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Bill	State highways: wrong-way driving.	Existing law requires a vehicle to be driven on the right half of a roadway, subject to specified exceptions. On a highway that has been divided into 2 or more roadways by means of intermittent barriers or by means of specified kinds of dividing sections, existing law makes it unlawful to drive a vehicle on that highway, except to the right of the intermittent barrier or dividing section that separates 2 or more opposing lanes of traffic.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 162	California AB 162 (20152016)	bill	State highways: wrong-way driving.	enacted	Rodriguez	6	21	6	2015-01-21	2015-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/a6130b94-4e56-4f42-b305-728c9a470659	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB162	e0b96347ac7a305fb12bc00f2914772a8265c77aff59d1bdb367872c589234f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 162 (20152016) — State highways: wrong-way driving.

Existing law requires a vehicle to be driven on the right half of a roadway, subject to specified exceptions. On a highway that has been divided into 2 or more roadways by means of intermittent barriers or by means of specified kinds of dividing sections, existing law makes it unlawful to drive a vehicle on that highway, except to the right of the intermittent barrier or dividing section that separates 2 or more opposing lanes of traffic.

Version chain

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

1. 01/21/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB162 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/02/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 162 RODRIGUEZ Concurrence - Urgency Added — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB162 Rodriguez By Pan Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 162 RODRIGUEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-01-22 From printer. May be heard in committee February 21.
• 2015-02-02 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-24 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
• 2015-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1222.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2015-05-19 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
• 2015-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-22 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-25 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1613.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-06-29 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2169.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2015-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 101, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6130b94-4e56-4f42-b305-728c9a470659. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).