SB 511

As amended 1/5/2026: - Encourages school administrations, if the school maintains an internet website, to post on the school’s internet website information about community programs that offer nutrition assistance to families. - NOTE: 1/5 amendment strikes the following provisions: - Requires zero-emission autonomous vehicle provisions to commence January 1, 2028, and apply to an autonomous vehicle with a model year of 2028 or later. - Revises the definition of autonomous vehicle to include a vehicle equipped with autonomous technology that meets the definition of Level 2 of that standard and restrict that definition only to the April 2021 version of the standard. - Clarifies that an autonomous vehicle has the ability to intentionally depart from its current lane of travel on a marked roadway while under the control of a driving automation system. - Deletes the active control or monitoring exception and instead excludes systems that enhance safety or provide driver assistance that are not capable of sustained automated steering of the vehicle. - Makes it a crime to modify a vehicle with before-market or aftermarket additions of software to give the vehicle the functionality of an autonomous vehicle. - Requires an autonomous vehicle owned or operated in this state that is manufactured after January 1, 2028, to be equipped with an electronic sensing device that can detect the presence of an unattended child under 6 years of age or a pet left inside the vehicle and for the vehicle to have the ability to notify the vehicle’s owner or first responders of the presence of the unattended child or pet.