republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1779.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Intercity rail agreements."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to contract with Amtrak for intercity rail passenger services and provides funding for these services from the Public Transportation Account. Existing law, until December 31, 1996, authorized the department, subject to approval of the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing, to enter into an interagency transfer agreement under which a joint powers board assumes responsibility for administering the state-funded intercity rail service in a particular corridor. Existing law, with respect to a transferred corridor, requires the board to demonstrate the ability to meet performance standards established by the secretary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1779"
citation: "California AB 1779 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Intercity rail agreements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Galgiani"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 34
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2012-02-21"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f20cb4b2-ebc3-4115-b1aa-35f518b8b0a9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779"
source_hash: "f12dfcd4b9e2500b1fc9ce0767bc8fd5f3b027ea08f93b7e48ee81dc4970e5e3"
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 1779 (20112012) — Intercity rail agreements.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to contract with Amtrak for intercity rail passenger services and provides funding for these services from the Public Transportation Account. Existing law, until December 31, 1996, authorized the department, subject to approval of the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing, to enter into an interagency transfer agreement under which a joint powers board assumes responsibility for administering the state-funded intercity rail service in a particular corridor. Existing law, with respect to a transferred corridor, requires the board to demonstrate the ability to meet performance standards established by the secretary.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177999INT)
2. **03/29/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177998AMD)
3. **04/09/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177997AMD)
4. **04/17/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177996AMD)
5. **04/19/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177995AMD)
6. **05/25/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177994AMD)
7. **06/27/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177993AMD)
8. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177992AMD)
9. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177991AMD)
10. **08/24/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177990AMD)
11. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177988CHP)
12. **AB1779** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779)
13. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1779&version=20110AB177989ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1779 GALGIANI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **62–16** (pass) · lower
- AB 1779 GALGIANI Assembly Third Reading — **64–11** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1779 Galgiani By Padilla — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **6–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Galgiani — primary (person)
- Cannella — coauthor (person)
- Dickinson — coauthor (person)
- Olsen — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Perea — coauthor (person)
- Wolk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2012-03-29** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-17** 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, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-19** 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, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 11. Page 5115.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-14** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-27** 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. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 4931.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-30** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
- **2012-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 16. Page 6682.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 801, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f20cb4b2-ebc3-4115-b1aa-35f518b8b0a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).