republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-361.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: photographs of bicycle lane parking violations."
description: "Existing law authorizes a public transit operator, as defined, to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video imaging and to install automated forward facing parking control devices on public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes, as specified. Existing law requires a designated employee of a city, county, city and county, or a contracted law enforcement agency for a special transit district, who is qualified by the city and county or the district to issue parking citations, to review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane and to issue a notice of violation to the registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days, as specified. Existing law makes these video image records confidential, and provides that these records are available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law requires an operator who implements an automated enforcement system described above to report to specified committees of the Legislature on the system's effectiveness and impact on traffic outcomes, among other things, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 361"
citation: "California AB 361 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles", "photographs of bicycle lane parking violations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1cc5205-758c-41f1-b35e-c9aa7ccba6f2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB361"
source_hash: "1951971e349efcf8c17f9d993726d7e175c88b49ca2d09a32935eaa09856f7a6"
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 361 (20232024) — Vehicles: photographs of bicycle lane parking violations.

Existing law authorizes a public transit operator, as defined, to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes through the use of video imaging and to install automated forward facing parking control devices on public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes, as specified. Existing law requires a designated employee of a city, county, city and county, or a contracted law enforcement agency for a special transit district, who is qualified by the city and county or the district to issue parking citations, to review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane and to issue a notice of violation to the registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days, as specified. Existing law makes these video image records confidential, and provides that these records are available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law requires an operator who implements an automated enforcement system described above to report to specified committees of the Legislature on the system's effectiveness and impact on traffic outcomes, among other things, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/01/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB361&version=20230AB36199INT)
2. **03/09/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB361&version=20230AB36198AMD)
3. **05/02/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB361&version=20230AB36197AMD)
4. **06/20/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB361&version=20230AB36196AMD)
5. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB361&version=20230AB36194CHP)
6. **AB361** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB361)
7. **09/11/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB361&version=20230AB36195ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB361 Ward By Blakespear — **32–7** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **12–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 361 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **63–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- AB 361 Ward Assembly Third Reading — **62–11** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **10–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ward — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-13** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 25). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 11. Page 1550.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-24** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (June 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 2368.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 13. Page 3018.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 432, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1cc5205-758c-41f1-b35e-c9aa7ccba6f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).