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Bill	High-speed rail.	Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers and duties relative to development and implementation of a high-speed train system. Existing law, pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of $9.95 billion for high-speed train capital projects and other associated purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 615	California AB 615 (20112012)	bill appropriation	High-speed rail.	enacted	Bonnie Lowenthal	9	28	8	2011-02-16	2011-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/19ee7600-b9af-47cf-9970-ac782db24f6f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB615	8b73b348b5e29970bc74fac19c4bf189ab8544443c77df2ee61eea695faa3232	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 615 (20112012) — High-speed rail.

Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers and duties relative to development and implementation of a high-speed train system. Existing law, pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of $9.95 billion for high-speed train capital projects and other associated purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/07/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB615 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/20/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 615 LOWENTHAL Assembly Third Reading — 59–16 (pass) · lower
• AB 615 LOWENTHAL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 48–26 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB615 Bonnie Lowenthal By Kehoe — 24–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonnie Lowenthal — primary (person)
• Perea — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 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
• 2011-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 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
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 16. Page 1696.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-07-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-08-22 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 2391.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 48. Noes 26. Page 3132.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 530, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19ee7600-b9af-47cf-9970-ac782db24f6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).