---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Highway Route 131: relinquishment."
description: "Existing law gives the Department of Transportation full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system and establishes a process for adoption of a highway on an authorized route by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law also authorizes the commission to relinquish certain state highway segments to local agencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 747"
citation: "California AB 747 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Highway Route 131: relinquishment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Levine"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-21"
last_action: "2014-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5919b788-0c5e-40c1-9b29-036ac8fa773d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB747"
source_hash: "522ccc6e40fd6c3c420f2cfbb226ff4e659a5473b2acfc782542b8e4651e680d"
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 747 (20132014) — State Highway Route 131: relinquishment.

Existing law gives the Department of Transportation full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system and establishes a process for adoption of a highway on an authorized route by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law also authorizes the commission to relinquish certain state highway segments to local agencies.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB747&version=20130AB74799INT)
2. **04/08/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB747&version=20130AB74798AMD)
3. **05/28/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB747&version=20130AB74797AMD)
4. **06/23/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB747&version=20130AB74795CHP)
5. **AB747** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB747)
6. **06/11/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB747&version=20130AB74796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 747 LEVINE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 747 LEVINE Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #16 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Levine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-08** 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`
- **2013-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1333.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-28** 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`
- **2013-06-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-24** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-10** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2013-09-12** From special consent calendar.
- **2013-09-12** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Evans.
- **2014-05-27** From inactive file.
- **2014-05-27** Ordered to second reading.
- **2014-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-04** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2014-06-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3757.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-06-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5440.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2014-06-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-06-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 43, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5919b788-0c5e-40c1-9b29-036ac8fa773d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).