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Bill	Commercial motor vehicles: commercial driver's license program: federal compliance.	(1) Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature to adopt those standards required of drivers by the Federal Highway Administration of the United States Department of Transportation, as set forth in the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 and to reduce or prevent commercial motor vehicle accidents, fatalities, and injuries by permitting drivers to hold only one license, disqualifying drivers for certain criminal offenses and serious traffic violations, and strengthening licensing and testing standards.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2188	California AB 2188 (20112012)	bill	Commercial motor vehicles: commercial driver's license program: federal compliance.	enacted	Bonnie Lowenthal	7	30	7	2012-02-23	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/59471a9e-c806-4af8-aa28-af43224306a6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2188	405d572745d69b669c8fbbe109f44c47e6433261f1a437c9474c11214a7af051	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2188 (20112012) — Commercial motor vehicles: commercial driver's license program: federal compliance.

(1) Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature to adopt those standards required of drivers by the Federal Highway Administration of the United States Department of Transportation, as set forth in the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 and to reduce or prevent commercial motor vehicle accidents, fatalities, and injuries by permitting drivers to hold only one license, disqualifying drivers for certain criminal offenses and serious traffic violations, and strengthening licensing and testing standards.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2188 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2188 LOWENTHAL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2188 LOWENTHAL Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2188 Bonnie Lowenthal By DeSaulnier — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB2188 Bonnie Lowenthal — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonnie Lowenthal — 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.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 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
• 2012-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4785.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-06-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2012-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-07-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4318.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-09 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2012-08-09 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2012-08-20 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2012-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4749.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6372.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:25 a.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 670, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/59471a9e-c806-4af8-aa28-af43224306a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).