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Bill	Electric bicycles: required equipment.	(1) Existing law requires a bicycle operated during darkness on a highway, sidewalk, or bikeway to be equipped with, among other things, a red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. Existing law defines "bicycle" for these purposes to, among other things, include an electric bicycle. Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power and categorizes electric bicycles into 3 classes. A violation of the provisions relating to the requirements for equipping a bicycle or an electric bicycle is punishable as an infraction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 544	California AB 544 (20252026)	bill	Electricbicycles requiredequipment	enacted	Davies	6	23	5	2025-02-11	2025-07-14	openstates	ocd-bill/2e7e7cb7-88c8-474f-81fc-fd94ecea27c1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB544	de33c50d6da5b0e14f49ccd290040cbe544f0c7d5d039ce3405c3405398d5dcb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 544 (20252026) — Electric bicycles: required equipment.

(1) Existing law requires a bicycle operated during darkness on a highway, sidewalk, or bikeway to be equipped with, among other things, a red reflector or a solid or flashing red light with a built-in reflector on the rear that is visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps on a motor vehicle. Existing law defines "bicycle" for these purposes to, among other things, include an electric bicycle. Existing law defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power and categorizes electric bicycles into 3 classes. A violation of the provisions relating to the requirements for equipping a bicycle or an electric bicycle is punishable as an infraction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/05/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/14/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB544 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 544 Davies Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Davies — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 7). 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
• 2025-06-10 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
• 2025-06-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by 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 1932.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-07-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 36, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2e7e7cb7-88c8-474f-81fc-fd94ecea27c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).