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Bill	Vehicles: zero-emission schoolbuses: signage.	Existing law requires every schoolbus, while being used for the transportation of school pupils at or below the 12th-grade level, to bear upon the front and rear of the bus a plainly visible sign containing the word "schoolbus" in letters not less than 8 inches in height. Existing law authorizes state funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be distributed to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for distribution to certain local educational agencies for the purchase of low- or zero-emission schoolbuses that replace, or increase the number of, schoolbuses in the existing schoolbus fleet or for retrofitting existing schoolbuses to achieve reductions in emissions, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 775	California SB 775 (20232024)	bill	Vehicles signage zero-emission schoolbuses	enacted	Padilla	5	24	7	2023-02-17	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/ac88aa27-41f6-499f-b536-a9135b099a62	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB775	1d7d335a36a14f2fa3c155564e1d2fb3394d7ca7c00140d023dc89d9731d36f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 775 (20232024) — Vehicles: zero-emission schoolbuses: signage.

Existing law requires every schoolbus, while being used for the transportation of school pupils at or below the 12th-grade level, to bear upon the front and rear of the bus a plainly visible sign containing the word "schoolbus" in letters not less than 8 inches in height. Existing law authorizes state funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be distributed to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for distribution to certain local educational agencies for the purchase of low- or zero-emission schoolbuses that replace, or increase the number of, schoolbuses in the existing schoolbus fleet or for retrofitting existing schoolbuses to achieve reductions in emissions, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/28/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB775 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/13/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB775 Padilla Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 775 Padilla Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 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
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-07 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2023-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 580.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 635.) (April 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1204.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-26 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 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 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2802.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-08-24 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-08-28 Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Padilla.
• 2023-09-06 From inactive file on motion of Senator Padilla.
• 2023-09-06 Ordered to unfinished business.
• 2023-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2593.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 413, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac88aa27-41f6-499f-b536-a9135b099a62. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).