2024 Legislative Watch
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Bill # | Author & Title or Description | Position | Explanation | Status |
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SB 960 | Wiener: Complete Streets on Caltrans’ Corridors | Co-Sponsor | This bill would require all transportation projects within SHOPP to provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets facilities, including transit priority policies. | Senate Appropriations May 6 |
SB 961 | Wiener: Vehicle Speed Limiter Requirements | Co-Sponsor | This bill would require new motor vehicles to be equipped with a speed limiter device that would utilize visual and audio signals to alert the driver if the speed of the vehicle is more than 5 miles per hour over the speed limit. | Senate Appropriations May 6 |
AB 2290 | Friedman: Quicker and Better Bikeways | Sponsor | This bill has three provisions to improve biking: 1) Prohibit Active Transportation Program funds for projects that create Class III bikeways. 2) Require a bicycle facility that is identified for a street in an adopted bicycle plan or active transportation plan to be included in a project funded by the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program. 3) Establish the Bikeway Quick-Build Project Pilot Program within the department’s maintenance program. | Passed Assembly Transportation |
AB 2535 | Bonta: No Freeway Expansions for Freight | Support | This bill would prohibit funding under the Trade Corridor Enhancement Program to a project that expands the footprint of a highway in a community that meets certain criteria relating to pollution impacts. | Passed Assembly Transportation |
Bill # | Author & Title or Description | Position | Explanation | Status |
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AB 6 | Friedman: Regional Prioritization for Clean Transportation | Support | Requires regional transportation agencies to prioritize and fund transportation projects that significantly contribute towards regional and the state’s climate goals. | 2-year bill |
AB 7 | Friedman: Project Selection Process | Support | Requires state transportation agencies to incorporate environmental and equity principles into their project selection process | 2-year bill |
AB 73 | Boerner: Bike Safety Stop | Support | Legalizes stop-as-yield for bike riders aged 18 and older. | 2-year bill |
AB 833 | Rendon: Freeway Caps | Support | Requires Caltrans to prepare a plan for adding caps to freeway segments that divide disadvantaged, underrepresented, urban communities | 2-year bill |
AB 2086 | Schiavo: Caltrans Accountability and Transparency | Support | This bill would require the California Transportation Plan to also include a financial element that summarizes the full cost of plan implementation, a summary of available revenues through the planning period, and an analysis of what is feasible within the plan if constrained by a realistic projection of available revenues. | Passed Assembly Transportation |
AB 2259 | Boerner: California Bike Smart Safety Handbook | Co-Sponsor | Requires the DMV to create a bicycle safety handbook that includes information on, among other things, existing laws regulating bicycles and e-bikes. | In Assembly Appropriations on Suspense |
AB 2583 | Berman: Lowering Speed in School Zones | Support | This bill would instead establish a prima facie speed limit of 15 miles per hour in a school zone. | Passed Assembly Transportation |
AB 2669 | Ting: Banning Bridge Tolls for People Walking and Biking | Co-Sponsor | This bill ensures that people walking or bicycling across a toll bridge in California will never pay a fee. | In Assembly Appropriations on Suspense |
AB 2744 | McCarty: Intersection Safety Act | Co-Sponsor | This bill prohibits the addition of a right-turn lane within 20 feet of a marked or unmarked crosswalk where there is not already a dedicated and marked right-turn or travel lane, and would prohibit vehicles from using this 20-foot area for right turns unless the area is already marked as a dedicated right-turn lane. Additionally, it would only allow the right turn of car if the right turn is from an exclusive right-turn lane. | Died before committee hearing |
SB 689 | Blakespear: Bike Lanes in Coastal Areas | Support | This bill would provide that an application by a local government to convert an existing motorized vehicle travel lane into a dedicated bicycle lane shall not require a traffic study for the processing of either a coastal development permit or an amendment to a local coastal program. | In Assembly |
SB 1216 | Blakespear: Prohibiting Class III Bikeways | Support | This bill would prohibit public agencies, and the ATP, from installing a Class III bikeway on a street that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour. | In Senate Appropriations May 6 |
