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type: "Bill"
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title: "Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "SB 65"
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citation: "California SB 65 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 32
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2016-12-29"
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last_action: "2017-09-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5470de13-3650-4d0a-8849-5aca2e903154"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65"
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source_hash: "2c4bf053f25165bd7ba8f3e200292b81637c336b7aea169ec43d534c4bc23637"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 65 (20172018) — Vehicles: alcohol and marijuana: penalties.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **12/29/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6599INT)
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2. **03/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6598AMD)
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3. **03/27/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6597AMD)
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4. **04/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6596AMD)
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5. **05/03/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6595AMD)
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6. **05/11/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6594AMD)
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7. **09/11/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6592CHP)
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8. **SB65** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65)
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9. **08/25/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65&version=20170SB6593ENR)
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## Votes
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- SB 65 Hill Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Hill — primary (person)
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- Lackey — principal coauthor (person)
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- Low — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-12-29** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
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- **2017-01-03** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 2.
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- **2017-01-04** Read first time. `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-12** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-14** Set for hearing March 28.
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- **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`
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- **2017-03-21** March 28 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2017-03-22** Set for hearing April 4.
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2017-04-07** Set for hearing April 25.
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2017-05-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
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- **2017-05-05** Set for hearing May 15.
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- **2017-05-09** May 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **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`
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- **2017-05-16** Set for hearing May 22.
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- **2017-05-22** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1259.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2017-06-15** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2017-07-17** Coauthors revised.
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- **2017-07-19** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-07-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2768.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-08-24** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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- **2017-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2017-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2017-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 232, Statutes of 2017.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5470de13-3650-4d0a-8849-5aca2e903154`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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