---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charter-party carriers of passengers: reports."
description: "The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act, with certain exceptions, prohibits a charter-party carrier of passengers from engaging in transportation services subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission without obtaining a specified certificate or permit, as appropriate, from the commission. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that every charter-party carrier of passengers includes on a waybill or trip report certain information, including the name of at least one passenger in the traveling party."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 838"
citation: "California AB 838 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter-party carriers of passengers: reports."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 34
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2012-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7f6be16-f3f6-437b-8c8c-837a0c5c5fca"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838"
source_hash: "bbac117d4879f0e57b22cf3902381dba7b6d0b1cc55c31546a2ddd47d9b7680b"
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 838 (20112012) — Charter-party carriers of passengers: reports.

The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act, with certain exceptions, prohibits a charter-party carrier of passengers from engaging in transportation services subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission without obtaining a specified certificate or permit, as appropriate, from the commission. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that every charter-party carrier of passengers includes on a waybill or trip report certain information, including the name of at least one passenger in the traveling party.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83899INT)
2. **01/04/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83896AMD)
3. **04/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83898AMD)
4. **06/15/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83895AMD)
5. **08/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83894AMD)
6. **08/16/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83893AMD)
7. **09/07/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83897AMD)
8. **09/17/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83891CHP)
9. **AB838** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838)
10. **08/29/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838&version=20110AB83892ENR)

## Votes

- AB 838 HILL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB838 Hill By Fuller — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Be referred to Committee on Utilities and Commerce. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 838 HILL Assembly Third Reading — **54–19** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2011-03-10** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2011-09-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-08** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-04** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on U. & C. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 4). Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2012-01-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-01-05** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-01-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (January 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-01-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-01-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 3595.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-01-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-16** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-06-13** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-08** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-16** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4643.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6236.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 341, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7f6be16-f3f6-437b-8c8c-837a0c5c5fca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).