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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes."
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description: "Existing state law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) ."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "AB 2678"
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citation: "California AB 2678 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Vehicles", "high-occupancy vehicle lanes"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Wallis"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2024-02-14"
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last_action: "2024-09-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9269f1b4-b771-48d0-a781-3f951234641e"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2678"
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source_hash: "ad627b6b3cd8e04c48f3fbd98a276554858446f9bea6b78ae2efdd4dd315a1c4"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2678 (20232024) — Vehicles: high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
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Existing state law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) .
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/14/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2678&version=20230AB267899INT)
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2. **03/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2678&version=20230AB267898AMD)
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3. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2678&version=20230AB267896CHP)
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4. **AB2678** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2678)
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5. **09/04/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2678&version=20230AB267897ENR)
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## Votes
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- 3rd Reading AB2678 Wallis By Umberg — **35–3** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–1** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 2678 Wallis Assembly Third Reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Wallis — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2024-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
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- **2024-03-04** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-18** 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`
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- **2024-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5497.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2024-06-05** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-08-05** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 3.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-08-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 414, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9269f1b4-b771-48d0-a781-3f951234641e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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