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Bill	Vehicles: driving under the influence: chemical tests.	Existing law provides that a person who is lawfully arrested for driving under the influence of a drug or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and drug has a choice of whether a chemical test to determine his or her drug or drug and alcohol level shall be a blood, breath, or urine test. If the person chooses to submit to a breath test, he or she may also be requested to submit to a blood or urine test if the officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person was driving under the influence of a drug or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and if the officer has a clear indication that a blood or urine test will reveal evidence of the person being under the influence. Existing law exempts a person who is afflicted with hemophilia, or a heart condition and is using an anticoagulant, from the blood test.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2020	California AB 2020 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: driving under the influence: chemical tests.	enacted	Pan	5	21	5	2012-02-23	2012-08-27	openstates	ocd-bill/9c85aa4f-016e-461f-a778-a6dc45033cc3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2020	788e585730934d935376843fb36180266bcaaf1ae83db4f487d63570e9fb9d92	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2020 (20112012) — Vehicles: driving under the influence: chemical tests.

Existing law provides that a person who is lawfully arrested for driving under the influence of a drug or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and drug has a choice of whether a chemical test to determine his or her drug or drug and alcohol level shall be a blood, breath, or urine test. If the person chooses to submit to a breath test, he or she may also be requested to submit to a blood or urine test if the officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person was driving under the influence of a drug or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and if the officer has a clear indication that a blood or urine test will reveal evidence of the person being under the influence. Existing law exempts a person who is afflicted with hemophilia, or a heart condition and is using an anticoagulant, from the blood test.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/19/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2020 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/13/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 4–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2020 PAN Assembly Third Reading — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2020 Pan By Gaines — 36–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2012-05-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4879.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 3. Page 4435.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-09 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:10 p.m.
• 2012-08-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-08-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 196, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9c85aa4f-016e-461f-a778-a6dc45033cc3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).