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Bill	Driving under the influence: blood tests.	Under existing law, a person who drives a motor vehicle is deemed to have given his or her consent to chemical testing of his or her blood, breath, or urine, as specified, for the purpose of determining the alcoholic or drug content of his or her blood if lawfully arrested for one of specified driving-under-the-influence offenses. The United States Supreme Court, in Birchfield v. North Dakota (2016) 136 S.Ct. 2160, held that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution permitted warrantless breath tests incident to arrests for drunk driving, but did not permit warrantless blood tests incident to arrests for drunk driving, and held that a motorist cannot be punished criminally for his or her refusal to submit to a blood test. The court held that administrative penalties could be imposed for a refusal to submit to a blood test for those purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2717	California AB 2717 (20172018)	bill	Driving under the influence: blood tests.	enacted	Lackey	6	23	6	2018-02-15	2018-08-20	openstates	ocd-bill/53aa7562-a1fb-4f24-aafe-fa0bf606041b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2717	619b2c8e0485d9d5e3decba1f5ed6147070fee165f7e468f1c61618db3ffbdc5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2717 (20172018) — Driving under the influence: blood tests.

Under existing law, a person who drives a motor vehicle is deemed to have given his or her consent to chemical testing of his or her blood, breath, or urine, as specified, for the purpose of determining the alcoholic or drug content of his or her blood if lawfully arrested for one of specified driving-under-the-influence offenses. The United States Supreme Court, in Birchfield v. North Dakota (2016) 136 S.Ct. 2160, held that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution permitted warrantless breath tests incident to arrests for drunk driving, but did not permit warrantless blood tests incident to arrests for drunk driving, and held that a motorist cannot be punished criminally for his or her refusal to submit to a blood test. The court held that administrative penalties could be imposed for a refusal to submit to a blood test for those purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/08/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2717 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/07/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2717 Lackey By Hill — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2717 LACKEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2717 LACKEY Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lackey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5216.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-14 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-06-14 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-06-20 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-07-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 5109.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6143.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2018-08-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 177, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53aa7562-a1fb-4f24-aafe-fa0bf606041b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).