republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-544.md

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Bill	Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes.	Existing federal law authorizes, until September 30, 2019, a state to allow low emission and energy-efficient vehicles, as specified, to use lanes designated for high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) . Existing federal law also authorizes, until September 30, 2025, a state to allow alternative fuel vehicles, as defined, and new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles, as defined, to use those HOV lanes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 544	California AB 544 (20172018)	bill	Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes.	enacted	Bloom	10	31	7	2017-02-13	2017-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/403f3ae9-7d32-4331-888b-1ee78abb865b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB544	002ee22594a9f0c5e697e71e05fce99ea699fe7e1b103acb35d50e8ddcdf72bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 544 (20172018) — Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

Existing federal law authorizes, until September 30, 2019, a state to allow low emission and energy-efficient vehicles, as specified, to use lanes designated for high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) . Existing federal law also authorizes, until September 30, 2025, a state to allow alternative fuel vehicles, as defined, and new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles, as defined, to use those HOV lanes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/10/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB544 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 544 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — 63–9 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB544 Bloom By Wieckowski — 32–5 (pass) · upper
• AB 544 Bloom Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–15 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2017-03-20 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 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
• 2017-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-27 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1776.)
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 9. Page 2068.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 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
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 5. Page 2781.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
• 2017-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 3325.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 630, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/403f3ae9-7d32-4331-888b-1ee78abb865b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).