---
type: "Bill"
title: "Neighborhood electric vehicles."
description: "Existing law, until January 1, 2013, authorizes the County of Orange to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan for the Ranch Plan Planned Community in that county. Under existing law, operation of a neighborhood electric vehicle in violation of certain provisions is an infraction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 290"
citation: "California SB 290 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Neighborhood electric vehicles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Correa"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2011-02-14"
last_action: "2011-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac059e38-e550-4885-970b-b28125fb0ce8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB290"
source_hash: "9161ce9add7b4f7e6e9e179356277393d4af296b4fc504fa55fd465512f03017"
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 290 (20112012) — Neighborhood electric vehicles.

Existing law, until January 1, 2013, authorizes the County of Orange to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan for the Ranch Plan Planned Community in that county. Under existing law, operation of a neighborhood electric vehicle in violation of certain provisions is an infraction.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB290&version=20110SB29099INT)
2. **08/01/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB290&version=20110SB29097CHP)
3. **SB290** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB290)
4. **07/15/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB290&version=20110SB29098ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 290 Correa Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #1 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Correa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-04** Set for hearing March 29.
- **2011-03-16** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-03-23** Set for hearing March 29.
- **2011-03-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 496.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-01** Set for hearing April 11.
- **2011-04-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2011-04-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-04-13** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2011-04-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 655.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-04-14** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-04-28** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2343.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2011-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2011-08-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-08-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 150, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac059e38-e550-4885-970b-b28125fb0ce8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).