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Bill	Vehicular manslaughter: speeding and reckless driving.	Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than 100 miles per hour, and provides that upon a subsequent conviction of that offense within a certain number of years, the person shall be punished by a fine and the Department of Motor Vehicles shall suspend their privilege to operate a vehicle, as specified. Under existing law, a person who drives a vehicle upon a highway or in an offstreet parking facility in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving, which is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or by the payment of a fine, or both imprisonment and a fine, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 1472	California SB 1472 (20212022)	bill	Vehicular manslaughter: speeding and reckless driving.	enacted	Stern	8	32	8	2022-02-18	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/8df87033-8f1a-4ac6-9d54-b7173e8c3e48	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1472	2d13c83f60dc2951baf6a5a4442f1f1fe02e82a8e15bdec5e4109a51eedc4900	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1472 (20212022) — Vehicular manslaughter: speeding and reckless driving.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than 100 miles per hour, and provides that upon a subsequent conviction of that offense within a certain number of years, the person shall be punished by a fine and the Department of Motor Vehicles shall suspend their privilege to operate a vehicle, as specified. Under existing law, a person who drives a vehicle upon a highway or in an offstreet parking facility in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving, which is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or by the payment of a fine, or both imprisonment and a fine, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/19/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/19/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/22/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB1472 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/06/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB1472 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB1472 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1472 Stern Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stern — primary (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Fong — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-18 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
• 2022-02-22 From printer.
• 2022-03-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2022-04-13 April 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-04-14 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2022-04-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3520.) (April 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2022-05-16 May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2022-05-17 Set for hearing May 19.
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3797.) (May 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3987.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5344.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 626, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8df87033-8f1a-4ac6-9d54-b7173e8c3e48. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).