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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Vehicles: transit bus weight."
+description: "(1) Under existing law, the gross weight imposed upon the highway by the wheels on any one axle of a vehicle is prohibited from exceeding 18,000 pounds, except the gross weight on any one axle of a bus is prohibited from exceeding 20,500 pounds. A violation of these requirements is a crime."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "AB 1706"
+citation: "California AB 1706 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Vehicles: transit bus weight."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eng"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2012-02-15"
+last_action: "2012-09-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92f7bcb3-89b1-4536-b9ca-495bf63a9922"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706"
+source_hash: "fbef52bd73b74fadf57f9bcc2a7673d25a344a8028142503fa5c24f3f78259af"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 1706 (20112012) — Vehicles: transit bus weight.
+
+(1) Under existing law, the gross weight imposed upon the highway by the wheels on any one axle of a vehicle is prohibited from exceeding 18,000 pounds, except the gross weight on any one axle of a bus is prohibited from exceeding 20,500 pounds. A violation of these requirements is a crime.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/15/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170699INT)
+2. **04/17/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170698AMD)
+3. **04/30/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170697AMD)
+4. **05/25/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170696AMD)
+5. **06/26/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170695AMD)
+6. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170694AMD)
+7. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170693AMD)
+8. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170691CHP)
+9. **AB1706** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706)
+10. **09/06/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1706&version=20110AB170692ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB1706 Eng By DeSaulnier — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 1706 ENG Assembly Third Reading — **64–8** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1706 ENG Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–11** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eng — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2012-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2012-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2012-02-23** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-04-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2012-04-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-04-26** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-04-30** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-05-01** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-05-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 8. Page 5187.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2012-06-14** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-06-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2012-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-08-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-08-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2012-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4747.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2012-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
+- **2012-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 11. Page 6410.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
+- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 771, Statutes of 2012.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92f7bcb3-89b1-4536-b9ca-495bf63a9922`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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