2026 Legislative Watch
CalBike sponsors and advocates for legislation that makes California streets safer for people who walk and bike for everyday transportation.
The California Bicycle Coalition is your voice in Sacramento for state policies that enable your community and your neighbors to feel safe and comfortable using active transportation. We update our Legislative Watch regularly.
All the bills we’re sponsoring, supporting, watching, and opposing are in the chart below. You can use the Search box at the top right to search for a term in any field or column and view a chart showing only your search results. You can also search for a term in a specific column by typing that into the gray box at the top of the column. For example, if you want to see all the bills on the topic of e-bikes, type “e-bikes” into the gray search box above the Topic column or in the Search box. Only the e-bike bills will appear.
We’ve color-coded the chart for ease: Bills we’re sponsoring are orange, bills we’re opposing are yellow, and our Active Transportation Slate, the rest of the bills we’re supporting, are green.
| BILL | # | AUTHOR & TITLE | POSITION | DESCRIPTION | STATUS | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB | 1167 | Blakespear: Illegal E-Motos | Co-Sponsor | This bill would amend the type of vehicles that are prohibited from being advertised, sold, offered for sale, or labeled as e-bikes. It would additionally make a violation of this provision a misleading statement for purposes of false advertising provisions of the Business and Professions Code. | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| AB | 2276 | Soria: Intelligent Speed Assistance for Dangerous Drivers | Support | This bill will require reckless drivers to install intelligent speed systems on their cars. | Introduced | Safety |
| AB | 1243 | Addis: Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 | Watch | This bill would enact the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 and would establish the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Program to be administered by the California Environmental Protection Agency to require fossil fuel polluters to pay their fair share of the damage caused by greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. | 2-year Bill | Funding |
| AB | 1546 | Schultz: Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Enforcement | Watch | This bill would increase the penalties for Driving Under the Influence, including the length of ignition interlock devices (IID) in which drivers would need to install on their car. | Introduced | DUI |
| AB | 1557 | Papan: Electric Bikes | Watch | This bill would clarify that an electric bicycle is a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that is not capable of exceeding 750 watts of peak power. | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| AB | 1569 | Davies: E-Bike Parking at Schools | Watch | This bill would require K-12 student e-bike riders to complete the electric bicycle safety and training program developed by the Department of the California Highway Patrol as a condition to park on campus. | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| AB | 1614 | Dixon: Bike Seats on Class I Bikeways | Watch | This bill would a ensure that people riding a bicycle on a Class I bikeway must be upon or astride a permanent and regular seat. | Introduced | Bikes |
| AB | 1740 | Zbur: Coastal Development Permits | Watch | This bill would authorize a city to designate itself as an urban multimodal community so as to authorize certain activities and types of development without a coastal development permit. Specifically it would provide that a coastal development permit is not required for the installation of Class I, Class II, or Class IV bicycle facilities within the right-of-way of a state highway. | Introduced | Bikes |
| AB | 1748 | Sanchez: Increasing DUI Punishments | Watch | This bill would require the DMV to suspend the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle for 1 year if a person is convicted of DUI. | Introduced | DUI |
| AB | 1830 | Petrie-Norris: Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Enforcement | Watch | This bill would extend the operation of ignition interlock devices (IID). It would also instead require the court, upon the person’s first criminal conviction for driving under the influence, to order installation of the IID. | Introduced | DUI |
| AB | 1837 | Gonzalez: Parking Enforcement in Bikeways | Watch | This bill would extend the authorization for the use of video imaging to enforce parking and stopping violations indefinitely and would expand the types of violations to include stopping or parking on the roadway side of a vehicle stopped, parked, or standing, as specified, or unlawfully stopping or parking in a bikeway. | Introduced | Bikes |
| AB | 1942 | Bauer-Kahan: E-Bike Registration | Watch | This bill would require class 2 electric bicycles and class 3 electric bicycles to be registered with the DMV and to display a special license plate issued by the department. | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| AB | 1976 | Wicks: School Street Closures | Watch | Placeholder | Introduced | Safety |
| AB | 1995 | Patel: Lithium Battery Working Group | Watch | This bill would require the Office of the State Fire Marshal to convene a lithium battery working group, which would oversee the safety of e-bike batteries. | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| AB | 2284 | Dixon: E-Bikes | Watch | This bill would require the CHP, and biking nonprofit groups, to identify a list of electric bicycles and electric bicycle products that do not comply with statutory and regulatory requirements for the labeling or advertising of electric bicycles or electric bicycle products. | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| AB | 2346 | Wilson: E-Bikes and Speed Limits | Watch | The bill would require manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles to include a written description of California’s electric bicycle laws with the bicycle’s packaging to be provided to the consumer. This bill would also allow local authorities to set speed limits on biking paths and trails, and also set a prima facie speed limit of 5 miles per hour on a sidewalk and 15 miles per hour for a Class IV bikeway. | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| AB | 2560 | Schultz: Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure | Watch | This bill would codify the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI) goals into statute. | Introduced | Climate |
| AB | 2595 | Papan: San Mateo County E-Bike Pilot | Watch | This bill, the San Mateo Electric Bicycle Safety Pilot Program, would, until January 1, 2031, authorize a local authority within the County of San Mateo, or the County of San Mateo in unincorporated areas, to adopt an ordinance or resolution that would prohibit a person under 12 years of age from operating a class 1 or 2 electric bicycle. | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| SB | 907 | Archuleta: Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Reform | Watch | This bill would define vehicular manslaughter as a violent felony. | Introduced | Safety |
| SB | 922 | Laird: Imposing Local Vehicle Weight Fees | Watch | This bill would limit the prohibition to charges based on weight of vehicles. The bill would also explicitly state that a fee, charge, or surcharge imposed by or for a local agency to recover the cost of street maintenance and repair and other costs associated with the use of its streets, roads, or highways is permissible. | Introduced | Safety |
| SB | 953 | Niello: Driving Record - Vehicular Manslaughter | Watch | This bill would impose 2 violation points against a driver’s record for purposes of the suspension or revocation of the privilege to drive if a driver is convicted of vehicular manslaughter. | Introduced | Safety |
| SB | 956 | Choi: E-Bikes | Watch | Placeholder | Introduced | E-Bikes |
| SB | 1279 | Gonzalez: Speed Cameras Long Beach PCH | Watch | This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2036, the City of Long Beach to establish a similar program for speed enforcement that utilizes up to 6 speed safety systems on the Pacific Coast Highway. | Introduced | Safety |