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California 20252026

SB 1425

High-Speed Rail Authority: property: operating right-of-way.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
High-SpeedRailAuthority, operatingright-of-way, property
Introduced / first action
2026-02-20 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • High-Speed Rail Authority: right-of-way: encroachment permits.
  • High-Speed Rail Authority: property: right-of-way.

Source-supplied abstracts

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, including the power to acquire rights-of-way through purchase or eminent domain, as specified. This bill would establish a permit program, administered by the authority, for encroachments on the authority's operating right-of-way. The bill would make any person who installs or performs an encroachment within the authority's operating right-of-way, without a permit, guilty of a misdemeanor, except as provided. The bill would also make any person who willfully damages any feature of the high-speed train system or any portion of the authority's operating right-of-way guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill would provide for civil penalties for specified categories of encroachment and, unless authorized by law or an encroachment permit, would make it unlawful to manage water flows in certain ways that impact the high-speed train system or the authority's operating right-of-way, as specified. The bill would authorize the authority or the Attorney General to recover these civil penalties. The bill would require all moneys, including moneys from permit fees and civil penalties, collected pursuant to its provisions to be deposited into the High-Speed Rail Property Fund, except for the award of any reasonable attorney's fees and costs provided to the recovering agency to recoup the cost of litigation, as provided. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, make the penalty moneys available to the authority for use in the development, improvement, and maintenance of the high-speed rail system, and the fee revenues collected under the permit program available to the authority to administer the program. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.

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  2. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  3. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  4. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 16. Page 6500.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  5. Ordered to third reading.

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  6. Read third time and amended.

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  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  9. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 13).

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  10. Assembly Rule 63 suspended.

  11. August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

  12. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  13. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (July 1).

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  14. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

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  15. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (June 23).

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  16. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  17. Assembly Rule 56 suspended.

  18. Assembly Rule 56 suspended.

  19. Referred to Coms. on TRANS., JUD., and U. & E.

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  20. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  21. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 4360.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  22. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  23. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  24. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 4276.) (May 14).

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  25. Set for hearing May 14.

  26. May 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  27. Set for hearing May 11.

  28. May 4 hearing postponed by committee.

  29. Set for hearing May 4.

  30. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 3981.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  31. Set for hearing April 21.

  32. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 2. Page 3874.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  33. Set for hearing April 14.

  34. Re-referred to Coms. on TRANS. and JUD.

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  35. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

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  36. Referred to Com. on RLS.

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  37. Read first time.

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  38. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

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

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