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 03/11/26 - Amended Senate
 01/28/26 - Introduced

 SB-922 Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

SB922:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 17, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 11, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 922

Introduced by Senator Laird
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Bennett)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Pacheco)

January 28, 2026

An act to amend Section 9400.8 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 922, as amended, Laird.
 Vehicles: local agency charges: use of streets or highways.

Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee, or other charge for the privilege of using its streets or highways, other than a permit fee for an extralegal load unless the local agency had imposed the fee prior to June 1, 1989.

This bill would expressly limit this prohibition to charges based on weight. The bill would also explicitly state that a fee, charge, surcharge, or component thereof imposed upon the provider of, or ratepayer for, public services by or for a local agency to recover the cost of street maintenance and repair and other costs associated with the use of its streets, roads, or highways to provide those public services is not a tax, permit fee, or other charge that is prohibited by the provision described above. The
 bill would provide that nothing in the Vehicle Code prohibits a local agency from imposing or collecting this fee, charge, or surcharge. The bill would delete obsolete references and make other technical changes. The bill would make various findings and declarations.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(1) Weight fees are collected on commercial vehicles by the State of California, deposited into the State Highway Account, and used for the purposes specified in Section 9400.4 of the Vehicle Code. Weight fees for vehicles operated under 10,001 pounds gross vehicle weight (GVW) and for pickups are determined by the number of axles and unladen weight. Weight fees for vehicles operated over 10,001 pounds GVW are determined by the declared GVW or combined GVW.

(2) In June 1990, the California
 electorate adopted Proposition 111, which increased weight fees on commercial vehicles by 40
 percent on August 1, 1990, and by an additional 10 percent on January 1, 1995. Section 9400.8 of the Vehicle Code, which is amended by this act, provides that if the voters approved Senate Constitutional Amendment 1, then no local agency may impose a tax, permit fee, or other charge for the privilege of using its streets or highways other than a permit fee for extralegal loads.

(3) Local governments have broad authority to provide and operate public services, including refuse collection, water, power, heat, transportation,
 means of communication, and other services and works, and to impose and collect rates, fees, and other charges that defray the cost of providing those services and works, under existing laws, including, without limitation, Sections 7 and 9 of Article XI of the California Constitution.

(b) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to respect the existing
 authority of local governments to impose rates, fees, and other charges for public services pursuant to the aforementioned laws, which includes recovery of street repair and other costs associated with the use of public roads to provide those services.

(2) It is the further intent of the Legislature to state clearly that a local government’s charge imposed upon the provider of, or ratepayer for, public services by, or for, a local agency to recover the cost of street maintenance and repair or other costs associated with the use of streets, roads, or highways to provide those public services is not a charge for the privilege of using its streets within the meaning of Section 9400.8 of the Vehicle Code and to reject the interpretation given