Video imaging of parking violations.

Labor Technology

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Mark González
Last action: 2026-04-23
Official status: Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details about what happens after January 1, 2034.

Using Video Cameras to Catch Parking Violations

AB-1837 extends until January 1, 2034, the use of video cameras by public transit operators in California to enforce parking and stopping violations in special lanes and at stops.

What This Bill Does

Extends the permission for public transit operators in California to use video cameras to enforce parking and stopping rules in specified transit-only traffic lanes and at transit stops until January 1, 2034.
Requires public transit operators to give warnings for 60 days before starting to issue fines when they start using video cameras for new types of violations.
Needs public transit operators that have or haven't used video cameras before January 1, 2027, to report their progress to the Legislature until January 1, 2031.
Limits who can use video records from these cameras to local agencies and stops them from being used for general law enforcement by federal authorities.

Who It Names or Affects

Public transit operators in California
Drivers parking or stopping in special lanes or at transit stops

Terms To Know

Transit-only traffic lanes: Special roads where only public transportation vehicles and certain other approved vehicles can drive.
Automated enforcement system: A system that uses technology like cameras to automatically detect and report parking or stopping violations without human intervention.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens after January 1, 2034.
It is unclear how the use of video records will be regulated beyond the specified limits.

Bill History

2026-04-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2026-04-22 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (April 21).
2026-03-31 California Legislative Information
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2026-03-24 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
2026-03-16 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
2026-03-12 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-02 California Legislative Information
Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and P. & C.P.
2026-02-12 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
2026-02-11 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1837, as amended, Mark González.
Video imaging of parking violations.
Existing law authorizes a public transit operator in the state, until January 1, 2027, and authorizes the City and County of San Francisco indefinitely, to enforce parking violations in specified transit-only traffic lanes and at transit stops through the use of video imaging, and to install automated forward facing parking control devices on city-owned public transit vehicles for the purpose of video imaging parking violations occurring in transit-only traffic lanes, as specified. Existing law requires a public transit operator, prior to issuing notices of parking violations, to issue warning notices for the first 60 days and to make a public announcement of the program. Existing law requires a designated employee, or a contracted law enforcement agency, to review video image recordings for the purpose of determining whether a parking violation occurred in a transit-only traffic lane
or at a transit stop and to issue a notice of violation to the registered owner of a vehicle within 15 calendar days, as specified. Existing law makes these video image records confidential and provides that these records are available only to public agencies to enforce parking violations. Existing law requires a public transit operator that implements an automated enforcement system to enforce parking violations in transit-only traffic lanes and at transit stops to submit a report to specified committees of the Legislature by no later than January 1, 2025.
This bill would extend the authorization for the use of video imaging to enforce parking and stopping
violations indefinitely.
violations until January 1, 2034.
The bill would require that a public transit operator issue warnings for 60 days prior to issuing notices of violations when it uses video imaging for enforcement of a violation that it has not previously used video imaging to enforce. The bill would require that a public transit operator that used video imaging to enforce parking violations who
has or
has not had a system in operation at any time prior to January 1, 2027, to report to the
Legislature until January 1, 2031, as specified.
Legislature, as specified. The bill would allow only local agencies to use video image records to enforce parking violations and would prohibit the use or access of these records for
general law enforcement purposes or by federal authorities, as specified.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

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