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Bill	Transportation: omnibus bill.	(1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation (department) to pay claims or damages up to a maximum of $5,000 without the approval of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2679	California AB 2679 (20112012)	bill	Transportation: omnibus bill.	enacted	Committee on Transportation	11	29	9	2012-03-06	2012-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/07cab2e1-ff10-4785-a655-421f275c8fe3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2679	a6ca34613118ab1cde868643dbf6d61ee834f1e56628fec5ae008e25c2f63891	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2679 (20112012) — Transportation: omnibus bill.

(1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation (department) to pay claims or damages up to a maximum of $5,000 without the approval of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.

Version chain

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

1. 03/06/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB2679 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2679 TRANS. Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2679 Committee on TRANS. (Lowenthal) By DeSaulnier — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2679 TRANS. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By LOWENTHAL — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation to Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Transportation — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-03-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-03-07 From printer. May be heard in committee April 6.
• 2012-03-19 Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX. 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 REV. & TAX. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4888.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-31 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-05-31 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
• 2012-06-25 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
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 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
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4786.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4957.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-30 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6665.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
• 2012-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 769, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07cab2e1-ff10-4785-a655-421f275c8fe3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).