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Bill	Vehicles: public transit bus lanes.	Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to stop or park a motor vehicle in specified places, including an area designated as a fire lane by the fire department or fire district, as specified. A violation of these provisions is an infraction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 998	California SB 998 (20152016)	bill	Vehicles: public transit bus lanes.	enacted	Wieckowski	7	28	6	2016-02-10	2016-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/3c171d00-dac6-476b-b71e-f7586e022b2a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB998	11a147d77507249b8e381088181b2b0a3c2e0e37e977f87267d465d918e6ea6d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 998 (20152016) — Vehicles: public transit bus lanes.

Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to stop or park a motor vehicle in specified places, including an area designated as a fire lane by the fire department or fire district, as specified. A violation of these provisions is an infraction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB998 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 998 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By LOW — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wieckowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2016-03-24 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2016-04-06 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
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3615.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-22 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2016-05-02 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, reading-2, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3807.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-10 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-05-16 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-06-06 June 13 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2016-08-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-11 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5896.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5429.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2016-08-31 (Corrected August 29).
• 2016-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 716, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3c171d00-dac6-476b-b71e-f7586e022b2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).