Existing law imposes a 40-foot limitation on the length of vehicles that may be operated on the highways, with specified exemptions. Existing law exempts from this limitation an articulated bus or articulated trolley coach that does not exceed a length of 60 feet, and authorizes the bus or trolley to be equipped with a folding device attached to the front of the bus or trolley if the device is designed and used exclusively for transporting bicycles. Existing law prohibits the above-described device from extending more than 36 inches from the front body of the bus when fully deployed, and prohibits a bicycle that is transported on that device from having the bicycle handlebars extend more than 42 inches from the front of the bus.
California AB 3124 (20172018) — Vehicles: length limitations: buses: bicycle transportation devices.
Existing law imposes a 40-foot limitation on the length of vehicles that may be operated on the highways, with specified exemptions. Existing law exempts from this limitation an articulated bus or articulated trolley coach that does not exceed a length of 60 feet, and authorizes the bus or trolley to be equipped with a folding device attached to the front of the bus or trolley if the device is designed and used exclusively for transporting bicycles. Existing law prohibits the above-described device from extending more than 36 inches from the front body of the bus when fully deployed, and prohibits a bicycle that is transported on that device from having the bicycle handlebars extend more than 42 inches from the front of the bus.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 3124 BLOOM Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar AB3124 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Bloom — 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.
2018-03-15 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
2018-04-02 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
2018-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
2018-04-10 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2018-04-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4688.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-04-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2018-04-25 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
2018-05-15 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2018-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4221.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-05-21 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2018-05-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2018-06-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-06-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 22, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5505a8c0-d3af-475c-ad84-ebacfd51dc3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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