---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: driver's handbook."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include within the California Driver's Handbook information regarding rail transit safety, abandonment or dumping of an animal on a highway, and the importance of respecting the right-of-way of others."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2918"
citation: "California AB 2918 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: driver's handbook."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a61a1d8-b0da-432f-b33b-906548e0691c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918"
source_hash: "b341553e5e20197558653297649202046d7dcab47ee0f387e95d0d92d6d0cc22"
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 2918 (20172018) — Vehicles: driver's handbook.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include within the California Driver's Handbook information regarding rail transit safety, abandonment or dumping of an animal on a highway, and the importance of respecting the right-of-way of others.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918&version=20170AB291899INT)
2. **03/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918&version=20170AB291898AMD)
3. **04/09/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918&version=20170AB291897AMD)
4. **06/13/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918&version=20170AB291896AMD)
5. **09/23/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918&version=20170AB291894CHP)
6. **AB2918** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918)
7. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918&version=20170AB291895ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2918 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **66–7** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2918 Holden By Skinner — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2918 HOLDEN Assembly Third Reading — **59–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2018-03-19** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 4. Page 5255.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5884.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6773.)
- **2018-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 7. Page 6898.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2018-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 723, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a61a1d8-b0da-432f-b33b-906548e0691c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).