As amended 6/15/2026: - Requires remote assistants, remote drivers, or local incident technicians to be located within the United States and hold a valid California driver’s license of the appropriate class with any endorsements required for a human driver to lawfully operate the same vehicle in the state. - Requires the ratio of remote assistants or remote drivers to autonomous passenger service vehicles be 1 to 5 or higher at all times. - Requires an autonomous vehicle manufacturer to ensure through its staffing and assignments that remote drivers or remote assistants are able to immediately respond to all calls and incidents. - Requires an autonomous vehicle manufacturer to ensure, through its staffing and assignments, that local incident technicians are immediately dispatched upon notification, electronically or otherwise, of an accident involving damage to persons or property, or upon receiving a request from an emergency response official or 911 dispatch center. - Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, by no later than January 1, 2028, to adopt regulations establishing maximum response times for local incident technicians to be present at the scene upon notification or request. - Requires an autonomous vehicle manufacturer to adopt and maintain written emergency response and immobilization procedures to ensure prompt responses to emergencies and accidents. - Requires any commercial autonomous vehicle operated without a human driver on a highway in this state to be equipped with a manual override system in the vehicle that allows local incident technicians, emergency response officials, tow operators, and trained personnel to readily and safely disable the vehicle, place the vehicle in neutral gear to relocate it during an emergency, and turn off the vehicle. - Requires autonomous vehicle manufacturers to maintain specified data, including, among other things, information regarding assignments and staffing for remote assistants, remote drivers, and local incident technicians and response times and responses to emergency events, immobilizations, obstructions, accidents involving damage to persons or property, and requests from emergency response officials.
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
Jun 22, 2026 | A | Hearing Scheduled - Transportation |
Jun 15, 2026 | — | From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. |
Jun 4, 2026 | — | Referred to Coms. on TRANS., C. & C., and JUD. |
May 27, 2026 | — | In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. |
May 27, 2026 | — | Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9.) Ordered to the Assembly. |
May 19, 2026 | — | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
May 18, 2026 | — | Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. |
May 18, 2026 | — | From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 14). |
| Last Action | Jun 15, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Year | 2025 |
| Bill Type | Bill |
| Created | Mar 21, 2026 |
| Updated | Jun 17, 2026 |