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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 266: Freeway Service Patrol Act: sponsorship agreement.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 266 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on January 17, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Freeway Service Patrol Act: sponsorship agreement. Primary sponsor: Laurie Davies (R). Most recent recorded action (August 29, 2025): In committee: Held under submission.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

The Freeway Service Patrol Act authorizes and provides funding for freeway service patrols, operated pursuant to an agreement between the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Department of Transportation, and a regional or local governmental entity, to provide emergency roadside assistance on traffic-congested urban freeways throughout the state. The act requires each tow truck participating in a freeway service patrol to bear a specified logo that identifies the Department of the California Highway Patrol and the Department of Transportation, and, at the option of the entity, the participating regional or local entity.

This bill would require the Department of Transportation, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and participating and eligible regional and local entities to, each time the guidelines for program operations are updated after January 1, 2026, consider developing or revising and including in the guidelines operational requirements for sponsorship agreements between a participating regional or local entity and any private third party that allow for the display of the sponsor’s name and logo on participating tow trucks, as provided. The bill would authorize a participating regional or local entity to generate additional revenue for its freeway service patrol by entering into a sponsorship agreement, subject to those operational requirements, that allows for the display of a sponsor’s name and logo on participating tow trucks, as specified, that are in addition to the above-described required logo.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Laurie DaviesPrimary sponsorRepublicanAssembly74

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. In committee: Held under submission.
  2. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  3. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. Referred to Com. on TRANS.
  7. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  8. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 918.)
  9. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  10. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 24).
  11. Referred to Com. on TRANS.
  12. From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page