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Bill	Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District.	Existing law creates the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District with various powers and duties relative to the operation of a rail transit system in Sonoma and Marin Counties. Existing law provides that the district shall comply with the design review process of the local jurisdictions in which any of its rail transit facilities are to be constructed, with the local jurisdiction's design review and approval to be for advisory purposes only.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1962	California AB 1962 (20112012)	bill	Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District.	enacted	Allen	5	18	5	2012-02-23	2012-07-13	openstates	ocd-bill/7b1653db-eaca-421f-9e19-166662171eb4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1962	e401a3dd18b988afdc7a915226412d55dfda284eb18db2a0e65d3d64972ded02	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1962 (20112012) — Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District.

Existing law creates the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District with various powers and duties relative to the operation of a rail transit system in Sonoma and Marin Counties. Existing law provides that the district shall comply with the design review process of the local jurisdictions in which any of its rail transit facilities are to be constructed, with the local jurisdiction's design review and approval to be for advisory purposes only.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/13/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1962 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1962 ALLEN Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4872.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-06-20 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-21 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4180.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-06-28 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2012-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 98, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b1653db-eaca-421f-9e19-166662171eb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).