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Bill	Vehicles: driver's handbook.	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include within the California Driver's Handbook information regarding rail transit safety, abandonment or dumping of an animal on a highway, and the importance of respecting the right-of-way of others.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2918	California AB 2918 (20172018)	bill	Vehicles: driver's handbook.	enacted	Holden	7	25	8	2018-02-16	2018-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/7a61a1d8-b0da-432f-b33b-906548e0691c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2918	b341553e5e20197558653297649202046d7dcab47ee0f387e95d0d92d6d0cc22	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2918 (20172018) — Vehicles: driver's handbook.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include within the California Driver's Handbook information regarding rail transit safety, abandonment or dumping of an animal on a highway, and the importance of respecting the right-of-way of others.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/23/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2918 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2918 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 66–7 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2918 Holden By Skinner — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2918 HOLDEN Assembly Third Reading — 59–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Holden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-19 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 4. Page 5255.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2018-06-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-25 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5884.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6773.)
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 7. Page 6898.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2018-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 723, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a61a1d8-b0da-432f-b33b-906548e0691c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).