republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2144.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial motor vehicles: driver compliance."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes a court to order a person issued a notice to appear for a traffic violation to attend a traffic violator school licensed under certain provisions of the Vehicle Code, in lieu of adjudicating the traffic offense, and with the consent of the defendant, or after conviction of a traffic offense. A court may order a continuance against a person who receives a notice to appear in court for a violation of a statute relating to the safe operation of a vehicle, in consideration for attendance at a licensed school for traffic violators, a licensed driving school, or any other court-approved program of driving instruction. After that attendance, the court may dismiss the complaint and the record of the Department of Motor Vehicles relating to this proceeding and dismissal of the complaint is confidential."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2144"
citation: "California AB 2144 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial motor vehicles: driver compliance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilmore"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-18"
last_action: "2010-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83a2e91d-6f37-4da9-9023-061c3b65c4d0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2144"
source_hash: "2600cddbeb3fb482a4aac32614a256b49762a5d4f633b7e0b15548b68532a2fc"
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 2144 (20092010) — Commercial motor vehicles: driver compliance.

(1) Existing law authorizes a court to order a person issued a notice to appear for a traffic violation to attend a traffic violator school licensed under certain provisions of the Vehicle Code, in lieu of adjudicating the traffic offense, and with the consent of the defendant, or after conviction of a traffic offense. A court may order a continuance against a person who receives a notice to appear in court for a violation of a statute relating to the safe operation of a vehicle, in consideration for attendance at a licensed school for traffic violators, a licensed driving school, or any other court-approved program of driving instruction. After that attendance, the court may dismiss the complaint and the record of the Department of Motor Vehicles relating to this proceeding and dismissal of the complaint is confidential.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2144&version=20090AB214499INT)
2. **04/14/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2144&version=20090AB214498AMD)
3. **06/10/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2144&version=20090AB214497AMD)
4. **08/03/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2144&version=20090AB214496AMD)
5. **08/30/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2144&version=20090AB214494CHP)
6. **AB2144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2144)
7. **08/12/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2144&version=20090AB214495ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2144 GILMORE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2144 Gilmore — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2144 GILMORE Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gilmore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2010-03-04** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-13** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-14** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5050.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-10** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and to Consent Calendar. `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4376.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6094.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
- **2010-08-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 216, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83a2e91d-6f37-4da9-9023-061c3b65c4d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).