High-Speed Rail Authority: business plan: Merced to Bakersfield segment.
The California High-Speed Rail Act creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties. The act requires the authority to prepare, publish, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a business plan containing specified elements on a biennial basis and to also provide on a biennial basis a project update report, approved by the Secretary of Transportation as consistent with specified criteria, to the budget committees and the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, on the development and implementation of intercity high-speed train service, as provided. The act requires the authority to develop schedules for the delivery of specified tasks relating to the Merced to Bakersfield segment of the high-speed rail project for inclusion in the project update report and the business plan and also requires the authority to include certain other information in the project update report and the business plan relating to the Merced to Bakersfield segment, as provided.
California AB 377 (20252026) — High-Speed Rail Authority: business plan: Merced to Bakersfield segment.
The California High-Speed Rail Act creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties. The act requires the authority to prepare, publish, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a business plan containing specified elements on a biennial basis and to also provide on a biennial basis a project update report, approved by the Secretary of Transportation as consistent with specified criteria, to the budget committees and the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, on the development and implementation of intercity high-speed train service, as provided. The act requires the authority to develop schedules for the delivery of specified tasks relating to the Merced to Bakersfield segment of the high-speed rail project for inclusion in the project update report and the business plan and also requires the authority to include certain other information in the project update report and the business plan relating to the Merced to Bakersfield segment, as provided.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
Consent Calendar 2nd — 35–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · lower
AB 377 Tangipa Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
AB 377 Tangipa Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Tangipa — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2025-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2025-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
2025-02-18 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
2025-03-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2025-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2025-05-21 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
2025-06-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-06-30 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
2025-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2025-07-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1933.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-07-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-07-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2532.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-07-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
2025-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2025-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2025. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1b9d1c9-dd4b-4e70-8cca-ccf79717c8e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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