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Bill	Department of Transportation: state highway rights-of-way: broadband: fiber optic cables.	Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of state highways and associated property. Existing law provides for the department to issue encroachment permits with respect to structures and activities in, under, or over any portion of the right-of-way of a state highway.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1549	California AB 1549 (20152016)	bill	Department of Transportation: state highway rights-of-way: broadband: fiber optic cables.	enacted	Wood	11	39	10	2015-09-11	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/e30cdb3e-1ddb-4a95-a041-545b241bb282	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1549	9b2fa090401621cd55a312f77cfdb4989119f59f697d8ad8f36cfaabfce8e86e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1549 (20152016) — Department of Transportation: state highway rights-of-way: broadband: fiber optic cables.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of state highways and associated property. Existing law provides for the department to issue encroachment permits with respect to structures and activities in, under, or over any portion of the right-of-way of a state highway.

Version chain

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

1. 09/11/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 01/14/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/30/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1549 (committee substitute) — source
11. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1549 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1549 Wood By McGuire — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1549 WOOD Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1549 Wood By McGuire — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-09-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-09-11 (Introduced pursuant to Joint Rule 54) introduction
• 2015-09-12 From printer. May be heard in committee October 13.
• 2015-12-09 Referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2016-01-05 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on TRANS. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 5). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2016-01-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (January 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-01-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-01-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-15 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-01-21 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3510.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-02-04 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2016-05-16 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
• 2016-06-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5060.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-18 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2016-08-19 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2016-08-19 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2016-08-19 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5293.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6337.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 505, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e30cdb3e-1ddb-4a95-a041-545b241bb282. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).