California Highways: 
AB = Assembly Bill · ACR = Assembly Concurrent Resolution
SB = Senate Bill · SCR = Senate Concurrent Resolution
This information reflects a review of legislation proposed as of 2023-02-24. Note that some are non-highway, if I find them of interest. This information is based on the California State Legislature has website to obtain bill information, which includes the ability to subscribe to bills and to comment on them. Last items examined:
Note: ★ indicates new items as of this update. ✠ indicates items that are essentially dead (no activity for two update cycles or six months, whichever is longer)
See the section titled Legislative Calendar for a summary of the timelines of the legislative process.
Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires each regional transportation plan to also include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region for 2020 and 2035, respectively.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would require regional transportation agencies to prioritize and fund transportation projects, including those funded by a local sales tax measure, that significantly contribute towards the goals outlined in a region’s sustainable communities strategy and the state’s climate goals.
12/06/22 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to improve and maintain the state’s highways, and establishes various programs to fund the development, construction, and repair of local roads, bridges, and other critical transportation infrastructure in the state.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would eliminate single occupancy vehicle freeway capacity projects, and allow capacity projects only for bus rapid transit, rail, active transportation purposes, projects that significantly add safety, and projects that significantly reduce congestion, without interfering with existing maintenance and rehabilitation needs.
12/06/22 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5..
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system and establishes a process for adoption of a highway on an authorized route by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to relinquish to local agencies state highway segments that have been deleted from the state highway system by legislative enactment or have been superseded by relocation, and in certain other cases. Existing law designates State Route 83 from Route 71 to Route 10 near the City of Upland. Existing law authorizes the commission to relinquish to the City of Ontario all or a portion of State Route 83 within the city’s jurisdiction and prescribes conditions that apply upon relinquishment.
This bill would authorize the commission to additionally relinquish to the City of Chino all or a portion of State Route 83 within the city’s jurisdiction and prescribe conditions that apply upon relinquishment.
02/02/23 Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicles. When those exclusive or preferential use lanes are established and double parallel solid lines are in place to the right thereof, existing law prohibits any person driving a vehicle from crossing over those double lines to enter into or exit from the lanes, and entrance into or exit from those lanes is authorized only in areas designated for these purposes or where a single broken line is in place to the right of the lanes, except as specified. Existing law authorizes a regional transportation agency, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation, to apply to the California Transportation Commission to develop and operate high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, including administration and operation of a value pricing program and exclusive or preferential lane facilities for public transit. Existing law authorizes a value pricing and transit program involving HOT lanes to be developed and operated on State Highway Route 15 in the County of Riverside by the Riverside County Transportation Commission.
Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to report to the transportation policy committees of the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2020, on the feasibility and appropriateness of limiting the use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes to high-occupancy vehicles and eligible vehicles, as defined, only during the hours of heavy commuter traffic on both State Route 91 between Interstate 15 and Interstate 215 in the County of Riverside, and State Route 60 in the County of Riverside.
Separate from that report, this bill would require the Transportation Agency, on or before January 1, 2025, to report to the transportation policy committees of the Legislature on that same topic and on the feasibility and appropriateness of removing from high-occupancy vehicle lanes in the County of Riverside, except for certain high-occupancy toll lanes, any double parallel solid lines to restrict the entrance into or exit from those lanes, including the use of the appropriate markings and signage.
02/09/23 Referred to Com. on TRANS.
The Otay Mesa East Toll Facility Act authorizes the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) to carry out a construction project for the State Highway Route 11 corridor, including, among other things, highway improvements and international border crossing facilities, to be operated as a toll facility. Existing law authorizes the use of alternative bidding and building procedures for a project or components of a project after SANDAG commences a comparison of the traditional design-bid-build process of construction with the proposed alternative project delivery method in a public meeting and if the governing board of SANDAG makes written findings that use of an alternative project delivery method on the specific project or project component under consideration will accomplish at least one of 3 specified objectives. Existing law requires the design-bid-build method of project construction for the project or project components if these conditions are not met.
This bill would provide that SANDAG is no longer required to use the design-bid-build delivery method for construction of a project if specified conditions for utilizing an alternative delivery method are not met. This bill would authorize SANDAG to use the Construction Manager/General Contractor method (CMGC), as defined, as an additional alternative project delivery method. The bill would impose specified requirements on SANDAG and a construction manager, as defined, if they enter into a CMGC contract for alternative project delivery.
02/17/23 Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system, including that for Route 210.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the latter provision.
02/14/23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Existing law requires the California Transportation Commission, in consultation with the Department of Transportation and the State Air Resources Board, to maintain guidelines for travel demand models used in the development of regional transportation plans by federally designated metropolitan transportation organizations.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
02/14/23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
Existing law establishes the California Transportation Commission in the Transportation Agency. Existing law vests the California Transportation Commission with various powers and duties relative to the programming of transportation capital projects and allocation of funds to those projects pursuant to the state transportation improvement program and various other transportation funding programs. Under existing law, the commission consists of 13 members, including 9 members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, one member appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, and one member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, as specified. Existing law requires the Governor, in appointing those members to the commission, to make every effort to ensure, among other things, the commission has a diverse membership with expertise in transportation issues, taking into consideration factors, including, but not limited to, socioeconomic background and professional experience, which may include experience working in, or representing, disadvantaged communities.
