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Bill	Public Utilities Commission: railroads: colored pavements marking project.	The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission. Existing law provides the commission with the exclusive power to determine and prescribe the manner and terms of installation, operation, maintenance, use, and protection of specified railroad grade crossings. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize and supervise the operation of pilot projects to evaluate proposed crossing warning devices, new technology, or other additional safety measures at designated crossings, with the consent of the local jurisdiction, the affected railroad, and other interested parties.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 506	California SB 506 (20232024)	bill	Public Utilities Commission colored pavements marking project railroads	enacted	Laird	6	28	8	2023-02-14	2023-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/2d9cdc5b-6808-4cad-b25a-ae10e1ea05f0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB506	119110da704d05ec8d850ed641b4a3f6c81539dae7c58e3858a484fa21b3587b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 506 (20232024) — Public Utilities Commission: railroads: colored pavements marking project.

The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission. Existing law provides the commission with the exclusive power to determine and prescribe the manner and terms of installation, operation, maintenance, use, and protection of specified railroad grade crossings. Existing law authorizes the commission to authorize and supervise the operation of pilot projects to evaluate proposed crossing warning devices, new technology, or other additional safety measures at designated crossings, with the consent of the local jurisdiction, the affected railroad, and other interested parties.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB506 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 506 Laird Senate Third Reading By Boerner — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Transportation] — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Laird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 637.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 903.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1173.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1300.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). 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
• 2023-09-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2961.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2023-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 288, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d9cdc5b-6808-4cad-b25a-ae10e1ea05f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).