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Bill	Vehicles: driver education.	Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to publish a synopsis or summary of the laws regulating the operation of a vehicle and the use of the highways, known as the California Driver's Handbook, and requires the department to include specified information in the handbook, including a person's civil rights during a traffic stop, the extent and limitations of a peace officer's authority during a traffic stop, and the legal rights of drivers and passengers.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2537	California AB 2537 (20212022)	bill	Vehicles: driver education.	enacted	Gipson	7	29	10	2022-02-17	2022-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/e4fed9b0-670f-4c83-9872-e239fc1c4f24	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2537	f5705ce982be2ca9a2145816c368352a8b51cf113d0bb3cc5197ec2dc13c4ec3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2537 (20212022) — Vehicles: driver education.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to publish a synopsis or summary of the laws regulating the operation of a vehicle and the use of the highways, known as the California Driver's Handbook, and requires the department to include specified information in the handbook, including a person's civil rights during a traffic stop, the extent and limitations of a peace officer's authority during a traffic stop, and the legal rights of drivers and passengers.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/15/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2537 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2537 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2537 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB2537 — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2022-03-24 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 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
• 2022-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 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
• 2022-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 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
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 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. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. 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 with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. 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
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 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 4987.). 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 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 332, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4fed9b0-670f-4c83-9872-e239fc1c4f24. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).