CA SB480 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

California Senate Bill 480

Status

Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Passed on October 6 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-10-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 415, Statutes of 2025.
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Summary

An act to amend Sections 25950 and 38750 of the Vehicle Code, relating to autonomous vehicles.

Title

Autonomous vehicles.

Roll Calls

2025-09-03 - Senate - Unfinished Business SB480 Archuleta Concurrence (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-08-28 - Assembly - SB 480 Archuleta Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session (Y: 74 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2025-08-20 - Assembly - Do pass. To Consent Calendar (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-07-16 - Assembly - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-07-07 - Assembly - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Communications and Conveyance] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-05-27 - Senate - Senate 3rd Reading SB480 Archuleta (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-03-25 - Senate - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-10-06		Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 415, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-06		Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-09		Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-03	Senate	Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2443.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2025-08-28	Senate	In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-08-28	Assembly	Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2776.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-08-21	Assembly	Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
2025-08-20	Assembly	From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
2025-07-17	Assembly	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-08	Assembly	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on C. & C. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on C. & C.
2025-06-26	Assembly	From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-06-05	Assembly	Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and C. & C.
2025-05-28	Assembly	In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-05-27	Senate	Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1236.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-04-08	Senate	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-04-07	Senate	From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
2025-03-28	Senate	Set for hearing April 7.
2025-03-26	Senate	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 534.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-18	Senate	Set for hearing March 25.
2025-02-26	Senate	Referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-02-20	Senate	From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2025-02-19	Senate	Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Code Citations

Chapter	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Vehicle Code	25950	Amended Code	Citation Text
Vehicle Code	38750	Amended Code	Citation Text

California State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB480
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB480#99INT
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB480#98AMD
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB480#97ENR
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB480#96CHP
Roll Call	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB480