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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 377: High-Speed Rail Authority: business plan: Merced to Bakersfield segment.

Enacted 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 377 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: High-Speed Rail Authority: business plan: Merced to Bakersfield segment. Primary sponsor: David Tangipa (R). Most recent recorded action (July 30, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

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

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
David TangipaPrimary sponsorRepublicanAssembly8

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2532.).
  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1933.).
  7. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  8. From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
  9. 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.
  10. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
  11. Referred to Com. on TRANS.
  12. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Sources

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