---
type: "Bill"
title: "Parking: parking meters."
description: "Existing law prohibits a local authority from establishing parking meter zones and fixing the rate or fees for those zones, except by ordinance. Existing law further authorizes a local authority to, by ordinance, cause streets and highways to be marked with white lines designating parking spaces and require vehicles to park within the parking spaces."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 1388"
citation: "California SB 1388 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Parking: parking meters."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DeSaulnier"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8feba6a1-614a-48f7-a469-86f1184a80e6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1388"
source_hash: "6fb527861495847b65b62c7cfffac70e2b6a751ae3e0cf6c27b8dc7b93b335a5"
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 1388 (20112012) — Parking: parking meters.

Existing law prohibits a local authority from establishing parking meter zones and fixing the rate or fees for those zones, except by ordinance. Existing law further authorizes a local authority to, by ordinance, cause streets and highways to be marked with white lines designating parking spaces and require vehicles to park within the parking spaces.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1388&version=20110SB138899INT)
2. **04/10/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1388&version=20110SB138898AMD)
3. **05/31/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1388&version=20110SB138897AMD)
4. **06/13/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1388&version=20110SB138896AMD)
5. **07/10/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1388&version=20110SB138894CHP)
6. **SB1388** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1388)
7. **06/26/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1388&version=20110SB138895ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #13 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1388 DeSaulnier Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DeSaulnier — primary (person)
- Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Jeffries — coauthor (person)
- Price — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-08** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-13** Set for hearing March 27.
- **2012-04-09** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3035.) (March 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-10** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3130.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-04-12** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2012-04-26** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-31** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-12** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-06-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5344.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-06-18** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2012-06-20** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-06-25** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-06-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2012-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 70, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8feba6a1-614a-48f7-a469-86f1184a80e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).