republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-2038.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation: omnibus bill."
description: "(1) Existing law makes a violation of any regulation governing the standing or parking of a vehicle that is not a misdemeanor punishable with a civil penalty. Existing law adds an additional $3 penalty to any parking offense where a parking penalty, fine, or forfeiture is imposed. Existing law requires this penalty, when it is collected in the courts of the county for an infraction parking violation, to be transmitted to the Treasurer for deposit in the Trial Court Trust Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2038"
citation: "California AB 2038 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation: omnibus bill."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Transportation"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4cf08cd-6954-43fe-aa78-33db0f9eda0f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2038"
source_hash: "85679dcaac0bdb8fe5d87239d38050cc6965bcd4bb0e165b2f8de76f55fac596"
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 2038 (20192020) — Transportation: omnibus bill.

(1) Existing law makes a violation of any regulation governing the standing or parking of a vehicle that is not a misdemeanor punishable with a civil penalty. Existing law adds an additional $3 penalty to any parking offense where a parking penalty, fine, or forfeiture is imposed. Existing law requires this penalty, when it is collected in the courts of the county for an infraction parking violation, to be transmitted to the Treasurer for deposit in the Trial Court Trust Fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2038&version=20190AB203899INT)
2. **05/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2038&version=20190AB203898AMD)
3. **09/11/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2038&version=20190AB203896CHP)
4. **AB2038** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2038)
5. **08/31/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2038&version=20190AB203897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2038 TRANS. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2038 TRANS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Transportation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2020-02-14** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-04** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4725.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-13** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4376.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2020-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 70, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4cf08cd-6954-43fe-aa78-33db0f9eda0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).