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type: "Bill"
title: "High-occupancy vehicle lanes."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicles. When those exclusive or preferential use lanes are established and double parallel solid lines are in place to the right thereof, existing law prohibits any person driving a vehicle from crossing over those double lines to enter into or exit from the lanes, and entrance or exit from those lanes is authorized only in areas designated for these purposes or where a single broken line is in place to the right of the lanes, except as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 91"
citation: "California AB 91 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["High-occupancy vehicle lanes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2018-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c89bd02-f2a2-409c-85f6-4be836031a2a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91"
source_hash: "f94a426c9f9591c55eef2a13898795d43d4cceca974f6e5a38fee38b7d789880"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 91 (20172018) — High-occupancy vehicle lanes.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicles. When those exclusive or preferential use lanes are established and double parallel solid lines are in place to the right thereof, existing law prohibits any person driving a vehicle from crossing over those double lines to enter into or exit from the lanes, and entrance or exit from those lanes is authorized only in areas designated for these purposes or where a single broken line is in place to the right of the lanes, except as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/09/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91&version=20170AB9199INT)
2. **03/22/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91&version=20170AB9198AMD)
3. **05/30/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91&version=20170AB9197AMD)
4. **06/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91&version=20170AB9196AMD)
5. **08/24/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91&version=20170AB9195AMD)
6. **09/18/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91&version=20170AB9193CHP)
7. **AB91** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91)
8. **09/04/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB91&version=20170AB9194ENR)
## Votes
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **130** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 91 CERVANTES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB91 Cervantes et al. By Roth — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Cervantes — primary (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Roth — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (March 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-03-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** 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 0.) (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`
- **2017-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 1951.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-14** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** 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`
- **2017-07-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. 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: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-12** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-09-13** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-09-15** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Roth.
- **2018-08-20** From inactive file.
- **2018-08-20** Ordered to second reading.
- **2018-08-21** 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 39. Noes 0. Page 5989.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2018-08-29** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-29** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6915.)
- **2018-08-29** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 7038.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 468, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c89bd02-f2a2-409c-85f6-4be836031a2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).