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type: "Bill"
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title: "Public streets, highways, and public service easements."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "SB 236"
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citation: "California SB 236 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Public streets", "highways", "and public service easements."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2015-02-17"
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last_action: "2015-09-28"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26a47395-94c8-495e-8c62-38ac4a9f94e2"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236"
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source_hash: "246c40bf109e5154f76d701b92f47cf96fefbf1be3c8c422c7d48b72b77fd575"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 236 (20152016) — Public streets, highways, and public service easements.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/17/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236&version=20150SB23699INT)
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2. **03/24/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236&version=20150SB23698AMD)
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3. **04/15/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236&version=20150SB23697AMD)
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4. **04/20/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236&version=20150SB23696AMD)
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5. **04/29/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236&version=20150SB23695AMD)
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6. **06/24/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236&version=20150SB23694AMD)
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7. **09/28/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236&version=20150SB23692CHP)
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8. **SB236** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236)
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9. **08/31/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB236&version=20150SB23693ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 236 Beall Senate Third Reading By CAMPOS — **71–4** (pass) · lower
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- Unfinished Business SB236 Beall Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Beall — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2015-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
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- **2015-02-26** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-03-10** Set for hearing April 7.
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- **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`
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- **2015-03-25** April 7 hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2015-03-25** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2015-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2015-04-21** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2015-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-04-28** Set for hearing May 5.
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- **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`
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- **2015-05-05** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 907.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 954.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2015-05-22** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-06-17** June 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **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`
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- **2015-07-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-07-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 4. Page 2625.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-27** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2015-08-31** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2274.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-09-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2015-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 353, Statutes of 2015.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26a47395-94c8-495e-8c62-38ac4a9f94e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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