Bill Text: CA SB961 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Vehicles: safety equipment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-09-28 - In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending. [SB961 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB961-Amended.html
GPS Global Positioning System (GPS) location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits, to determine the speed limit, and utilizes a brief, one-time visual and audio signal to alert the driver each time they exceed the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour. 2029 2030 model year, 50 percent of passenger vehicles, motortrucks, and buses every passenger vehicle, motortruck, or bus manufactured or sold in the state shall be equipped with a passive intelligent speed assistance system. This subdivision does not apply to motortrucks with a gross vehicle weight
rating greater than 8,500 pounds for which a federal motor vehicle safety standard of any kind or character exists requiring either the passive or active control of speed.
Bill Title: Vehicles: safety equipment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-09-28 - In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending. [SB961 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB961-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 961
| Introduced by Senator Wiener (Coauthor: Senator Stern) |
January 23, 2024 |
An act to add Article 19 (commencing with Section 28170) to Chapter 5 of Division 12 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 961, as amended, Wiener.
Vehicles: safety equipment.
Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than the speed limit. Existing law also prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed that endangers the safety of persons or property.
This bill would require 50% of certain vehicles, require, commencing with the 2029
2030 model year, certain vehicles to be equipped with a passive intelligent speed assistance system, as specified, that would utilize a brief, one-time, visual and audio signal to alert the driver each time the speed of the vehicle is more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. The bill would require all specified vehicles, commencing with the 2032 model year, to be equipped in
the above-described manner. vehicles to be capable of having the system fully disabled, by the manufacturer or a franchisee, as specified. The bill would require the system, if the system receives conflicting speed limits for the same area, to apply the higher speed limit. The bill would exempt emergency vehicles and certain passenger vehicles from this requirement.
A violation of the above requirements would be punishable as a crime.
By creating a new criminal offense, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by
the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 19 (commencing with Section 28170) is added to Chapter 5 of Division 12 of the Vehicle Code, to read:Article 19. Speed Assistance Technology
28170.
(a) As used in this article, “passive intelligent speed assistance system” means an integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the(b) If an intelligent speed assistance system receives conflicting speed limits
for the same area, the system shall utilize the higher speed limit.
28171.
(a) Commencing with the(b)Commencing with the 2032 model year, every passenger vehicle, motortruck, and bus manufactured or sold in the state shall be equipped with a passive intelligent speed assistance system.
(b) A passive intelligent speed assistance system is not required on a passenger vehicle that is not equipped with either a GPS or front-facing camera.
(c) A passive intelligent speed assistance
system shall be capable of being fully disabled by the manufacturer or a franchisee, but only as provided
for the purpose described in Section 28172.
