---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: public transit buses: illuminated signs."
description: "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: "SB 1134"
citation: "California SB 1134 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: public transit buses: illuminated signs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Knight"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2014-02-20"
last_action: "2014-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31d347e8-e02e-4dca-acaa-15b71376bfa9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1134"
source_hash: "0f8c52b85f028d801eb0e18d0b4a0ecb738ccd90aa37e320fb10afe8c10e454d"
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 1134 (20132014) — Vehicles: public transit buses: illuminated signs.

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. **02/20/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1134&version=20130SB113499INT)
2. **05/06/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1134&version=20130SB113498AMD)
3. **06/15/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1134&version=20130SB113497AMD)
4. **07/08/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1134&version=20130SB113495CHP)
5. **SB1134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1134)
6. **07/01/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1134&version=20130SB113496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **10–1** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1134 Knight Concurrence — **29–6** (pass) · upper
- SB 1134 Knight Senate Third Reading By WILK — **73–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Knight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2014-03-06** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-22** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2014-05-05** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 3313.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 3464.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-23** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-12** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-19** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 5622.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-19** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-06-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 6. Page 4188.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-07-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 100, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31d347e8-e02e-4dca-acaa-15b71376bfa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).