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Bill	Vehicles: highway: lane use.	Existing law requires, on a 2-lane highway where passing is unsafe due to specified reasons, a slow-moving vehicle behind which 5 or more vehicles are formed in a line to turn off the roadway at the nearest place designed as a turnout or wherever sufficient area of a safe turnout exists in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 208	California AB 208 (20152016)	bill	Vehicles: highway: lane use.	enacted	Bigelow	7	23	5	2015-01-29	2015-09-04	openstates	ocd-bill/b2760d76-c91c-4c56-bc2f-897404e4320c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208	ed2f0d57f8ce7da1dfb038f6676390f567d163508a18e809df077903d2389e5a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 208 (20152016) — Vehicles: highway: lane use.

Existing law requires, on a 2-lane highway where passing is unsafe due to specified reasons, a slow-moving vehicle behind which 5 or more vehicles are formed in a line to turn off the roadway at the nearest place designed as a turnout or wherever sufficient area of a safe turnout exists in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/09/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/04/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB208 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/18/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 208 BIGELOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 208 BIGELOW Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bigelow — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-29 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-01-30 From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 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
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-21 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
• 2015-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1263.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2015-06-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 7). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1986.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-08-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2461.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2015-09-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 265, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2760d76-c91c-4c56-bc2f-897404e4320c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).