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type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: public transit buses: illuminated signs."
description: "Existing law authorizes a bus operated by a publicly owned transit system on regularly scheduled service to be equipped with illuminated signs that display information directly related to public service and include, among other things, destination signs, route-number signs, run-number signs, public service announcement signs, or a combination of those signs, visible from any direction of the vehicle, that emit any light color, other than the color red emitted from forward-facing signs, pursuant to specified conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 607"
citation: "California AB 607 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: public transit buses: illuminated signs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brownley"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2011-02-16"
last_action: "2011-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72336a1a-a53c-4b46-aca2-fb9cbcd25a98"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB607"
source_hash: "cab45abb9b7e9fdc2e700bf1839ade2f9dc16aefbcb81e9053638133294b4c7a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 607 (20112012) — Vehicles: public transit buses: illuminated signs.
Existing law authorizes a bus operated by a publicly owned transit system on regularly scheduled service to be equipped with illuminated signs that display information directly related to public service and include, among other things, destination signs, route-number signs, run-number signs, public service announcement signs, or a combination of those signs, visible from any direction of the vehicle, that emit any light color, other than the color red emitted from forward-facing signs, pursuant to specified conditions.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB607&version=20110AB60799INT)
2. **04/13/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB607&version=20110AB60798AMD)
3. **06/20/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB607&version=20110AB60797AMD)
4. **10/07/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB607&version=20110AB60795CHP)
5. **AB607** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB607)
6. **09/06/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB607&version=20110AB60796ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **61** (pass) · upper
- AB 607 BROWNLEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **743** (pass) · lower
- AB 607 BROWNLEY Assembly Third Reading — **721** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB607 Brownley By DeSaulnier — **333** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **140** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brownley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2011-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-04-12** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 1231.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-16** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 7). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 1849.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 3. Page 2746.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 529, Statutes of 2011.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72336a1a-a53c-4b46-aca2-fb9cbcd25a98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).