---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency vehicles: payment of tolls: exemptions."
description: "(1) Under existing law, a vehicle that enters into or upon a vehicular crossing immediately becomes liable for tolls and other charges prescribed by the California Transportation Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 254"
citation: "California AB 254 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency vehicles: payment of tolls: exemptions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-11"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed62099d-2cd0-4285-9631-4d82accb6f27"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254"
source_hash: "263254ec53ba27a2f739d1d7418121db8cf36429798cca2e5cb85c593f032a68"
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 254 (20092010) — Emergency vehicles: payment of tolls: exemptions.

(1) Under existing law, a vehicle that enters into or upon a vehicular crossing immediately becomes liable for tolls and other charges prescribed by the California Transportation Commission.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254&version=20090AB25499INT)
2. **04/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254&version=20090AB25498AMD)
3. **04/16/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254&version=20090AB25497AMD)
4. **04/21/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254&version=20090AB25496AMD)
5. **06/16/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254&version=20090AB25495AMD)
6. **06/26/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254&version=20090AB25494AMD)
7. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254&version=20090AB25492CHP)
8. **AB254** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254)
9. **09/02/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB254&version=20090AB25493ENR)

## Votes

- AB 254 JEFFRIES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB254 Jeffries By Huff — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 254 JEFFRIES Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeffries — primary (person)
- Bill Berryhill — coauthor (person)
- Cox — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2009-03-04** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-28** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-18** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1627.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-25** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-26** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2009-07-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1962.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2799.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 425, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed62099d-2cd0-4285-9631-4d82accb6f27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).