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California bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

California SB 1425

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

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. To Governor
  6. Became law

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Summary

Official abstract published by the California legislature· summary

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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Roll-call votes

State vote data last updated Oct 14, 2026, 12:15 PM.

DateVoteResultYour legislators
Aug 26, 2026
Senate		Unfinished Business SB1425 Cortese ConcurrencepassSet your home in California to see
Aug 25, 2026
House		SB 1425 Cortese Senate Third Reading By KalrapassSet your home in California to see
Aug 13, 2026
House		Do pass as amended.passSet your home in California to see
Jul 1, 2026
House		Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]passSet your home in California to see
Jun 23, 2026
House		Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy]passSet your home in California to see
Jun 22, 2026
House		Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]passSet your home in California to see
May 19, 2026
Senate		3rd ReadingpassSet your home in California to see
May 14, 2026
Senate		Do pass as amendedpassSet your home in California to see
May 11, 2026
Senate		Placed on suspense filepassSet your home in California to see
Apr 21, 2026
Senate		Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]passSet your home in California to see
Apr 14, 2026
Senate		Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]passSet your home in California to see

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