---
type: "Bill"
title: "Buses: illuminated advertising: University of California, Irvine."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes a bus operated by a publicly owned transit system on regularly scheduled service to be equipped with illuminated signs that display information directly related to public service and include, among other things, destination signs, route-number signs, run-number signs, public service announcement signs, or a combination of those signs, visible from any direction of the vehicle, that emit any light color, other than the color red emitted from forward-facing signs, pursuant to specified conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 541"
citation: "California AB 541 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Buses: illuminated advertising: University of California", "Irvine."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daly"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73ab9010-5f5b-4d7b-b504-af7d01b205c2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB541"
source_hash: "a8ca2d1be4f843ad3c4404112e16a502aae3578e22dbd51a10240dcbb9e3b0c1"
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 541 (20132014) — Buses: illuminated advertising: University of California, Irvine.

(1) Existing law authorizes a bus operated by a publicly owned transit system on regularly scheduled service to be equipped with illuminated signs that display information directly related to public service and include, among other things, destination signs, route-number signs, run-number signs, public service announcement signs, or a combination of those signs, visible from any direction of the vehicle, that emit any light color, other than the color red emitted from forward-facing signs, pursuant to specified conditions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB541&version=20130AB54199INT)
2. **04/22/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB541&version=20130AB54198AMD)
3. **06/18/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB541&version=20130AB54197AMD)
4. **08/26/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB541&version=20130AB54195CHP)
5. **AB541** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB541)
6. **08/13/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB541&version=20130AB54196ENR)

## Votes

- AB 541 DALY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **10–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB541 Daly By Correa — **30–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 541 DALY Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daly — primary (person)
- Wagner — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1152.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2013-07-01** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2013-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-07-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 1696.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 2466.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2013-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 133, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73ab9010-5f5b-4d7b-b504-af7d01b205c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).