California Assembly Bill 2024
Session 20252026
Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements.
Introduced
Introduced in Assembly on Feb 17, 2026
Origin Chamber
Assembly
Type
Bill
Bill Number
2024
State
California
Session
20252026
checkPassed on April 22, 2026
Motion Text
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
Assembly Roll Call Votes
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Summary
The Outdoor Advertising Act regulates placement of advertising displays adjacent to and within specified distances of highways that are part of the national system of interstate and defense highways and federal-aid highways. The act prohibits a person, as defined, from placing an advertising display within the areas affected by the act without a permit. The act prohibits the Department of Transportation from denying or delaying the acceptance of a permit application for a new advertising display along a portion of a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application.
This bill would also prohibit the department from denying or delaying the review, processing, or determination of a permit application described above.
The act prohibits, except as provided, placing or maintaining an advertising display on property adjacent to a portion of a freeway that has a specified coverage area of landscaping or trees at the same or elevated grade of the main-traveled way, as provided. The act authorizes removal of an advertising display that violates that prohibition, as provided.
This bill would instead authorize the relocation or removal, with payment of compensation, of an advertising display that violates that prohibition, as specified.
The act does not prohibit a local governmental entity from entering into an agreement to relocate an advertising display for any purpose. The act requires the department to issue a permit without any additional consideration for a display that is being placed pursuant to a relocation agreement with another governmental entity, as provided.
This bill would instead not prohibit any governmental entity from entering into a relocation agreement and would require the department to issue a permit, without any additional consideration and without requiring a local entity or state agency to pay compensation, for a display that is being placed pursuant to a relocation agreement with another governmental entity, as specified.
02/17/26 - Introduced
February 17, 2026
03/19/26 - Amended Assembly
March 19, 2026
04/06/26 - Amended Assembly
April 6, 2026
04/21/26- Assembly Governmental Organization
April 21, 2026
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04/23/2026
Assembly
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
04/23/2026
Assembly
Coauthors revised.
04/07/2026
Assembly
Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
04/06/2026
Assembly
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended.
03/23/2026
Assembly
Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
03/19/2026
Assembly
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended.
03/19/2026
Assembly
Referred to Com. on G.O.
02/18/2026
Assembly
From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
02/17/2026
Assembly
Read first time. To print.
Sources
Record Created
Feb 18, 2026 8:46:20 AM
Record Updated
Apr 24, 2026 9:10:07 AM