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AB-2015 Department of Transportation: third-party navigation applications: study and report.(2025-2026)
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Date Published: 04/14/2026 09:00 PM
AB2015:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start
Amended<br>IN<br>Assembly<br>April 14, 2026
Amended<br>IN<br>Assembly<br>March 19, 2026
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—<br>2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2015<br>Introduced by Assembly Member Wicks
February 17, 2026<br>An act to amend Section 21101 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. An act to add and repeal Section 155.8 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.<br>LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2015, as amended, Wicks.<br>Navigation programs: slow streets. Department of Transportation: third-party navigation applications: study and report.<br>Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests it with full possession and control of the state highway system.<br>This bill would require the department, in consultation with the Transportation Agency and local authorities, to conduct a comprehensive study on the impact of third-party navigation applications on the state highway system and local street and road networks. The bill would require the study to analyze how third-party navigation applications affect congestion displacement, local infrastructure, safety metrics, and emergency response, as provided. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2028, to submit the study, and a report of related policy recommendations for regulatory or legislative action to improve<br>the alignment between third-party navigation applications and state and local traffic management goals, to the relevant fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032.<br>Existing law authorizes local authorities, for those highways under their jurisdiction, to adopt rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution on various matters, including prohibiting the use of particular highways by certain vehicles and prohibiting entry to, or exit from, or both, from any street by means of islands, curbs, traffic barriers, or other roadway design features to implement the circulation element of an adopted general plan, as specified. Existing law also authorizes a local authority to adopt an ordinance to implement a slow streets program, which may include closures to vehicular traffic or through vehicular traffic of neighborhood local streets with connections to citywide bicycle networks, destinations that are within walking distance, or green space.
This bill would additionally authorize local authorities to adopt<br>rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution to prohibit any person, business, or other entity having ownership or control of a navigation program from providing directions to a driver that would include any of the streets in a slow streets program, and would require the local authority to notify the person, business, or other entity having ownership or control of a navigation program of the streets in a slow streets program.
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Vote:<br>MAJORITY<br>Appropriation:<br>NO<br>Fiscal Committee:<br>NOYES<br>Local Program:<br>NO<br>Bill Text<br>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.<br>Section 155.8 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, immediately following Section 155.7, to read:<br>155.8.<br>(a) The department, in consultation with the Transportation Agency and local authorities, shall conduct a comprehensive study on the impact of third-party navigation applications on the state highway system and local street and road networks. The study shall specifically analyze all of the following:<br>(1) Congestion displacement, analyzed by determining the extent to which third-party navigation applications shift congestion from state highways to local streets and the resulting changes in vehicle miles traveled.<br>(2) Local infrastructure impact, analyzed by determining the physical toll of increased traffic volumes associated with third-party navigation applications on local road<br>pavement conditions, and related effects on maintenance costs.<br>(3) Safety metrics, analyzed by evaluating traffic safety on local roads affected by traffic diversion associated with third-party navigation applications, including changes in...