republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2415.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles: Basic Inspection of Terminals program: agricultural vehicles."
description: "Existing law, the Basic Inspection of Terminals (BIT) program, makes it unlawful for a motor carrier to operate specified vehicles, such as motortrucks of 3 or more axles that are more than 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, truck tractors, or other motortrucks regulated by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Consumer Affairs, or the United States Secretary of Transportation, without identifying to the Department of Motor Vehicles all terminals, as defined, where the vehicle may be inspected by the department and where vehicle inspection and maintenance records and driver records will be made available for inspection. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, excludes an agricultural vehicle, as defined, from being subject to the BIT program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2415"
citation: "California AB 2415 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicles: Basic Inspection of Terminals program: agricultural vehicles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lackey"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-17"
last_action: "2022-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fac332f-1cea-4053-b446-e9400fd6ad44"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2415"
source_hash: "41a27c291295bd4f73551e5be0980f0c77d6e053d2dc2ecc974ad5e9b2c1b98d"
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 2415 (20212022) — Vehicles: Basic Inspection of Terminals program: agricultural vehicles.

Existing law, the Basic Inspection of Terminals (BIT) program, makes it unlawful for a motor carrier to operate specified vehicles, such as motortrucks of 3 or more axles that are more than 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, truck tractors, or other motortrucks regulated by the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Consumer Affairs, or the United States Secretary of Transportation, without identifying to the Department of Motor Vehicles all terminals, as defined, where the vehicle may be inspected by the department and where vehicle inspection and maintenance records and driver records will be made available for inspection. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, excludes an agricultural vehicle, as defined, from being subject to the BIT program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2415&version=20210AB241599INT)
2. **08/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2415&version=20210AB241597CHP)
3. **AB2415** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2415)
4. **08/09/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2415&version=20210AB241598ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB2415 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2415 Lackey Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lackey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2022-03-03** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4740.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4682.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-08** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-08-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-08-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 209, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9fac332f-1cea-4053-b446-e9400fd6ad44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).