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Bill	High-occupancy toll lanes: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.	Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law authorizes a regional transportation agency or the department to apply to the California Transportation Commission to develop and operate high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes or other toll facilities. Existing law provides for the review and approval by the commission of each proposed toll facility pursuant to eligibility criteria set forth in guidelines established by the commission and requires a toll facility approved by the commission to be subject to specified minimum requirements. Existing law requires revenue remaining after certain expenses are subtracted to be used in the corridor from which the revenue was generated pursuant to an expenditure plan developed by the sponsoring agency. With regard to a facility sponsored by a regional transportation agency, existing law requires the regional transportation agency to develop an expenditure plan in consultation with the department and the governing board of the regional transportation agency to review and approve the expenditure plan and any updates.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2865	California AB 2865 (20172018)	bill	High-occupancy toll lanes: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.	enacted	Chiu	8	29	8	2018-02-16	2018-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/ef9ad3c3-d2f2-4f08-b452-55d468230ba4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2865	722405d76506abf23fa160e6f842496072e4a0aa1271d1dc857d322cdc8dffa9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2865 (20172018) — High-occupancy toll lanes: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law authorizes a regional transportation agency or the department to apply to the California Transportation Commission to develop and operate high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes or other toll facilities. Existing law provides for the review and approval by the commission of each proposed toll facility pursuant to eligibility criteria set forth in guidelines established by the commission and requires a toll facility approved by the commission to be subject to specified minimum requirements. Existing law requires revenue remaining after certain expenses are subtracted to be used in the corridor from which the revenue was generated pursuant to an expenditure plan developed by the sponsoring agency. With regard to a facility sponsored by a regional transportation agency, existing law requires the regional transportation agency to develop an expenditure plan in consultation with the department and the governing board of the regional transportation agency to review and approve the expenditure plan and any updates.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2865 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2865 Chiu By Wiener — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• AB 2865 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 49–28 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–5 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2865 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 49–29 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-19 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-19 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
• 2018-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-16 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
• 2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 5505.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-20 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
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 5.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 5990.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 29. Page 7034.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef9ad3c3-d2f2-4f08-b452-55d468230ba4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).