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Bill	Equestrian safety.	Existing law generally establishes rules of the road for the operation of vehicles on state highways and roads, and authorizes the Department of Transportation and local governments to consider equestrian safety and designate equestrian crossings on highways, as specified. Existing law requires a person under 18 years of age to wear a properly fitted and fastened bicycle helmet, as specified, while operating, or riding as a passenger upon, a bicycle, a nonmotorized scooter, or a skateboard, or while wearing in-line or roller skates, upon a street, bikeway, or any other public bicycle path or trail. A violation of the Vehicle Code is punishable as an infraction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 974	California AB 974 (20212022)	bill	Equestrian safety.	enacted	Luz Rivas	6	24	7	2021-02-18	2021-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/c3f796af-850e-4576-8b8a-ea50a1e74d6d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB974	22ff427b4352b3fd6d11856de5c6f67ccaea280a72a266e720dd85c99f0720b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 974 (20212022) — Equestrian safety.

Existing law generally establishes rules of the road for the operation of vehicles on state highways and roads, and authorizes the Department of Transportation and local governments to consider equestrian safety and designate equestrian crossings on highways, as specified. Existing law requires a person under 18 years of age to wear a properly fitted and fastened bicycle helmet, as specified, while operating, or riding as a passenger upon, a bicycle, a nonmotorized scooter, or a skateboard, or while wearing in-line or roller skates, upon a street, bikeway, or any other public bicycle path or trail. A violation of the Vehicle Code is punishable as an infraction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/24/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/16/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB974 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 974 Luz Rivas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 974 Luz Rivas Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB974 Luz Rivas et al. By Portantino — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Luz Rivas — primary (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)
• Portantino — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 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
• 2021-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1409.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-27 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 1717.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 2231.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2649.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2021-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 175, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c3f796af-850e-4576-8b8a-ea50a1e74d6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).