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Bill	Vehicles: electric bicycles.	Existing law defines a "motorized bicycle" or a "moped" as a 2-wheeled or 3-wheeled device having fully operative pedals for propulsion by human power, or having no pedals if powered solely by electrical energy, and an automatic transmission and motor, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1096	California AB 1096 (20152016)	bill	Vehicles: electric bicycles.	enacted	Chiu	9	28	6	2015-02-27	2015-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/c8b2d6f1-bcca-4e56-8db4-e14fa11a8319	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096	c39b949da9ad7ad9824a49df5f3aff5ba280c987e20a6a028dae5035c64478e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1096 (20152016) — Vehicles: electric bicycles.

Existing law defines a "motorized bicycle" or a "moped" as a 2-wheeled or 3-wheeled device having fully operative pedals for propulsion by human power, or having no pedals if powered solely by electrical energy, and an automatic transmission and motor, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/29/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/15/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/07/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1096 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/14/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1096 CHIU Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1096 Chiu By Allen — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1096 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Harper — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1563.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2015-06-15 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2639.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3066.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 568, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c8b2d6f1-bcca-4e56-8db4-e14fa11a8319. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).