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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Vehicles: driving under the influence."
+description: "Existing law regulates vehicles, including rules of the road, licensing requirements, and criminal penalties. Existing law makes it unlawful to drive a motor vehicle or ride a bicycle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, as specified, and imposes consequences when a traffic accident occurs as a result. Existing law, the Youthful Drunk Driver Visitation Program Act, authorizes a court to require a defendant or ward to visit various facilities, such as a trauma facility, as specified, a chemical dependency recovery hospital, or a county coroner's office."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 2198"
+citation: "California AB 2198 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Vehicles: driving under the influence."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fong"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2022-02-15"
+last_action: "2022-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edda218d-4b33-4e6a-ae41-32316ab19c1c"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2198"
+source_hash: "304275a1711ff3fbdcf55cdf4981e5c3c28143315e13aa9a77f697ee1825fb25"
+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 2198 (20212022) — Vehicles: driving under the influence.
+
+Existing law regulates vehicles, including rules of the road, licensing requirements, and criminal penalties. Existing law makes it unlawful to drive a motor vehicle or ride a bicycle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, as specified, and imposes consequences when a traffic accident occurs as a result. Existing law, the Youthful Drunk Driver Visitation Program Act, authorizes a court to require a defendant or ward to visit various facilities, such as a trauma facility, as specified, a chemical dependency recovery hospital, or a county coroner's office.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2198&version=20210AB219899INT)
+2. **05/16/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2198&version=20210AB219898AMD)
+3. **07/01/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2198&version=20210AB219896CHP)
+4. **AB2198** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2198)
+5. **06/21/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2198&version=20210AB219897ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 2198 Fong Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **70–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2198 Fong Consent Calendar Second Day — **68–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar AB2198 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fong — primary (person)
+- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
+- **2022-02-24** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-24** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-03-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4113.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-03-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 31). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-06-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4129.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-06-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2022-06-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
+- **2022-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/edda218d-4b33-4e6a-ae41-32316ab19c1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+