Senate Bill No. 951

Introduced by Senator McGuire

February 4, 2016

An act to amend Section 22350 of the Penal Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 951, as introduced, McGuire. Vehicles: speed limit.

Existing law 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 expressly prohibit a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for objects and disabled vehicles on the side of the highway.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 22350 of the Vehicle Code is amended
to read:

22350.  

begin delete No end delete begin insert A end insert person shall begin insert not end insert drive a vehicle upon a highway
at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard
for weather, visibility, the traffic on, begin insert objects and disabled vehicles
on the side of, end insert and the surface and width of, the highway, and in
no event at a speed begin delete which end delete begin insert that end insert endangers the safety of persons or
property.