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AB 2328: Vehicles: leaving the scene of an accident.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2026-03-19

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-04-15: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Enacted

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Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to a person, other than that driver, or in the death of a person, to immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident and provide specified personal information to the injured person or the occupants of the other vehicle and to any traffic or police officer at the scene of the accident. Under existing law, if a vehicle accident results in injury, a person who violates the requirement to stop is subject to punishment by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a specified fine, or both the imprisonment and fine. Under existing law, if a vehicle accident results in permanent, serious injury or death, a person who violates the requirement to stop is subject to punishment by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, or in a county jail for not less than 90 days nor more than one year, or by a specified fine, or both the imprisonment and fine. Existing law requires a person who flees the scene of the crime after committing specified vehicle manslaughter while intoxicated or vehicle manslaughter to be punished for an additional term of imprisonment of 5 years in the state prison, upon conviction, and in addition and consecutive to the punishment prescribed.

This bill would instead require a person who violates the requirement to stop to be subject to punishment by imprisonment in the state prison for 3, 4, or 5 years, or in a county jail for not less than 90 days nor more than one year, and by a specified fine, if the vehicle accident results in death.

Existing law, subject to funding by the Legislature, establishes the School-Based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services Matching Grant Program, under which the Director of Health Care Services, in consultation with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, is authorized to award matching grants to local educational agencies to pay the state share of the costs of providing programs that provide school-based early mental health intervention and prevention services to eligible pupils at schoolsites, as specified.This bill would require the Director of Health Care Services to, on or before June 30, 2027, report to the Legislature on the effectiveness of the grant program and legislative recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the grant program.

Discussed in Hearing

Assembly Standing Committee on Public Safety7MIN
Apr 14, 2026

Assembly Standing Committee on Public Safety

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