--- type: "Bill" title: "Transportation: federal funding: tribes." description: "Existing law provides for the use and allocation of various federal transportation funding sources, including, but not limited to, the Federal-Aid Secondary Highways Act, the Federal-Aid Combined Road Plan Act, and the Federal Aid for Safer Off-System Roads Act." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20232024" identifier: "AB 2261" citation: "California AB 2261 (20232024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Transportation", "federal funding", "tribes"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Garcia"] version_count: 7 action_count: 24 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2024-02-08" last_action: "2024-07-15" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db438071-cca2-4665-b4b9-1f2afac47278" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2261" source_hash: "7178a7e98d72632e515e118eb35b3e0b391c70d425345cc0170e42742ad19013" 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 2261 (20232024) — Transportation: federal funding: tribes. Existing law provides for the use and allocation of various federal transportation funding sources, including, but not limited to, the Federal-Aid Secondary Highways Act, the Federal-Aid Combined Road Plan Act, and the Federal Aid for Safer Off-System Roads Act. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/08/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2261&version=20230AB226199INT) 2. **03/11/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2261&version=20230AB226198AMD) 3. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2261&version=20230AB226197AMD) 4. **05/21/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2261&version=20230AB226196AMD) 5. **07/15/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2261&version=20230AB226194CHP) 6. **AB2261** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2261) 7. **06/26/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2261&version=20230AB226195ENR) ## Votes - AB 2261 Garcia Concurrence - Urgency Added — **76–0** (pass) · lower - Consent Calendar 2nd (Urgency Clause) — **37–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower - AB 2261 Garcia Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Garcia — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2024-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10. - **2024-03-11** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2024-03-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-03-12** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2024-03-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. - **2024-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2024-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5088.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2024-05-15** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2024-05-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-05-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-06-10** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2024-06-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-06-13** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4491.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-06-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2024-06-24** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5986.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-07-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2024-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2024-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 102, Statutes of 2024. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db438071-cca2-4665-b4b9-1f2afac47278`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).