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Bill	Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties.	Existing law makes it an infraction to drink any alcoholic beverage while driving a motor vehicle upon any highway or on other specified lands. Existing law also prohibits a driver or passenger from drinking any alcoholic beverage while in a motor vehicle upon a highway, and makes a violation of this provision punishable as an infraction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 65	California SB 65 (20172018)	bill	Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties.	enacted	Hill	9	32	1	2016-12-29	2017-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/5470de13-3650-4d0a-8849-5aca2e903154	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65	2c4bf053f25165bd7ba8f3e200292b81637c336b7aea169ec43d534c4bc23637	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 65 (20172018) — Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties.

Existing law makes it an infraction to drink any alcoholic beverage while driving a motor vehicle upon any highway or on other specified lands. Existing law also prohibits a driver or passenger from drinking any alcoholic beverage while in a motor vehicle upon a highway, and makes a violation of this provision punishable as an infraction.

Version chain

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

1. 12/29/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/27/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/11/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB65 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/25/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 65 Hill Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)
• Lackey — principal coauthor (person)
• Low — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-29 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2017-01-03 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 2.
• 2017-01-04 Read first time. reading-1
• 2017-01-12 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 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
• 2017-03-21 March 28 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-03-22 Set for hearing April 4.
• 2017-03-27 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
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 626.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-07 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2017-04-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 854.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-05 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-09 May 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-05-11 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
• 2017-05-16 Set for hearing May 22.
• 2017-05-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1259.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-15 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-07-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-07-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2768.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2017-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-09-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 232, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5470de13-3650-4d0a-8849-5aca2e903154. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).