---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: parking: public grounds."
description: "Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle or animal, or stopping, parking, or leaving standing a vehicle or animal, whether attended or unattended, upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds of specified public entities, including a transit district and a public transportation agency, except with the permission of, and upon and subject to any condition or regulation that may be imposed by, the governing body of the specified public entity. A violation of these provisions is an infraction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 953"
citation: "California SB 953 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: parking: public grounds."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roth"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2014-02-06"
last_action: "2014-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/025d6cdd-d44f-46e7-874b-b95628f65189"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB953"
source_hash: "1a165b94cd879d9962a5198615af964065a9a5f87a6ca887d0ab87abc32533ff"
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 953 (20132014) — Vehicles: parking: public grounds.

Existing law prohibits a person from driving a vehicle or animal, or stopping, parking, or leaving standing a vehicle or animal, whether attended or unattended, upon the driveways, paths, parking facilities, or grounds of specified public entities, including a transit district and a public transportation agency, except with the permission of, and upon and subject to any condition or regulation that may be imposed by, the governing body of the specified public entity. A violation of these provisions is an infraction.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB953&version=20130SB95399INT)
2. **04/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB953&version=20130SB95398AMD)
3. **05/01/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB953&version=20130SB95397AMD)
4. **08/15/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB953&version=20130SB95395CHP)
5. **SB953** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB953)
6. **08/08/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB953&version=20130SB95396ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #15 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 953 Roth Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-06** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-02-07** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
- **2014-02-20** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-03** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2014-04-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3236.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-09** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2014-05-19** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-21** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2014-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 3535.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-29** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5915.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-07** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2014-08-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2014-08-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-08-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 192, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/025d6cdd-d44f-46e7-874b-b95628f65189`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).