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Bill	Autonomous vehicles: pilot project.	Existing law permits the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes if, among other requirements, a driver is seated in the driver's seat and is capable of taking immediate manual control of the vehicle in the event of an autonomous technology failure or other emergency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1592	California AB 1592 (20152016)	bill	Autonomous vehicles: pilot project.	enacted	Bonilla	10	27	5	2016-01-06	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/df07a394-2ff0-4291-97b0-74b333d45f1f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1592	65e9706c1d693c80d661e5873f9aade2584f50b74c195ee76deebd79b0f9dd32	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1592 (20152016) — Autonomous vehicles: pilot project.

Existing law permits the operation of an autonomous vehicle on public roads for testing purposes if, among other requirements, a driver is seated in the driver's seat and is capable of taking immediate manual control of the vehicle in the event of an autonomous technology failure or other emergency.

Version chain

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

1. 01/06/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1592 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1592 Bonilla By Cannella — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1592 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 1592 BONILLA Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonilla — primary (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Obernolte — coauthor (person)
• Travis Allen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-07 From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
• 2016-02-01 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-04-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4229.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2016-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5289.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 3. Page 6338.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 814, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df07a394-2ff0-4291-97b0-74b333d45f1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).