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type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: electric bicycles."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1096"
citation: "California AB 1096 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: electric bicycles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chiu"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8b2d6f1-bcca-4e56-8db4-e14fa11a8319"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096"
source_hash: "c39b949da9ad7ad9824a49df5f3aff5ba280c987e20a6a028dae5035c64478e2"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096&version=20150AB109699INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096&version=20150AB109698AMD)
3. **04/22/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096&version=20150AB109697AMD)
4. **04/29/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096&version=20150AB109696AMD)
5. **06/15/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096&version=20150AB109695AMD)
6. **09/04/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096&version=20150AB109694AMD)
7. **10/07/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096&version=20150AB109692CHP)
8. **AB1096** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096)
9. **09/14/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1096&version=20150AB109693ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1096 CHIU Consent Calendar Second Day — **740** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1096 Chiu By Allen — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
- AB 1096 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **800** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8b2d6f1-bcca-4e56-8db4-e14fa11a8319`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).