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AB 266: Freeway Service Patrol Act: sponsorship agreement.
What AB 266 does, verified December 7, 2025
The bill aims to amend the existing freeway service patrol act, which allows for emergency roadside assistance on urban freeways. A sponsorship agreement can be entered into between a regional or local entity and a private third party to display their name and logo on participating tow trucks. The entity must consider including operational requirements for such agreements in the updated guidelines for program operations. Participating regional or local entities can generate additional revenue by entering into sponsorship agreements, subject to specific requirements.
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Last action: In committee: Held under submission. (2025-08-29)Alert me
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| Aug. 29, 2025 | In committee: Held under submission. |
| Jun. 30, 2025 | In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. |
| Jun. 19, 2025 | In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. |
| Jun. 10, 2025 | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Jun. 02, 2025 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. |
Latest bill textAmended version, June 2, 2025 · 588 words
| Amended IN Senate June 02, 2025 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 266
| Introduced by Assembly Member Davies |
January 17, 2025 |
An act to amend Section 2562.5 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 266, as amended, Davies. Freeway Service Patrol Act: sponsorship agreement.
The Freeway Service Patrol Act authorizes and provides funding for freeway service patrols, operated pursuant to an agreement between the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the Department of Transportation, and a regional or local governmental entity, to provide emergency roadside assistance on traffic-congested urban freeways throughout the state. The act requires each tow truck participating in a freeway service patrol to bear a specified logo that identifies the Department of the California Highway Patrol and the Department of Transportation, and, at the option of the entity, the participating regional or local entity.
This bill would require the Department of Transportation, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and participating and eligible regional and local entities to, each time the guidelines for program operations are updated after January 1, 2026, consider developing or revising and including in the guidelines operational requirements for sponsorship agreements between a participating regional or local entity and any private third party that allow for the display of the sponsor’s name and logo on participating tow trucks, as provided. The bill would authorize a participating regional or local entity to generate additional revenue for its freeway service patrol by entering into exclusive a sponsorship agreements agreement, subject to those operational requirements, that allow allows for the display of a sponsor’s name and logo on participating tow trucks, as specified, that are in addition to the above-described required logo.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2562.5 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:2562.5.
(a) Each tow truck participating in a freeway service patrol shall bear a logo comprised of, at a minimum, a circle, a triangle, and a tow truck silhouette, with the words “Freeway Service Patrol,” which identifies the Department of the California Highway Patrol and the department, and, at the option of the entity, the participating regional or local entity. Participating regional or local entities may place an approved logo on participating tow trucks.(b) (1) (A) The department, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and participating and eligible regional and local entities shall, each time the guidelines for program operations developed pursuant to Section 2565 are updated after January 1, 2026, consider developing or revising and including in the guidelines operational requirements for sponsorship agreements between a participating regional or local entity and any private third party that allow for the display of the sponsor’s name and logo on participating tow trucks.
(B) The operational requirements developed pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall include a requirement that the name and logo of the sponsor shall not overlap with or reduce the visibility of the identifying logo required pursuant to subdivision (a).
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