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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 800: State bridges and overpasses: suicide prevention.

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

SB 800 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: State bridges and overpasses: suicide prevention. Primary sponsor: Eloise Gómez Reyes (D). It lists 6 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (October 6, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 427, Statutes of 2025.

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 requires the Department of Transportation to install screening on state freeway overpasses to prevent objects from being dropped or thrown upon vehicles passing underneath, as provided..

This bill would require, beginning on or before July 1, 2028, the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and in collaboration with impacted local governments, to incorporate suicide deterrent considerations in the updates of applicable guidance documents, as provided.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 5 · Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Eloise Gómez ReyesPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate29
Rosilicie Ochoa BoghCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate19
Sabrina CervantesCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate31
Laurie DaviesCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly74
Robert GarciaCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly50
John HarabedianCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly41
Sasha Renée PérezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate25

“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 427, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2834.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3011.) Ordered to the Senate.
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  9. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).
  10. August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. Coauthors revised.

Sources

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