---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: truck lengths: combinations transporting agricultural biomass."
description: "Vehicles: truck lengths: combinations transporting agricultural biomass."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2051"
citation: "California AB 2051 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: truck lengths: combinations transporting agricultural biomass."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dickerson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2002-02-15"
last_action: "2002-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa349ad6-502d-4c83-89f4-a49dc4905cb9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2051"
source_hash: "2fb5cbdeeb55ac0adb8e83ba617fa9dc7401632b4ff95884157b678ea44185a0"
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 2051 (20012002) — Vehicles: truck lengths: combinations transporting agricultural biomass.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2051&version=20010AB205199INT)
2. **04/15/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2051&version=20010AB205198AMD)
3. **04/18/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2051&version=20010AB205197AMD)
4. **04/29/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2051&version=20010AB205196AMD)
5. **09/09/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2051&version=20010AB205194CHP)
6. **AB2051** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2051)
7. **08/23/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2051&version=20010AB205195ENR)

## Votes

- Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **fail** (fail) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2051 Dickerson By Costa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2051 Dickerson Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dickerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 442, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2002-08-24** (Corrected August 23. )
- **2002-08-23** (Corrected August 22. )
- **2002-08-15** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2002-08-14** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5444.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2002-07-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-06-19** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-30** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-23** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 0. Page 6318.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-01** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-29** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-04-25** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Transportation Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Transportation Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-01** In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
- **2002-02-25** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2002-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa349ad6-502d-4c83-89f4-a49dc4905cb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).