BILL NUMBER: SB 951	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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