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Bill	Traffic safety: work zones: positive protection measures.	Existing law authorizes traffic to be restricted through or around the work on streets and highways whenever the traffic would endanger the safety of workers or the work would interfere with, or endanger the movement of, traffic through the work zone. Existing law authorizes traffic in work zones to be regulated by warning signs, lights, appropriate control devices, or by a person or persons controlling and directing the flow of traffic.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 759	California AB 759 (20192020)	bill	Traffic safety: work zones: positive protection measures.	enacted	Bigelow	7	35	9	2019-02-19	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/46962737-b29e-4c2e-82a3-df08c0553bd1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB759	3cdff19119310b184ee0d728cfdc3a7e3a66f34e26265dbaff4ad0e6efe19457	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 759 (20192020) — Traffic safety: work zones: positive protection measures.

Existing law authorizes traffic to be restricted through or around the work on streets and highways whenever the traffic would endanger the safety of workers or the work would interfere with, or endanger the movement of, traffic through the work zone. Existing law authorizes traffic in work zones to be regulated by warning signs, lights, appropriate control devices, or by a person or persons controlling and directing the flow of traffic.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB759 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/17/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB759 Bigelow et al. By Umberg — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 759 Bigelow Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 759 Bigelow Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bigelow — primary (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1480.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-06-13 From Consent Calendar.
• 2019-06-13 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Jones.
• 2019-06-27 From inactive file.
• 2019-06-27 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-06-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2019-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2703.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
• 2019-09-10 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2019-09-10 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3303.)
• 2019-09-11 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (September 11). committee-passage
• 2019-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3475.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 617, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46962737-b29e-4c2e-82a3-df08c0553bd1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).