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Bill	Vehicles: driving under the influence.	Existing law makes it a crime for a person who is under the influence of a drug to drive a vehicle. Existing law also makes it a crime for a person to drive under the influence and proximately cause bodily harm to another person, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 397	California AB 397 (20192020)	bill	Vehicles: driving under the influence.	enacted	Chau	9	27	8	2019-02-06	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/8ea7f030-7934-42dc-98c7-18d404dd9154	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB397	d33999ea4812674cf48378254c8e3ea8ea367241344c1d9269f58d154c5d4688	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 397 (20192020) — Vehicles: driving under the influence.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person who is under the influence of a drug to drive a vehicle. Existing law also makes it a crime for a person to drive under the influence and proximately cause bodily harm to another person, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB397 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 397 Chau Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 397 Chau Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB397 Chau et al. By Bates — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2019-02-15 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1931.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-26 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2019-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2578.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3153.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 610, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ea7f030-7934-42dc-98c7-18d404dd9154. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).