---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: reckless driving: suspension of licenses."
description: "Existing law requires a person's driving privilege to be suspended upon conviction of specified driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenses for one year. Existing law terminates the licensing suspension if certain conditions are met, including if the person is eligible to apply for a restricted license. Under existing law, a person who drives a vehicle upon a highway in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of a person or property is guilty of reckless driving. Existing law provides that, when a person is charged with, and pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, reckless driving in satisfaction of, or as a substitute for, an original charge for a DUI, and the court accepts the plea of guilty or nolo contendere, the conviction is a prior offense for purposes of specified laws relating to punishments imposed for DUI convictions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 520"
citation: "California AB 520 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: reckless driving: suspension of licenses."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ammiano"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 31
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2011-02-15"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6ac75d4-304f-4f10-9214-ffe71a44a28d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB520"
source_hash: "6418b803a15f83c75f2bed766661b72c51fcab8c70ef1bdae49631089361f93c"
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 520 (20112012) — Vehicles: reckless driving: suspension of licenses.

Existing law requires a person's driving privilege to be suspended upon conviction of specified driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenses for one year. Existing law terminates the licensing suspension if certain conditions are met, including if the person is eligible to apply for a restricted license. Under existing law, a person who drives a vehicle upon a highway in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of a person or property is guilty of reckless driving. Existing law provides that, when a person is charged with, and pleads guilty or nolo contendere to, reckless driving in satisfaction of, or as a substitute for, an original charge for a DUI, and the court accepts the plea of guilty or nolo contendere, the conviction is a prior offense for purposes of specified laws relating to punishments imposed for DUI convictions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB520&version=20110AB52099INT)
2. **05/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB520&version=20110AB52098AMD)
3. **06/28/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB520&version=20110AB52097AMD)
4. **09/02/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB520&version=20110AB52096AMD)
5. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB520&version=20110AB52094CHP)
6. **AB520** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB520)
7. **09/20/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB520&version=20110AB52095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **4–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 520 AMMIANO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **53–24** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- amendments be concurred in. — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB520 Ammiano By Huff — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- AB 520 AMMIANO Assembly Third Reading — **48–27** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ammiano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-04-26** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.) (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-09** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-31** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 27. Page 1818.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-16** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-28** 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. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-15** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-02** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 2358.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-08** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2011-09-08** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3059.)
- **2011-09-08** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (September 8). `committee-passage`
- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 3119.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 657, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6ac75d4-304f-4f10-9214-ffe71a44a28d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).