---
type: "Bill"
title: "Metropolitan Transportation Commission."
description: "The Metropolitan Transportation Commission Act creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a regional agency in the 9-county San Francisco Bay Area with comprehensive regional transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Existing law requires the commission to consist of 19 members, including 2 members each from the Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara, and one member appointed by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and establishes a 4-year term of office for members of the commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 57"
citation: "California AB 57 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Metropolitan Transportation Commission."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2010-12-06"
last_action: "2012-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2133223c-4cbf-4fbf-9358-3915242b9691"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57"
source_hash: "75c625276a972aaef4506c641d764df91af4041074884d8117fb35ac1c87cd54"
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 57 (20112012) — Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission Act creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a regional agency in the 9-county San Francisco Bay Area with comprehensive regional transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Existing law requires the commission to consist of 19 members, including 2 members each from the Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara, and one member appointed by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and establishes a 4-year term of office for members of the commission.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **12/06/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57&version=20110AB5799INT)
2. **02/02/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57&version=20110AB5798AMD)
3. **03/05/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57&version=20110AB5795AMD)
4. **04/27/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57&version=20110AB5797AMD)
5. **05/19/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57&version=20110AB5796AMD)
6. **06/20/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57&version=20110AB5794AMD)
7. **07/13/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57&version=20110AB5792CHP)
8. **AB57** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57)
9. **07/05/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB57&version=20110AB5793ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB57 Beall By Alquist — **34–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 57 BEALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 57 BEALL Assembly Third Reading — **71–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)
- Alejo — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
- Buchanan — coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gordon — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Swanson — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Yamada — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2010-12-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-12-07** From printer. May be heard in committee January 6.
- **2011-01-27** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-02** 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`
- **2011-02-03** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1433.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 5. Page 1551.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-03-05** 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`
- **2012-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-20** 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`
- **2012-06-25** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2012-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-07-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 4281.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-07-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-07-05** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 5619.)
- **2012-07-05** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 5619.)
- **2012-07-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 2. Page 5620.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-07-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
- **2012-07-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-07-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2133223c-4cbf-4fbf-9358-3915242b9691`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).