---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: bus gross weight."
description: "Existing law generally prohibits a publicly owned or operated transit system from procuring a transit bus whose weight on any single axle exceeds 20,500 pounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, exempts from this prohibition a transit system that is procuring a new bus that is of the same or lesser weight than the bus it is replacing, or if it is incorporating a new fleet class into its inventory and its governing board makes certain findings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1720"
citation: "California AB 1720 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: bus gross weight."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2014-02-13"
last_action: "2014-08-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25071490-5b26-4a9c-bc7b-12604cec072c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1720"
source_hash: "85829a84743c80a089ec322f7aae10a0370dbc616de52cec8a944a8897153b2c"
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 1720 (20132014) — Vehicles: bus gross weight.

Existing law generally prohibits a publicly owned or operated transit system from procuring a transit bus whose weight on any single axle exceeds 20,500 pounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, exempts from this prohibition a transit system that is procuring a new bus that is of the same or lesser weight than the bus it is replacing, or if it is incorporating a new fleet class into its inventory and its governing board makes certain findings.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1720&version=20130AB172099INT)
2. **06/10/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1720&version=20130AB172098AMD)
3. **08/22/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1720&version=20130AB172096CHP)
4. **AB1720** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1720)
5. **08/08/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1720&version=20130AB172097ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1720 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #18 — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1720 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bloom — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4843.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-10** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-25** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2014-07-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4258.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-07-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5900.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2014-08-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-08-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 263, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25071490-5b26-4a9c-bc7b-12604cec072c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).