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Bill	Electric bicycles: study.	Existing law defines an electric bicycle to mean a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and subjects a person riding an electric bicycle to provisions of law governing the operation of a bicycle.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 381	California SB 381 (20232024)	bill	Electric bicycles study	enacted	Min	6	23	7	2023-02-09	2023-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/ddb990e1-1419-4d59-9687-e4fd2d71d887	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB381	b2b46f4ec7f39ef7e94e56e4a30e908811af7eef563ee375d699d74fe3a23506	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 381 (20232024) — Electric bicycles: study.

Existing law defines an electric bicycle to mean a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts, and subjects a person riding an electric bicycle to provisions of law governing the operation of a bicycle.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/19/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB381 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/15/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 381 Min Senate Third Reading By Davies — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB381 Min et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Min — primary (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-10 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-07 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2023-03-14 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
• 2023-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 579.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2023-04-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 746.) (April 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 921.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-04 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-06-19 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
• 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3260.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2738.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 869, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ddb990e1-1419-4d59-9687-e4fd2d71d887. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).