CaliforniaBikeways: reversions and modifications.
What it does
Existing law grants the legislative body of a city certain powers with respect to city streets and highways, including the power to construct and maintain those streets and highways. Existing law grants the board of supervisors of a county general supervision, management, and control of county highways and authorizes the board of supervisors to lay out, construct, improve, and maintain county highways.
More detail
Existing law authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or local agency to, among other things, establish bikeways, as defined and classified. Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with county and city governments, to establish minimum safety design criteria for the planning and construction of each type of bikeway and of roadways where bicycle travel is permitted, and requires all city, county, regional, and other local agencies responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or roadways where bicycle travel is permitted to utilize the minimum safety design criteria.
This bill would prohibit a bikeway constructed, in whole or part, using moneys from the State General Fund allocated to any city, county, regional, or other local agency from being reverted to a nonactive transportation use or modified in a manner that reduces the safety, accessibility, or mobility of nonmotorized users, for a minimum of 20 years from the date of the allocation or its actual useful life, as documented in its project design or local building or permit application materials, whichever is less, except as specified. The bill would require the modification of one of those bikeways to be consistent with an active transportation use, as defined, and be subject to specified public meeting and hearing requirements, as provided.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Aug 31Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.Latest
- Aug 10Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 10Read third time and amended.Major
- Jul 1Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jun 30From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (June 29).Minor
- Jun 29
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 24From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.Major
- Jun 22From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.Major
- Jun 11From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.Major
- 2025
- Jul 14July 14 hearing postponed by committee.
- Jun 24July 7 hearing postponed by committee.
- Jun 16Referred to Com. on TRANS.Minor
- Jun 5In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Jun 4Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1510.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading SB569 Blakespear et al. Result: pass.Upper
- May 23Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- May 23From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1204.) (May 23).Minor
- May 16Set for hearing May 23.
- May 5May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 25Set for hearing May 5.
- Apr 23From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 843.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 22
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 21From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.Major
- Apr 8Set for hearing April 22.
- Mar 5Referred to Com. on TRANS.Minor
- Feb 21From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- Feb 20Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced