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 07/11/25 - Enrolled
 05/15/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/10/25 - Introduced

 AB-525 Basic Inspection of Terminals program: agricultural vehicles.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/28/2025 09:00 PM

AB525:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 525

 CHAPTER 61

 An act to amend Sections 34500.6 and 34501.12 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. 

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 July 28, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 July 28, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 525, Lackey.
 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 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.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 34500.6 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:

34500.6.

 (a) For purposes of this division, an agricultural vehicle is a vehicle or combination of vehicles with a gross combination weight rating or a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,000 pounds or less if all of the following conditions are met:

(1) Is operated by a farmer, an employee of a farmer, or an instructor credentialed in agriculture as part of
 an instructional program in agriculture at the high school, community college, or university level.

(2) Is used exclusively in the conduct of agricultural operations when operating in commerce.

(3) Is not used in the capacity of a for-hire carrier or for compensation.

(4) The towing vehicle has a gross weight rating of 16,000 pounds or less.

(5) Is used solely in intrastate commerce.

(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2031, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2031, deletes or extends that date.

SEC. 2.

 Section 34501.12 of the Vehicle Code, as amended by Section 14 of Chapter 226 of the Statutes of 2024, is amended to read:

34501.12.

 (a) Vehicles and the operation thereof, subject to this section, are those described in subdivision (a), (b), (e), (f), (g), or (k) of Section 34500, except an agricultural vehicle as defined in Section 34500.6.

(b) It is unlawful for a motor carrier to operate any vehicle of a type described in subdivision (a) without identifying to the department all terminals, as defined in Section 34515, in this state where vehicles may be inspected by the department pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 34501 and where vehicle inspection and maintenance records and driver records will be made available for inspection. Motor carriers shall make vehicles and records available for inspection upon request by an authorized representative of the department.
 If a motor carrier fails to provide vehicles and records, an unsatisfactory terminal rating shall be iss