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Bill	State highways: relinquishment.	Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system and establishes a process for adoption of a highway on an authorized route by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to relinquish certain state highway segments to local agencies.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 344	California AB 344 (20092010)	bill	State highways: relinquishment.	enacted	Caballero	7	23	8	2009-02-19	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/79ae19d3-5b87-484d-b97c-4160c8a6b7b0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB344	05845edc72ed017d8e87622a49ed081bd44d3f41c4366b6856b4210887d322b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 344 (20092010) — State highways: relinquishment.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways. Existing law describes the authorized routes in the state highway system and establishes a process for adoption of a highway on an authorized route by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to relinquish certain state highway segments to local agencies.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/15/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB344 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/10/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Assembly 3rd Reading AB344 Caballero By Denham — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 344 CABALLERO Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 344 CABALLERO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2009-03-09 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-15 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-04-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-29 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-01 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1836.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2009-06-24 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-06 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-07-23 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2110.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3093.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-29 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 238, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/79ae19d3-5b87-484d-b97c-4160c8a6b7b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).