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Bill	Vehicles: recreational off-highway vehicles.	(1) Existing law, commencing January 1, 2013, establishes rules for the operation of, and requirements for equipment of, an off-highway vehicle, including prohibiting a person who is operating a recreational off-highway vehicle from allowing a passenger to occupy a separate seat location not designed and provided by the manufacturer for a passenger. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2013, prohibits a person operating a recreational off-highway vehicle from riding with a passenger, unless the passenger, among other things, have both feet flat on the floorboard.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1266	California AB 1266 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: recreational off-highway vehicles.	enacted	Nielsen	6	35	7	2011-02-18	2012-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/2156e888-f526-4cf5-b3e7-5ed1e2252494	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1266	b778d0c041493c2be75d05e4e28eba8c44a09b3465a9ba6cd5bd0dd953ee87ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1266 (20112012) — Vehicles: recreational off-highway vehicles.

(1) Existing law, commencing January 1, 2013, establishes rules for the operation of, and requirements for equipment of, an off-highway vehicle, including prohibiting a person who is operating a recreational off-highway vehicle from allowing a passenger to occupy a separate seat location not designed and provided by the manufacturer for a passenger. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2013, prohibits a person operating a recreational off-highway vehicle from riding with a passenger, unless the passenger, among other things, have both feet flat on the floorboard.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/23/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/29/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/25/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1266 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1266 NIELSEN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Supp 1 AB1266 Nielsen By Emmerson Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1266 COOK Concurrence - Urgency Added — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nielsen — primary (person)
• Cook — author (person)
• V. Manuel Pérez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-21 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and AGRI. referral-committee
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1449.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-06-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-07-07 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-14 From consent calendar.
• 2011-07-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-07-14 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator La Malfa.
• 2012-08-20 From inactive file.
• 2012-08-20 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4787.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-27 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2012-08-29 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Page 4945.)
• 2012-08-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-30 Joint Rules 33.1 and 61(b)(15) suspended. (Page 5028.)
• 2012-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5028.)
• 2012-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-08-31 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5072.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2012-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6775.)
• 2012-08-31 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6777.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
• 2012-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 529, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2156e888-f526-4cf5-b3e7-5ed1e2252494. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).