CA AB 377
enactedHigh-Speed Rail Authority: business plan: Merced to Bakersfield segment.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 377 pass?
Yes. CA AB 377 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-30. Latest recorded action (2025-07-30): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 377 about?
The California High-Speed Rail Act creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties. The act requires the authority to prepare, publish, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a business plan containing specified elements on a biennial basis and to also provide on a biennial basis a project update report, approved by the Secretary of Transportation as consistent with specified criteria, to the budget committees and the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, on the development and implementation of intercity high-speed train service, as provided. The act requires the authority to develop schedules for the delivery of specified tasks relating to the Merced to Bakersfield segment of the high-speed rail project for inclusion in the project update report and the business plan and also requires the authority to include certain other information in the project update report and the business plan relating to the Merced to Bakersfield segment, as provided. This bill would require the authority, as part of the business plan that is due on or before May 1, 2026, to provide a detailed funding plan for the Merced to Bakersfield segment that includes certain information, including an updated estimate of the funding gap for completing the segment and a strategy for addressing the funding gap.
Who sponsors CA AB 377?
Tangipa is the primary sponsor of CA AB 377.
Description
The California High-Speed Rail Act creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties. The act requires the authority to prepare, publish, adopt, and submit to the Legislature a business plan containing specified elements on a biennial basis and to also provide on a biennial basis a project update report, approved by the Secretary of Transportation as consistent with specified criteria, to the budget committees and the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, on the development and implementation of intercity high-speed train service, as provided. The act requires the authority to develop schedules for the delivery of specified tasks relating to the Merced to Bakersfield segment of the high-speed rail project for inclusion in the project update report and the business plan and also requires the authority to include certain other information in the project update report and the business plan relating to the Merced to Bakersfield segment, as provided. This bill would require the authority, as part of the business plan that is due on or before May 1, 2026, to provide a detailed funding plan for the Merced to Bakersfield segment that includes certain information, including an updated estimate of the funding gap for completing the segment and a strategy for addressing the funding gap.
- Introduced
- 2025-06-02
- Latest action
- 2025-07-30 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Tangipaauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-03
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-04
From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
2025-02-18
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
referral-committee
2025-03-25
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).
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2025-05-01
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-05-08
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.)
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2025-05-08
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-21
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
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2025-06-02
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
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2025-06-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-06-30
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-07-01
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-07-03
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1933.).
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2025-07-03
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-07-14
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2532.).
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2025-07-18
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
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2025-07-30
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-07-30
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-03-24 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Lowenthal: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Davies: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Papan: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hart: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ward: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Lackey: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-04-30 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Solache: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pellerin: other
AB 377 Tangipa Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-05-08 · pass · 69-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Gabriel: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Chen: yes
- Haney: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ward: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Davies: yes
- Hart: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Papan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Fong: yes
- Patel: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Lee: yes
- Solache: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Soria: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ta: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Carrillo: other
- Arambula: other
- Irwin: other
- Gallagher: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Wallis: other
- Flora: other
- Boerner: other
- Sanchez: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-10 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Arreguín: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Limón: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Archuleta: other
- Gonzalez: other
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-07-03 · pass · 35-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Blakespear: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Niello: yes
- Allen: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Choi: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Laird: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Strickland: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Jones: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Limón: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Stern: yes
- Grove: other
- Ochoa Bogh: other
- Reyes: other
- Dahle: other
- Seyarto: other
AB 377 Tangipa Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-07-14 · pass · 72-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Wallis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Bains: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ward: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Flora: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Ta: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Fong: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Lee: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Chen: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Papan: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Soria: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hart: yes
- Patel: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Haney: other
- Bonta: other
- Solache: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Ortega: other
- Blanca Rubio: other
- Mark González: other
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