republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-614.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public transportation agencies: administrative penalties."
description: "Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as an infraction or misdemeanor, as applicable, for a person to commit certain acts on or in a facility or vehicle of a public transportation system. Existing law authorizes a public transportation agency to adopt and enforce an ordinance to impose and enforce civil administrative penalties for fare evasion and other passenger misconduct on or in a transit facility or vehicle in lieu of the criminal penalties otherwise applicable. In setting the amounts of administrative penalties for fare evasion and other passenger misconduct violations, existing law prohibits a public transportation agency from establishing penalty amounts that exceed the maximum penalty amount established for the criminal penalties. Existing law requires these administrative penalties to be deposited in the general fund of the county in which the citation is administered."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 614"
citation: "California SB 614 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public transportation agencies: administrative penalties."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbdf10b2-2787-4c52-ae0a-601fc6900b06"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614"
source_hash: "79cd97461dc480768b5204b86e63e5f4351084045ea4edd48d99575b34c5dc8c"
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 SB 614 (20172018) — Public transportation agencies: administrative penalties.

Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as an infraction or misdemeanor, as applicable, for a person to commit certain acts on or in a facility or vehicle of a public transportation system. Existing law authorizes a public transportation agency to adopt and enforce an ordinance to impose and enforce civil administrative penalties for fare evasion and other passenger misconduct on or in a transit facility or vehicle in lieu of the criminal penalties otherwise applicable. In setting the amounts of administrative penalties for fare evasion and other passenger misconduct violations, existing law prohibits a public transportation agency from establishing penalty amounts that exceed the maximum penalty amount established for the criminal penalties. Existing law requires these administrative penalties to be deposited in the general fund of the county in which the citation is administered.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614&version=20170SB61499INT)
2. **04/05/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614&version=20170SB61498AMD)
3. **05/04/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614&version=20170SB61497AMD)
4. **07/17/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614&version=20170SB61496AMD)
5. **09/01/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614&version=20170SB61494CHP)
6. **SB614** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614)
7. **08/25/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614&version=20170SB61495ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent Calendar # SB614 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 614 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By BERMAN — **68–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **13–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hertzberg — primary (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 Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2017-04-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 751.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2017-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-08** Published May 4 at 9 p.m.
- **2017-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1065.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-05** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-17** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-07-17** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-08-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 1. Page 2687.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2017-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2233.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 219, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbdf10b2-2787-4c52-ae0a-601fc6900b06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).