---
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).