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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Transportation: omnibus bill."
+description: "(1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation (department) to pay claims or damages up to a maximum of $5,000 without the approval of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "AB 2679"
+citation: "California AB 2679 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Transportation: omnibus bill."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Transportation"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2012-03-06"
+last_action: "2012-09-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07cab2e1-ff10-4785-a655-421f275c8fe3"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679"
+source_hash: "a6ca34613118ab1cde868643dbf6d61ee834f1e56628fec5ae008e25c2f63891"
+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 2679 (20112012) — Transportation: omnibus bill.
+
+(1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation (department) to pay claims or damages up to a maximum of $5,000 without the approval of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **03/06/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267999INT)
+2. **03/27/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267998AMD)
+3. **05/31/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267997AMD)
+4. **06/25/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267996AMD)
+5. **07/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267995AMD)
+6. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267994AMD)
+7. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267993AMD)
+8. **08/23/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267992AMD)
+9. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267990CHP)
+10. **AB2679** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679)
+11. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679&version=20110AB267991ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 2679 TRANS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB2679 Committee on TRANS. (Lowenthal) By DeSaulnier — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2679 TRANS. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By LOWENTHAL — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation to Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Committee on Transportation — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2012-03-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2012-03-07** From printer. May be heard in committee April 6.
+- **2012-03-19** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-03-27** 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`
+- **2012-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4888.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2012-05-31** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-05-31** 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`
+- **2012-06-25** 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`
+- **2012-07-05** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-07-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-08-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2012-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-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 and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4786.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4957.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2012-08-30** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
+- **2012-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6665.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
+- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 769, Statutes of 2012.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07cab2e1-ff10-4785-a655-421f275c8fe3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+