SB 843 California Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Vehicles: school pupil transportation: advisory committee.

Summary

Existing law requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to adopt reasonable rules and regulations that, in the judgment of the department, are designed to promote the safe operation of specified vehicles, including, among other vehicles, schoolbuses and commercial motor vehicles. Existing law requires the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol to appoint an advisory committee to assist with developing and adopting regulations affecting school pupil transportation. Existing law specifies appointment of the 11 members of the committee, including, among others, one member employed as a schoolbus driver. This bill would expand the committee to 13 members by including the appointment of 2 members of low-income communities, as specified.

Issues: ✓ Transportation

Bill status failed 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 21, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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02/21/25 - Introduced → SB843 · 3 edits

MINOR

SB 843 expands the California Highway Patrol's school pupil transportation advisory committee from 11 to 13 members by adding two new seats reserved for representatives of low-income communities (one urban, one rural). The bill also makes a minor grammatical correction changing 'which' to 'that' in the opening sentence. Most of the diff reflects formatting differences between the original legislative document and a web page rendering of the same text.

SCOPE

The advisory committee size is increased from 11 members to 13 members.

ELIGIBILITY

A new category (item 10) adds two members from low-income communities to the advisory committee, with one required to be from an urban area and one from a rural area, as determined by the department.

TECHNICAL

Minor grammatical correction in the first sentence changing 'which' to 'that' when describing the rules and regulations the CHP must adopt.

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Committee

Mar 12, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on TRANS.

upper

Feb 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors