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CaliforniaAB 11142025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Emergency vehicles: fee and toll exemptions.

Sponsored By: Anamarie Ávila Farías (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Toll-free access for emergency vehicles

The law exempts marked emergency vehicles from tolls on toll roads, bridges, highways, and high-occupancy toll lanes. The vehicle must show an exempt California plate, a red or blue warning light, and agency ID or the word "Ambulance." It must be responding to or returning from an urgent or emergency call, in an urgent response, or covering a station for an active emergency, and the driver must decide the toll route will likely improve response time. Urgent means an immediate public-safety incident that does not require emergency lights; personal, commute, training, and admin trips do not qualify. When returning from a call, the vehicle is not exempt while using a high-occupancy toll lane. Other Vehicle Code limits do not restrict these exempt trips.

Billing and records for emergency tolls

If a toll operator bills an exempt trip, the fire chief, police chief, sheriff, agency head, or ambulance CEO (or a designee) can send a written certification instead of payment, and the operator must accept it. If the operator believes a trip did not qualify, they can make a written request for dispatch records or logs, and the agency must provide or make them accessible. Vehicles that do not meet the law's rules are not exempt and must pay tolls. On request, toll facility owners must make agreements with local emergency service providers. These agreements set use terms and can include toll exemptions, cover only the named provider, and if ended, the statute’s baseline rules still apply.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Anamarie Ávila Farías

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 226 • No: 0

House vote • 7/17/2025

Item 78 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 75 • No: 0

Senate vote • 7/3/2025

Item 142 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 35 • No: 0

legislature vote • 6/24/2025

Vote in CS59

Yes: 14 • No: 0

House vote • 5/23/2025

Item 113 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 71 • No: 0

legislature vote • 5/14/2025

Vote in CX25

Yes: 15 • No: 0

legislature vote • 4/28/2025

Vote in CX22

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 87, Statutes of 2025.

    7/30/2025Senate

  2. Approved by the Governor.

    7/30/2025legislature

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.

    7/25/2025legislature

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2589.).

    7/17/2025House

  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

    7/3/2025House

  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1931.).

    7/3/2025Senate

  7. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

    6/26/2025Senate

  8. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 24).

    6/25/2025Senate

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

    6/12/2025Senate

  10. Referred to Com. on TRANS.

    6/4/2025Senate

  11. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    5/23/2025Senate

  12. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1664.)

    5/23/2025House

  13. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

    5/15/2025House

  14. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

    5/14/2025House

  15. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    4/29/2025House

  16. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

    4/22/2025House

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

    4/21/2025House

  18. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

    4/2/2025House

  19. Referred to Com. on TRANS.

    3/10/2025House

  20. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

    2/21/2025House

  21. Read first time. To print.

    2/20/2025House

Bill Text

  • Chaptered

    7/30/2025

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  • Enrolled

    7/18/2025

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  • Amended Senate

    6/12/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    4/21/2025

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  • Introduced

    2/20/2025

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