Bill Text: CA AB2600 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2600 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Vehicles: driving privilege: marijuana.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-16 - In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. [AB2600 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2600-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2600	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Norby

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 13202.51 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2600, as introduced, Norby. Vehicles: driving privilege:
marijuana.
   Existing law authorizes a court to suspend the privilege of any
person to operate a motor vehicle, or to order the Department of
Motor Vehicles to revoke this privilege, upon conviction of any
offense related to controlled substances when the use of a motor
vehicle was involved in, or incidental to, the commission of the
offense. Existing law requires a court to order the department to
revoke this privilege upon conviction of a violation of specified
offenses relating to controlled substances, including, but not
limited to, the possession of not more than 28.5 grams of marijuana,
other than concentrated cannabis, when a motor vehicle was involved
in, or incidental to, the commission of the offense.
   This bill would prohibit a person's driving privilege from being
suspended or revoked for a conviction of possession of not more than
28.5 grams of marijuana, other than concentrated cannabis, or of
possessing not more than one avoirdupois ounce of marijuana, other
than concentrated cannabis, while driving a motor vehicle upon a
highway or on certain off-highway lands.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13202.51 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:

   13202.51.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not
limited to, Sections 13202 and 13202.5, a person's driving privilege
shall not be suspended or revoked for conviction of a violation of
subdivision (b) of Section 11357 of the Health and Safety Code or
subdivision (b) of Section 23222.
   (b) As used in this section, "conviction" includes a finding in a
juvenile proceeding specified in Section 13105.