---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: off-highway vehicle recreation: City of Needles."
description: "Existing law authorizes an off-highway motor vehicle that has been issued a plate or device to be operated or driven upon a highway under certain circumstances. Existing law authorizes various public entities, and the Director of Parks and Recreation, to designate a highway, or portion thereof, for the combined use of regular vehicular traffic and off-highway motor vehicles if certain requirements are met, including a prohibition on a designation of greater than 3 miles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2152"
citation: "California AB 2152 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: off-highway vehicle recreation: City of Needles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fdd33f7-43f2-4476-b9cb-58d851631ee1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2152"
source_hash: "d34e379925f457a5ad5d187d6c6d9bec3490912c133190e37263f4959d7227ae"
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 2152 (20212022) — Vehicles: off-highway vehicle recreation: City of Needles.

Existing law authorizes an off-highway motor vehicle that has been issued a plate or device to be operated or driven upon a highway under certain circumstances. Existing law authorizes various public entities, and the Director of Parks and Recreation, to designate a highway, or portion thereof, for the combined use of regular vehicular traffic and off-highway motor vehicles if certain requirements are met, including a prohibition on a designation of greater than 3 miles.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2152&version=20210AB215299INT)
2. **08/26/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2152&version=20210AB215297CHP)
3. **AB2152** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2152)
4. **08/09/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2152&version=20210AB215298ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB2152 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2152 Smith Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-15** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2022-02-24** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4928.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4681.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-08** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 185, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fdd33f7-43f2-4476-b9cb-58d851631ee1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).