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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Vehicles: transit-only traffic lanes."
+description: "Existing law prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle, or stopping, parking, or leaving a vehicle standing, on a portion of the highway designated for the exclusive use of public transit buses, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also requires a public transit agency, with the agreement of the agency with jurisdiction over the highway, to place and maintain signs and traffic control devices indicating that a portion of a highway is designated for the exclusive use of public transit buses, as specified."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20232024"
+identifier: "AB 971"
+citation: "California AB 971 (20232024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Vehicles", "transit-only traffic lanes"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-02-14"
+last_action: "2023-10-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39c01b05-a6d6-4fc1-b3db-430d517e4bc6"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB971"
+source_hash: "85065695af183cbf70137c509f23e8226e6a343270928b5ff7b453690a551da7"
+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 AB 971 (20232024) — Vehicles: transit-only traffic lanes.
+
+Existing law prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle, or stopping, parking, or leaving a vehicle standing, on a portion of the highway designated for the exclusive use of public transit buses, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law also requires a public transit agency, with the agreement of the agency with jurisdiction over the highway, to place and maintain signs and traffic control devices indicating that a portion of a highway is designated for the exclusive use of public transit buses, as specified.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB971&version=20230AB97199INT)
+2. **04/11/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB971&version=20230AB97198AMD)
+3. **06/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB971&version=20230AB97197AMD)
+4. **08/17/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB971&version=20230AB97196AMD)
+5. **10/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB971&version=20230AB97194CHP)
+6. **AB971** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB971)
+7. **09/11/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB971&version=20230AB97195ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading AB971 Lee By Becker — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 971 Lee Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- Consent Calendar — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 971 Lee Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lee — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-18** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-04-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1302.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-06-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1681.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2023-06-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2023-07-10** Ordered to the Senate.
+- **2023-07-10** In Senate. Held at Desk.
+- **2023-08-17** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-08-17** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2023-08-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2023-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-09-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2360.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2023-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2023-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3026.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-09-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
+- **2023-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2023-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 672, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39c01b05-a6d6-4fc1-b3db-430d517e4bc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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