---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charge Ahead California Initiative: agricultural worker vanpool programs."
description: "The Charge Ahead California Initiative, administered by the State Air Resources Board, includes goals of, among other things, placing in service at least 1,000,000 zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles by January 1, 2023, and increasing access for disadvantaged, low-income, and moderate-income communities and consumers to zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2006"
citation: "California AB 2006 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charge Ahead California Initiative: agricultural worker vanpool programs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58bf0d15-64ba-4a7c-9bf7-071c8017bdb0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006"
source_hash: "16bd12c50e9a8df7ba966f19b558b0ddf37d8b0a5302bf4dfe16cf6fe001efe8"
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 2006 (20172018) — Charge Ahead California Initiative: agricultural worker vanpool programs.

The Charge Ahead California Initiative, administered by the State Air Resources Board, includes goals of, among other things, placing in service at least 1,000,000 zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles by January 1, 2023, and increasing access for disadvantaged, low-income, and moderate-income communities and consumers to zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/01/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006&version=20170AB200699INT)
2. **03/14/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006&version=20170AB200698AMD)
3. **04/18/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006&version=20170AB200697AMD)
4. **05/25/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006&version=20170AB200696AMD)
5. **06/21/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006&version=20170AB200695AMD)
6. **08/06/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006&version=20170AB200694AMD)
7. **09/13/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006&version=20170AB200692CHP)
8. **AB2006** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006)
9. **08/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2006&version=20170AB200693ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2006 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2006 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2006 EGGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eggman — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — principal coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
- **2018-02-12** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** 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`
- **2018-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Coauthors revised.
- **2018-03-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-18** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5526.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on EQ. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-21** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2018-06-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5280.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6352.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 364, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58bf0d15-64ba-4a7c-9bf7-071c8017bdb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).