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SB 364: Outdoor advertising displays: permits: new alignments.
What SB 364 does, verified December 8, 2025
The bill would add a new section to the outdoor advertising regulations. It would require the transportation department to process permit applications for new advertising displays along new alignments of interstate or primary highways more efficiently. The department can no longer deny or delay permit applications based on the status of the highway project. Instead, the department would need to review the permit application within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the application. This change aims to streamline the permitting process and reduce delays for new advertising displays.
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Last action: Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 313, Statutes of 2025. (2025-10-03)Alert me
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| Oct. 03, 2025 | Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 313, Statutes of 2025. |
| Oct. 03, 2025 | Approved by the Governor. |
| Sep. 23, 2025 | Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m. |
| Sep. 12, 2025 | Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2968.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. |
| Sep. 12, 2025 | In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. |
Latest bill textChaptered version, October 3, 2025 · 359 words
Senate Bill No. 364
CHAPTER 313
An act to add Section 5367 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to outdoor advertising.
[ Approved by Governor October 03, 2025. Filed with Secretary of State October 03, 2025. ]
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 364, Strickland. Outdoor advertising displays: permits: new alignments.
The Outdoor Advertising Act regulates placement of advertising displays adjacent to and within specified distances of highways that are part of the national system of interstate and defense highways and federal-aid highways. The act prohibits a person, as defined, from placing an advertising display within the areas affected by the act without a permit. The act authorizes the Director of Transportation to adopt regulations for the enforcement of the act. Pursuant to that authority, existing regulations only require the Department of Transportation to process an application for placing a new advertising display along a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway if the application is accepted on or after the date that the department accepts the highway project for the new alignment as complete.
This bill would prohibit the department from denying or delaying the acceptance of a permit application for a new advertising display along a portion of a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 5367 is added to the Business and Professions Code, immediately following Section 5366, to read:5367.
The department shall not deny or delay the acceptance of a permit application for a new advertising display along a portion of a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted by the department as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application.Text of SB 364 as chaptered, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions