---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lane: buffer area."
description: "Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lane: buffer area."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 2906"
citation: "California AB 2906 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lane: buffer area."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tran"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2008-02-22"
last_action: "2008-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ec86002-c9f3-4e89-af12-eb1f77347ef6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2906"
source_hash: "30e37da1488666eb56d80192094b9832a3a08f58dc5d318d86ef4bb25c3a8403"
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 2906 (20072008) — Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lane: buffer area.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/22/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2906&version=20070AB290699INT)
2. **06/06/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2906&version=20070AB290697CHP)
3. **AB2906** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2906)
4. **05/23/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2906&version=20070AB290698ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2906 Tran — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2906 TRAN Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tran — primary (person)
- Correa — principal coauthor (person)
- DeVore — coauthor (person)
- Duvall — principal coauthor (person)
- Harman — principal coauthor (person)
- Huff — author (person)
- Silva — coauthor (person)
- Solorio — principal coauthor (person)
- Spitzer — coauthor (person)
- Walters — principal coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2008-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2008-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2008-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2008-03-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-04-16** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-04-21** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4751.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-05-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation and Housing. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-05-15** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-05-22** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3865.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-05-22** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2008-05-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:45 a.m.
- **2008-06-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-06-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 27, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ec86002-c9f3-4e89-af12-eb1f77347ef6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).