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type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: exceptions."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and local authorities to designate certain highway lanes for the exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) , requires the department or local authorities to place signage advising motorists of the rules governing the use of those lanes, and prohibits the use of those lanes by motorists other than in conformity with the posted rules. Existing law provides a limited exemption allowing motorcycles, mass transit vehicles, and paratransit vehicles to use HOV lanes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 406"
citation: "California SB 406 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: exceptions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leyva"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-15"
last_action: "2017-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a935f0e-263d-4d59-a035-f9964880d905"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406"
source_hash: "e308042718de7e6e81256cfa2a63d4d2089e3900edb4f13e82e4f033cfa4210f"
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 SB 406 (20172018) — Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: exceptions.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and local authorities to designate certain highway lanes for the exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) , requires the department or local authorities to place signage advising motorists of the rules governing the use of those lanes, and prohibits the use of those lanes by motorists other than in conformity with the posted rules. Existing law provides a limited exemption allowing motorcycles, mass transit vehicles, and paratransit vehicles to use HOV lanes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/15/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406&version=20170SB40699INT)
2. **03/23/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406&version=20170SB40698AMD)
3. **04/27/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406&version=20170SB40697AMD)
4. **05/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406&version=20170SB40696AMD)
5. **08/24/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406&version=20170SB40695AMD)
6. **09/30/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406&version=20170SB40693CHP)
7. **SB406** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406)
8. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB406&version=20170SB40694ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **61** (pass) · upper
- SB 406 Leyva Senate Third Reading By RODRIGUEZ — **751** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **382** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB406 Leyva Concurrence — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Leyva — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2017-02-23** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1. Page 857.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Set for hearing May 15.
- **2017-05-15** May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-05-19** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2017-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 1184.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-26** Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
- **2017-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 2. Page 1352.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-24** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 2837.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2017-09-05** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2465.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 392, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a935f0e-263d-4d59-a035-f9964880d905`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).