---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes."
description: "Existing federal law, until September 30, 2017, authorizes a state to allow specified labeled vehicles to use lanes designated for high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) ."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 2013"
citation: "California AB 2013 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-02-20"
last_action: "2014-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f09b3e98-9c89-481e-9930-8873ac0ea045"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013"
source_hash: "578151074ef9f80418b970eaeab6978e0cab4bad3d8e44e43633012e2d77a5e9"
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 2013 (20132014) — Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

Existing federal law, until September 30, 2017, authorizes a state to allow specified labeled vehicles to use lanes designated for high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) .

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013&version=20130AB201399INT)
2. **03/17/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013&version=20130AB201398AMD)
3. **04/02/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013&version=20130AB201397AMD)
4. **06/12/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013&version=20130AB201396AMD)
5. **08/07/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013&version=20130AB201395AMD)
6. **09/21/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013&version=20130AB201393CHP)
7. **AB2013** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013)
8. **08/27/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2013&version=20130AB201394ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2013 MURATSUCHI Third Reading Urgency — **63–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **14–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2013 Muratsuchi By DeSaulnier — **25–6** (pass) · upper
- AB 2013 MURATSUCHI Third Reading Urgency — **43–5** (fail) · lower
- AB 2013 MURATSUCHI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **65–8** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Muratsuchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2014-03-03** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-17** 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-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-01** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 21. Page 4280.)
- **2014-04-01** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-07** Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 43. Noes 5. Page 4362.) `reading-3, reading-1`
- **2014-04-07** Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Muratsuchi.
- **2014-04-08** Motion to reconsider continued until next Legislative day.
- **2014-04-09** April 30-Motion to reconsider continued.
- **2014-05-01** Reconsideration granted. (Page 4703.)
- **2014-05-01** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 4. Page 4703.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 6. Page 4609.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 8. Page 6381.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 527, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f09b3e98-9c89-481e-9930-8873ac0ea045`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).