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SENATE BILL 1186 (SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY – 1998)

CHAPTER 118, STATUTES OF 1998, SB 1186

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Numerous sections relating to vehicles from the Business and Professions Code, Harbors and Navigation Code, Health and Safety Code, Insurance Code, Penal Code, and Vehicle Code were affected in 1998 following legislative approval of Senate Bill 1186.  (See Exhibit #1f)  This large bill was introduced on February 28, 1997 by the Senate Committee on Public Safety, chaired by Senator John Vasconcellos, which was misidentified as the Committee on Criminal Procedure in the introduced version of the bill.  (See and compare Exhibits #1a with #1b)  The Senate Committee on Public Safety was the first committee to review this bill.  (See Exhibits #2 and #3)

Senate Bill 1186 was assigned to the Senate Committee on Public Safety and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety where policy issues raised by the bill were considered.  (See Exhibits #3 and #7)  Assembly Bill 1186 was amended four times while under Legislative consideration, twice in each House.  (See Exhibits #1b through #1e and #2)  Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Pete Wilson signed Senate Bill 1186 on July 3, 1998, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on July 6th as Chapter 118 of the Statutes of 1998.  (See Exhibits #1f and #2)
 

The Third Reading analysis of Senate Bill 1186 as last amended that was prepared for the Assembly Committee on Public Safety described this measure as follows:

SUMMARY : Reorganizes, renumbers, and rephrases various Vehicle Code, Business and Professions Code, Harbors and Navigation Code, Health and Safety Code, Insurance Code and Penal Code provisions relating to driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol and makes confirming changes, but does not make substantive changes.

EXISTING LAW is substantively the same as this bill, but is structured and organized differently.
(See Exhibit #8b, page 1)