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Bill	Public transportation agencies: administrative penalties.	Existing law authorizes certain transit operators to adopt and enforce an ordinance to impose and enforce civil administrative penalties for fare evasion or passenger misconduct, other than by minors, on or in a transit facility or vehicle in lieu of the criminal penalties otherwise applicable, with specified administrative adjudication procedures for the imposition and enforcement of the administrative penalties, including an initial review and opportunity for a subsequent administrative hearing.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 492	California AB 492 (20112012)	bill	Public transportation agencies: administrative penalties.	enacted	Galgiani	10	27	6	2011-02-15	2012-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/afdebaad-5ab2-4afd-ac0c-8f5489febd71	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB492	4281e400ed4ac83c804abed1597b1d59f37fe2d103244e5e25419bd42ddb2bcc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 492 (20112012) — Public transportation agencies: administrative penalties.

Existing law authorizes certain transit operators to adopt and enforce an ordinance to impose and enforce civil administrative penalties for fare evasion or passenger misconduct, other than by minors, on or in a transit facility or vehicle in lieu of the criminal penalties otherwise applicable, with specified administrative adjudication procedures for the imposition and enforcement of the administrative penalties, including an initial review and opportunity for a subsequent administrative hearing.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/15/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/13/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB492 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/27/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB492 Galgiani By DeSaulnier — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 492 GALGIANI Assembly Third Reading — 64–12 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 492 GALGIANI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Galgiani — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 12. Page 1776.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-16 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-18 Re-referred to Coms. on T. & H. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 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 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 PUB. S. (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 PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-08-06 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-13 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4583.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 7. Page 6143.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 366, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/afdebaad-5ab2-4afd-ac0c-8f5489febd71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).