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Bill	Vehicular manslaughter: statute of limitation.	Existing law defines the crime of vehicular manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice while driving a vehicle under specified circumstances, including the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, with or without gross negligence. Existing law provides that vehicular manslaughter is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 835	California AB 835 (20152016)	bill	Vehicular manslaughter: statute of limitation.	enacted	Gipson	7	27	8	2015-02-26	2015-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/88456625-d3ae-4bcf-ad75-e541c933c1fe	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB835	45f952b1880f1e52482e65d0107e38fe0f313a0c8551dcf2da46ae8f1da3af39	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 835 (20152016) — Vehicular manslaughter: statute of limitation.

Existing law defines the crime of vehicular manslaughter as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice while driving a vehicle under specified circumstances, including the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, with or without gross negligence. Existing law provides that vehicular manslaughter is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB835 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB835 Gipson By Anderson — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 835 GIPSON Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 835 GIPSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-14 From Consent Calendar.
• 2015-05-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1549.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2407.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-03 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2859.)
• 2015-09-03 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2871.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 338, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88456625-d3ae-4bcf-ad75-e541c933c1fe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).