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Bill	Vehicles: speed contests.	(1) Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. Existing law also prohibits a person from obstructing or placing a barricade or obstruction upon a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of facilitating or aiding any motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1978	California AB 1978 (20232024)	bill	Vehicles speed contests	enacted	Sanchez	7	37	9	2024-01-30	2024-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/e187a907-f738-4903-b17a-3df25d7ffc30	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1978	f6d0cc903ca1d32be349744aeb20533262aa5cdcff6395526293679886ca4be3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1978 (20232024) — Vehicles: speed contests.

(1) Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. Existing law also prohibits a person from obstructing or placing a barricade or obstruction upon a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of facilitating or aiding any motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/30/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/15/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/23/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1978 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1978 Sanchez By Wilk — 37–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1978 Sanchez By Wilk — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1978 Vince Fong Assembly Third Reading — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1978 Sanchez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sanchez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
• 2024-02-20 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and TRANS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-03-14 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 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
• 2024-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-06 From Consent Calendar.
• 2024-05-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-05-21 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5348.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 Re-referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5292.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2024-08-22 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2024-08-23 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 2.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e187a907-f738-4903-b17a-3df25d7ffc30. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).