Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) and, until January 1, 2022, the Alameda-Contra Transit District, to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video imaging and to install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes, as specified. Existing law requires a designated employee, who is qualified by San Francisco, or a contracted law enforcement agency for the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, who is qualified by the city and county or the district to issue parking citations, to review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane and to issue a notice of violation to the registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days, as specified. Existing law makes these video image records confidential, and provides that these records are available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law provides that if the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District implements an automated enforcement system as described above, the district is required to submit a report to specified committees of the Legislature by no later than January 1, 2021.
California AB 917 (20212022) — Vehicles: video imaging of parking violations.
Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) and, until January 1, 2022, the Alameda-Contra Transit District, to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video imaging and to install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes, as specified. Existing law requires a designated employee, who is qualified by San Francisco, or a contracted law enforcement agency for the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, who is qualified by the city and county or the district to issue parking citations, to review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane and to issue a notice of violation to the registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days, as specified. Existing law makes these video image records confidential, and provides that these records are available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law provides that if the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District implements an automated enforcement system as described above, the district is required to submit a report to specified committees of the Legislature by no later than January 1, 2021.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
3rd Reading AB917 Bloom et al. By Min — 31–5 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 14–3 (pass) · upper
AB 917 Bloom Assembly Third Reading — 72–2 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
AB 917 Bloom Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–1 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Bloom — primary (person)
Min — coauthor (person)
Newman — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2021-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
2021-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2021-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
2021-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2021-04-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2021-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 1813.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2021-06-16 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. referral-committee
2021-06-18 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
2021-07-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 3. Page 1722.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2021-07-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2021-08-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2021-08-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 2348.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2021-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 2879.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 709, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc454208-f41a-44d5-bd49-08c759ad5ebb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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