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Measure AB 377
Authors Tangipa  
Subject High-Speed Rail Authority: business plan: Merced to Bakersfield segment.
Relating To relating to high-speed rail.
Title An act to add Section 185033.8 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to high-speed rail.
Last Action Dt 2025-07-30
State Chaptered
Status Chaptered
Active? Y
Vote Required Majority
Appropriation No
Fiscal Committee Yes
Local Program No
Substantive Changes None
Urgency No
Tax Levy No
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Actions
2025-07-30     Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2025.
2025-07-30     Approved by the Governor.
2025-07-18     Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
2025-07-14     Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2532.).
2025-07-03     Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1933.).
2025-07-03     In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-07-01     Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-06-30     From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
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.
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.
2025-05-21     Referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-05-08     Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.)
2025-05-08     In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-05-01     Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-04-30     From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).
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.
2025-02-18     Referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-02-04     From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
2025-02-03     Read first time. To print.
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Chaptered     2025-07-30
Enrolled     2025-07-16
Amended Senate     2025-06-02
Introduced     2025-02-03
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								As part of the business plan that is due on or before May 1, 2026, pursuant to Section 185033, the authority shall provide a detailed funding plan for the Merced to Bakersfield segment that includes all of the following information:
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								Options for initiating service on the segment described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 185033.7 and the estimated schedule and costs associated with the service.
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Last Version Text Digest 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.