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Bill	Vehicles: toll evasion violations.	(1) Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to refuse to pay tolls or other charges on any vehicular crossing or toll highway and provides that it is prima facie evidence of a violation of this provision for any person to enter upon any vehicular crossing without either lawful money of the United States in the person's immediate possession in an amount sufficient to pay the prescribed tolls or other charges due from that person or a transponder or other electronic toll payment device associated with a valid Automatic Vehicle Identification account with a balance sufficient to pay those tolls. A violation of these provisions is an infraction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 628	California AB 628 (20092010)	bill	Vehicles: toll evasion violations.	enacted	Block	8	29	6	2009-02-25	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/0cd9b51f-a120-44ba-a878-3a0e26d847a9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB628	83b422075d65ca9d7c7addf42cf386b58d696b62ed24375caad255f123eb69fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 628 (20092010) — Vehicles: toll evasion violations.

(1) Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to refuse to pay tolls or other charges on any vehicular crossing or toll highway and provides that it is prima facie evidence of a violation of this provision for any person to enter upon any vehicular crossing without either lawful money of the United States in the person's immediate possession in an amount sufficient to pay the prescribed tolls or other charges due from that person or a transponder or other electronic toll payment device associated with a valid Automatic Vehicle Identification account with a balance sufficient to pay those tolls. A violation of these provisions is an infraction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB628 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/09/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 628 BLOCK Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 628 BLOCK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB628 Block By Ducheny — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)
• Harkey — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2009-03-23 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-21 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-04 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1360.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-06-16 In committee: Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-07-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-16 Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-08-18 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-20 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-24 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-26 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-27 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-01 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 2057.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-03 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2970.)
• 2009-09-03 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2982.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-11 Enrolled and to the Governor at 7 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 459, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0cd9b51f-a120-44ba-a878-3a0e26d847a9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).