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Bill	Recreational off-highway vehicles.	(1) Existing law establishes rules for the operation of off-highway vehicles, including specified requirements governing the operation of recreational off-highway vehicles. A violation of these rules and requirements is a crime. Existing law prohibits 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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 234	California SB 234 (20132014)	bill	Recreational off-highway vehicles.	enacted	Walters	6	25	6	2013-02-12	2013-08-27	openstates	ocd-bill/e805b9d6-5f65-4ddb-a838-83abbee5f0ea	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB234	07bc4bee5f7aab2dffedc618f98f50abc299799c9a2bd5848312d75589f75b9a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 234 (20132014) — Recreational off-highway vehicles.

(1) Existing law establishes rules for the operation of off-highway vehicles, including specified requirements governing the operation of recreational off-highway vehicles. A violation of these rules and requirements is a crime. Existing law prohibits 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.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/27/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB234 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business (Urgency Clause) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 234 Walters Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #2 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Walters — primary (person)
• Donnelly — principal coauthor (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)
• Hueso — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2013-02-13 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
• 2013-02-21 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2013-03-06 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2013-03-27 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-03-28 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2013-04-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 487.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2013-04-22 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2013-04-29 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 7122.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-04-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-05-16 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2013-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-07-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-08 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2483.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-08-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1848.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2013-08-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-08-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 179, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e805b9d6-5f65-4ddb-a838-83abbee5f0ea. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).