---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highways: victim signs."
description: "Highways: victim signs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 965"
citation: "California AB 965 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways: victim signs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mountjoy"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2001-02-23"
last_action: "2001-10-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6af28166-adf2-418f-a135-0fe6cd97ef25"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965"
source_hash: "901d5b2f647efcb0afe48f7f4741aaed3c081773179030ec89c9c5b7c82ce437"
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 965 (20012002) — Highways: victim signs.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/23/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965&version=20010AB96599INT)
2. **04/23/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965&version=20010AB96598AMD)
3. **05/10/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965&version=20010AB96597AMD)
4. **07/02/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965&version=20010AB96596AMD)
5. **07/18/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965&version=20010AB96595AMD)
6. **08/27/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965&version=20010AB96594AMD)
7. **10/14/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965&version=20010AB96592CHP)
8. **AB965** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965)
9. **08/31/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB965&version=20010AB96593ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 965 Mountjoy Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB965 Mountjoy By Johnson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 965 Mountjoy Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mountjoy — primary (person)
- Alarcon — coauthor (person)
- Bill Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Cogdill — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Havice — coauthor (person)
- Hollingsworth — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- La Suer — coauthor (person)
- Leach — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Monteith — coauthor (person)
- Pescetti — coauthor (person)
- Robert Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-10-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 864, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-09-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2001-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3348.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 1.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-08-27** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-18** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-17** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 3.). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-06-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1789.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-05-14** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-23** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-04-19** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 16). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2001-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2001-02-23** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6af28166-adf2-418f-a135-0fe6cd97ef25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).