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Bill	Commercial driver's license: education.	Existing law prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing a commercial driver's license to any person to operate a commercial motor vehicle unless the person has passed a written and driving test for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle that complies with the minimum standards established by the federal Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 and specified federal regulations, and has satisfied all other requirements of that act as well as any other requirements imposed by state law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 1236	California SB 1236 (20172018)	bill	Commercial driver's license: education.	enacted	Monning	5	22	7	2018-02-15	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/b78d469d-aa2f-4554-aff9-2806777da358	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1236	adbe93e1044cf20ad5d0ff9a32f6937e9e86fd49c2b823232c36888815cc4016	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1236 (20172018) — Commercial driver's license: education.

Existing law prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing a commercial driver's license to any person to operate a commercial motor vehicle unless the person has passed a written and driving test for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle that complies with the minimum standards established by the federal Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 and specified federal regulations, and has satisfied all other requirements of that act as well as any other requirements imposed by state law.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/19/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1236 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/28/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 1236 Monning Senate Third Reading By STONE — 73–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1236 Monning Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2018-03-13 Set for hearing March 20.
• 2018-03-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 4418.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-09 Set for hearing April 16.
• 2018-04-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4677.) (April 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4761.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-04-30 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2018-06-11 June 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (August 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 3. Page 6473.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-24 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5690.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 984, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b78d469d-aa2f-4554-aff9-2806777da358. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).