republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-2141.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Motor Vehicles."
description: "Existing law expresses the policy of the state to recognize the training and experience that individuals gain while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop policies to assist persons who are leaving active duty to obtain commercial driver's licenses, as specified. Existing law prohibits those policies from waiving any requisites, fees, or examinations required by law for a commercial driver's license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2141"
citation: "California AB 2141 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Motor Vehicles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathis"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-10"
last_action: "2020-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5cd82317-dbd7-4c10-bc17-12e91a814ce0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2141"
source_hash: "4e943dd17551d9db550bb83387a2a0d302c28a744ded20a350659f3bc686f739"
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 2141 (20192020) — Department of Motor Vehicles.

Existing law expresses the policy of the state to recognize the training and experience that individuals gain while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop policies to assist persons who are leaving active duty to obtain commercial driver's licenses, as specified. Existing law prohibits those policies from waiving any requisites, fees, or examinations required by law for a commercial driver's license.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/10/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2141&version=20190AB214199INT)
2. **03/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2141&version=20190AB214198AMD)
3. **09/09/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2141&version=20190AB214196CHP)
4. **AB2141** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2141)
5. **08/31/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2141&version=20190AB214197ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2141 Mathis Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2141 — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mathis — primary (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Diep — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2020-02-20** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** 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`
- **2020-03-05** 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.
- **2020-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 47, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5cd82317-dbd7-4c10-bc17-12e91a814ce0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).