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Bill	Vehicles: driving under the influence: alcoholic beverage or drug.	Existing law prohibits a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, or who has 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood, or who is addicted to the use of any drug, to drive a vehicle. Existing law also makes it unlawful to drive under the influence and cause bodily injury to another person.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2552	California AB 2552 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: driving under the influence: alcoholic beverage or drug.	enacted	Torres	9	29	7	2012-02-24	2012-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/e89b7bc6-4ac2-4d65-b452-70436b44b2da	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2552	b2051101ccfbfbcebfc7971ac4a7c4bde2b2d8e063666c06c4b9304efd603fd1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2552 (20112012) — Vehicles: driving under the influence: alcoholic beverage or drug.

Existing law prohibits a person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, or who has 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood, or who is addicted to the use of any drug, to drive a vehicle. Existing law also makes it unlawful to drive under the influence and cause bodily injury to another person.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/02/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2552 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2552 TORRES Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2552 Torres By Hancock — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2552 TORRES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Torres — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-02 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-10 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-05-10 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-05-10 (Page 4755.)
• 2012-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4914.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-31 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5023.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 6693.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 753, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e89b7bc6-4ac2-4d65-b452-70436b44b2da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).