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type: "Bill"
title: "Passenger and freight rail: LOSSAN Rail Corridor."
description: "Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation in the Transportation Agency. Existing law authorizes the department subject to approval of the Secretary of Transportation, to enter into an interagency transfer agreement under which a joint powers board assumes responsibility for administering state-funded intercity rail service in certain rail corridors, including the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. Existing law defines the LOSSAN Rail Corridor as the intercity passenger rail corridor between San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Luis Obispo. Pursuant to this authority, the department entered into an interagency transfer agreement with the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency to administer intercity passenger rail service in the LOSSAN Rail Corridor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1098"
citation: "California SB 1098 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOSSAN Rail Corridor", "Passenger and freight rail"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blakespear"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-13"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c632f33-53db-461a-a98f-f74b79680f7a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1098"
source_hash: "a0fb13ec4b6deee46f218abf2cd332b18b83377104224606ea075d68076d6c10"
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 1098 (20232024) — Passenger and freight rail: LOSSAN Rail Corridor.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation in the Transportation Agency. Existing law authorizes the department subject to approval of the Secretary of Transportation, to enter into an interagency transfer agreement under which a joint powers board assumes responsibility for administering state-funded intercity rail service in certain rail corridors, including the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. Existing law defines the LOSSAN Rail Corridor as the intercity passenger rail corridor between San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Luis Obispo. Pursuant to this authority, the department entered into an interagency transfer agreement with the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency to administer intercity passenger rail service in the LOSSAN Rail Corridor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/13/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1098&version=20230SB109899INT)
2. **03/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1098&version=20230SB109898AMD)
3. **05/16/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1098&version=20230SB109897AMD)
4. **08/19/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1098&version=20230SB109896AMD)
5. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1098&version=20230SB109894CHP)
6. **SB1098** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1098)
7. **08/30/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1098&version=20230SB109895ENR)
## Votes
- Special Consent SB1098 Blakespear et al. — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **140** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SB1098 Blakespear et al. — **380** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- SB 1098 Blakespear Senate Third Reading By Hart — **731** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **110** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blakespear — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Newman — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-14** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
- **2024-02-21** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Set for hearing April 9.
- **2024-03-20** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 3535.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-12** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2024-04-22** April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2024-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3971.) (May 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4209.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-24** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-03** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-07** August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 6576.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-08-27** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5613.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 777, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c632f33-53db-461a-a98f-f74b79680f7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).