---
type: "Bill"
title: "Avoidance of on-track equipment."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle or pedestrian to cross a railroad, a rail transit grade crossing, or a railroad grade crossing in a specified manner to safely avoid a train or car. A violation of these requirements is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 695"
citation: "California AB 695 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Avoidance of on-track equipment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bocanegra"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-15"
last_action: "2017-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f2061c0-b1d5-47fb-b59d-d915e74b11ff"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB695"
source_hash: "df2db7aacb0054df6077600ce57655e8db2975419d31cdabe8d80d81711f557d"
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 695 (20172018) — Avoidance of on-track equipment.

(1) Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle or pedestrian to cross a railroad, a rail transit grade crossing, or a railroad grade crossing in a specified manner to safely avoid a train or car. A violation of these requirements is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB695&version=20170AB69599INT)
2. **07/24/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB695&version=20170AB69597CHP)
3. **AB695** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB695)
4. **07/06/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB695&version=20170AB69598ENR)

## Votes

- AB 695 BOCANEGRA Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bocanegra — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1144.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-26** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1843.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2017-07-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 110, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f2061c0-b1d5-47fb-b59d-d915e74b11ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).