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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 563: State parks: Off-highway Motor Vehicle Recreation: grants: eligible applicants.

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

SB 563 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: State parks: Off-highway Motor Vehicle Recreation: grants: eligible applicants. Primary sponsor: Suzette Martinez Valladares (R). Most recent recorded action (August 29, 2025): August 29 hearing: Held in committee and 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.

Existing law, the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 2003, creates the Division of Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation and requires the division to develop and implement a grant and cooperative agreement program for specified purposes, including to support the planning, acquisition, development, maintenance, administration, operation, enforcement, restoration, and conservation of trails, trailheads, areas, and other facilities associated with use of off-highway motor vehicles. Under existing law, eligible grant and cooperative agreement applicants include, among others, cities, counties, districts, state agencies, agencies of the United States, and federally recognized and state-recognized Native American tribes, as specified.

This bill would expand eligible grant and cooperative agreement applicants to include special districts that employ sworn personnel, as provided.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Suzette Martinez ValladaresPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate23

“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. August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
  2. July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  3. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  4. Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.
  5. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1327.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  7. Ordered to special consent calendar.
  8. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  9. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1204.) (May 23).
  10. Set for hearing May 23.
  11. May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  12. Set for hearing May 5.

Sources

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