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Bill	Vehicles: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.	Existing law imposes a 40-foot limitation on the length of vehicles that may be operated on the highways, with specified exemptions. Existing law exempts from this limitation, among other things, an articulated bus or articulated trolley coach that does not exceed a length of 60 feet.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 726	California AB 726 (20152016)	bill	Vehicles: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.	enacted	Nazarian	9	34	7	2015-02-25	2015-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/ea049df4-8899-4925-9c31-b9bddd4979bf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB726	a7a1d3bbe9661e8bc489e57d8613847e20dc08d90404c7837cce313a90103d4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 726 (20152016) — Vehicles: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Existing law imposes a 40-foot limitation on the length of vehicles that may be operated on the highways, with specified exemptions. Existing law exempts from this limitation, among other things, an articulated bus or articulated trolley coach that does not exceed a length of 60 feet.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/09/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/04/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB726 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/14/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB726 Nazarian By Hertzberg — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 726 NAZARIAN Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 726 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nazarian — primary (person)
• Dababneh — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and TRANS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2015-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1333.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-21 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2015-06-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-06-16 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-18 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 30). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1986.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-08-27 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2015-08-27 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2015-09-01 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2015-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-09-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2015-09-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2618.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3077.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 479, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea049df4-8899-4925-9c31-b9bddd4979bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).