---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bay Area Toll Authority and oversight committee: conflict of interest."
description: "Existing law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) as a regional agency in the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Existing law creates the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) as a separate entity governed by the same governing board as the MTC and makes the BATA responsible for the programming, administration, and allocation of toll revenues from the state-owned toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay area."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1041"
citation: "California AB 1041 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bay Area Toll Authority and oversight committee: conflict of interest."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Levine"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2018-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7aba873-b15b-4286-9703-d7a43bf595bb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1041"
source_hash: "1b48a352dc57c2c7810ae7500d698663f2e8b3fe2ee611b6410054169e33146c"
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 1041 (20172018) — Bay Area Toll Authority and oversight committee: conflict of interest.

Existing law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) as a regional agency in the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Existing law creates the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) as a separate entity governed by the same governing board as the MTC and makes the BATA responsible for the programming, administration, and allocation of toll revenues from the state-owned toll bridges in the San Francisco Bay area.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1041&version=20170AB104199INT)
2. **01/03/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1041&version=20170AB104197AMD)
3. **04/18/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1041&version=20170AB104198AMD)
4. **06/01/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1041&version=20170AB104195CHP)
5. **AB1041** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1041)
6. **05/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1041&version=20170AB104196ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar AB1041 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1041 LEVINE Assembly Third Reading — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Levine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2017-03-06** Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W.,P., & W. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-24** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on TRANS. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-01-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3779.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-01-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4221.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-21** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-06-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-06-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 16, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7aba873-b15b-4286-9703-d7a43bf595bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).