republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-179.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Transportation Commission."
description: "Existing law creates the California Transportation Commission, with various powers and duties relative to the programming of transportation capital projects and allocation of funds to those projects pursuant to the state transportation improvement program and various other transportation funding programs. Under existing law, the commission consists of 13 members, 9 of whom are to be appointed by the Governor in consultation with the Senate. Existing law requires the Governor, in appointing members, to use every effort to ensure geographic balance of representation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 179"
citation: "California AB 179 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Transportation Commission."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65179ee7-d447-4868-affb-5bbd21a99e63"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179"
source_hash: "7db2ead3def22a1498c021f3aee528f1300c66f43a884d620d43b9ebfb8adb31"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 179 (20172018) — California Transportation Commission.

Existing law creates the California Transportation Commission, with various powers and duties relative to the programming of transportation capital projects and allocation of funds to those projects pursuant to the state transportation improvement program and various other transportation funding programs. Under existing law, the commission consists of 13 members, 9 of whom are to be appointed by the Governor in consultation with the Senate. Existing law requires the Governor, in appointing members, to use every effort to ensure geographic balance of representation.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/18/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179&version=20170AB17999INT)
2. **02/14/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179&version=20170AB17998AMD)
3. **04/20/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179&version=20170AB17997AMD)
4. **06/08/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179&version=20170AB17996AMD)
5. **07/13/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179&version=20170AB17995AMD)
6. **10/13/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179&version=20170AB17993CHP)
7. **AB179** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179)
8. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB179&version=20170AB17994ENR)

## Sponsors

- Cervantes — primary (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Roth — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-19** From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-17** Coauthors revised.
- **2017-04-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-04-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 5.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1787.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-08** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-08** 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (July 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 2339.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 2913.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 737, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65179ee7-d447-4868-affb-5bbd21a99e63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).