republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2000.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle speed contests and exhibitions of speed: offstreet parking facilities."
description: "Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or an exhibition of speed on a highway, or to aid or abet therein."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2000"
citation: "California AB 2000 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor vehicle speed contests and exhibitions of speed: offstreet parking facilities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabriel"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-02-14"
last_action: "2022-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d99bb389-4319-4e8b-b134-088653002c5a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2000"
source_hash: "0c43e81aee1803164ff78a83fe4c5f381fbf77a3e5270cb798f97008121eb85a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2000 (20212022) — Motor vehicle speed contests and exhibitions of speed: offstreet parking facilities.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person to engage in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway or an exhibition of speed on a highway, or to aid or abet therein.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2000&version=20210AB200099INT)
2. **08/08/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2000&version=20210AB200098AMD)
3. **09/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2000&version=20210AB200096CHP)
4. **AB2000** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2000)
5. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2000&version=20210AB200097ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2000 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2000 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB2000 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gabriel — primary (person)
- Fong — author (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2022-02-24** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 4695.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-25** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4978.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 436, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d99bb389-4319-4e8b-b134-088653002c5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).