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Bill	Emergency vehicles: blue warning lights.	Existing law authorizes specified peace officers, including, among others, police officers, members of the University of California Police Department, and members of the California National Guard, in the performance of the officers' duties, to display a steady or flashing blue warning light visible from the front, sides, or rear of their emergency vehicles.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 587	California SB 587 (20172018)	bill	Emergency vehicles: blue warning lights.	enacted	Atkins	7	30	6	2017-02-17	2017-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/76f72f53-b002-4b74-9309-43c5b0db6c16	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB587	d4e074e33e34b37abba795d6bd63cd9208a8f0090e5fb01dec5a07510b448ced	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 587 (20172018) — Emergency vehicles: blue warning lights.

Existing law authorizes specified peace officers, including, among others, police officers, members of the University of California Police Department, and members of the California National Guard, in the performance of the officers' duties, to display a steady or flashing blue warning light visible from the front, sides, or rear of their emergency vehicles.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB587 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 587 Atkins Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB587 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Atkins — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-22 Set for hearing April 4.
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 628.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-07 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2017-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 748.) (April 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-04-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2017-05-03 May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-15 May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1187.) (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.
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1331.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-15 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-23 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2854.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-05 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2480.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 286, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/76f72f53-b002-4b74-9309-43c5b0db6c16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).