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Bill	Authorized emergency vehicles.	Existing law provides for the exemption of authorized emergency vehicles, as defined, from the payment of a toll or charge on a vehicular crossing, toll highway, or high-occupancy toll (HOT) lane and any related fines, when the authorized emergency vehicle is being driven under specified conditions, including that the vehicle displays public agency identification and is being driven while responding to, or returning from, an urgent or emergency call. Under existing law, an authorized emergency vehicle returning from being driven under those specified conditions is not exempt from a requirement to pay a toll or other charge imposed while traveling on a HOT lane. Existing law does not prohibit the owner or operator of a toll facility and a local emergency service provider from entering into an agreement for the use of the toll facility.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2270	California AB 2270 (20212022)	bill	Authorized emergency vehicles.	enacted	Seyarto	4	19	5	2022-02-16	2022-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/4c7c4131-2d5f-43c7-91e1-616b0943a8f0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2270	36f2270011dfb5a839e1f2924916105d70039e9a36c4a0922c06a5fc3db144b9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2270 (20212022) — Authorized emergency vehicles.

Existing law provides for the exemption of authorized emergency vehicles, as defined, from the payment of a toll or charge on a vehicular crossing, toll highway, or high-occupancy toll (HOT) lane and any related fines, when the authorized emergency vehicle is being driven under specified conditions, including that the vehicle displays public agency identification and is being driven while responding to, or returning from, an urgent or emergency call. Under existing law, an authorized emergency vehicle returning from being driven under those specified conditions is not exempt from a requirement to pay a toll or other charge imposed while traveling on a HOT lane. Existing law does not prohibit the owner or operator of a toll facility and a local emergency service provider from entering into an agreement for the use of the toll facility.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 09/23/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB2270 (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2270 Seyarto Consent Calendar Second Day — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2270 Seyarto By Jones — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Seyarto — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4371.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-04-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-27 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-29 From Consent Calendar.
• 2022-06-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4872.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2022-08-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 497, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c7c4131-2d5f-43c7-91e1-616b0943a8f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).