2024 Legislative Watch
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The California Bicycle Coalition is your voice in the Capitol for state policies that enable your community and your neighbors to feel safe and comfortable biking. We update our Legislative Watch regularly.
CalBike’s Top Priority Bills
| Bill # | Author & Title or Description | Position | Explanation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Vetoed |
| 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. | Died |
| 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. | Died |
CalBike’s Active Transportation Slate for 2024
| Bill # | Author & Title or Description | Position | Explanation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Died |
| AB 73 | Boerner: Bike Safety Stop | Support | Legalizes stop-as-yield for bike riders aged 18 and older. | Died |
| AB 833 | Rendon: Freeway Caps | Support | Requires Caltrans to prepare a plan for adding caps to freeway segments that divide disadvantaged, underrepresented, urban communities | Died |
| AB 1774 | Dixon: E-Bike Modifications | Support | 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Died |
| 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. | Died |
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| SB 1216 | Blakespear: Limiting 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| SB 1509 | Stern: Unsafe Speed Penalities | Support | This bill would increase accountability for recklessly speeding drivers who endanger the lives of pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers. Specifically, it would increase the number of points a driver is given by DMV if they are caught driving more than 25 MPH over the speed limit on roads with a speed limit of 55 MPH or less. | Vetoed |
Bills CalBike Is Watching
| Bill # | Author & Title or Description | Position | Explanation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Died |
| AB 1447 | Flora: E-Scooter Classification | Watch | Creates a classification system for electric scooters. | Died |
| 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 |
| AB 1777 | Ting: Autonomous Vehicles | Watch | This bill would cite AV manufacturers if they violate vehicle code. Additionally, it would require AVs to maintain a dedicated emergency response telephone line that is available for emergency response officials. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Vetoed |
| 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. | Died |
| 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. | Vetoed |
| AB 3147 | Garcia: California Trails Conservancy | Watch | This bill would establish in the Natural Resources Agency the California Trails Conservancy Program | Died |
| 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. | Died |
| 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. | Signed by Governor |
| 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. | Vetoed |
| 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. | Died |