---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: toll exemptions."
description: "Under existing law, a person who enters a vehicular crossing becomes liable for any tolls imposed. Existing law prescribes the means by which a toll may be collected or paid, including by the use of an electronic transponder or by means of capturing a license plate number and billing the registered owner. Existing law prohibits a person from evading, or attempting to evade, the payment of tolls on any vehicular crossing or toll highway. A violation of this prohibition is subject to civil penalties, but it is not a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2949"
citation: "California AB 2949 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: toll exemptions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37fa46fa-a65a-4b11-b710-24b55630757a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949"
source_hash: "5daf13b84a5927cec57daf4749555395bdebec661c1f2964d40eef15c08131a1"
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 2949 (20212022) — Vehicles: toll exemptions.

Under existing law, a person who enters a vehicular crossing becomes liable for any tolls imposed. Existing law prescribes the means by which a toll may be collected or paid, including by the use of an electronic transponder or by means of capturing a license plate number and billing the registered owner. Existing law prohibits a person from evading, or attempting to evade, the payment of tolls on any vehicular crossing or toll highway. A violation of this prohibition is subject to civil penalties, but it is not a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949&version=20210AB294999INT)
2. **03/17/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949&version=20210AB294998AMD)
3. **06/06/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949&version=20210AB294997AMD)
4. **06/30/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949&version=20210AB294996AMD)
5. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949&version=20210AB294994CHP)
6. **AB2949** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949)
7. **08/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949&version=20210AB294995ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2949 Lee Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2949 Lee et al. By Archuleta — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2949 Lee Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lee — primary (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — principal coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-17** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-17** 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`
- **2022-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-19** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-05-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4877.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** 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`
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-08-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5121.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-25** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 871, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37fa46fa-a65a-4b11-b710-24b55630757a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).