republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-198.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to advance funds to a public entity eligible for those funds for a guideway project when specified conditions exist, including, among others, that the California Transportation Commission has allocated the funds pursuant to specified provisions of law. If, upon completion of the project, the advance, together with specified interest on the advance, exceeds that portion of the actual reimburseable costs for which the public entity has not been reimbursed, existing law requires the public entity to repay the excess to the state for deposit in an account from which the advance was made. Existing law requires the department to submit a report to the Legislature if the department encounters any substantial problems in carrying out the funding advance program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 198"
citation: "California SB 198 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Transportation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2022-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56f5ff79-2b22-47d5-abb2-1cef94cda983"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB198"
source_hash: "4a82379d99baba40dbb1568f4b1abd1fe7b73d4dfe539aa7fce3c8f808954464"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 198 (20212022) — Transportation.

(1) Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to advance funds to a public entity eligible for those funds for a guideway project when specified conditions exist, including, among others, that the California Transportation Commission has allocated the funds pursuant to specified provisions of law. If, upon completion of the project, the advance, together with specified interest on the advance, exceeds that portion of the actual reimburseable costs for which the public entity has not been reimbursed, existing law requires the public entity to repay the excess to the state for deposit in an account from which the advance was made. Existing law requires the department to submit a report to the Legislature if the department encounters any substantial problems in carrying out the funding advance program.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/08/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB198&version=20210SB19899INT)
2. **06/25/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB198&version=20210SB19898AMD)
3. **06/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB198&version=20210SB19896CHP)
4. **SB198** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB198)
5. **06/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB198&version=20210SB19897ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB198 B. & F.R. (Skinner) Concurrence — **29–6** (pass) · upper
- SB 198 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — **59–19** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB198 — **29–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
- **2021-01-11** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 26. Noes 5. Page 201.)
- **2021-02-16** Ordered to second reading.
- **2021-02-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 301.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-25** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** (Corrected May 14).
- **2022-06-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-27** Assembly Rules suspended.
- **2022-06-27** (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 5550.)
- **2022-06-27** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2022-06-27** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 19. Page 5603.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-29** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-06-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 6. Page 4540.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:10 a.m.
- **2022-06-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 71, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56f5ff79-2b22-47d5-abb2-1cef94cda983`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).