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Bill	Traffic safety: speed limits.	Existing law establishes various default speed limits for vehicles upon highways, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) , by regulation, to require Caltrans or a local authority to round speed limits up or down to the nearest 5 miles per hour of the 85th percentile of free-flowing traffic.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1938	California AB 1938 (20212022)	bill	Traffic safety: speed limits.	enacted	Friedman	9	29	7	2022-02-10	2022-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/05763f9a-bf8f-4cea-98f3-b2420b457220	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1938	acd202f780d0202cebb6ae4f9733d52820d6f75ccbe967769440843841a8843c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1938 (20212022) — Traffic safety: speed limits.

Existing law establishes various default speed limits for vehicles upon highways, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) , by regulation, to require Caltrans or a local authority to round speed limits up or down to the nearest 5 miles per hour of the 85th percentile of free-flowing traffic.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/01/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/18/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1938 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1938 Friedman et al. By Rubio — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1938 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1938 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — author (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Ting — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-07 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-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-08 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4968.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 5181.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-29 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2022-08-29 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2022-08-30 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 406, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/05763f9a-bf8f-4cea-98f3-b2420b457220. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).