20250SB__036493CHP INTRODUCED 2025-02-13 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-03-26 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-06-30 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-07-15 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-09-02 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-09-11 PASSED_SENATE 2025-09-12 ENROLLED 2025-09-17 CHAPTERED 2025-10-03 APPROVED 2025-10-03 FILED 2025-10-03 SB CHP CHP Introduced by Senator Strickland (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ta) (Coauthors: Senators Archuleta and Richardson) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Gipson and Wicks) LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Strickland PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ta COAUTHOR SENATE Archuleta COAUTHOR SENATE Richardson COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Gipson COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Wicks

An act to add

Section to the Business and Professions Code, relating to outdoor advertising. outdoor advertising 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. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 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.