CA SB 695

enacted

Transportation: climate resiliency: projects of statewide and regional significance.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law establishes the State Transportation Infrastructure Climate Adaptation Program, administered by the Department of Transportation, for purposes of planning, developing, and implementing projects adapting state transportation infrastructure to climate change. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with, among others, the Transportation Agency and the California Transportation Commission, to develop a program of its top priority climate adaptation projects and to submit projects in this program to the commission for adoption. Existing law requires the department, in developing the program of projects, to consider specified criteria, including, but not limited to, the benefits of the project to preserving or enhancing regional or statewide mobility, economy, goods movement, and safety, and other benefits associated with protecting the asset. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the commission and the agency, and on or before July 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to create a prioritized list of projects of statewide and regional significance, as defined, to better prepare the state for extreme weather-related events, with priority based on specified criteria. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, to submit to the Legislature a report containing the prioritized list of projects.

Introduced: 2025-02-21
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 781, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-02-21
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction,referral-committee
2025-02-24
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-02-24
Read first time.
reading-1
2025-03-05
Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2025-03-26
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-02
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
referral-committee
2025-04-10
Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-29
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 919.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-05-02
Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-12
May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1210.) (May 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-05-27
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-05-29
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1328.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-29
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1
2025-06-05
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
referral-committee
2025-07-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-08-20
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 29).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-09-04
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2908.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-04
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
committee-passage
2025-09-10
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-10-13
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-10-13
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 781, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

Versions

02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
03/26/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-26Compare
09/08/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-08Compare
10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-28 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Blakespear: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Limón: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-12 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Wahab: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Caballero: yes
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
Special Consent SB695 Cortese et al.
2025-05-29 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Grove: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Jones: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Stern: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Pérez: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Laird: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Choi: yes
- Valladares: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Niello: yes
- Allen: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Becker: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Limón: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-07 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Carrillo: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Hart: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Papan: yes
- Caloza: yes
Do pass.
2025-08-29 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Ta: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Solache: yes
SB 695 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Soria
2025-09-04 · pass · 78-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Bains: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Hart: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Ta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Haney: yes
- Solache: yes
- Chen: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Krell: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Soria: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Patel: yes
- Fong: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Lee: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Flora: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Davies: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ward: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Garcia: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ahrens: other

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