This bill would delete the above-described requirement that the Governor, in appointing those members to the commission, make every effort to ensure the commission has a diverse membership with expertise in transportation issues and would instead require that at least one of those Governor-appointed members of the commission reside in, and work directly with, communities in the state that are disproportionately burdened by, and vulnerable to, high levels of pollution, including, but not limited to, communities with diverse racial and ethnic populations and communities with low-income populations.
02/23/23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.
Existing law establishes the California Transportation Commission and vests the commission with certain powers, purposes, and responsibilities.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
02/17/23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Existing law allows a local authority to establish parking meter zones and fix the rate of fees for those zones by ordinance. Existing law prohibits a local authority from requiring payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device, as specified.
This bill would instead authorize a local authority to require payment of parking meter fees by a mobile device.
02/17/23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
Existing law establishes a Department of Transportation in the Transportation Agency. Existing law authorizes the department to assist regional transportation planning agencies, as specified.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions relating to assistance provided by the department to regional transportation planning agencies.
02/16/23 Read first time. To print.
Existing law establishes state-owned toll bridges within the geographic jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, including the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to improve traffic flow on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.
02/18/23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city to do any and all things necessary to lay out, acquire, and construct a section or portion of a street or highway within its jurisdiction as a freeway and to make an existing street or highway a freeway.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
02/18/23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
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Designate the portion of Route 210, between Ayala Drive (~ SBD 17.426) and N Riverside Ave (~ SBD 18.69), in the County of San Bernardino as the “Scott “Buckshot” Schwingel Memorial Highway”.
01/26/23 Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Designate the portion of Route 11, from the Route 905 interchange (SD 0.000) to the new Otay Mesa 2 Port of Entry (SD TBD), in the County of San Diego, as the “Denise Moreno Ducheny Highway.”
02/23/23 Referred to Com. on TRANS.
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Existing law, the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act, provides a comprehensive set of procedures for the enforcement of express and implied warranties on consumer goods, as defined. Under existing law, every manufacturer making an express warranty with respect to an electronic or appliance product, including televisions, radios, audio or video recording equipment, major home appliances, antennas, and rotators, with a wholesale price to the retailer of not less than $50 nor more than $99.99 is required to make available to service and repair facilities sufficient service literature and functional parts to effect the repair of the product for at least 3 years after the date a product model or type was manufactured, regardless of whether the 3-year period exceeds the warranty period for the product. Existing law also requires every manufacturer making an express warranty with respect to an electronic or appliance product, as described above, with a wholesale price to the retailer of $100 or more, to make available to service and repair facilities sufficient service literature and functional parts to effect the repair of the product for at least 7 years after the date a product model or type was manufactured, regardless of whether the 7-year period exceeds the warranty period for the product.
This bill would enact the Right to Repair Act. The bill would require, regardless of whether any express warranty is made, the manufacturer of an above-described electronic or appliance product, in the above-described circumstances, and in those same circumstances but sold to others outside of direct retail sales, to make available, on fair and reasonable terms, to product owners, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, the means, as described, to effect the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the product, as provided. The bill would also require a service and repair facility or service dealer that is not an authorized facility or dealer of a manufacturer to provide a written notice containing specified information related to warranties to any customer seeking repair of an electronic or appliance product before the repair facility or service dealer repairs the product. The bill would also authorize a city, a county, a city and county, or the state to bring an action in superior court to impose civil penalties on a person or entity for violating the Right to Repair Act, as provided.
02/01/23 Referred to Com. on JUD.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and provides that the Director of Transportation shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by law in the department, except as otherwise provided by law.
This bill would require the director to appoint a Bicycle Czar, to serve as the department’s chief advisor on all issues related to bicycle transportation, safety, and infrastructure.
02/22/23 Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system and establishes a process for adoption of a highway on an authorized route by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to relinquish to local agencies state highway segments that have been deleted from the state highway system by legislative enactment or have been superseded by relocation, and in certain other cases. Existing law designates State Route 203 is from the County of Mono line near Minaret Summit to State Route 395.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to relinquish a portion of State Route 203 to the Town of Mammoth Lakes.
02/22/23 Referred to Com. on RLS.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests it with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property for state highway purposes.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to the use of state highway right-of-way for parklets.
02/17/23 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests the department with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law requires the department to improve and maintain state highways.
This bill would require the department, beginning November 1, 2024, to annually prepare and make available information and data about activities on the state highway system on a public data portal from the prior fiscal year. The bill would also require the department to prepare and make available, no later than June 30, 2024, data and information about activities on the state highway system on a public data portal covering the period from July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2023. The bill would require the California Transportation Commission to include this data and information in its annual report to the Legislature. The bill would require the department to prepare and make available data and information on a public data portal on planned, pending projects on the state highway system.
