republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-249.md

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Bill	Off-highway motor vehicle recreation.	The Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 2003 creates the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission and the Division of Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation within the Department of Parks and Recreation. The act gives the division certain duties and responsibilities, including the planning, acquisition, development, conservation, and restoration of lands in state vehicular recreation areas. Existing law requires the division to develop and implement a grant and cooperative agreement program with other agencies funded from no more than 12 of the revenues in the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund, with specified percentages of these revenues to be available, upon appropriation, for various purposes related to off-highway vehicles. Existing law requires the remaining revenues in the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund to be available for the support of the division and for the planning, acquisition, development, construction, maintenance, administration, operation, restoration, and conservation of lands in state vehicular recreation areas and certain other areas. The act is repealed on January 1, 2018.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 249	California SB 249 (20172018)	bill	Off-highway motor vehicle recreation.	enacted	Allen	9	32	4	2017-02-07	2017-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/d9939ca0-871a-4aea-ac56-67ab6421183f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB249	a471335fb7b7060e3a5652ab9229c771c0711ed55a416a31d6311ff588c166ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 249 (20172018) — Off-highway motor vehicle recreation.

The Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 2003 creates the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission and the Division of Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation within the Department of Parks and Recreation. The act gives the division certain duties and responsibilities, including the planning, acquisition, development, conservation, and restoration of lands in state vehicular recreation areas. Existing law requires the division to develop and implement a grant and cooperative agreement program with other agencies funded from no more than 12 of the revenues in the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund, with specified percentages of these revenues to be available, upon appropriation, for various purposes related to off-highway vehicles. Existing law requires the remaining revenues in the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund to be available for the support of the division and for the planning, acquisition, development, construction, maintenance, administration, operation, restoration, and conservation of lands in state vehicular recreation areas and certain other areas. The act is repealed on January 1, 2018.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/26/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/03/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB249 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/18/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–5 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB249 Allen Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 249 Allen Senate Third Reading By EGGMAN — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-07 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2017-02-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
• 2017-02-08 Read first time. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and T. & H. referral-committee
• 2017-02-18 Set for hearing March 14.
• 2017-03-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 364.) (March 14). Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2017-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 750.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-21 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2017-05-01 May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
• 2017-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 16. Page 1397.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-22 Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) (July 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3263.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2926.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 459, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9939ca0-871a-4aea-ac56-67ab6421183f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).