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Bill	Passenger rail projects: funding.	Proposition 116, an initiative measure, enacted the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Act of 1990, which establishes the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund, continuously appropriates specified amounts from the fund for, among other things, rights-of-way for rail purposes and capital expenditures deemed necessary for a specified rail service, and requires the California Transportation Commission to adopt guidelines for the approval of grants for transit projects which are essential to the implementation of safe and reliable transit services.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2620	California AB 2620 (20152016)	bill appropriation	Passenger rail projects: funding.	enacted	Dababneh	7	31	8	2016-02-19	2016-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/d5a6bc96-6217-4747-b0ac-d569f5e42d61	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2620	ed38db0c480110ea7c70e5e032c1e0d4166d09abb94031e717314af748f9ffee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2620 (20152016) — Passenger rail projects: funding.

Proposition 116, an initiative measure, enacted the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Act of 1990, which establishes the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund, continuously appropriates specified amounts from the fund for, among other things, rights-of-way for rail purposes and capital expenditures deemed necessary for a specified rail service, and requires the California Transportation Commission to adopt guidelines for the approval of grants for transit projects which are essential to the implementation of safe and reliable transit services.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/29/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2620 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2620 DABABNEH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2620 DABABNEH Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2620 Dababneh By Galgiani — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dababneh — primary (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2016-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4788.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-27 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-08-29 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5482.)
• 2016-08-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-30 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-08-30 (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5529.)
• 2016-08-30 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5569.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6579.)
• 2016-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6579.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2016-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 763, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5a6bc96-6217-4747-b0ac-d569f5e42d61. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).