---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: driving under the influence: alcoholic beverage or drug."
description: "Existing law prohibits a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, or who has 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood, or who is addicted to the use of any drug, to drive a vehicle. Existing law also makes it unlawful to drive under the influence and cause bodily injury to another person."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2552"
citation: "California AB 2552 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: driving under the influence: alcoholic beverage or drug."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Torres"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e89b7bc6-4ac2-4d65-b452-70436b44b2da"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552"
source_hash: "b2051101ccfbfbcebfc7971ac4a7c4bde2b2d8e063666c06c4b9304efd603fd1"
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 2552 (20112012) — Vehicles: driving under the influence: alcoholic beverage or drug.

Existing law prohibits a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, or who has 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood, or who is addicted to the use of any drug, to drive a vehicle. Existing law also makes it unlawful to drive under the influence and cause bodily injury to another person.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552&version=20110AB255299INT)
2. **04/09/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552&version=20110AB255298AMD)
3. **04/19/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552&version=20110AB255297AMD)
4. **05/02/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552&version=20110AB255296AMD)
5. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552&version=20110AB255295AMD)
6. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552&version=20110AB255294AMD)
7. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552&version=20110AB255292CHP)
8. **AB2552** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552)
9. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552&version=20110AB255293ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2552 TORRES Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2552 Torres By Hancock — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2552 TORRES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Torres — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-19** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-01** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-02** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-10** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-05-10** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-05-10** (Page 4755.)
- **2012-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4914.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-31** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5023.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 6693.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 753, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e89b7bc6-4ac2-4d65-b452-70436b44b2da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).