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Bill	Vehicles: bus gross weight.	Existing law generally prohibits a publicly owned or operated transit system from procuring a transit bus whose weight on any single axle exceeds 20,500 pounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, exempts from this prohibition a transit system that is procuring a new bus that is of the same or lesser weight than the bus it is replacing, or if it is incorporating a new fleet class into its inventory and its governing board makes certain findings.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1720	California AB 1720 (20132014)	bill	Vehicles: bus gross weight.	enacted	Bloom	5	18	5	2014-02-13	2014-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/25071490-5b26-4a9c-bc7b-12604cec072c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1720	85829a84743c80a089ec322f7aae10a0370dbc616de52cec8a944a8897153b2c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1720 (20132014) — Vehicles: bus gross weight.

Existing law generally prohibits a publicly owned or operated transit system from procuring a transit bus whose weight on any single axle exceeds 20,500 pounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, exempts from this prohibition a transit system that is procuring a new bus that is of the same or lesser weight than the bus it is replacing, or if it is incorporating a new fleet class into its inventory and its governing board makes certain findings.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/10/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/22/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1720 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/08/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1720 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #18 — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1720 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2014-02-27 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2014-04-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4843.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2014-06-10 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-06-25 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2014-07-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4258.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-07-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5900.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2014-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 263, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25071490-5b26-4a9c-bc7b-12604cec072c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).