republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-208.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: highway: lane use."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 208"
citation: "California AB 208 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: highway: lane use."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bigelow"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-01-29"
last_action: "2015-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2760d76-c91c-4c56-bc2f-897404e4320c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208"
source_hash: "ed2f0d57f8ce7da1dfb038f6676390f567d163508a18e809df077903d2389e5a"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208&version=20150AB20899INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208&version=20150AB20898AMD)
3. **04/21/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208&version=20150AB20897AMD)
4. **07/09/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208&version=20150AB20896AMD)
5. **09/04/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208&version=20150AB20894CHP)
6. **AB208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208)
7. **08/18/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB208&version=20150AB20895ENR)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2760d76-c91c-4c56-bc2f-897404e4320c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).