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Bill	Vehicles: autonomous vehicles: safety and performance requirements.	Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to adopt rules and regulations that are designed to promote the safe operation of specific vehicles, including, among other things, schoolbuses and commercial motor vehicles. Existing law also requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to register vehicles that are being operated in this state and to issue a license plate to an applicant for the operation and identification of that person's vehicle.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1298	California SB 1298 (20112012)	bill	Vehicles: autonomous vehicles: safety and performance requirements.	enacted	Padilla	10	35	7	2012-02-23	2012-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/5c320c3e-3ac5-4afd-bbfd-81477191132f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1298	c0fca4f665b4f8de0ccab57f5d9cf86953597664b54f2fe09d9608d3b0935f68	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1298 (20112012) — Vehicles: autonomous vehicles: safety and performance requirements.

Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to adopt rules and regulations that are designed to promote the safe operation of specific vehicles, including, among other things, schoolbuses and commercial motor vehicles. Existing law also requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to register vehicles that are being operated in this state and to issue a license plate to an applicant for the operation and identification of that person's vehicle.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/07/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/25/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB1298 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1298 Padilla Senate Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD Amend By BLUMENFIELD Set #1 — 51–25 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1298 Padilla Senate Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — 74–2 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1298 Padilla Concurrence — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-03-09 Set for hearing March 27.
• 2012-03-20 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-03-27 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2012-04-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3123.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-19 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-04 Set for hearing May 14.
• 2012-05-15 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3555.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-04 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-06-18 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-06-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-16 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 6262.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 2. Page 6459.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4980.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2012-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 570, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c320c3e-3ac5-4afd-bbfd-81477191132f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).