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type: "Bill"
title: "State highways: wrong-way driving."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 162"
citation: "California AB 162 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State highways: wrong-way driving."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-01-21"
last_action: "2015-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6130b94-4e56-4f42-b305-728c9a470659"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB162"
source_hash: "e0b96347ac7a305fb12bc00f2914772a8265c77aff59d1bdb367872c589234f7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB162&version=20150AB16299INT)
2. **03/24/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB162&version=20150AB16298AMD)
3. **05/19/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB162&version=20150AB16297AMD)
4. **07/15/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB162&version=20150AB16295CHP)
5. **AB162** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB162)
6. **07/02/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB162&version=20150AB16296ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
- AB 162 RODRIGUEZ Concurrence - Urgency Added — **770** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB162 Rodriguez By Pan Urgency Clause — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **150** (pass) · lower
- AB 162 RODRIGUEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — **770** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **110** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6130b94-4e56-4f42-b305-728c9a470659`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).