2025 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 |
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AB | 954 | Bennett: Caltrans Bike Highway System | Sponsor | This bill would establish the Bike Highway Pilot Program within Caltrans to develop and implement a bike highway system. | Assembly Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Infrastructure |
AB | 891 | Zbur: Caltrans Quick-Build Program | Sponsor | This bill would establish the Quick-Build Project Pilot Program within Caltrans to expedite, develop, and implement low-cost projects on the state highway system. | Assembly Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Quick-Build |
AB | 382 | Berman: Speed Limits Near Schools | Support | This bill lowers speed limits around schools to 20 mph and allows for other standards to be using other than “when children are present. | Assembly Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Safety |
AB | 612 | Rogers: Highway Design Manual: Increase Fire Department Authority | Oppose | This bill would require Caltrans to update the Highway Design Manual to direct local governments to consult with local fire departments when making road improvements to ensure the improvements do not negatively impact emergency response times. | Assembly Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Infrastructure |
AB | 981 | Gipson: Intelligent Speed Assistance for Dangerous Drivers | Support | This bill will require reckless drivers to install intelligent speed systems on their cars. | Assembly Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Safety |
AB | 1014 | Rogers: Caltrans Slower Streets | Support | This bill would authorize Caltrans to lower speed limits on state highways. | Assembly Appropriations Committee | Safety |
AB | 1085 | Stefani: License Plate Covers | Support | This bill would further prohibit drivers from obscuring their license plates and further prohibit the manufacture of these products and devices in the state. | Assembly Appropriations Committee | Safety |
AB | 1132 | Schiavo: Roads to Resilience Act | Support | This bill would require Caltrans to identify key community resilience indicators for measuring the impacts of climate-induced transportation disruptions. | Assembly Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Climate Change |
SB | 71 | Wiener: CEQA Exemption for Active Transit | Support | This bill would extend the CEQA exemption indefinitely for transit and active transportation projects. | Senate Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Infrastructure |
SB | 445 | Wiener: Sustainable Transportation Project Permits | Support | This bill would help accelerate the permitting and construction of sustainable transportation projects that are ready to proceed to more advanced stages of design and construction. | Senate Appropriations Committee | Infrastructure |
SB | 572 | Gonzalez: Advanced Driver Assistance System Accountability | Support | This bill would will require manufacturers of Level 2 advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) vehicles to report collisions to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) if the federal government ceases requiring crash reporting. | Senate Appropriations Committee | Safety |
SB | 671 | Cervantes: Safer Pedestrian Crossings | Support | This bill would require the walk indication and other visual signals at crosswalks to comply with CA MUTCD. | Senate Appropriations Committee | Safety |
SB | 720 | Ashby: Red Light Camera Reform | Support | This bill would additionally authorize a city, county, or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system program to use those systems to detect a violation of a traffic control signal. | Senate Appropriations Committee | Safety |
AB | 306 | Schultz/Rivas: State Building Standards | Watch | This bill would would freeze all (with some limited undefined exceptions) state, county, and city building codes in California for six years. | In Senate | Infrastructure |
AB | 544 | Davies: E-bike reflector requirement | Watch | This bill would require an electric bicycle during all hours to be equipped with a red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear. | In Senate | E-Bikes |
AB | 545 | Davies: E-bike application modification | Watch | This bill would prohibit a person from selling an application that can modify the speed capability of an e-bike. | In Senate | E-Bikes |
AB | 875 | Muratsuchi: Illegal Electric Motorcycles | Watch | This bill would further allow police officers to remove illegal electric bicycles. | Assembly Appropriations Committee | E-Bikes |
AB | 965 | Dixon: E-Bike purchases | Watch | This bill would prohibit a person from selling a new electric bicycle to a person under 16 years of age. | Assembly Appropriations Committee | E-Bikes |
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 | 1275 | Elhawary: Regional Housing Needs and Transportation Plans | Watch | This bill would harmonize the regional housing needs allocation process with the regional transportation plan and sustainable community strategy processes to ensure the needs of both existing populations and projected populations are met, and to ensure local governments have plans for sufficient housing in climate-friendly locations near transit, jobs, and services. | Assembly Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Infrastructure |
SB | 63 | Wiener/Arreguín: San Francisco Bay Area Local Revenue Measure | Watch | This bill would 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. | Senate Appropriations Committee | Funding |
SB | 78 | Seyarto: Study for Road and Safety Improvements | Watch | This bill would require caltrans to conduct a study to identify certain locations in the state highway system with regard to vehicle collisions, projects that could improve road safety at each of those locations | Senate Appropriations Committee on Suspense | Safety |
SB | 455 | Blakespear: E-Bikes | Watch | This bill would revise labeling requirements for e-bikes, clarify that illegal electric motorcycles cannot be sold as e-bikes, and require manufacturers to notify consumers if they purchased any product sold as an illegal e-bike. | Senate Appropriations Committee on Suspense | E-Bikes |
SB | 586 | Jones: EMotos | Watch | This bill would define “eMotos” as off-highway vehicles. | Senate Appropriations Committee on Suspense | E-Bikes |