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Bill	Public streets, highways, and public service easements.	The Public Streets, Highways, and Service Easements Vacation Law establishes procedures for the vacation of public streets, highways, and service easements. Under existing law, the legislative body of a local agency may summarily vacate a street or highway that has been impassable for vehicular travel for 5 years and no public money has been expended for maintenance of the street or highway during that period. Existing law provides that an easement may be reserved and excepted from a vacation of a street, highway, or public service easement, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 236	California SB 236 (20152016)	bill	Public streets highways and public service easements.	enacted	Beall	9	31	5	2015-02-17	2015-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/26a47395-94c8-495e-8c62-38ac4a9f94e2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236	246c40bf109e5154f76d701b92f47cf96fefbf1be3c8c422c7d48b72b77fd575	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 236 (20152016) — Public streets, highways, and public service easements.

The Public Streets, Highways, and Service Easements Vacation Law establishes procedures for the vacation of public streets, highways, and service easements. Under existing law, the legislative body of a local agency may summarily vacate a street or highway that has been impassable for vehicular travel for 5 years and no public money has been expended for maintenance of the street or highway during that period. Existing law provides that an easement may be reserved and excepted from a vacation of a street, highway, or public service easement, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/20/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/29/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/24/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB236 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/31/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 236 Beall Senate Third Reading By CAMPOS — 71–4 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB236 Beall Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2015-02-26 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2015-03-10 Set for hearing April 7.
• 2015-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-03-25 April 7 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-03-25 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2015-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-07 Re-referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-04-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2015-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2015-04-28 Set for hearing May 5.
• 2015-04-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-05 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 907.) (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 954.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-11 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-06-17 June 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-06-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 4. Page 2625.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2274.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2015-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 353, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26a47395-94c8-495e-8c62-38ac4a9f94e2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).