republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-2247.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public transportation: offenses."
description: "(1) Existing law provides that eating, drinking, or smoking in or on a system facility or vehicle in areas where those activities are prohibited, disturbing another person by loud or unreasonable noise, expectorating upon a system facility or vehicle, or skateboarding, roller skating, bicycle riding, roller blading, or operating a motorized scooter or other device in a system facility, vehicle, or parking structure is an infraction for the first or 2nd violation, punishable by a fine not to exceed $250 and by community service for a total time not to exceed 48 hours over a period not to exceed 30 days, during a time other than during the violator's hours of school attendance or employment. Specified public transportation agencies, including, but not limited to, the City and County of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority are authorized to enact and enforce ordinances providing that a person who is the subject of a citation for any of the acts described, such as fare evasion, on or in a facility or vehicle of the system for which the public transportation system has jurisdiction shall, under the circumstances set forth by the ordinance, be afforded an opportunity to complete an administrative process that imposes only an administrative penalty enforced in a civil proceeding."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2247"
citation: "California AB 2247 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public transportation: offenses."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonnie Lowenthal"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1923ccc8-8aaf-4591-89f4-7d57c4b5ffca"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247"
source_hash: "f27ec8d3a8de42595090d868e65291d2aba2638ad5d0f9fc6772d6ddb8895042"
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 2247 (20112012) — Public transportation: offenses.

(1) Existing law provides that eating, drinking, or smoking in or on a system facility or vehicle in areas where those activities are prohibited, disturbing another person by loud or unreasonable noise, expectorating upon a system facility or vehicle, or skateboarding, roller skating, bicycle riding, roller blading, or operating a motorized scooter or other device in a system facility, vehicle, or parking structure is an infraction for the first or 2nd violation, punishable by a fine not to exceed $250 and by community service for a total time not to exceed 48 hours over a period not to exceed 30 days, during a time other than during the violator's hours of school attendance or employment. Specified public transportation agencies, including, but not limited to, the City and County of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority are authorized to enact and enforce ordinances providing that a person who is the subject of a citation for any of the acts described, such as fare evasion, on or in a facility or vehicle of the system for which the public transportation system has jurisdiction shall, under the circumstances set forth by the ordinance, be afforded an opportunity to complete an administrative process that imposes only an administrative penalty enforced in a civil proceeding.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247&version=20110AB224799INT)
2. **03/27/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247&version=20110AB224798AMD)
3. **04/18/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247&version=20110AB224797AMD)
4. **06/11/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247&version=20110AB224796AMD)
5. **06/26/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247&version=20110AB224795AMD)
6. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247&version=20110AB224794AMD)
7. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247&version=20110AB224792CHP)
8. **AB2247** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247)
9. **08/20/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2247&version=20110AB224793ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2247 LOWENTHAL Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2247 LOWENTHAL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Transportation. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2247 Bonnie Lowenthal By Wright — **31–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bonnie Lowenthal — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-12** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-18** 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`
- **2012-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 23). 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** From consent calendar.
- **2012-05-10** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4829.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-07-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2012-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 4482.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5950.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:05 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 750, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1923ccc8-8aaf-4591-89f4-7d57c4b5ffca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).