Assembly BillPassed first houseStreets and Highways
AB 334: Operators of toll facilities: interoperability programs: vehicle information.
What AB 334 does, verified December 7, 2025
Operators of toll facilities on federal-aid highways engaged in an interstate interoperability program can provide only the required information regarding a vehicle's use of the toll facility, which includes license plate data, transponder data, or transaction data. This information is listed as "required" by national interoperability specifications. If other types of information are needed to implement interstate interoperability, the operator cannot sell or provide that information to any other person or entity. Violators may be subject to fines of $2,500 or more. Transportation agencies participating in interstate interoperability must post national interoperability specifications data types on their internet website.
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| Sep. 13, 2025 | Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Grayson. |
| Jul. 17, 2025 | Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. |
| Jul. 16, 2025 | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15). |
| Jul. 07, 2025 | In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. |
| Jun. 27, 2025 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. |
Latest bill textAmended version, July 17, 2025 · 992 words
| Amended IN Senate July 17, 2025 |
| Amended IN Senate June 27, 2025 |
| Amended IN Assembly May 12, 2025 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 334
| Introduced by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris |
January 28, 2025 |
An act to amend amend, repeal, and add Section 27565 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 334, as amended, Petrie-Norris. Operators of toll facilities: interoperability programs: vehicle information.
Existing law requires the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District and all known entities planning to implement a toll facility, to develop and adopt functional specifications and standards for an automatic vehicle identification system in compliance with specified objectives, and generally requires any automatic vehicle identification system purchased or installed after January 1, 1991, to comply with those specifications and standards. Existing law authorizes operators of toll facilities on federal-aid highways engaged in an interoperability program to provide, regarding a vehicle’s use of the toll facility, only the license plate number, transponder identification number, date and time of the transaction, and identity of the agency operating the toll facility.
This bill would instead authorize operators of toll facilities an operator of a toll facility on federal-aid highways engaged in an interstate interoperability program to provide to an out-of-state toll agency or interstate interoperability tolling hub only the information regarding a vehicle’s use of the toll facility that is license plate data, transponder data, or transaction data, acknowledgment data, correction data, or reconciliation data, and that is required to implement interstate interoperability, as established and that is listed as “required” by specified national interoperability specifications. Notwithstanding that provision, the bill would prohibit those operators from providing biometric information, as defined, as part of implementing interstate interoperability. If the operator needs to collect other types of information to implement interstate interoperability, the bill would prohibit the operator from selling or otherwise providing that information to any other person or entity, as specified. If the operator transmits those other types of information to an out-of-state toll agency or any interstate interoperability tolling hub, the bill would subject the operator to an action by the affected person for no less than $2,500 per violation, as specified. The bill would require a transportation agency that participates in interstate interoperability to post those national interoperability specifications data types on their internet website. The bill would repeal these provisions relating to an interstate interoperability program.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 27565 of the Streets and Highways Code is amended to read:27565.
(a) The department, in cooperation with the district and all known entities planning to implement a toll facility in this state, shall develop and adopt functional specifications and standards for an automatic vehicle identification system, in compliance with all of the following objectives:(1) In order to be detected, a driver shall not be required to reduce speed below the applicable speed for the type of facility being used.
(2) A vehicle owner shall not be required to purchase or install more than one device to use on all toll facilities, but may be required to have a separate account or financial arrangement for the use of these facilities.
(3) A facility operator shall have the ability to select from different manufacturers and vendors. The specifications and standards shall encourage multiple bidders, and shall not have the effect of limiting a facility operator to choosing a system that is able to be supplied by only one manufacturer or vendor.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), an automatic vehicle identification system purchased or installed after January 1, 1991, shall comply with the specifications and standards adopted pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) Subdivision (b) does not apply to an interim automatic vehicle identification system for which a contract is entered into between an entity planning to implement a toll facility and the supplier of the interim system before January 1, 1994, if both of the following requirements are met:
(1) The department has made a written determination that the installation and operation of the interim system will expedite the completion of the toll facility and its opening to public use.
(2) The entity planning to implement the toll facility has entered into an agreement with the department to install, within five years after any portion of the toll facility is opened for public use, an automatic vehicle identification system meeting the specifications and standards adopted pursuant to subdivision (a).
(d) The automated vehicle identification system developed by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be capable of identifying various types of vehicles, including, but not limited to, commercial vehicles.
(e) (1) On and after the date specified in the federal Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law 112-141) for implementation of interoperability of electronic toll collection on federal-aid highways, operators of toll facilities on federal-aid highways may fully implement technologies or business practices that provide for the interoperability of electronic toll collection programs consistent with federal law. Operators of toll facilities on
(2) (A) Subject to subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D), an operator of a toll facility on
federal-aid highways engaged in an interstate interoperability program may provide to an out-of-state toll agency or interstate interoperability tolling hub only the following information regarding a vehicle’s use of the toll(A)
(i)
License plate data.(B)
(ii)
Transponder data.(C)
(iii)
Transaction(D)
(I)
Acknowledgment data.(E)
(II)
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