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Bill	Vehicles: buses: seatbelts.	Existing law prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle on a highway unless that person and all passengers 16 years of age or over are properly restrained by a safety belt. Existing law makes the violation of this provision an infraction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 20	California SB 20 (20172018)	bill	Vehicles: buses: seatbelts.	enacted	Hill	10	31	0	2016-12-05	2017-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/f4f57808-3e1a-438e-869f-a31ceec2d0c9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB20	93559b0ae76795899bd83110693781b75ae445df98c45a1cd7c5891b70d0543a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 20 (20172018) — Vehicles: buses: seatbelts.

Existing law prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle on a highway unless that person and all passengers 16 years of age or over are properly restrained by a safety belt. Existing law makes the violation of this provision an infraction.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/15/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB20 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2017-01-12 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2017-02-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-14 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2017-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2017-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 708.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 767.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2017-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-19 July 19 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-08-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 August 23 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-08-30 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-01 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2017-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-05 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-05 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3200.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2838.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 593, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4f57808-3e1a-438e-869f-a31ceec2d0c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).