---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rail construction: County of Los Angeles."
description: "Existing law prohibits the construction of a mass transportation rail project, other than as a subway, within a specified corridor within the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, and imposes other conditions in that regard. Existing law also imposes certain requirements on the construction phasing of a mass transportation rail project between the San Fernando Valley and downtown Los Angeles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 577"
citation: "California AB 577 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rail construction: County of Los Angeles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nazarian"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2014-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f8cbb64-d262-4ff0-9fe3-aeade38af56a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB577"
source_hash: "d3efdc9425f0267531a58c479a11525f5b66f2212a5843620aaa3cd44a1a2fbd"
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 577 (20132014) — Rail construction: County of Los Angeles.

Existing law prohibits the construction of a mass transportation rail project, other than as a subway, within a specified corridor within the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, and imposes other conditions in that regard. Existing law also imposes certain requirements on the construction phasing of a mass transportation rail project between the San Fernando Valley and downtown Los Angeles.

## 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=201320140AB577&version=20130AB57799INT)
2. **01/06/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB577&version=20130AB57798AMD)
3. **06/04/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB577&version=20130AB57797AMD)
4. **07/08/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB577&version=20130AB57795CHP)
5. **AB577** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB577)
6. **06/30/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB577&version=20130AB57796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 577 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 577 NAZARIAN Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nazarian — primary (person)
- Bocanegra — coauthor (person)
- Dababneh — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — 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.
- **2014-01-06** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-06** 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`
- **2014-01-07** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-01-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-01-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3658.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-01-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-06** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-04** 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-11** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-12** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3929.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-06-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5694.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:15 p.m.
- **2014-07-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 92, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f8cbb64-d262-4ff0-9fe3-aeade38af56a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).