---
type: "Bill"
title: "High-Speed Rail Authority: membership."
description: "Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers and duties relative to development and implementation of a high-speed train system. The authority is composed of 9 members, including 5 members appointed by the Governor, and 2 members each appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1813"
citation: "California AB 1813 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["High-Speed Rail Authority: membership."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frazier"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-08"
last_action: "2016-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f04c429-c2f7-48eb-8c00-2b13edf4db6c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1813"
source_hash: "caecfc80d3875b617c19bcfff63066ae65117f14cd48fc54f1f17ee903b670ff"
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 1813 (20152016) — High-Speed Rail Authority: membership.

Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers and duties relative to development and implementation of a high-speed train system. The authority is composed of 9 members, including 5 members appointed by the Governor, and 2 members each appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1813&version=20150AB181399INT)
2. **07/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1813&version=20150AB181397CHP)
3. **AB1813** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1813)
4. **07/07/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1813&version=20150AB181398ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1813 FRAZIER Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Frazier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4361.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-27** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2016-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4650.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2016-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 117, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f04c429-c2f7-48eb-8c00-2b13edf4db6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).