Amended in Assembly March 19, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1250

Introduced by Assembly Member Bloom

February 27, 2015

An act to amend Section 35554 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1250, as amended, Bloom. Vehicles: buses: gross axle weight.

Existing law, operative January 1, 2016, begin delete and subject to exception for certain transit buses, end delete provides that the gross weight on any one axle of a bus shall not exceed 20,500 pounds. begin insert Existing law exempts from this limitation a transit bus procured through a solicitation process pursuant to which a solicitation was issued before January 1, 2013. A violation of this provision is a crime. end insert

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This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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This bill would exempt from the weight limitation transit buses procured through a solicitation process pursuant to which a solicitation was issued before January 1, 2016.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 35554 of the Vehicle Code, as amended
by Section 2 of Chapter 263 of the Statutes of 2014, is amended
to read:

35554.  

(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 35550, the maximum
gross weight on any one axle of a bus shall not exceed 20,500
pounds.

(2) This subdivision does not apply to a transit bus procured
through a solicitation process pursuant to which a solicitation was
issued before January 1, begin delete 2013. end delete begin insert 2016. end insert

(b) A transit bus is not subject to Section 35550.