02/17/23 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation shall have full possession and control of the state highway system and associated real property. Existing law, if the department determines that real property, or an interest in the property, acquired for highway purposes is no longer necessary for those purposes, authorizes the department to sell or exchange the property or property interest in the manner and upon terms, standards, and conditions established by the California Transportation Commission, as provided.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
02/17/23 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
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★ SCR 13 (Roth) Joseph Tavaglione Interchange.
Designate the interchange where Route 60 and Route 91 meet I-215 (~ 08-Riv-60 12.21, 08-Rev-91 21.744, 08-Rev-215 R43.055) in the County of Riverside as the “Joseph Tavaglione Interchange”.
01/18/23 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
★ SCR 16 (Roth) Deputy Isaiah A. Cordero Memorial Highway.
Designate the portion of Route 60, from Pyrite Street (~ RIV R5.576) in the City of Jurupa Valley to Valley Way in the City of Jurupa Valley (~ RIV 7.544), in the County of Riverside as the “Deputy Isaiah A. Cordero Memorial Highway”.
02/01/23 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
★ SCR 25 (Seyarto) Deputy Darnell Andrew Calhoun Memorial Highway.
Designates the portion of Route 15 from N. Main Street (~ RIV 20.961) to Central Avenue (~ RIV 22.323) in the City of Lake Elsinore and the County of Riverside as the “Deputy Darnell Andrew Calhoun Memorial Highway”.
02/22/23 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
★ SCR 31 (Laird) Katcho Achadjian Memorial Highway.
Designates the portion of US 101 in the County of San Luis Obispo, from postmile SLO 13.173 to postmile SLO 17.767, as the “Katcho Achadjian Memorial Highway”.
02/17/23 Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.
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Alas, sometimes this proposals come back to life when a legislator wants to introduce a bill, but is past the bill introduction date. The bill or resolution is then amended beyond recognition and morphed into a new bill, often on a different subject. Often these are the unpassed bill from the first year of a two-year legislative session.
Note that, unless otherwise indicated, committee meetings take place once the legislature is in session. In particular, note that last day for most bills to be introduced is February; after that date, if you want to introduce a new bill, you have to modify an existing one. Thus, the legislature creates loads of "non-substantive" changes bills, in the various areas of operation of government, that it can either ignore and let die, or gut and amend into something new in lieu of introducing a new bill. Further, in September, bills can be amended on the floor at the last minute, after all committee hearings.
| Jan. 1 | Statutes from 2022 take effect |
| Jan. 4 | Legislature reconvenes |
| Jan 10 | Budget must be submitted by Governor (Art. IV, Sec. 12(a)). |
| Jan 20 | Last day to submit bill requests to the Office of Legislative Counsel. |
| Jan -- | Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house in the odd- numbered year (J.R. 61(b)(3)) (Art. IV, Sec. 10(c)). |
| Feb. 17 | Last day for bills to be introduced |
| Mar 30 | Spring Recess begins upon adjournment. |
| Apr 10 | Legislature reconvenes from Spring Recess. |
| Apr 28 | Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal committees fiscal bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61(a)(2)). |
| May 5 | Last day for policy committees to hear and report to the Floor nonfiscal bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61(a)(3)). |
| May 12 | Last day for policy committees to meet prior to June 5 (J.R. 61(a)(4)). |
| May 19 | Last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the Floor bills introduced in their house (J.R. 61(a)(5)). |
| May 19 | Last day for fiscal committees to meet prior to June 5 (J.R. 61(a)(6)). (add to calendar) |
| May 30 - Jun 2 |
Floor session only. No committee may meet
for any purpose except for Rules Committee, bills referred pursuant
to Assembly Rule 77.2, and Conference Committees. |
| Jun 2 | Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house (J.R. 61(b)(11)). |
| Jun 5 | Committee meetings may resume (J.R. 61(a)(9)). |
| Jun 15 | Budget Bill must be passed by midnight (Art. IV, Sec. 12(c)(3)). |
| Jul 14 | Last day for policy committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(14)). |
| Jul 14 | Summer Recess begins upon adjournment, provided Budget Bill has been passed (J.R. 51(b)(2)). |
| Aug 14 | Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J.R. 51(b)(2)). |
| Sep 1 | Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(b)(15)). |
| Sep 5 - Sep 14 |
Floor session only. No committee may meet for any purpose except Rules Committee, bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2, and Conference Committees (J.R. 61(b)(16)). |
| Sep 8 | Last day to amend on the Floor (J.R. 61(a)(13)). |
| Sep 14 | Last day for each house to pass bills. (J.R. 61(a)(14)). Interim Recess begins upon adjournment (J.R. 51(a)(4)). |
| Oct 14 | Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature on or before Sept. 14 and in the Governor's possession on or after Sept. 14 (Art. IV, Sec. 10(b)(1)). |
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