republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-266.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes."
description: "Existing federal law authorizes, until September 30, 2017, a state to allow specified labeled vehicles to use lanes designated for high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) ."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 266"
citation: "California AB 266 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blumenfield"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-07"
last_action: "2013-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d271ffd4-7c4a-4d4f-aa25-d5badf2370b8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB266"
source_hash: "7f877857765f4cd3ff4484f80ca6ee35d9ff5df0d8d7f0eab4d05b603a8cbae0"
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 266 (20132014) — Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

Existing federal law authorizes, until September 30, 2017, a state to allow specified labeled vehicles to use lanes designated for high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) .

## Version chain

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

1. **02/07/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB266&version=20130AB26699INT)
2. **04/09/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB266&version=20130AB26698AMD)
3. **07/10/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB266&version=20130AB26697AMD)
4. **08/19/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB266&version=20130AB26696AMD)
5. **09/28/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB266&version=20130AB26694CHP)
6. **AB266** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB266)
7. **09/12/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB266&version=20130AB26695ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
- AB 266 Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BLOOM — **56–20** (pass) · lower
- AB 266 BLUMENFIELD Assembly Third Reading — **49–22** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB266 Blumenfield By Yee — **29–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **12–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blumenfield — primary (person)
- Bloom — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2013-02-21** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-09** 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-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 22. Page 1515.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2013-07-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-07-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-15** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2099.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 20. Page 2903.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2013-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 405, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d271ffd4-7c4a-4d4f-aa25-d5badf2370b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).