Bicycle Safety Stop / Stop-as-Yield campaign for California

“Two more studies show stop-as-yield works. Why isn’t there a bill in California?” a Feb 3, 2025 update by Jared Sanchez, policy director of California Bicycle Coalition.
https://www.calbike.org/two-more-studies-show-stop-as-yield-works-why-isnt-there-a-bill-in-california/

California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike) 2023 Legislative Watch page.
Sept 21, 2023 update: CalBike End-of-Session Legislative Recap 2023.

Bicycle Safety Stop FAQs and June 5, 2023 report, “Legislative Update: Mostly Positive Results for Active Transportation Bills at Midpoint.”* * *

The information below has not been updated and is simply retained as a partial history.

Related video from the California Bicycle Coalition / CalBike.

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Update for 2023 from the California Bicycle Coalition policy director: Bike, Yield, Go: Trying to Pass the Safety Stop (Again). Learn more about the Bicycle Safety Stop, and get updates from CalBike: https://www.calbike.org/bicycle-safety-stop-law/

California Assembly Bill 1713—introduced 26 January 2022 by Assembly Member Boerner Horvath https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1713—is a reprise of the 2021 campaign to pass a Bicycle Safety Stop bill for California, to allow people on bicycles to treat stop signs as yield signs.

In response to Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2021 veto message, the new law proposed in 2022 will only apply to people ages eighteen or older.

The info below was published on 9 October 2021, with one or more changes made on 16 October 2021.

Bicycle Safety Stop – California’s Assembly Bill 122, vetoed by Governor Newsom

“In Delaware, a recent study found that collisions involving bicycles at intersections decreased by 23% after the state made the safety stop legal. The governor’s veto prevents California from joining a long list of states that have implemented the safety stop: Idaho, Delaware, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Arkansas, Utah, Oklahoma, and North Dakota. None of those states have reported any safety problems after implementing this rule.”—California Bicycle Coalition in October 11, 2021 post: https://www.calbike.org/governor-newsom-vetoes-bill-to-improve-bike-safety/

October 8, 2021 legislative update – https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/10/08/governor-newsom-issues-legislative-update-10-8-21/ vetoes included AB 122, the Bicycle Safety Stop bill. The governor’s veto message: https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AB-122-1082021.pdf.

On September 8, 2021, the Bicycle Safety Stop bill, having been approved by the CA Assembly and CA Senate, was submitted for the governor’s signature. Read the text of the bill, which was anticipated to become law in January 2022—until vetoed by the governor on October 8.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB122

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This post was first published March 16, 2022, with some updates through Sept 30, 2023.

It was republished February 11, 2025 to highlight CalBike’s related Feb 3, 2025 post.