AB 830 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

State highways: encroachment permits: relocating or removing encroachments: public utility districts: County of Mendocino.

Summary

Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests it with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law authorizes the department to issue written permits to, among other things, place, change, or renew an encroachment. Existing law requires a permit issued to a county, city, public corporation, or political subdivision that is authorized by law to establish or maintain any works or facilities in, under, or over any public highway, to contain a provision that, in the event the future improvement of the highway necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment, the permittee will relocate or remove the encroachment at the permittee's sole expense, as provided. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, exempt a public utility district in the County of Mendocino with a ratepayer base of 5,000 households or fewer from the above-described provision and instead would require the department to bear the sole expense of relocating or removing the public utility district's encroachment in the event a future improvement of the highway necessitates the relocation or removal of the encroachment and to notify the public utility district at each stage of a project that necessitates the relocation or removal of the public utility district's encroachment. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Mendocino.

Bill status vetoed 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Aug 2025

Assembly Passage

Jun 2025

Senate Passage

Sep 2025

Vetoed

Oct 2025

Introduced Feb 19, 2025 Vetoed Oct 3, 2025

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What changed between versions

05/23/25 - Amended Assembly → 08/29/25 - Amended Senate · 3 edits · Aug 29, 2025

MINOR

The Senate amendment adds a five-year sunset provision to AB 830, limiting the special exemption for small Mendocino County public utility districts to January 1, 2031. After that date, a replacement version of Section 673 takes effect that removes the Mendocino-specific exemption entirely, reverting to the general rule that permittees bear the cost of relocating or removing their own encroachments. This means Caltrans will only be required to pay for PUD relocations in Mendocino County through 2030.

TIMELINE

Added a sunset date of January 1, 2031 for the amended Section 673, which includes the exemption requiring Caltrans to bear the sole expense of relocating or removing encroachments belonging to public utility districts in Mendocino County with 5,000 or fewer ratepayer households.

SCOPE

Added a new Section 673 that becomes operative on January 1, 2031. This replacement section contains only the general encroachment permit provisions (subdivisions a through c) and does NOT include the Mendocino County public utility district exemption, meaning small PUDs in Mendocino will be subject to the standard rule requiring them to pay for their own relocations after 2030.

TECHNICAL

The bill title was changed from 'amend' to 'amend, repeal, and add' Section 673 to reflect the sunset-and-replace structure. The legislative findings section was renumbered from Section 2 to Section 3.

Floor votes · Senate Sep 4, 2025 · Assembly Jun 4, 2025

How they voted

39–0

Passed · 1 other

Total votes 40

Sep 4, 2025

D Democratic30

29 Yea 1

96% Yea

R Republican10

10 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Jan 22, 2026

Vetoed

Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.

lower

Oct 3, 2025

Vetoed

Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

lower

Oct 3, 2025

Vetoed

Vetoed by Governor.

lower

Sep 8, 2025

Lower · Passed

Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3031.).

lower

Sep 4, 2025

Introduced

In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

lower

Sep 4, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2506.).

upper

Aug 29, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

upper

Aug 29, 2025

Introduced

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

upper

Aug 18, 2025

Committee

In committee: Referred to suspense file.

upper

Jul 9, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

upper

Jun 18, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on TRANS.

upper

Jun 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2068.)

lower

May 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

lower

May 23, 2025

Introduced

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).

lower

May 14, 2025

Committee

In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

lower

Apr 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

lower

Apr 10, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

lower

Apr 9, 2025

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 10, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on TRANS.

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors