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Bill	Charter-party carriers of passengers: reports.	The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act, with certain exceptions, prohibits a charter-party carrier of passengers from engaging in transportation services subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission without obtaining a specified certificate or permit, as appropriate, from the commission. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that every charter-party carrier of passengers includes on a waybill or trip report certain information, including the name of at least one passenger in the traveling party.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 838	California AB 838 (20112012)	bill	Charter-party carriers of passengers: reports.	enacted	Hill	10	34	7	2011-02-17	2012-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/e7f6be16-f3f6-437b-8c8c-837a0c5c5fca	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB838	bbac117d4879f0e57b22cf3902381dba7b6d0b1cc55c31546a2ddd47d9b7680b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 838 (20112012) — Charter-party carriers of passengers: reports.

The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act, with certain exceptions, prohibits a charter-party carrier of passengers from engaging in transportation services subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission without obtaining a specified certificate or permit, as appropriate, from the commission. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that every charter-party carrier of passengers includes on a waybill or trip report certain information, including the name of at least one passenger in the traveling party.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/07/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/17/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB838 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/29/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 838 HILL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB838 Hill By Fuller — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Be referred to Committee on Utilities and Commerce. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 838 HILL Assembly Third Reading — 54–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2011-09-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-08 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-01-04 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on U. & C. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 4). Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-05 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-01-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-01-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (January 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 3595.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-06-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-06-13 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 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 E., U. & C. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2012-08-13 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4643.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6236.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 341, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7f6be16-f3f6-437b-8c8c-837a0c5c5fca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).