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Bill	Charter-party carriers: busdrivers.	(1) 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. The act makes it unlawful, among other things, for the owner of a charter-party carrier of passengers to permit the operation of any vehicle upon any public highway for compensation without having obtained from the commission a certificate or permit, as specified, pursuant to the act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 636	California AB 636 (20092010)	bill	Charter-party carriers: busdrivers.	enacted	Jones	10	30	10	2009-02-25	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/8b85ced3-0fc6-4c6c-9342-071d1d95c427	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB636	3d519886e2a89ca6255f86545ab8733736e0500f3d85c880fab41e27ab5c06f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 636 (20092010) — Charter-party carriers: busdrivers.

(1) 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. The act makes it unlawful, among other things, for the owner of a charter-party carrier of passengers to permit the operation of any vehicle upon any public highway for compensation without having obtained from the commission a certificate or permit, as specified, pursuant to the act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/26/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/16/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB636 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/16/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Transportation. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 636 JONES Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB636 Jones By Wolk — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Transportation and Housing. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 636 Jones Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)
• Lieu — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2009-03-23 Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and TRANS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2009-04-21 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Re-referred. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-28 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-07 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-11 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1469.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and T. & H. referral-committee
• 2009-06-23 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. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-26 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. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-15 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-16 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-17 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-04 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-09 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 6. Page 2321.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3288.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-17 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 248, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b85ced3-0fc6-4c6c-9342-071d1d95c427. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).