2024 Legislative Watch

CalBike supports bike-friendly legislation in Sacramento.

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 DescriptionPositionExplanationStatus
SB 960Wiener: Complete Streets on Caltrans’ CorridorsCo-SponsorThis bill would require all transportation projects within SHOPP to provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets facilities, including transit priority policies.
SB 961Wiener: Truck Side Guard and Vehicle Speed Limiter RequirementsCo-SponsorThis bill would require trucks and trailers to be equipped with side guards. It will additionally require new motor vehicles to be equipped with an intelligent speed limiter that would limit the speed of the vehicle to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.
AB 2290Friedman: Quicker and Better BikewaysSponsorThis 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.
AB 2535Bonta: No Freeway Expansions for FreightSupportThis bill would prohibit funding under the Trade Corridor Enhancement Program to a project that adds a general purpose lane to a highway or expands highway capacity in a community that meets certain criteria relating to pollution impacts.
AB 2234Boerner: E-Bike LicensingOpposeThis bill would prohibit a person under 12 years of age from operating an electric bicycle of any class. It would also require require a person who does not possess a valid driver’s license to have a skills waiver issued by the CHP, and a valid state-issued identification card in their immediate possession when operating an electric bicycle of any class.

CalBike’s Active Transportation Slate for 2024

Bill #Author & Title or DescriptionPositionExplanationStatus
AB 6Friedman: Regional Prioritization for Clean TransportationSupportRequires regional transportation agencies to prioritize and fund transportation projects that significantly contribute towards regional and the state’s climate goals.2-year bill
AB 7Friedman: Project Selection ProcessSupportRequires state transportation agencies to incorporate environmental and equity principles into their project selection process2-year bill
AB 73Boerner: Bike Safety StopSupportLegalizes stop-as-yield for bike riders aged 18 and older.2-year bill
AB 833Rendon: Freeway CapsSupportRequires Caltrans to prepare a plan for adding caps to freeway segments that divide disadvantaged, underrepresented, urban communities2-year bill
AB 2086Schiavo: Caltrans Accountability and TransparencySupportThis bill will develop guidelines for Caltrans to use to determine whether the use of the funding made available is advancing the Core Four priorities of safety, equity, climate action, and economic prosperity established by CalSTA. The bill would also create a public online dashboard to display annual project investments using the above guidelines.
AB 2259Boerner: California Bike Smart Safety HandbookCo-SponsorRequires the DMV to create a bicycle safety handbook that includes information on, among other things, existing laws regulating bicycles and e-bikes.
AB 2583Berman: Lowering Speed in School ZonesSupportThis bill would instead establish a prima facie speed limit of 15 miles per hour in a school zone.
AB 2669Ting: Banning Bridge Tolls for People Walking and BikingCo-SponsorThis bill ensures that people walking or bicycling across a toll bridge in California will never pay a fee.
AB 2744McCarty: Intersection Safety ActCo-SponsorThis 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.
SB 689Blakespear: Bike Lanes in Coastal AreasSupportThis 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.
SB 1216Blakespear: Prohibiting Class III BikewaysSupportThis 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.
SB 1271Min: E-Bike Battery StandardsSupportThis 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.

Bills CalBike Is Watching

Bill #Author & Title or DescriptionPositionExplanationStatus
AB 832Cervantes: California Transportation Commission MembershipWatchThis 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.
AB 1447Flora: E-Scooter ClassificationWatchCreates a classification system for electric scooters.
AB 1773Dixon: Banning Bikes on BoardwalksWatchThis bill would authorize a local authority to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution regarding the operation of bicycles on boardwalks.
AB 1774Dixon: E-Bike ModificationsWatchThis 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.
AB 1778Connolly: E-Bike RestrictionsWatchThis 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.
AB 1953Villapudua: Vehicle Weight LimitsWatchThis bill would clarify that the maximum gross vehicle weight for a near-zero-emission vehicle or a zero-emission vehicle is 82,000 pounds.
AB 1980Grayson: SHOPP Assest Management PlanWatchSpot Bill
AB 2261Garcia: Caltrans Independent Office of Audits and InvestigationsWatchSpot Bill
AB 2286Aguiar-Curry: Autonomous Vehicle SafetyWatchThis 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.
AB 2590Reyes: County Transportation CommissionsWatchSpot Bill
AB 2698Ta: Transportation SafetyWatchSpot Bill
AB 2853Wicks: CaltransWatchSpot Bill
AB 2869Friedman: Caltrans Trail AccessWatchThis 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.
AB 3061Haney: Autonomous Vehicle SafetyWatchThis 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.
AB 3093Ward: Driver’s LicenseWatchSpot Bill
AB 3147Garcia: California Trails ConservancyWatchSpot Bill
AB 3237Boerner: California Bicycle RoutesWatchSpot Bill
SB 50Bradford: Stop Pretextual PolicingWatchProhibits police officers from stopping or detaining the operator of a motor vehicle or bicycle for a low-level infraction.
SB 768Caballero: VMT StudyWatchThis 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.
SB 925Wiener: San Francisco Bay Area Local Revenue MeasureWatchThis 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.
SB 926Wahab: San Francisco Bay Area Public TransportationWatchThis bill would require CalSTA to develop a plan to consolidate all transit agencies that are located within the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
SB 934Gonzalez: Vehicle WidthsWatchSpot Bill
SB 936Seyarto: CEQA Exemption for Road and Safety ImprovementsWatchThis bill would exempt from CEQA activities or projects undertaken by Caltrans for road and safety improvements at any of the 15 locations in the state highway system with the highest rates of vehicle collisions at any given time.
SB 1138Newman: Pupil TransportationWatchSpot Bill