---
type: "Bill"
title: "State highways: gateway monuments."
description: "Existing law authorizes the display of the Flag of the United States of America and the Flag of the State of California on a sidewalk located in or abutting on a state highway situated within a city, if the type of flagholder and the method of its installation and maintenance are not in violation of the Department of Transportation's rules."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 866"
citation: "California AB 866 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State highways: gateway monuments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cunningham"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6f51b9a-3ca4-40c7-99de-f78dcebd7514"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB866"
source_hash: "7c7b7b7858e0a7db3c5e5be1a5a1b0e7987fcbc863abe71e516124b1d7fdf493"
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 866 (20172018) — State highways: gateway monuments.

Existing law authorizes the display of the Flag of the United States of America and the Flag of the State of California on a sidewalk located in or abutting on a state highway situated within a city, if the type of flagholder and the method of its installation and maintenance are not in violation of the Department of Transportation's rules.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB866&version=20170AB86699INT)
2. **07/05/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB866&version=20170AB86698AMD)
3. **09/01/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB866&version=20170AB86696CHP)
4. **AB866** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB866)
5. **08/22/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB866&version=20170AB86697ENR)

## Votes

- AB 866 CUNNINGHAM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 866 CUNNINGHAM Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB866 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cunningham — primary (person)
- Chávez — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-24** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2017-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1489.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-10** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2023.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2676.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-08-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 201, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6f51b9a-3ca4-40c7-99de-f78dcebd7514`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).