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Bill	Vehicles: commercial vehicle ban: State Route 2.	(1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to declare and fix a weight limit for a highway under its jurisdiction that is less than the maximum weight limits otherwise authorized under the Vehicle Code, upon determining that the highway will not sustain those maximum weights and, after conducting a public hearing on the issue, determining the maximum weight that the highway will sustain. The department is prohibited from establishing a maximum weight limit that is less than 16,000 pounds. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1361	California AB 1361 (20092010)	bill	Vehicles: commercial vehicle ban: State Route 2.	enacted	Portantino	11	31	7	2009-02-27	2009-08-06	openstates	ocd-bill/25d0f38a-4d92-4b50-9da3-65b3c0f4baf6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1361	51eba878195ae27562a1e603a52d97a9b810817301b06a133ca5279649742570	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1361 (20092010) — Vehicles: commercial vehicle ban: State Route 2.

(1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to declare and fix a weight limit for a highway under its jurisdiction that is less than the maximum weight limits otherwise authorized under the Vehicle Code, upon determining that the highway will not sustain those maximum weights and, after conducting a public hearing on the issue, determining the maximum weight that the highway will sustain. The department is prohibited from establishing a maximum weight limit that is less than 16,000 pounds. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/04/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/13/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/30/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/09/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/06/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1361 (committee substitute) — source
11. 07/17/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1361 PORTANTINO Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #13 AB1361 Portantino Urgency Clause — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1361 PORTANTINO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Liu — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-30 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-05-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-20 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-21 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
• 2009-05-21 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1603.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-04 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2009-06-22 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-23 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-30 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-07-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2009-07-16 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 1760.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-16 In Assembly. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2546.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-07-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2009-08-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-08-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 147, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25d0f38a-4d92-4b50-9da3-65b3c0f4baf6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).