republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-223.md

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Bill	Highways: exit information signs.	Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules and regulations that allow the placement, near exits on freeways in rural areas, of information signs identifying specific roadside businesses. Existing law generally prohibits the department from approving the placement of any sign within any urban area with a population of 5,000 or more. However existing law also requires the department, until January 1, 2021, to allow the placement of information signs along State Highway Route 65 within, or at exits leading to, the City of Lincoln, and requires the department to report, by January 1, 2020, to the transportation committees of the Senate and Assembly on the implementation of this provision and on its recommendations as to whether the period of this authorization should be extended, and whether the authorization should be expanded to other urban areas.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 223	California AB 223 (20152016)	bill	Highways: exit information signs.	enacted	Dahle	5	20	6	2015-02-03	2015-08-11	openstates	ocd-bill/95896f04-6d03-47fa-a94a-25a3fafb1d7e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB223	5eb39e80e37c6eceb7488bca54c3853c963c97961d4c7dee981d8c4b52376b1f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 223 (20152016) — Highways: exit information signs.

Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules and regulations that allow the placement, near exits on freeways in rural areas, of information signs identifying specific roadside businesses. Existing law generally prohibits the department from approving the placement of any sign within any urban area with a population of 5,000 or more. However existing law also requires the department, until January 1, 2021, to allow the placement of information signs along State Highway Route 65 within, or at exits leading to, the City of Lincoln, and requires the department to report, by January 1, 2020, to the transportation committees of the Senate and Assembly on the implementation of this provision and on its recommendations as to whether the period of this authorization should be extended, and whether the authorization should be expanded to other urban areas.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/15/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/11/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB223 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 223 DAHLE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 223 DAHLE Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB223 Dahle By Gaines — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dahle — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
• 2015-02-17 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1222.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-14 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 11. 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
• 2015-07-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1877.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-07-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2352.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2015-08-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-08-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 166, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95896f04-6d03-47fa-a94a-25a3fafb1d7e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).