CA AB 525
enactedBasic Inspection of Terminals program: agricultural vehicles.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Did CA AB 525 pass?
Yes. CA AB 525 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-07-28): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 61, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 525 about?
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 Public Utilities Commission, 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, 2026, excludes an agricultural vehicle, as defined, from being subject to the BIT program. This bill would extend the exemption of agricultural vehicles from the BIT program until January 1, 2031. Under existing law, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Motor Vehicles, on or before January 1, 2022, shall report to the Governor and the Legislature about the impact of excluding an agricultural vehicle, as defined, from being subject to the BIT program. The report shall include, but is not limited to, information about collisions involving excluded vehicles and any traffic safety issues associated with excluded vehicles. The report shall be submitted pursuant to Section 9795 of the Government Code. This bill would delete this obsolete provision.
Who sponsors CA AB 525?
Lackey is the primary sponsor of CA AB 525.
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 Public Utilities Commission, 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, 2026, excludes an agricultural vehicle, as defined, from being subject to the BIT program. This bill would extend the exemption of agricultural vehicles from the BIT program until January 1, 2031. Under existing law, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Motor Vehicles, on or before January 1, 2022, shall report to the Governor and the Legislature about the impact of excluding an agricultural vehicle, as defined, from being subject to the BIT program. The report shall include, but is not limited to, information about collisions involving excluded vehicles and any traffic safety issues associated with excluded vehicles. The report shall be submitted pursuant to Section 9795 of the Government Code. This bill would delete this obsolete provision.
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- Latest action
- 2025-07-28 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 61, Statutes of 2025.
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- Lackeyauthor
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-07-28
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 61, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
2025-07-28
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-07-15
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-07-10
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage
2025-07-10
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2042.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-07-08
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-07-07
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-06-25
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-06-04
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
referral-committee
2025-05-23
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-05-23
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1658.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-15
Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-15
From Consent Calendar.
2025-05-15
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-15
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-05-15
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1575.)
2025-05-14
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-29
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-02-24
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
referral-committee
2025-02-11
From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
2025-02-10
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-28 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Hoover: yes
- Ward: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Davies: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Hart: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Hart: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Ta: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
AB 525 Lackey Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-23 · pass · 71-0
Member-level votes (79)
- DeMaio: yes
- Davies: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Solache: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ta: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hart: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Papan: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bains: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Caloza: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Bryan: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Nguyen: other
- Lee: other
- Sanchez: other
- Chen: other
- Muratsuchi: other
- Wicks: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-24 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dahle: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Limón: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Valladares: other
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-07-10 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Grayson: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Becker: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Choi: yes
- Stern: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Niello: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Jones: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Laird: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Grove: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Allen: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Limón: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Pérez: other
- Reyes: other
- Umberg: other
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