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 AB-2449 Schoolbuses: stop signal arm enforcement system.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 02/20/2026 09:00 PM

AB2449:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2449

Introduced by Assembly Member Michelle Rodriguez

February 20, 2026

 An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 22454 of, to add and repeal Sections 22454.3 and 22454.6 of, and to repeal, add, repeal, and add Section 22454.5 of, the Vehicle Code, relating to schoolbuses. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2449, as introduced, Michelle Rodriguez.
 Schoolbuses: stop signal arm enforcement system.

Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle, upon meeting or overtaking a schoolbus equipped with required signs that is stopped for the purpose of loading or unloading schoolchildren and displaying a flashing red light signal and stop signal arm, if equipped with a stop signal arm, to bring the vehicle to a stop immediately before passing the schoolbus and to not proceed past the schoolbus until the flashing red light signal and stop signal arm cease operation. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law imposes escalating fines for violations of these provisions, including a fine of not less than $150, but not more than $250, for a first violation.

This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2032, school districts to establish a stop signal arm enforcement system pilot program if the system meets specified requirements, in order
 to enforce the provisions above. The bill would require the school district to publish certain data regarding the system, and post routes or operational hours and camera locations on their internet website before deployment of the system. The bill would authorize the school district to contract with a private vendor or manufacturer to install a stop signal arm enforcement system on each schoolbus in its fleet. The bill would require a school district, vendor, or manufacturer to submit specified information regarding an alleged violation to a law enforcement agency authorized to enforce those violations within 30 days of the alleged violation. The bill would create a process for law enforcement to determine whether the person committed certain violations as well as a process for the alleged offender to challenge the violation. The bill would designate all photographic or administrative records, made by a system as confidential, and would only authorize public agencies to use and allow access to these records
 for specified purposes. The bill would require a school district operating a stop signal arm enforcement system, by July 1, 2028, and annually thereafter, to provide a summary report to the Governor, Legislature, and Department of Motor Vehicles that describes the use and operation of the system, as specified.

This bill would, until January 1, 2032, repeal the authority to impose criminal fines for a violation of the schoolbus provisions and would instead recast the fines as a civil penalty schedule if a person violates those provisions.

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.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Children are most vulnerable while loading or unloading at the curb. Despite Section 22454 of the Vehicle Code, illegal passing persists statewide.

(b) Data from the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services shows tens of thousands of illegal passings in a single day across participating states.

(c) At least 27 states authorize camera enforcement of schoolbus stop-arm violations. California should adopt a privacy protective and civil framework for their system.

(d) California has a proven civil automated enforcement model and precedent for historical camera enforcement, as well as automated