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Bill	Vehicles: toll exemptions.	Under existing law, a person who enters a vehicular crossing becomes liable for any tolls imposed. Existing law prescribes the means by which a toll may be collected or paid, including by the use of an electronic transponder or by means of capturing a license plate number and billing the registered owner. Existing law prohibits a person from evading, or attempting to evade, the payment of tolls on any vehicular crossing or toll highway. A violation of this prohibition is subject to civil penalties, but it is not a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2949	California AB 2949 (20212022)	bill	Vehicles: toll exemptions.	enacted	Lee	7	29	8	2022-02-18	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/37fa46fa-a65a-4b11-b710-24b55630757a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2949	5daf13b84a5927cec57daf4749555395bdebec661c1f2964d40eef15c08131a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2949 (20212022) — Vehicles: toll exemptions.

Under existing law, a person who enters a vehicular crossing becomes liable for any tolls imposed. Existing law prescribes the means by which a toll may be collected or paid, including by the use of an electronic transponder or by means of capturing a license plate number and billing the registered owner. Existing law prohibits a person from evading, or attempting to evade, the payment of tolls on any vehicular crossing or toll highway. A violation of this prohibition is subject to civil penalties, but it is not a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2949 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2949 Lee Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2949 Lee et al. By Archuleta — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2949 Lee Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lee — primary (person)
• Archuleta — coauthor (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)
• Choi — coauthor (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — principal coauthor (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)
• Voepel — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-17 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and M. & V.A. referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-19 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4877.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and M. & V.A. referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5121.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 871, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/37fa46fa-a65a-4b11-b710-24b55630757a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).