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+type: "Bill"
+title: "San Diego-Coronado Bridge: physical suicide deterrent system."
+description: "Existing law provides funding for the development, construction, and maintenance of the state's bridges and highways and requires that a project study report be prepared for any new project involving the construction of a new bridge, or the replacement of a bridge with a history of documented suicides, that demonstrates that a suicide barrier was a feature that was considered during the project's planning process."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "SB 656"
+citation: "California SB 656 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["San Diego-Coronado Bridge: physical suicide deterrent system."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hueso"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-02-22"
+last_action: "2019-10-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d320e7b-a265-4fa6-a5a5-e9b6072eaf61"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656"
+source_hash: "7149aa1e62253cc61248392757198d2ca81986c2bc75c6e017410f55158719e3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 656 (20192020) — San Diego-Coronado Bridge: physical suicide deterrent system.
+
+Existing law provides funding for the development, construction, and maintenance of the state's bridges and highways and requires that a project study report be prepared for any new project involving the construction of a new bridge, or the replacement of a bridge with a history of documented suicides, that demonstrates that a suicide barrier was a feature that was considered during the project's planning process.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656&version=20190SB65699INT)
+2. **04/03/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656&version=20190SB65698AMD)
+3. **04/30/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656&version=20190SB65697AMD)
+4. **05/24/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656&version=20190SB65696AMD)
+5. **09/03/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656&version=20190SB65695AMD)
+6. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656&version=20190SB65693CHP)
+7. **SB656** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656)
+8. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB656&version=20190SB65694ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SB656 Hueso et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 656 Hueso Third Reading Urgency By Gloria — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hueso — primary (person)
+- Atkins — coauthor (person)
+- Gloria — coauthor (person)
+- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
+- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-03** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-03** Set for hearing May 7.
+- **2019-05-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 983.) (May 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-08** Set for hearing May 13.
+- **2019-05-13** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-16** From consent calendar on motion of Senator Hueso.
+- **2019-05-16** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2019-05-24** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-24** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2019-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1363.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-08-21** Coauthors revised.
+- **2019-08-21** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-08-26** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
+- **2019-08-26** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2019-09-03** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-09-03** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3258.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-09-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2019-09-11** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2019-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2867.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 651, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d320e7b-a265-4fa6-a5a5-e9b6072eaf61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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