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Authors Nguyen  
Subject Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements.
Relating To relating to outdoor advertising.
Title An act to amend Sections 5367, 5441, and 5443 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to outdoor advertising.
Last Action Dt 2026-04-06
State Amended Assembly
Status In Desk Process
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Bill Actions
2026-04-06     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-23     Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
2026-03-19     Referred to Com. on G.O.
2026-03-19     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended.
2026-02-18     From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
2026-02-17     Read first time. To print.
Versions
Amended Assembly     2026-04-06
Amended Assembly     2026-03-19
Introduced     2026-02-17
Analyses TBD
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The Outdoor Advertising Act regulates placement of advertising displays adjacent to and within specified distances of highways that are part of the national system of interstate and defense highways and federal-aid highways. The act prohibits a person, as defined, from placing an advertising display within the areas affected by the act without a permit. The act prohibits the Department of Transportation from denying or delaying the acceptance of a permit application for a new advertising display along a portion of a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application.

This bill would also prohibit the department from denying or delaying the review, processing, or determination of a permit application described above.

The act prohibits, except as provided, placing or maintaining an advertising display on property adjacent to a portion of a freeway that has a specified coverage area of landscaping or trees at the same or elevated grade of the main-traveled way, as provided. The act authorizes removal of an advertising display that violates that prohibition, as provided.

This bill would instead authorize the relocation or removal, with payment of compensation, of an advertising display that violates that prohibition, as specified.

The act does not prohibit a local governmental entity from entering into an agreement to relocate an advertising display for any purpose. The act requires the department to issue a permit without any additional consideration for a display that is being placed pursuant to a relocation agreement with another governmental entity, as provided.

This bill would instead not prohibit any governmental entity from entering into a relocation agreement and would require the department to issue a permit, without any additional consideration and without requiring a local entity or state agency to pay compensation, for a display that is being placed pursuant to a relocation agreement with another governmental entity, as specified.