CA AB 1588

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Vehicles: Sideshow Accountability and Community Safety Act.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law prohibits a person from, among other things, engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility. Under existing law, a violation of this prohibition is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 90 days, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) , or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law, beginning on January 1, 2029, authorizes a court to suspend the privilege to operate a vehicle for 90 days to 6 months for a person who engages in, aids, or abets a motor vehicle exhibition of speed that occurred as part of a sideshow. For these purposes, existing law defines "sideshow" as an event in which 2 or more persons block or impede traffic on a highway or in an offstreet parking facility for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, or reckless driving for spectators. This bill would revise the definition of sideshow to include the use or operation of any motor vehicle, including, but not limited to, motorcycles or off-highway motor vehicles, as specified, to barricade, block, impede, or otherwise obstruct traffic. The bill would also provide enhanced penalties for engaging in, aiding, or abetting a motor vehicle exhibition of speed as part of a sideshow, including, as specified, increasing fines, requiring a mandatory minimum jail sentence, and making the offense punishable as a misdemeanor or felony if the offense proximately causes injury to another person. By increasing the punishment for an existing crime, the bill would create 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.

Introduced: 2026-03-16
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-01 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Action timeline

2026-01-15
Read first time. To print.
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2026-01-16
From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
2026-03-16
Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and TRANS.
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2026-03-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
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2026-03-17
Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2026-04-07
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2026-04-15
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 14).
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2026-04-16
Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-20
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
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2026-04-21
Coauthors revised.
2026-04-21
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-05-06
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2026-05-14
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
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2026-05-18
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-26
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.)
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2026-05-27
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-06-03
Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB. S.
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2026-06-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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2026-07-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Versions

01/15/26 - Introduced — 2026-01-15Compare
03/16/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-16Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation]
2026-04-14 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Lackey: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Nguyen: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-20 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Papan: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Davies: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ávila Farías: other
Do pass.
2026-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Mark González: yes
AB 1588 Stefani Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-26 · pass · 75-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Hadwick: yes
- Ward: yes
- Patel: yes
- Hart: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lee: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Ta: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Krell: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bains: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Addis: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Elhawary: other
- Kalra: other
- Bryan: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Muratsuchi: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
2026-06-23 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Gonzalez: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Seyarto: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-30 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (6)
- Cortese: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes

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