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.
| Bill # | Author & Title or Description | Position | Explanation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 932 | Portantino – Bikes in General Plans | Sponsor | requires cities to ensure that a modified circulation element additionally includes bicycle and pedestrian plans and traffic calming plans. | On Assembly Floor |
| AB 2147 | Ting – Safe Street Crossings | Sponsor | Legalizes safe pedestrian mid-block crossings | On Senate Floor |
| Bill # | Author & Title or Description | Position | Explanation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AB 1713 | Boerner Horvath – The Safety Stop | Support and Request Amendments | Requires adults on bikes to yield at stop sign-controlled intersections, instead of stop, unless stopping is necessary for safety. | On Senate Floor |
| AB-371 | Jones-Sawyer – Shared mobility devices: insurance and tracking | Oppose | Requires bike- and scooter-share providers to install Braille insignia to aid in reporting vehicles to authorities, and requires that the provider’s insurance covers personal injury or property damage caused by the user (unlike rental car insurance requirements, for example). | On Senate Floor |
| SB 922 | Wiener – CEQA Exemptions | Support | Extends environmental review exemptions for transit and active transportation infrastructure improvements. Forbids auto capacity increases. | In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. |
| AB 1909 | Friedman – Bike Omnibus (Omnibike Bill) | Support | 1. Increases access for e-bikes. 2. requires motorists to change lanes if possible to pass bikes. 3. allows bikes to go forward on a ‘walk’ sign 4. prohibits mandatory bike registration | On Senate Floor |
| AB 2438 | Friedman – Aligning transportation funding with climate goals | Support | Requires all transportation projects funded at the local or state level to align with the California Transportation Plan and the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure adopted by the Transportation Agency | On Senate Floor |
| AB 2097 | Friedman – (Lee, Skinner, Wiener) – No auto parking minimums near transit | Support | Cities can’t impose automobile parking minimums on new construction within a half mile of transit. | On Senate Floor |
| AB 1919 | Holden – Free Student Transit Passes | Support | Develops Youth Transit Pass Pilot Program that will allow transit agencies to provide free youth transit passes to all persons 25 years of age. | On Senate Floor |
| AB 1946 | Boerner Horvath – E-Bike Safety Training Program | Support | Requires Caltrans to develop statewide safety standards and training programs for users of e-bikes | Enrolled and presented to the Governor |
| AB 2028 | Davies – School instruction for bike and scooter safety | Support | Expands permitted school bicycle safety education partnerships from law enforcement agencies in elementary and middle schools to any agency or organization at any public school. | Approved by the governor and chaptered |
| SB 1079 | Portantino – Sound-activated enforcement devices | Support | Authorizes cities to use sound-activated enforcement devices to capture vehicle noise levels that exceed the legal limits | On Assembly floor. |
| AB 2264 | Bloom – Pedestrian crossing signals | Support | Requires Caltrans and cities to update all pedestrian control signals to operate giving a pedestrian a head start between 3 to 7 seconds to enter an intersection with a corresponding circular green signal | On Senate Floor. |
| AB 2174 | Chen – Treat bikes and scooters as vehicles for purposes of towing regulations. | Support | In Assembly. | |
| SB 1472 | Stern – Speeding and reckless driving | Support | On Assembly Floor. | |
| SB 1230 | Limon – Zero-emission and near-zero emission vehicle incentive programs | Support | On Assembly Floor. | |
| SB 1107 | Dodd – Protect California Drivers Act of 2022 | Support | Would protect California drivers and anyone who is injured in a vehicle collision, particularly low-income drivers. Specifically, this bill would modernize California’s outdated minimum auto financial responsibility limits (known as liability insurance) and would change our underinsured motorist law so that drivers will get the full value of the policy they paid for. | On Assembly Floor. |
| SB 457 | Portantino and Wilk – Car-Free Tax Credit | Support | Creates a rebate program for each person without a car in a household | On Assembly Floor. |
| SB 307 | McGuire – Great Redwood Trail Agency | Support | Allows the Great Redwood Trail agency further authority to build out the Great Redwood Trail, a 320-mile, world-class, multi-use rail-to-trail project connecting California’s San Francisco and Humboldt Bays. | On Assembly Floor |
| AB 2336 | Friedman – Automated Speed Enforcement Pilot Program | Support | Establishes an automated speed enforcement pilot program in a few cities | Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee. |
| AB 1778 | C. Garcia – Freeways in Disadvantaged Communities | Support | Prohibits any state funds or personnel time from being used to fund or permit freeway widening projects in areas with high rates of pollution and poverty. | Died Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB 1067 | Portantino – Automobile parking requirements | Watch | Died on Asm Appropriations Committee. | |
| AB 1975 | Nazarian – California Bus Shelter Bill | Support | The bill would ensure that bus and pedestrian shelter and street furniture is treated as critical and funded infrastructure asset to prioritize shade as an essential need for all Californians. | Died In Assembly Appropriations Committee. |
| AB 2863 | Wilson – Bike Parking Guidelines | Support | Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to research, develop, and propose for adoption mandatory building standards for short-term and long-term bicycle parking in multifamily residential buildings, hotels, and motels. | Died In Senate Appropriations Committee |
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