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CA SB 800

enacted

State bridges and overpasses: suicide prevention.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 800 pass?

Yes. CA SB 800 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 427, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 800 about?

Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to install screening on state freeway overpasses to prevent objects from being dropped or thrown upon vehicles passing underneath, as provided.. This bill would require, beginning on or before July 1, 2028, the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and in collaboration with impacted local governments, to incorporate suicide deterrent considerations in the updates of applicable guidance documents, as provided.

Who sponsors CA SB 800?

Reyes is the primary sponsor of CA SB 800, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to install screening on state freeway overpasses to prevent objects from being dropped or thrown upon vehicles passing underneath, as provided.. This bill would require, beginning on or before July 1, 2028, the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and in collaboration with impacted local governments, to incorporate suicide deterrent considerations in the updates of applicable guidance documents, as provided.

Introduced
2025-02-21
Latest action
2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 427, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Reyesauthor
  • Cervantescoauthor
  • Ochoa Boghcoauthor
  • Pérezcoauthor
  • Daviescoauthor
  • Garciacoauthor
  • Harabediancoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-21

    Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-24

    Read first time.

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  3. 2025-02-24

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.

  4. 2025-03-12

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  5. 2025-04-10

    Set for hearing April 28.

  6. 2025-04-29

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 920.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  7. 2025-05-02

    Set for hearing May 12.

  8. 2025-05-06

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  9. 2025-05-12

    May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  10. 2025-05-16

    Set for hearing May 23.

  11. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1214.) (May 23).

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  12. 2025-05-23

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  13. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  14. 2025-06-02

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  15. 2025-06-04

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1523.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  16. 2025-06-05

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  17. 2025-06-16

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  18. 2025-07-09

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

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  19. 2025-07-15

    Coauthors revised.

  20. 2025-07-15

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  21. 2025-08-20

    August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  22. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  23. 2025-09-02

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  24. 2025-09-03

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  25. 2025-09-08

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3011.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  26. 2025-09-08

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  27. 2025-09-10

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2834.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  28. 2025-09-22

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

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  29. 2025-10-06

    Approved by the Governor.

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  30. 2025-10-06

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 427, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
  • 05/06/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-06Compare
  • 05/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-23Compare
  • 07/09/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-09Compare
  • 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-02Compare
  • 09/13/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-13Compare
  • 10/06/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-06Compare
  • SB800Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-28 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Umberg: 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 as amended

    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 SB800 Reyes et al.

    2025-06-04 · pass · 39-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Durazo: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-14 · pass · 16-0

    Member-level votes (16)
    • Papan: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Harabedian: yes

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-08-29 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Sanchez: other
    • Ta: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Dixon: other

  • SB 800 Reyes Senate Third Reading By Garcia

    2025-09-08 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Nguyen: other

  • Unfinished Business SB800 Reyes et al. Concurrence

    2025-09-10 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Umberg: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes

Related bills

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Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB800

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