---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: driving-under-the-influence (DUI): repeat offenders."
description: "(1) Existing law requires, if a person is convicted of a specified driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offense and the offense occurred within 10 years of 2, or 3 or more, prior specified DUI offenses that resulted in a conviction, that the person be punished by enhanced penalties, and that the person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle be revoked by the department for a period of 2, 3, 4, or 5 years, as applicable."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1601"
citation: "California AB 1601 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: driving-under-the-influence (DUI): repeat offenders."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2010-01-04"
last_action: "2010-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37c72cb6-bef5-4d44-ac18-206a7b1cdc2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601"
source_hash: "8e60498e1e7d9ac229e1269dabe467e86001a2e0e757303d10159f4ad9f113cc"
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 1601 (20092010) — Vehicles: driving-under-the-influence (DUI): repeat offenders.

(1) Existing law requires, if a person is convicted of a specified driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offense and the offense occurred within 10 years of 2, or 3 or more, prior specified DUI offenses that resulted in a conviction, that the person be punished by enhanced penalties, and that the person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle be revoked by the department for a period of 2, 3, 4, or 5 years, as applicable.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/04/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601&version=20090AB160199INT)
2. **02/04/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601&version=20090AB160198AMD)
3. **05/28/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601&version=20090AB160197AMD)
4. **07/15/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601&version=20090AB160196AMD)
5. **08/17/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601&version=20090AB160195AMD)
6. **09/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601&version=20090AB160193CHP)
7. **AB1601** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601)
8. **08/30/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1601&version=20090AB160194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1601 HILL Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1601 HILL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1601 Hill By Leno — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Audra Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Bill Berryhill — coauthor (person)
- Blakeslee — coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Evans — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gilmore — coauthor (person)
- Harman — principal coauthor (person)
- Huber — coauthor (person)
- Huffman — coauthor (person)
- Jeffries — coauthor (person)
- Knight — coauthor (person)
- Leno — principal coauthor (person)
- Liu — principal coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)
- Maldonado — principal coauthor (person)
- Monning — coauthor (person)
- Nava — principal coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Smyth — coauthor (person)
- Torlakson — coauthor (person)
- Tran — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-01-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-01-05** From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
- **2010-01-14** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2010-02-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-02-04** (Corrected February 5.)
- **2010-02-08** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-02** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5450.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2010-07-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-07-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2010-08-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 4668.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6469.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2010-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 301, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37c72cb6-bef5-4d44-ac18-206a7b1cdc2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).