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Bill	State highways: landscaping.	Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways and associated property, and sets forth the powers and duties of the department with respect to the operation, maintenance, and improvement of state highways. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into an agreement to accept funds, materials, equipment, or services from any person for maintenance or roadside enhancement of a section of a state highway. Existing law requires the department to discontinue further water intensive freeway landscaping and to use drought resistant landscaping whenever feasible, taking into consideration specified factors.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2062	California AB 2062 (20172018)	bill	State highways: landscaping.	enacted	Maienschein	6	22	6	2018-02-07	2018-08-20	openstates	ocd-bill/9178fccf-d78a-4cc9-9abc-9db29655838b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2062	d34f80698d5ea99c11f30a9fe0da32cd3b39e30242e5568bb8be001e137aa1df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2062 (20172018) — State highways: landscaping.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways and associated property, and sets forth the powers and duties of the department with respect to the operation, maintenance, and improvement of state highways. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into an agreement to accept funds, materials, equipment, or services from any person for maintenance or roadside enhancement of a section of a state highway. Existing law requires the department to discontinue further water intensive freeway landscaping and to use drought resistant landscaping whenever feasible, taking into consideration specified factors.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2062 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/07/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2062 MAIENSCHEIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB2062 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2062 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)
• Acosta — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2018-02-16 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-20 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-03-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4644.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-04-25 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2018-04-30 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5038.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6136.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2018-08-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 165, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9178fccf-d78a-4cc9-9abc-9db29655838b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).