SB 1271 | Min: E-Bike Battery Standards | Support | This bill would prohibit a person from distributing, selling, leasing, or offering for sale or lease, an electric bicycle, powered mobility device, or storage battery, unless the battery for the electric bicycle or powered mobility device has been tested, as specified, or the storage battery meets specified tests. | In Senate Appropriations |
Bill # | Author & Title or Description | Position | Explanation | Status |
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AB 832 | Cervantes: California Transportation Commission Membership | Watch | This bill would require that at least one of the Governor-appointed members of the commission have expertise in transportation issues and professional experience that includes experience working in, or representing, disadvantaged communities. | 2-year bill |
AB 1447 | Flora: E-Scooter Classification | Watch | Creates a classification system for electric scooters. | 2-year bill |
AB 1773 | Dixon: Banning Bikes on Boardwalks | Watch | This bill would authorize a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding the operation of bicycles on boardwalks. | Died before committee hearing |
AB 1774 | Dixon: E-Bike Modifications | Watch | This bill would prohibit a person from selling a product or device that can modify the speed capability of an electric bicycle such that it no longer meets the definition of an electric bicycle. | Passed Assembly Transportation |
AB 1778 | Connolly: E-Bike Restrictions in Marin County | Watch | This bill would prohibit a person under 16 years of age from operating a class 2 electric bicycle and require any person operating, or riding upon, a class 2 electric bicycle to wear a helmet. This is a pilot for Marin County. | In Senate |
AB 1953 | Villapudua: Vehicle Weight Limits | Watch | This bill would clarify that the maximum gross vehicle weight for a near-zero-emission vehicle or a zero-emission vehicle is 82,000 pounds. | In Senate |
AB 2234 | Boerner: E-Bike Pilot Age Restrictions | Neutral | This bill would create a pilot program in San Diego County that would prohibit a person under 12 years of age from operating an electric bicycle of any class. | Passed Assembly Transportation |
AB 2286 | Aguiar-Curry: Autonomous Vehicle Safety | Watch | This bill would require a manufacturer of an autonomous vehicle to report to the DMV a collision on a public road that involved one of its autonomous vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more that is operating under a testing permit that resulted in damage of property, bodily injury, or death within 10 days of the collision. | In Assembly Appropriations |
AB 2869 | Friedman: Caltrans Trail Access | Watch | This bill would require Caltrans to mitigate the impact of infrastructure projects that interfere with or eliminate trail access to parks and recreational areas by maintaining safe access for users of existing trails or providing alternative safe access to those parks and recreational areas. | In Assembly Appropriations |
AB 3061 | Haney: Autonomous Vehicle Safety | Watch | This bill would require a manufacturer of autonomous vehicles to report to the DMV any vehicle collision, traffic violation, or disengagemen, or the assault or harassment of any passenger or safety driver, that involves a manufacturer’s vehicle in California regardless of whether the vehicle is in the testing or deployment phase. | In Assembly Appropriations |
AB 3147 | Garcia: California Trails Conservancy | Watch | This bill would establish in the Natural Resources Agency the California Trails Conservancy Program | In Assembly Appropriations |
SB 50 | Bradford: Stop Pretextual Policing | Watch | Prohibits police officers from stopping or detaining the operator of a motor vehicle or bicycle for a low-level infraction. | 2-year bill |
SB 768 | Caballero: VMT Study | Watch | This bill would require CARB, by January 1, 2026, to conduct and submit to the Legislature a study on how vehicle miles traveled is used as a metric for measuring transportation impacts pursuant to CEQA. | 2-year bill |
SB 915 | Cortese: Autonomous Vehicle Local Control | Watch | This bill would ensure local control over AV deployment by allowing the local government to pass an ordinance specifying how these vehicles would be regulated on their streets. | In Senate Appropriations |
SB 936 | Seyarto: Study for Road and Safety Improvements | Watch | This bill would create a study for road and safety improvements at any of the 15 locations in the state highway system with the highest rates of vehicle collisions. | In Senate Appropriations |
SB 1031 | Wiener/Wahab: San Francisco Bay Area Local Revenue Measure | Watch | This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to authorize the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to propose a revenue measure to the voters in its jurisdiction to fund the operation, expansion, and transformation of the San Francisco Bay area’s public transportation system, as well as other transportation improvements. | In Senate Appropriations |